See sota I knew you were just community trash. I bet dust university not only stays around longer but will also be remembered long after youre forgotten.

I appreciate your sentiment.

luckily these guys like mr. pop cant extinguish us. all they did was take what we were gonna give away...

/shrug

now they cant do anything and the uni will continue on.

thank you for your support.

we actually train them quite well.

tough words calling 2 week old players easy meat...

I kind of expected more from a guy who is supposedly noob friendly.

umm... we let you have those districts... we didn't even show up....like I said you only took what we were giving away.

your welcome.

we planned to give our districts away just before we were accosted by AE.

we pulled out of PC because its an administrative nightmare for our small dedicated staff to train people in the most laughable part of the game.

PC is a joke as it is right now. it's just an isk farm.

we at d uni are not concerned with lining our pockets, only training new mercs so that bigger corps like molon labe and OSG get quality players.

you don't need a planet to do this. as far as PC goes there are better ways to teach it without holding a planet.

and with FW getting a revamp most of our more advanced lessons will be done there.

I really don't understand why another training corp has such disdain for a like minded corp.

I chalk it up to envy and jealousy and I pitty that mentality.

but it doesn't matter the uni shall persevere even in the face of this new unfounded hate we have garnered from a few.

in closing, though I am bemused by the learning coalitions need to flame I still salute them for emulating what the uni founded and applaud there efforts to mimic us.

I'm also sorry I wasted my time talking to a try hard!

I may take you up on that offer

Did Seymor really just make Sota Pop apologize?

Whoa...

Two days ago I was still part of D-UNI

But honestly, to contribute to this post rather than derailing it.

This whole spit-spat was started and pushed by the Learning Coalition, all because a couple of their 'leading members' have a bitter taste in their mouths when they were part of Dust University. It's not rocket science, especially with Mister O'Dell making these sort of posts.

On top of that, PC has nothing to contribute for our communities new members. Seriously... what benefit does PC have? Sure at the moment it's the only game mode that has friendly fire enabled, but once FW 2.0 comes out... PC won't really have any benefits for training corporations. The directors of D-UNI decided to pull out of PC because it was too stressful, and members inside the corporation weren't actually interested in it.

I invite you and any others interested in interacting with our new members for training to add comms.d-uni to your chat bar.

also I didn't mention this before (its late I should be in bed) but thank you for the apology.

graciously accepted.

this is great advice, and the leadership does realize that coming to PC with slapped together squads of players who don't know each others playstyle is a disaster waiting to happen.

but this is where I think we may be misunderstood....

the very nature of our corp is to train the basics and some advanced level mechanics.... but its mostly basics.

we are a neutral training corp with no desire of being a player in PC.
getting into PC was all thanks to Truexer0z who just wanted to show new players what they are training towards and to give those corps on the brink of being ready for competitive PC a chance to get their feet wet in it before facing the big dogs.

purely charitable. that's it.

we BELIEVE in this game and its future and we just want to do our part in cultivating the community.

we love dust and eve.

having squads that always play together would be great ( we have plans to do this) but our staff is to small to serve our large corp in this manner at this time.

but we do squad up with our players often, answer their questions, and show them squad tactics.
we hold lectures, even have members of CCP come in to talk with our members.

we try to prepare a merc to join a competitive corp or to start their own.

we want our players to move on.

so cohesive squads becomes a conundrum:

how do you have a dedicated squad of mercs in a corp that wants you to go to another corp?

Not jumping at you, you're opinion is certainly correct. Not everyone is going to learn the same way as everyone else. Some will learn by reading guides, others will learn by seeing - then doing - and still others will learn by throwing themselves at the fray to figure out the do's and don'ts of DUST 514.

D-UNI has a lot of ways they train people, lectures happen to be one of our known avenues. So if you're up to it, Sota, you can contact their Director of Education (Sherrad Ventonii) about doing a guest lecture in whatever it is you specialize in. Lectures are typically 45 minutes with a 15 minute Q&A session at the end.

Honestly, we've all gotten to that frustration bit. Those of us who are still around (at least in terms of veteran players) are here either because they like inflicting pain on themselves, or because they actually care for the potential this game has. Sticking through it, and helping newer players based on our experiences is really a good way to retain players, in my opinion.

But either way, good luck on your endeavor to create a corporation that's focused on improving themselves. Honestly, people like destroying things that can benefit others, and it would not surprise me if you had a few enemies quietly plotting, especially now with this particular statement you came forwards with. Don't want to be that guy, but I'll be that guy for the sake of it being four in the morning (at the time of this post.) The meta-game is alive, and well.

D-Uni is a dictatorship. (And they say that upfront.) So it is a good spot to train but many laid back players get frustrated because it is just a game. (And to be fair they say it right there in the welcome msg)


In a nutshell: Remember what got you kicked from ZionTCD? All remember all the trouble u got into? The TYPES of personalities involved. Same thing here.