[EVE Online] Frustrations with Ops

This isn’t a story about covert ops ships, which I adore, but instead it’s about Pandemic Horde and their handling (or lack of) un-anchoring forts and their heavy desire for secrecy to their own members (yeah yeah, spai, I get it). I understand that things need to be kept quiet so that we don’t entice Goons or other NullSec blocks to come after structures that may be un-anchoring, but there were barely any messages sent out that not only was MJ un-anchoring (this has finally completed and MJ BEANSTAR is no more), but that many other forts scattered through PH territory were also un-anchoring. Places where folks do industry, mining, and ratting. On a whim I happened to check the system I spend most of my time in – and yes, the fort there was un-anchoring, too. There was a tiny little brief discord message buried with a single line that we were somehow supposed to infer as to the scale of these changes, and that was it.

Thankfully I got all of my ships out of my ratting / mining systems and hauled them to other structures along with the new home of R-AG. I feel bad for the swaths of people who were unable to get their stuff out in time, who were away, who were wining at EVE, or whatever other situation happened to occur. I feel like there wasn’t a clear -> ‘here’s what’s happening’ message, instead it was “we don’t trust you, we don’t trust anyone in this discord, therefor here is a cryptic message about what’s going on but really no message about what is going on”. Instead of being all secretive we could have flaunted the un-anchoring, and arranged for our people out in force to protect it. Put up some sort of fight instead of what PH has been doing, which feels a lot like rolling over. Yeah, I’m frustrated with the state of Pandemic Horde lately. Looking at the amount of older members who are jumping ship to INIT and other blocks, it doesn’t feel like I’m alone in that thought. Ah well.

Fly your way o7