Just revisiting Destiny's guide to SRS

[New_Order_Enforcer]

I found this section very interesting given the recent events: https://forums.eveonline.com/t/nullsec-alliance-cowardice-ladder/

Continuing the discussion from Nullsec Alliance Cowardice Ladder:

@Destiny_Corrupted

Special Guest Appearance: S R S.

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This ladder was intended for null-sec groups only. However, I’d be doing the community a massive disservice if I don’t include groups that are such extreme null-sec aspirants, and that are so egregiously null-sec adjacent in their gameplay and behavior, that they might as well pack up all their stuff and move into the drone regions (PS: let me know if you want to borrow my jump freighter when you do).

S R S. are ostensibly a high-sec mercenary organization. However, they don’t seem to do much of any actual mercenary work. Mostly they look for little mom-and-pop carebear corporations, and extort their owners into paying protection fees under the threat of dumping a few dozen Paladins on mining-fit Athanors defended by two or three AFK Retrievers.

In recent times, they were able to beg their way into becoming BLACKFLAG. pets (something they brag about often), eliminating the one source of danger they had in the game, and freeing themselves up to farm ISK from their racket because they no longer have to worry about being a near-peer adversary to the biggest fish in the pond. That’s pretty cowardly, if you ask me.

They also do high-sec “wars” against most of the other alliances on this list. However, these wars solely consist of sitting on the Amarr hub station and popping corvettes, shuttles, and pods. Here’s how their kill board looks like today (2023.08.31):

What a bunch of absolute space-Chads.

I decided to plug their statistics into Excel, and here’s what I got:

Only 35.7% of their kills are actual ships.

Let’s go a little deeper, and take a look at how they stack up to null-sec blobbers:

Their solo ratio is lower than that of the two largest, blobbiest alliances in the game, whose main PvP gameplay consists of massive-scale fleet warfare. And other, smaller null-sec organizations have higher solo ratios than this. No one tell them this, but groups like SICO and Absolute Honor have nearly twice the solo ratio of S R S. The shame might just be too much to bear.

We can therefore conclude that S R S. most definitely belongs on this list. But what caused them to be this way?

The answer lies in the self-imposed culture of risk-aversion and cowardice. One doesn’t need to look far for evidence. In fact, they can’t stop talking about it to anyone within earshot. It’s almost as if it’s a source of pride for them:

But when some group comes by to poke around on occasion (e.g. The Red Kings Guard , Phoenix Naval Systems , and ATLAS CORPORATION S.A ), they are strangely quiet, sitting inside their space hut and waiting for the threat to go away so they can get back to farming the empty pods of players looking for an express ride to their null-sec homes.

Though one that’s entirely par for the course.

They get 7 points, for a total cowardice score of 43. The only reason it’s not even higher is because what they do can still technically be considered as “PvP.” And because 7 is the average number of alts used by their members.

[Zaera_Keena]

SRS - Amarrean trade hub hugging delinquent high schoolers that like to pick on the little guy

[Felix_Frostpacker]

@Destiny_Corrupted

What a bunch of absolute space-Chads.

[SwingFish]

my 7 Isk to this may not fit into this thread, but the semi-fall of SRS does create a hole that needs to be filled.

i saw them mowing a bunch of structures from the face of eve in just 2 days, with very little effort.
so i went to the dark side and made a deal with them, we had 4 wardec’s and all of them ended with zero ammo used. so in some ways they did keep the word.

is it expensive? YES… but it gave us a piece of mind that we actually can leave the game for 48 hours without finding out that everything we have build collectively over months has ben turned to space dust.
honestly that was worth the money. as they have proven to keep the word.

with them somewhat going away/uncertainty that creates a hole, that is yet to be filled, and from my experience this will in a very short amount of time get the other scum-mercs back up in confidence as a large number of installations in space now pretty much “up for grabs”

most of them do not even bother with extortion, as the core is always dropping, making structure bashing, easy money for a few multiboxers.

running a POS as a backup seems to be a viable solution, as they not come with the wardec baggage and if it’s large enough noone is going to bother about it.

[SwingFish]

@Destiny_Corrupted

the one source of danger they had in the game

actually the one source of danger was (and is) Wrecking Machine the “protection” offered did exclude any attacks from them as a result.

[Githany_Red]

An interesting read , I wonder how it’s all changing with Black flag under attack.

It’s a shame Destinys not around right now , I wonder what she would make of BF corp and alliance jumping antics. Why under attack from SLOW