[04:28:41] Seiko Hikitari > ha nice
[04:28:47] Seiko Hikitari > sorry was scanning
[04:29:06] Matthew Geary > No worries. :) How are you liking VENIO?
[04:29:26] Seiko Hikitari > ah I'm liking it alright
[04:29:47] Seiko Hikitari > we could use more FCs and scouts tbh, but for a corp with a low number of actual people I think we do ok
[04:30:21] Seiko Hikitari > basically, we have a few isboxers who can login the brunt of the dps, like we casually have 20 in fleet with only 4 or 5 real people
[04:30:24] Matthew Geary > Gotcha. What's activity look like during US evenings midweek?
[04:31:30] Seiko Hikitari > corp is split between ustz and late eu
[04:31:44] Seiko Hikitari > activity depends on what we have in chain obviously
[04:32:03] Seiko Hikitari > but there's usually always people looking to do something
[04:32:24] Seiko Hikitari > if you've been in explorer corp, our ceo was their main FC, Lord's Servant
[04:32:47] Matthew Geary > Unfortunately the entire time I was in Explorer Corp there was 0 people online.
[04:33:08] Seiko Hikitari > explorer had a split recently I heard
[04:33:12] Matthew Geary > For almost a month there was 1-2 people online during US evenings there.
[04:33:35] Seiko Hikitari > but lord is probably more knowledgeable than me about disavowed politics
[04:33:56] Seiko Hikitari > but to give you an idea of what a day looks like
[04:34:48] Seiko Hikitari > yesterday we spot a poco going out of reinforce in 3h down our chain, we put scouts and use the locals as bait for whoever reinforced it (nomex as it turned out), then crash on them bashing the poco with 20 gilas
[04:35:38] Seiko Hikitari > then blue the locals to try and bait them more but they never came back; that's when our scout spots carriers doing silly things in a LS down our chain; some time later we batphone DBD because it's late and we only have few ppl online
[04:35:44] Seiko Hikitari > <url=killReport:42641742:54494854fcce8abe33cb07c6d17b68c5ad4a56b1>Kill: Znake Flisskens (Chimera)</url>
[04:38:25] Seiko Hikitari > ceo posts every now and then on failheap challenge forums http://failheap-challenge.com/showthread.php?144-Wormhole-Space-(147-posts-deleted-and-counting)/page112
[04:38:37] Seiko Hikitari > to see a few older BRs
[04:39:24] Matthew Geary > How do you think the IsBoxer change will affect the corp, if at all?
[04:39:36] Seiko Hikitari > it will change a few things
[04:39:42] Seiko Hikitari > but not as dramatically as you'd think
[04:39:49] Seiko Hikitari > only bans input duplications
[04:40:06] Seiko Hikitari > so we're reviewing our setups to switch everything to key rollover or taskbars
[04:40:28] Seiko Hikitari > might make us switch from drone assist gila doctrines to alpha canes / fleet canes / sleipnirs
[04:41:02] Seiko Hikitari > because without broadcasting the setup to assist gilas is going to be a chore
[04:41:19] Seiko Hikitari > it will probably remain our main doctrine for the time being
[04:41:48] Seiko Hikitari > we also use tengus for logi, with a few afk isboxed cap transfer / remote eccm tengus
[04:42:41] Seiko Hikitari > the singleboxers fly sabre, logi, scout, bhaalgorn...
[04:42:43] Matthew Geary > /emote nods.
[04:42:47] Matthew Geary > I love Logi Tengus.
[04:43:51] Seiko Hikitari > for evictions and super heavy duty we have a neut rattlesnake doctrine
[04:44:21] Seiko Hikitari > and people isboxing dreads
[04:45:35] Seiko Hikitari > we lack in the tackling department although we're getting better at that
[04:45:51] Seiko Hikitari > usually we dunk people but after the first couple ships get volleyed they gtfo
[04:47:14] Seiko Hikitari > <url=killReport:42067012:e20c0cdf90aabc13262631e7b4b175e5866968d0>Kill: spaceghost69 (Guardian)</url> the dps is really mean
[04:49:10] Seiko Hikitari > as far as the isk goes, we live in a c4 pulsar with c3-5 statics (ccp recently added a 2nd static to c4)
[04:49:47] Seiko Hikitari > so singleboxers can run c3 sites, multiboxers c5 sites, c3 gives us easy logistics and access to kspace, c5 lets us fight the "big boys"
[04:51:00] Seiko Hikitari > we'd done also a couple of SRP ops lately, where we rageroll the c5, pvp if there's pvp, run the sites if there isn't with 50% going to srp wallet and 50% split between players
[04:52:10] Matthew Geary > Gotcha.
[04:52:16] Matthew Geary > Is it a corp you'd recommend?
[04:52:51] Seiko Hikitari > mmm, it depends on what you'd be looking for in a corp
[04:53:04] Seiko Hikitari > but I've recommended it on ex corpmates who've joined me and are recommending it
[04:53:07] Seiko Hikitari > so I guess yes
[04:54:10] Matthew Geary > Mostly looking for an active corp in the US TZ where PvP and money making options exist. I want to fly with good pilots, and be able to find something to do when logging in for the evening.
[04:54:59] Seiko Hikitari > large corps in the "wh cfc" like Lazerhawks, Hard Knocks, SSC, NoHo are obviously a lot more stable, bigger, and have a lot more scouts in their chain to look for content
[04:55:12] Seiko Hikitari > but that's the small corp / large corp argument
[04:55:47] Seiko Hikitari > "small" as in the corp is basically a month old and uses isboxer to fill in numbers so we can be competitive
[04:56:16] Seiko Hikitari > but since we have less scouts in our chains we're bound to have less pewpew than large alliances
[04:57:29] Matthew Geary > Fair enough.
[05:01:20] Matthew Geary > Why;d you join VENIO instead of one of the WH CFC corps?
[05:02:29] Seiko Hikitari > because I knew Lord's Servant and liked what he was doing
[05:02:34] Seiko Hikitari > I considered LZHX for a while
[05:03:24] Seiko Hikitari > I had a good few corpmates in Promethean Society but the corp died from burnout because too few people, so I got a few ex-PS people motivated to join with me and do stuff
[05:03:33] Seiko Hikitari > never been too big on large alliance
[05:03:49] Seiko Hikitari > where no one really knows you
[05:03:59] Seiko Hikitari > and you don't recognize half of the people on TS
[05:05:05] Seiko Hikitari > I can probably get in touch with my ceo and drag him in the convo if you want
[05:05:26] Seiko Hikitari > for more details about where we're going etc.
[05:05:39] Seiko Hikitari > see if that sounds like something you'd like to go too
[05:05:49] Seiko Hikitari > somewhere*
[05:06:10] Matthew Geary > Lord's? Nah, not yet. I'm still just perusing the options out there right now.
[05:06:19] Matthew Geary > Sub encouraged me to touch base with you first.
[05:07:01] Seiko Hikitari > sounds good, I'm very careful about the corps I join too :)
[05:07:34] Matthew Geary > My biggest concern in W-Space is another Explorer Corp scenario.
[05:07:51] Matthew Geary > Where they upsell heavily, and then no one is online for weeks to even scout me to the hole.
[05:08:23] Matthew Geary > Activity, moreso than anything else, is what I'm looking for. I'm willing to do any sort of activity, I just am tired of doing it solo. ;)
[05:08:47] Seiko Hikitari > well
[05:09:01] Seiko Hikitari > we always have people scanning the chain
[05:09:03] Seiko Hikitari > speaking of which
[05:09:10] Seiko Hikitari > gonna gank a cap escalation now
[05:09:30] Seiko Hikitari > 2 moros, archon, NPC wrecks on dscan
[05:09:53] Matthew Geary > Heh. Let me know how it goes. :)
[05:13:51] Seiko Hikitari > welp, looks like we got there a little too late
[05:14:03] Seiko Hikitari > when our scout got in system they were finishing salvage
[05:14:07] Seiko Hikitari > and their caps logged off
[05:14:15] Seiko Hikitari > apparently
[05:14:36] Matthew Geary > Doh.
[05:14:41] Matthew Geary > How many "real" people are online atm?
[05:18:19] Seiko Hikitari > 5 real people
[05:18:22] Seiko Hikitari > including me
[05:18:42] Seiko Hikitari > we're going to move in with another corp in another c4-3/5 pulsar soon
[05:18:55] Seiko Hikitari > and they have 10 people on TS
[05:19:31] Seiko Hikitari > soon as in "probably, heard of it today"
[05:19:46] Seiko Hikitari > but we've always shared the same TS so it's not super surprising
[05:20:29] Matthew Geary > Which corp, if you don't mind me asking? (Feel free to say No) :)
[05:20:58] Seiko Hikitari > <url=showinfo:2//262288963>Discrete Astrographic Reconnaissance Technologies</url>
[05:21:16] Seiko Hikitari > I've heard  <url=showinfo:2//479585347>Pandora Sphere</url> is moving in too
[05:23:14] Matthew Geary > From Disavowed?
[05:23:22] Seiko Hikitari > yes
[05:24:53] Matthew Geary > Interesting.
[05:25:23] Matthew Geary > Thanks for taking the time to chat, Seiko. I've got an early morning, so I need to log. Can we pick this up again after the hoiday?
[05:25:25] Matthew Geary > holiday
[05:29:49] Seiko Hikitari > sure
[05:30:02] Seiko Hikitari > good night :)
[05:30:08] Matthew Geary > Awesome. Have a great rest of the evening, and happy holidays!
[05:30:34] Seiko Hikitari > you too