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RES Rheinlanders Escort Service on Elite.

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Post Mon Apr 28, 2003 5:06 am

RES Rheinlanders Escort Service on Elite.

Me and a few other pilots on Elite came up with this. Basically we are a group that does hired escort, whether it be flying wingman for a fully loaded freighter from Freiburg Station to New Tokyo, or escorting a Defender to Battleship Myoko to purchase a Dragon.

Basically if you need a fighter backup to take you somewhere that you aren't sure you can get to alone, you can ask us.

To hire one or more of us, find either : Hellmaster(myself), Stikfas_Captain, or Cooldude on Elite and ask. All payment issues will be resolved in the participating parties, and if more than one of us are around, you may ask for two of us to come with as opposed to just one, or if need be even more.

We all fly Rheinland ships which is where we get our name from. I fly a Banshee, as does Cooldude, while Stikfas flies a Valkyrie. Don't be put off by us not flying VHF's, any one of us COULD be, we fly the ships we fly by choice, and are very competent with them, so you are guaranteed a safe trip.

If you want to join us and fly one of the Rheinland fighters, then contact me ingame.

Just to reiterate, we are on Elite.

Post Mon Apr 28, 2003 6:56 pm

Maybe I'd like to join your ranks with my Rheinland pilot; Gunther_Reichmann.

Also a question about your service, do you also guarantee safety from random acts of God?

Edited by - Cheezwiz on 28-04-2003 19:56:46

Post Mon Apr 28, 2003 7:45 pm

I would definently be interested in joining, as soon as Elite gets all those random explosion kinks worked out with the patch. I do not fly Rheinland ships tho.

Post Mon Apr 28, 2003 8:36 pm

Good to see a bit of interest in it, and I'm sorry Cheezwiz, we guarantee protection from anything but random acts of god

Post Mon Apr 28, 2003 11:15 pm

I would like to see you guarantee protection from me , seriously though you guys are making yourselves huge targets by posting this, if i were you i would keep it quiet, the best way to get around without getting killed is to keep a low profile, it always worked for me and i never had an escort. And just so you know you are going to get wacked in rhienland ships even if you are competant pilots, personally i think you should join one of the existing squads rather than creating a new one. It might look good in theory but in game it wont work out so well.

Post Mon Apr 28, 2003 11:35 pm

Well I honestly had no clue that any other organized escort services existed on elite, maybe one or two, and hey, if you want to try and attack us, nobody said you cant try, but I guarantee that if we do lose the fight, it wont have been an easy win for you. I personally went head to head with a Sabre for a good 6 minutes before we called it a stalemate, it had Nomad Cannons and Blasters, and Skyblast B's. A Titan attacking us, or even a squadron of them would be no competition what-soever for Banshees or even a Valkyrie, though I'm sure if it was only one escort working at a time a pilot flown Eagle could do well against us since the Banshee is only marginally more maneuverable, but with two Banshees against an attacking Eagle, I'm sure we would come out on top. Also, to be honest I haven't seen much PKing at all on Elite lately, just lots of working together and a small faction war, and RES is guaranteed Diplomatic Immunity by both factions.


EDIT : "the best way to get around without getting killed is to keep a low profile, it always worked for me and i never had an escort."

Just to add, this is mostly to protect people from AI enemies, and the occasional PKer. If someone flying a Rhino wants to do a longer more profitable trade run, but it goes into dangerous territory, we can escort them until they get a ship that they believe is tough enough to handle the run.


Edited by - Hellmaster on 29-04-2003 00:38:44

Post Tue Apr 29, 2003 2:23 am

Strange.. I thought everyone either flies an eagle, Titan, or Sabre.


..yeah I even fly the Valkyre(sorry for spelling) sometimes too, or the britonia very heavy fighters.

Edited by - Sunchild on 29-04-2003 03:25:14

Post Tue Apr 29, 2003 2:59 am

Oh man, that was sooo much... not fun. Here comes JohnnyDakota in his Eagle trying to take our diamonds. We sit there for a while, asking what the hell he's doing and he starts trashtalking, "Oh man you think you could take an Eagle, I could waste you." Blablabla. Yeah, it was funny until he calls in 5 more guys in VHF, oh God. So hilarious. Big man in a VHF is afraid to take on two light fighters.

ROFLMAO! ROFLOL! GAHAHAHA! OMFG! AHAHAHAA!

You'll have to excuse me, but that was REALLY funny.

At which point Mad_Dog opens up with his Skyblast Bs, we get nowhere, so I quit the game in frustration. Of course I would have died eventually, what do you expect when 5 ****ers drop in to help some guy who already (arguably) has the advantage.

Doesn't help that they blew up my pal ACE for no reason, I mean wtf guys. It's one thing if you attack someone one on one, or if the person attacks you first, but hey why not gang up against one poor guy minding his own business! Why not ruin his fun, after all no one elses time matters. :rolleyes:

Edited by - CoOlDuDe on 29-04-2003 04:12:09

Post Tue Apr 29, 2003 3:13 am

omg, hell said he could take on an eagle, so johny fought him and beat him then he said he could take on my sabre, so i fought him and beat him.

and on a side note, we where passnig though n00b he didnt call us in, and we never attacked 1 of you with all 5 of us


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Edited by - Mad Dog on 29-04-2003 04:13:54

Post Tue Apr 29, 2003 3:15 am

maybe RES should consider upgrading ships , btw was this in sigma-13? i think i was there although i didn't see the action

Post Tue Apr 29, 2003 3:15 am

And why did you attack me? I wasn't even saying anything. I was just flying around, when you attack me with Skyblast Bs, ooo boy, I wonder who will win! *rests hand on chin* Gee I dunno.

Yes, n00b, please don't insult me, it hurts my feelings. You must be an Intarweb Expert to be able to call people n00bs, after all you do know everything!

Edited by - CoOlDuDe on 29-04-2003 04:16:06

Post Tue Apr 29, 2003 3:20 am

Cooldude.. I'll admit, the escort service is a really cool idea (wish i would have had the ambition to start it up), but you guy's going all hardcore reinland is going to kill the service.. if you want to stay reinland but make the service successful go with a sabre.. it's still considered reinland and it's a strong ship that wont get you owned in 2 seconds. But i still suggest go get an eagle, same with you partner.
And if people attack you, dont get mad man. It's PVP. Pk'ing is part of the game. And being an escort service is no fun unless you get attacked.
Oh, and on a side note. I was tailing you since stuttgart. The other guy's came because they wanted to see if i could take on 5 at a time. But when all your friends bailed (aside from hell), and YOU guy's said you could blow the hell out of an eagle with two of your crap ships, tha'ts when MD wanted to get in. And if you didn't notice, it was only me and MD fighting. Everyone else was just watching. And I took hell, and MD took you. Then when hell said (after i beat him) that an eagle is too much, but he could take an saber, he faught MD and lost too him too. How about you get your stories straight before you go and give everyone false ideas of what happened.

Cool Quote of the Day:
sp00n- "proof me wrong, or stop your yelling around[!"
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Edited by - JohnnyDakota on 29-04-2003 04:29:43

Post Tue Apr 29, 2003 3:47 am

Yes yes fine, I was just really pissed off afterwards.

But what is so good about taking on 5 people? Most of the freighters didn't even have weapons, plus ruining someones day when they are completely full of Diamonds is lame, alright? Yes I ditched my diamonds because I was afraid you would attack, and you did. Neither of us were going to attack unless you did, but somehow the **** hit the fan and someone attacked.

As for Rheinland ships, the point is we don't WANT to get PKed, we're just in it for the fun of flying around and blowing up ****ty AI. I had an Sabre and an Eagle with Nomad Blasters, Cannons, Salamancas, Del Cids, Skyblast B, other level 10s, etc. I just got plain sick of being like everyone else with either an Eagle or a Sabre. I think we're doing it just to be different. Yeah sure it would be fun to fight a lone VHF, but when 5 of your friends drop in what did you expect us to think? Zopharx wasn't exactly being clear about the situation. I don't think anyone in our group wanted trouble, I just didn't like you following us when we have 2 helpless freighters with little or no guns.

Truce, TRUCE. I'll admit I don't exactly like NEO because one time they tried to cut me off when I was in a Dromedary with 275 Diamonds. But I ended up getting away. Dunno what two members it was.

Anyway, please tell us if you wanna blow the wimpy ships we fly to high hell instead of jumping us out of the blue when we're just escorting.

So, anyone still miffed about it?

Post Tue Apr 29, 2003 3:53 am

I didnt say I could beat either one of you guys, I said I could put up a good fight, and I did as far as I'm concerned. In the first battle when it was at least 2, (not sure if there were others who got involved) against us, we lasted about 5 to 7 minutes before dieing. The second time, I challeneged you to a duel Mad Dog, just to see how long I'd last, I'd say i put up a good fight, wouldnt you? Also, I dont look down on the situation at all, I dont want to make enemies, your shadowing us down our trade route worried me Johnny, so i confronted you, you expressed your possible intent to pirate us, i mused on the fact that perhaps 2 banshees could take on an Eagle and do well, if not win. I found it fun, I dont know if you did. Either way, neither of us lost any cargo, and I personally found it to be valuable combat experience.

About the Rheinland fighters thing. We use them because we like them. We've agreed that the game gets old fast if you can kill any AI ship in two to three blows save for the very heavy fighters. In our Banshees we can take on any AI ship and stand a good chance of winning, and against players flying the more clumsy VHF's (Titan, and to some extent Sabre) if we work together and there is only one. I like this gig much more than just getting a VHF and killing everything like its a god damned shooting gallery, I want a challenge, and flying a Banshee I have one.

To restate, I dont want to make any enemies with you guys, but we fought, and it was fun, in the future could you please not shadow us so intimidatingly if you dont intent to pirate us?

Post Tue Apr 29, 2003 4:03 am

Well anyway, now that hopefully everyone has cooled down we got a few new members.

Hellmaster, add ACE and Alpha_Beta_4 to the list. ACE flies a Banshee, too... only problem is that most of Rheinland hates him... oops.

Edited by - CoOlDuDe on 29-04-2003 05:44:48

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