Due to some recent attempts at trolling my recruitment thread, I thought I would issue a statement to address the problem.

Let's get everything out in the open.

I started a war on the AE recruitment thread?

"You need to know how to keep the members you already have before you go recruiting new players."

I was not being a smartass or trying to troll. I was simply stating a fact, hoping that AE. leadership would actually address the problem. I did not and do not want what happened to me to happen to anyone else. Friendly advice that was posted without malice and was actually related to the topic at hand.

I'm apparently poaching members? The only one I could remotely be considered poaching had told me about a month earlier that he was wanting to and was considering leaving AE. to join Nyain San. As the events unfolded, I was forced to leave and HVLP was formed, I offered him a place as I knew he was leaving anyways. Otherwise, I did message several of my friends. I wanted it to be clear that, should they find themselves in need of a home in the future, they were always welcome in mine.

Why did I leave AE?

I received the following message from a corpmate:

"If your gonna be a **** to people, their gonna be a **** to you. Some of the people that you think like you... don't. You rub people wrong & your loosing popularity with your corp mates. You can think I'm a **** but I'm just honest. I'm not like must guys that's gonna kiss your ass because your a girl & I'm not gonna fill your need for attention"

That is word for word, as I still have the message. Naturally, I didn't really understand what the problem was and wanted it resolved. I also wished to understand what type of people I was dealing with.

My response:

If you have any advice for me, feel free to share it. Because I'm obviously not understanding how I'm being a **** and turning my corpmates against me?

It then went on with a series of messages back and forth. He explained that my jumping squads bothered him. I didn't really see it like that, but I agreed to not do that anymore, if I could help it, out of respect. Not trying to be an ******* when jumping squads. LOL

A day or so passes, everything is resolved on that front, and I get a random message from Rampage:

"I want you to 1v1 me"

What?

"You heard me, I wanna see how ****'s going on with you, so I want you to 1v1 me"

Okay? How?

"Umm, FW. We'll deploy against eachother & meet up somewhere"

I said I didn't want to meet up somewhere. No fun: I wanted to go the traditional route and hunt each other down.

After a little debate over when this whole thing would take place, we went to Corp VC and queued. I was squadding with my friend Espeon when Rampage messaged me and he stayed with me in squad. It was also agreed that this was between Rampage and I and he was to stay out of it, which he assured me he did. Rampage went something like 29/6 and I went 11/0, 1v1ing him in the last 2 minutes of the match. We voiced back in Corp afterwards and he was not happy. He told me that I was a ***** player, that Espeon helped me, and I was ****. He said he didn't see me like that, but if that's how I wanted to play to have fun with my new teacher. He then logged out and went offline.

I was disgusted by the display and decided to, at the least, temporarily delete him off of my alternate PSN. He gets back on 10-20 minutes later, immediately notices I deleted him, and writes me the following message.

"If your gunna delete me off PSN, you might as well leave corp. We dont need any scrubs. Please & thank you. :]"

It then continued in a series of messages.

"Goodbye, have fun at Escrow :]"
"Only reason I dnt kick you is cuz you had roles & I have to wait 24 hours (:"

Whatever helps you sleep at night. I would leave, but you can be the one to get your hands dirty. Kicking me for dumb ass ****? It is always enjoyable to watch how these things play out.

"I cant have that. I cant go to bed until your out of the corp so please leave? Im asking nicely."

Nicely? You're not being nice at all.

"Fine. Be that way. I hope this is fun for you. Peace."

It ends there. Rampage gets on a couple hours later and sends me this:

"I was just being jealous & I apologize for that. I dnt know what occurences you speak of as I have never talked behind your back. Between the in corp drama the pcs and irl I've been stressed out and I blew up on you & I apologize. I understand if you want to leave & I hope you are treated well wherever you go."

I stayed quiet and decided to just wait it out and see what happened.

Funny enough I start receiving messages from that corpmate.

"Their were others in the corp saying you mite be giving away our timers. For example, when you left our squad the other nite. It was the other squad mates that raised that concern."

You care to share who has been going around gossiping behind my back?

"More than 1 has been talking. Let's say it has turned into a group"