I did something tonight that I have never done before:
I told a bnavver to blame the jobbers.
I’ve done the SMH thing for years – it’s basically what I do when I log in. Over the years I’ve been with good navvers, bad navvers, lucky ones, and unlucky ones. Usually, when a ship sinks in SMH, the real reason is that the navver got greedy. When it was time to turn tail and run, he (or she) decided they just had to get one more cit/trike/graveyard/fray. Sure, I can understand the dilemma, stay in and try for more loot, or exit to shake the goons or repair the ship. We all know, you exit the board, a bunch of people are going to jump and you’ll never get back up enough to go back in. So they risk it, and we sink. When that happens, don’t go blaming your jobbers – it was all you. I’ve found that those navvers are also the ones that start the voyage threatening to plank people if they don’t station – I’ve been known to tell those kind of people “Fine, plank people – I’ll start with me” and I’ll leave the ship, the crew, and put them on MY mute list.
This time – 2 cits, too many solos, no chance that that group was likely to succeed in winning anything. Then, as I’m bilging, it starts making “that noise”, the one that lets you know you’re in trouble. Sure enough, an archelon is there causing us problems, damage is growing, and there’s all of three people on carp, and three on bilge. He shouts to get people to station up, and no one moves.
We sank of course – on his nice smuggler class war brig. In the end, the sink was still technically his fault – caused by something he did before he even left the dock.
He hired lousy jobbers.