First off, thanks for the initial praise and warning. I have personally been trying to balance things where I can and have specifically said in the chats that we're not going to be =CR= -like. Fortunately I have managed to handle things, although it was getting a little hard with my internet troubles a week ago. Seem to have come out of it fairly well though.
Fortunately I was there for all of these incidents so can at least deal with it fairly well.
For the first one, I was Eric Pearce in a Nanda. When the call went out for a Storta at Java, I had assumed it was a fairly new person given there wasn't any armour on it. Seeing that it was RPing a little, particularly rather fiesty for its armour, I was quite happy to sit about and chat for a bit knowing that we could take it if it was trouble.
Just a small note for that one, "CR|, IMG| and heaps of other people" was an indy cruiser, 3 IMG| bombers and an IMG| Lhotse - there weren't any CR| there. I was looking to take you with the snubs instead of the cruiser on our side. When the Saga opened up on you midway through my sentence I was both in and out of RP a little disappointed, and of course an unarmoured Storta doesn't last long. I was the one that PMed you afterwards, and also sent one to the Saga as it looked to me as if he silently engaged.
Luke has kind of covered the middle situation - in this case I was on Pearce's Nanda again. After I undocked we had about as many as was needed for an equal fight, although I was hoping for one more given we were likely to get Placeholder-ed. After we took you out (or just before, I can't remember exactly) we had a Reaver and indy - mon on Samana - dive in. I sent Cerulean after the Sabre given that lot are good at SNACing snubs and we'd lost our own fighter; the rest of us took out the remaining caps. Usually I try to balance it, even though a lot of people are out for a certain Razor-Storta's blood, but most of the time you get a lot of people piling in on the indy anti-Outcast side. This one wasn't too over-played, just a little more than I'd have liked.
Also, I thought it was you on Bonanza after this
For the third situation I was the light fighter, Shotglass. I was only headed up there to escort those Atlases, but ended up running into your Tanker full of Slaves. I would have liked to have had the Asteria 'enforce demands' (I didn't actually know he was there when I first saw you) but unfortunately he'd DCed; so I called for some people to head down. Unfortunately a few were busy tangling with a couple of EFL| escorts and there was some lag affecting our distance, so it took a lot longer to get you stopped and with any firepower to stop you. As you stated inRP, we were right next to Cali and weren't able to do much since there was that mess with the EFL. Soon after I started Screamer-ing you, the Outcast GB and XTF popped out, and some more CR| came in. After you docked I scarpered to get something to fend them off, but it was all rather a mess.
A lack of organisation given we had three sets of forces fighting two battles was what did it really.
So I'll keep my efforts up and try to balance the fights where I can - but when we have high numbers of low/medium-skilled bombers against caps supported by pro-Sabres it can be a bit messy to find that balance. Sometimes people feel the need to wipe everything out before the latter group arrive, and of course some indies gonna indy. I have sent CR|s off in the past, and do try to keep Thanatos use to when we have a big target or a really unbalanced snub fight - you won't see full Solaris ones wading in while I am around (I'll put two Cerbs on it as well )
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