Achmed fleets didn’t work for my play time, usually, and I had a couple of bad experiences when I did fly with them. But we always found action, I’ll grant you that. The Steelcastles fleets that I became a routine stalwart in suffered severely from a lack of Gallente to shoot at, but we got very good at clearing the rats out of Tama once we took to flying with enough ECM.

I was on the Caldari side and I had a spy in the other militia and his version of events is just false regardless of what side you were on. It just worked out that their militia was near empty when our’s was mostly full and vice versa. Both sides griped about the seeing the same things, but at different times of the day.

I really missed Corewin when he left, because his Achmed Fleets were always in a good time zone to find a large enemy fleet. If nothing else, Dead Parrots were usually active around the same time he was and they were always fun to spar with.

Oddly enough, the way you remember it and the way Deja describes it don’t sound all that different to me — just different emotional tones applied to the same events. Frankly, I thought the addition of the Benny Hill theme music was the entertaining part — it would have livened things up if they’d added that track to the EVE jukebox.

I did get in on some of those Gallente high sec runs; they weren’t all suicide runs, either. Good times. I actually miss faction warfare; for all its defects, there were a lot of good fights. Ultimately, though, I decided that good fights that aren’t in support of anything aren’t worth the ISK.

I seem to remember we had to actually do suicide missions into Gallente’s highsec to get them to fight at all just before I quit EVE.

Take anything Deja Thoris says with a grain of salt anyway. Remember, those were the same guys that, right at the beginning, slapped overdrives and polys on literally everything and then beat their chests all over Eve-O/Scrapheap about how they were pwning all those Caracals.