Over Four Hundred Eighty Billion in Shares Sold

Q. Which EVE organization helps more new players than any other?

A. The New Order of Highsec, of course. More than EVE University, Red vs Blue, or even GoonSwarm Federation!

the reaverkiller helped a newbie slaughter a nice fat pod. Jazzed up by his good deed, the reaverkiller did another, buying 315 additional shares. This sent us over the 480 billion mark and earned him a Supreme Protector's Tip of the Hat™.

480 billion. The big four-eight-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh. We're so close to the half trillion that I can almost taste it. In case you're curious, it tastes like strawberries.

BONUS! Looking for evidence of our Agents doing elite PvP against ships that shoot back? Look no further than The Code is Forever #10. Kalorned did solo PvP against an Orca and a Hulk. The mouthy Orca pilot sent some serious combat drones against him, so it was a real fight.

The Orca and the Hulk both lost to the might of the Code. GF's all around.

What's Your Legacy?

One day, none of us will be playing EVE. When that day comes, we won't have any ships, isk, or other in-game assets to play with. All we will have is our legacy.

Agent D400 is one of the most accomplished and well known warriors of highsec. He was among the victims of September 10th. Though D400 can't play EVE anymore, his legacy lives on after him.

A miner will dismiss the importance of the Code, yet the Code will be remembered long after a miner's ill-gotten ore has been sold.

As we know from the Kills of the Week posts, a carebear's wealth can be incinerated in an instant. Expensive modules and no tank? You may as well pour gasoline on your wallet and light a match.

The carebear condemns our Agents for cowardice. They say it's too easy to kill the AFK and the unarmed. Yet even our "victims" will be telling others of the legend of the New Order long after they've forgotten their day-to-day grind of highsec PvE.

D400 challenged the establishment in two ways: He defied the bot-aspirant culture of highsec, and he undermined the "elites" who say all PvP should be confined to lowsec, nullsec, and wormhole space.

The courage and valour of an Agent is obvious, especially when set in contrast to the lowly carebears they gank.

Nearly everyone who plays EVE passes by the teeming masses of highsec carebears on their way to and from Jita. The carebear is quickly forgotten, if he is even noticed at all. But the highsec ganker who kills you along the route--you never forget him!

Carebears are pretty much all the same. They do their meaningless chores and unwittingly spout the Miner Bingo quotes we've already heard before. On the other hand, each Agent is a unique treasure, enforcing the Code with his own signature methods.

The carebear knows nothing, can teach nothing, and can learn only a little. What they do learn, they learn from us.

Every moment an Agent remains in the EVE galaxy, he breathes a bit more life into it. The life of emergent gameplay is the sole purpose for EVE's existence. EVE's value comes from emergent gameplay provided by content creators. Our legacy is the heart and soul of EVE itself; the rest is only spreadsheets. Each EVE player has a choice of legacies: They can add to the spirit of EVE through the New Order, or they can pile a few more numbers into their wallet before the spreadsheets go blank.

The New Player Experience, Part 3

Previously, on MinerBumping... TDD Dominaters was up to his old tricks, creating corporations to "help" new players. TDD gave his recruits/victims a terrible EVE experience and demanded that they provide him with taxes earned through the drudgery of highsec PvE.

New Order Intelligence sees all. A well-placed Agent provided me with the full API of Bal Anganel, a new player who had once been tricked into joining TDD's Tactical Stability Union corporation. With full access to Bal's past EVEmails, we can see what the TDD New Player Experience looks like from the perspective of the victim.

Tacitcal Stability Union - Information
From: TDD Dominaters
Sent: 2014-08-31 01:08:00
To: Bal Anganel

The Tactical Stability Union:
This Section of the Report well is informing you what are the Functions, assets and Essentials of our Corporation.
Type:
• Combat:
- Mission Running(Currently Building)
- PvP(Currently Building)

TDD got the ball rolling by outlining what his corporation was all about. In TDD's mind, running missions constitutes "combat".

• Industry:
- Manufacturing
- Mining(Currently Building)
• Programs:
- Replace Ships
- Progressive
Government:
- Stability
- Voted/Chosen into Command
- Terms , Agreements and Conditions

TDD's government was a work in progress. Players would be voted or chosen into command. Imagine a constitutional convention with TDD in charge: "We'll have a democracy with elected representatives. Or they'll be appointed by a dictator. Whatever."

Fleet Services:
- Mining Boosting(10 Squad member limit)
Corporation Languish: English (Both Texting and Voice.)
Countries members are from:
• United States
• United Kingdoms
• Germany
• Romania
• France
Average Activate Rate:
Average of Hours in a day: 7 hours and 23 min
Average of days in a week: 5 days and 8 hours

Once again, TDD shows his sinister hand by requiring the most slavish devotion to highsec PvE. 7 hours and 23 minutes a day, average? Despicable.

Corporation Services:
• Website
• Teamspeak 3
Corporation Location:
• High Security Space

The corp, of course, is located in highsec. Actually, this should read "New Order space" or "James 315's territory". But I'll give TDD a pass here. At least he didn't lie that the corp also dabbles in lowsec PvP, like a lot of exclusively highsec industrial corps claim.

Eve online Update - Hyperion
From: TDD Dominaters
Sent: 2014-08-31 07:24:00
To: Tactical Stability Union

Eve online has not added new features to were game and we are gladly like to inform that the corporation has the information to provide too u what u need to know about the latest updates.

Link: http://tstun.iclanwebsites.com/news

if u have any question , comment or issue about the Update please comment on the post.

By your CEO TDD Dominator

No one needs to read dev blogs, if they're a member of TDD's corp. TDD helps his players understand exactly what changes are made in each expansion. But what about personal, one-on-one training? TDD provides that, too. On Bal Anganel's second day, TDD sent him this message:

How your Ship chooses You.
From: TDD Dominaters
Sent: 2014-09-01 12:20:00
To: Bal Anganel

In Eve online there is basicly unlimeted ways for to to fit your ship the way how ever u want to do as u please with at ........ as in killing something , saving or even you making sure u take down somebody with you.So in order to choose what ship u want u would basicly want to ask ur ship what is this ship ment to do and set up to were its suppose to do . so as u go to your Market there are few combat ship based on to were you can be a Front line fighter , a supporter who wants to heal and boost his mate in battle or even doing it to were you make it too were your the one making it to were your enemy is being weekend by your ship does which is by draining there ship energy or whiping out there Ships Shield or armour. so once u have decided what you what do with this combat ship and how u want it to set up for i well give u class on how to do so.

TDD gave Bal Anganel some nuggets of wisdom. For example, you can fit your ship to "weekend" an enemy by draining their energy or hitpoints. After Bal chose his ship, TDD offered to give him a class on how to fit it. I can only shudder at the thought. And you wonder how so many fail-fits end up on our Kills of the Week posts?

Welcome to our Community.
From: TDD Dominaters
Sent: 2014-09-01 12:49:00
To: Bal Anganel

Dear
TSU member we would like to inform you that your registration has been completed on our website, so welcome to our Community. In our website we would want to make sure that information is to be provide well enough for our members to be well understand towards the Society. While being a member of the Website please visit the sit at least 3 times a week in order to be informed on what has been going on lately towards our Environment of our Corporation and the Game we contribute. Also as being a member we would support and appreciate that you post on our forums based on the listed Capagory that is listed. So thank you for u time and have a nice day.

TDD provided the new recruit with some more advice: Visit TDD's website at least three times a week. A useless suggestion. Everyone knows that a properly informed highsec citizen visits MinerBumping instead--at least 7 times a week. But despite TDD's refusal to tell his corp members about the importance of MinerBumping, news managed to leak into the corp:

shean
From: Bal Anganel
Sent: 2014-09-15 23:17:00
To: TDD Dominaters

Sean Hamann Hamann > he says his dad is this and that which he is not, like being a general 1 day then something else the other

Bal was contacted by Sean Hamann Hamann, who began feeding the newbie information about TDD and his lies. Bal dutifully reported this to TDD. You might recall that Sean Hamann Hamann was TDD's superior in a previous corp, so he knew what he was talking about.

CEO TDD Declare Manafist Warfare!!
From: TDD Dominaters
Sent: 2014-09-17 01:23:00
To: Bal Anganel

Dear Members of the Tactical Stability Union
As some of you may know the corporation has been facing issues based upon to where the hate and target is me. day by day and Time by Time we are getting more places as a corporation member hard to do what we have to do in order to get what we want. Therefore I can understand some of you feel scared and not Ready, and Therefore I would understand if you think it would be safe for you to leave corporation for know in tell the Drama is over. But if you are a player that would like to fight alongside your CEO and take our wars to the Next level towards Combat then by all means tell me so we can prepare ideas in Ways towards getting rid of those who dared to push us around and think they can get away with it.

The reason why we are at war.
The reason why the corporation is at war is Because a Another CEO from another corporation does not want me around towards being a CEO leader or having my corporation around so he intends towards making me look bad and making those suffer that are around me and follow me.

Predictably, TDD's corp ended up on the receiving end of a wardec. To his credit, TDD assumed personal responsibility for the disaster. And TDD knew his audience well--he didn't expect many of his members to bother trying to defend themselves.

What is the Game Plan ?
Right know the Whole point of this war and the only war towards winning this war is by Fear. Right in order to each side to fall or fail they have to at least see that they have gotten u trap and have not choice to surrender and making them realize who is the dominant corporation. So the real Question is what is our corporation and how is our Corporation going to win this war , well that real easy in order to defeat our enemy we most think and know our enemies. We know that the Other CEO of the corporation that is hiring these corporation to declare war on us is paying money so if he has no flow of income or money then he well see that what he is doing is not worth it nor can he handle it .

2) in order to Seattle the score with this player we need to make him see that we are not the corporation to be missed around with nor to be dealt with so once u have all the war dec and set up to were in money flow isn’t good enough towards paying for the war he well stop.

3) since the corporation that has hired to declare war on us is surrounded by a island space section then he well have no were else to run but to just dock in a station so having alliance or corporation coming him to help him out would give him a rough time towards getting to actee even though for the fact getting to this system can lead to a lot of problem for them on the way of the travel.

4) the finally step of ending the war is basically by declaring war on him and overwhelming him to where he can no longer deal with the war or handle it and there for he would have no choice towards giving up.

TDD's writing style demands much from the reader. However, the reader is occasionally rewarded with some gems that can only come from TDD Dominaters. Take, for instance, the phrase "Seattle the score". He even capitalized Seattle, so it may not have even been a typo.

Wardecs make newbies very nervous. Within a day or two, the carebears in Tactical Stability Union were ready to quit. That's when Bal Anganel started to wise up. He began talking with other members of the corp, and three of them left. Bal sent the following EVEmail to a fellow member, encouraging her to quit, too:

Corporation
From: Bal Anganel
Sent: 2014-09-17 19:31:00
To: chantal corleone

Hello,

Just wanted to talk to you about some stuff that happened this week. As you can see, me, Tim SlimmyTim and shin-tzu Codie have left the corp do to some problems. Too much drama, too many wars etc.

We found out some things about tdd as well that were not quite allrigt, such as:

http://www.minerbumping.com/search?q=TDD

http://www.minerbumping.com/search?q=sean

If you don't have the patience or the time to read that, long stories short, he caused problems for his last corps, provocked a lot of wars and took advantage of people. I don;t know if you noticed but he does a little bit of compulsive lying as well so his side of the story is not really how he tells us.

If you haven't gotten the chance to talk to your friends about helping tdd out, i think that you shouldn't any more because the fault of the problems kind of is tdd.

That Shane guy is all right, we talked to him and he is ok, he did not pay anyone to start a war with us, he only reacted to tdd's agression and smack talk when we arrived in Actee. And furthermore in the last 2 days, tdd harrased him until he started a war...

Anyways, since we are verry unexperienced, we left the corp so we can survive and not have a bad time. We just want to make some isk peacefully by mining and building stuff. We need time to grow and that corp would not let us.

We 3 decided to make our own mining corp at first and go from there. We would like your advice on the whole situation because you have the most experience and think you would know how to handle it. As well, we would like to know if you would be interested in our future mining corp.

Thanks in advance,
Bal, Shin and Tim

The New Order is always victorious because the truth always gets out. Once again, MinerBumping played a heroic role, leading the new players to salvation. And just in case you're not convinced of TDD's destructive intentions, one more EVEmail:

hey vlad
From: shin-tzu Codie
Sent: 2014-09-23 02:53:00
To: Bal Anganel

So tdd grabed me after you left and asked me if i could give him a loan in isk, since he is poor. He asked for 480million isk but would settle for 250 million. seriously i cant afford that right now. not at all . Why am i the one he runs to for questions help w.e

Some people say that people like TDD are going to save CCP by training newbies and improving new player retention. They idealize the highsec PvE corps and their CEOs. The truth paints a much uglier picture. The TDDs of the world care only for isk. They'll gladly bring new players into the fold--and then ask them for loans. Only the New Order, its Code, and the omnipresent influence of MinerBumping can rescue new players from such a cruel fate.

Kills of the Week

The burden of a New Order Agent is a heavy one. On their shoulders they carry the weight of having absolute authority over the games of hundreds of thousands of highsec carebears. Lesser men and women would join our ranks to enjoy the power and prestige. Our Agents are better than that, and everyone knows it. Our Agents have the undying respect of countless carebears. By the end of today's post, you will understand why. Without further ado, notable kills from November 2nd @ 00:00 EVEtime through November 8th @ 23:59 EVEtime:

KILLMAIL

Jason Schaeffer was caught illegally mining with a Retriever worth over half a billion isk. The expensive mining barge's fittings are baffling--until you realize Jason was an unrepentant bot-aspirant. He didn't think ship fittings mattered in highsec. Agent ZannaZ Azizora taught him otherwise.

KILLMAIL

Freakerzoom had a funny little name. He was the asteroid belt's class clown, you might say. Our Agents enjoy a good joke as much as the next guy. But the Code is no laughing matter--unlike the 768 million isk Mackinaw's fail-fit. Agents Gohman Patrouette and Gallie Crendraven laughed at Freakerzoom's name and ship, then seriously performed their duties as enforcers of the Code.

KILLMAIL

Fail-fit mining ships and permit-less carebears are walking tragedies. Nevertheless, we understand the root causes of those things, so they feel less tragic to us. Leone Jr Fabbro's stomach-turning miner Rokh, on the other hand... Agents loyalanon, Quaker Oatmeal, Gohman Patrouette, Misty Stenier-Tian, Gallie Crendraven, and holdmybeer took one look at this abomination and proclaimed, "Not in our highsec!"

KILLMAIL

Maya Otsolen was a woman in a hurry. She equipped her jump freighter with a set of new modules that enhance a ship's warp drive. Why would she do this? Maya was on the run. She had a 10 million isk debt to the New Order and no intention of paying it. Our Agents have other ways of collecting, though. Sophia Soprano, Dias Rajashi, Dios Rajash, Bypbyp, CODE Agent AC, LarcatOfZion, Daishi Saria, Diasho Shorin, reaper Shardani, Sasha Cohenberg, BeBopAReBop RhubarbPie, Braggs Seyllin, Dios Rojosh, karma balancer, Diaz Serine, loyalanon, Dashio Sariana, Misty Stenier-Tian, Quaker Oatmeal, holdmybeer, Vexxatious, and Ahab of Pequod blew up Maya's 8.7 billion isk ship and helped themselves to the loot.

KILLMAIL

Stream7ine McBeth lost his Orca to Agent loyalanon. The fact that loyalanon killed the Orca is not very surprising, since the CODE always wins.

The question is, how did this kill come about? I'll let Stream7ine give you a hint:

Faster than you can say "miner calm down", the offender was destroyed, along with his half-billion isk pod. The good news is, miners don't need to be ready to submit to the will of James 315. They only need to enter highsec. From that point forward, they're obligated to follow the Code.

KILLMAIL

Captain Stupid was plodding along in his 3.2 billion isk pod when he was smartbombed by Agent Piir8, who was guarding a lowsec system. How did Captain Stupid react? You might be surprised. See for yourself:

And that, friends, is why Agents of the New Order have won the respect of countless thousands of EVE players. Gallantry, nobility, integrity. You'll never find a bad Agent.

The New Player Experience, Part 2

Previously, on MinerBumping... Agent Capt Starfox went undercover as a new player to investigate notorious rebel leader TDD Dominaters' latest corporation. After being interviewed by TDD himself, Starfox's Bismarck Koskanaiken alt was invited to join the "academy".

A minute later, Starfox's alt was enrolled in the academy. It consisted of a chat between himself and TDD Dominaters. Clearly, TDD spared no expense. But Starfox was apprehensive. Now that he was in an "academy" chat instead of a regular corp interview, what kinds of questions would he need to answer?

TDD was curious what country Bismarck was from. Within 40 seconds, he got Bismarck's answer, forgot it, and asked him again. Welcome to the academy.

For the rest of the academy chat, TDD asked Bismarck questions about his timezone. Reading the transcript of TDD interviewing a new recruit is kind of weird. TDD conducts an interview like an alien trying to pass himself off as a human.

Bismarck's training session came to a close. TDD then announced that the chat wasn't the real academy. That would come later. First, Bismarck would need to read an EVEmail about it.

At the time, TDD's corp was called Strategically Integrated Coalition of Nations. As the "academy" EVEmail explained, the corp was focused on achieving its goals. The first goal, it seems, was to throw as many buzzwords as possible into a blender and make an EVEmail out of it. Success!

I actually find myself in agreement with TDD on one point: Everyone needs to be on the same path, or there will be chaos. That path is the Code.

As we have seen, the academy is actually a multi-layered process. First there was the interview with TDD. Once in the academy, TDD invited Bismarck to a second interview. Then came the EVEmail. In this section, TDD explains that once you're accepted, you'll take classes. Those classes will determine whether or not you'll be accepted. Maybe the academy is like a provisional membership, or maybe it's some sort of Schrödinger's Carebear situation. I wonder if TDD's own alts could make it through all this nonsense.

As always, there are some requirements for joining the corp. Not everyone is worthy of the privilege of mining in highsec with TDD's crew. I think it's supposed to say "language" instead of "languish".

On the other hand, maybe TDD has it right.

Buried at the very bottom of the EVEmail, we get the fine print: You need to play EVE for 4 hours a day, minimum. The good news is that you only need to meet the 4-hour minimum at least 3 days a week. Why do you need to spend so much time mining and running missions in highsec? Because TDD needs his corp members to make him a bunch of money in taxes. According to conventional wisdom, corps like these need to be protected from awoxers so they can scoop up as many new players as possible. Serving time in TDD's corp makes you more likely to want to play EVE long-term, they say.

Call me old-fashioned. Call me a bittervet. But I think corps like TDD's should be awoxed, wardecced, and destroyed by any available means.

TDD's Strategically Integrated Coalition of Nations corp was, naturally, wardecced into oblivion. TDD was forced to repeatedly create and fold a series of new corporations. He hasn't given up. Tactical Stability Union is the latest corp to "service" new players.

You might object that our Agent, Capt Starfox, wasn't a genuine newbie; he was only posing as one. How does TDD's corp look through the eyes of an actual new player, one who doesn't know about the New Order or TDD's history? From time to time, New Order Intelligence provides me with players' APIs, allowing me to read their EVEmails. One of those players happened to be a member of TDD Dominaters' Tactical Stability Union. In our next installment, I will provide you with access to something special: The TDD experience from the perspective of an innocent newbie.

To be continued...

The New Player Experience, Part 1

Gamers can be demanding. In other games, players urge the developers to improve graphics, fix netcode, add features, release expansions with new content, etc. In EVE, it's a little different. We're mainly interested in improving new player retention, so EVE can get more subscribers and CCP can make more money. With this noble goal in mind, players carefully considered how to improve player retention. The consensus is that we need to make it easier for new players to join good, high-quality PvE corps in highsec. This is a challenge, because there's no such thing as a good, high-quality PvE corp in highsec.

That doesn't stop the CEOs from trying hard to create one. Take TDD Dominaters, for instance. He's a highsec carebear who went to the defunct CAOD subforum on EVE-O to get some advice on how to improve his leadership skills.

At first glance, the CEO of Tactical Stability Union is just what EVE needs to help new players get hooked on EVE. He is passionate and dedicated.

At second glance, TDD Dominaters is a monster. He encourages highsec miners to disobey the Code. As we revealed in Highsec Nightmare, Part 1 and Highsec Nightmare, Part 2, TDD's actual goal is to get as many players into his corp as possible so he can tax them to death.

From his consistent abuse of new players, TDD Dominaters became the poster child for the necessity of awoxing. Enlightened EVE players know the truth: Bad corps need to be destroyed.

For further reading on TDD, see the following epic series...

No Easy Awox, Part 1
No Easy Awox, Part 2
No Easy Awox, Part 3
No Easy Awox, Part 4
No Easy Awox, Part 5
No Easy Awox, Part 6
No Easy Awox, Part 7

Through the magic of awoxing and wardecs, the New Order has frequently thwarted TDD's plans to suck the life out of new players' EVE experience. But TDD isn't giving up, not yet. When he started yet another nightmare corp, it was time to launch an investigation. Agent Capt Starfox volunteered to go deep undercover as Bismarck Koskanaiken, a new player looking for a highsec corp to join.

Once awoxed, twice shy. TDD learned not to automatically accept all applicants to his corps. As a security measure, he interviewed all potential recruits. He didn't know what to ask, so he repeatedly asked the same questions and pretended to be thoughtful about it.

Bismarck expressed his interest in running missions, an activity TDD could tax. So far, so good. But to be extra careful, TDD wanted to get Bismarck on voice comms.

For some reason, TDD was especially interested in getting members with smartphones. Maybe he had an app for bot-mining.

There was no doubt about it, TDD hadn't changed. He was still a slave driver. He wanted to be able to call up his members at home and notify them of emergency mining ops or something.

Bismarck wasn't able to get on voice comms, so he flunked the corp's security screening. That didn't matter, because TDD was too anxious to get more new members for his corp. First, however, Bismarck would need to pass through TDD's testes. Wait, what?

...He probably meant "tests". You see, the corp had an "academy" for new recruits. Allow that to sink in for a moment--an EVE academy designed by TDD Dominaters.

It was enough to make anyone flee in terror, or disgust. But our Agent was ready to put everything on the line for his secret mission in the name of the Code. Now it was time for cadet Bismarck to enroll in TDD Dominaters' academy. It would challenge him in ways he never thought possible.

To be continued...

They Look to EVE for Inspiration

When people think of EVE, they think of the New Order. But what do people feel when they think of us? Proper EVE players love us, of course. Carebears are a work in progress. In their various stages of bot-aspirancy, they look upon us with fear and respect, and are on their way toward love. Then there's the question of what people who don't play EVE think and feel about us. You don't need to ask Ripard Teg's female relatives to find the answer. You only need to look at other games' forums.

Dr Tyler discovered something remarkable about the community of a game called "Elite: Dangerous". The game is in its early stages, not yet ready for a full release. The game has spaceships. It has miners. And when you put those two things together, you get...

...bot-aspirants. Dr Tyler discovered a couple of threads discussing the ganking of Elite: Dangerous miners.

It appears the New Order of Highsec inspires people even beyond the EVE galaxy.

Highsec's Saviour, too, is given his proper due. Can you imagine a day when every multiplayer game on the internet is filled with enthusiasm for the Code?

Meanwhile, the permabanning of certain highsec content creators has had an unintended consequence. These Agents are no longer able to enforce the Code in EVE's highsec, so they must find purpose elsewhere. I received the following e-mail from Sophaya Fortelleren, one of the victims of September 10th:

Supreme Protector,

I speak from beyond the grave. As CCP's banhammer fell, I awoke to find myself in the afterlife, this afterlife seems to be called Archeage, and is full of carebears. Knowing this, even in death I decided to take up the cause of the New Order and adorned my pirating ship with a symbol to represent the New Order and the Code. I would like to share it with you thus and hope that perhaps the New Order on the plane of the living may find some use for it.

Yours eternally,

Sophaya Fortelleren

It's a New Order emblem (with a transparent background here)! Even more impressive, it didn't take CCP's legal team years to approve it.

DJentropy Ovaert met up with his fellow Agent in this "ArcheAge" game.

The New Order has been busy establishing a presence in ArcheAge. It's only been out a few months and is already infested with carebears who "just want to be left alone" - but never fear, the New Order is there to remind them just what a sandbox is all about :)

James 315 / Agents - I think you'll enjoy this screenshot :P

Much love to all the brave agents in both EVE and Archeage :)

For those who have quit EVE after being ganked, other games represent a second chance to discover and embrace the joys of the Code. May our seeds be planted far and wide.