Below are the rules for CtC (Capture the Cargo). I felt that new players need some information about it. Even relatively new players can make a difference for either side. If you are near the CTC starting locations consider helping your side win!! And if you are UIT choose a side and help the Itani or serco(scum:) win...

CtC: From Vendetta Wiki

Capture the Cargo is the battle between Itani and Serco for Purified Xithricite Ore. This ore can be used to construct the Neutron Blaster MkIII. The competition is weekly, from Sunday to Saturday. Only the members of the nation that has the highest amount of Purified Xithricite at the end of the round are able to buy Neutron Blasters MkIII during the following week. Itani cargo transports depart from Bractus Watch (Bractus C-5) and head to Coranis Watch (Divinia M-14), the Serco transports depart from Daltas Hold (Sedina L-2) and head to Catequil Outpost (Pyronis L-6). They take direct routes between the wormholes and will get caught in storms.
But how do you participate in this?

Itani / Serco

Join channels 201 (Itani convoy channel) and 202 (Serco convoy channel), these channels will give you a five minute warning of when the convoys will depart, it will tell you when they depart, it will give you updates along it's journey such as where it is, if it is under attack, and if it has been destroyed. To participate, you guard your nation's convoys, and if they get destroyed gather their cargo and bring it back to your nations drop off sector. You can also attack your nation's enemy's convoys, destroy the convoys and pick up their cargo and bring it back to your nation's drop off sector. Be prepared to meet resistance from the nation's players, and the convoy's guards. A convoy generally consists of a robotic Axia transport ship that is guarded by several robotic nation-aligned escorts such as Dentek Assault or Orne Guardians. When the 5 minute warning goes off, people congregate at or near the points where they wish to ambush or defend the transports. The ambush points are generally at the wormholes in grayspace. People choose these for a variety of reasons. The first is that they won't lose faction for killing other players in grayspace. The second is that if you wait at a point at the end of the route, many times you won't see any action at all because the transport will be killed before it gets there. Some people keep stockpiles of their favorite ships & weapons in the stations nearby the CtC routes. Others specifically gain faction with stations along the route so they can get better ships and weapons for a lower price without having to run back and forth to their home nations.

UIT

If you have chosen to be UIT, you can either fight for the Itani's or Serco's cause, but beware that killing the convoys will give you a slight faction hit but delivering the cargo to a nation will raise your standing with that nation. Furthermore, your name will be listed in the [CtC section of the Vendetta web page], and you may become "Kill on Sight" with various player created Itani or Serco fighter groups. You can also grab the cargo and then sell it to players from either nation. This can be quite dangerous. During the transaction there is no safeguard against one party killing the other or withholding payment.
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From Vendetta Wiki:
http://www.vo-wiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=CtC

To be fair, this is really the *last* thing we need to make CtC more enjoyable for everyone. As it is, all of the Serco newbies get introduced to CtC early, since the sides are unbalanced, and we need their help. Yet even with all the Serco newbs CtCing, we can't squeeze out a win, because we're too badly outnumbered. Encouraging EVERYONE to CtC will only add more Itani and UIT to the game, since all of the Serco are already playing.

one of the problems as well is that the Serco convoys are routed through Sedina and Latos and thats a pirate hangout at the moment. Its realistically too much to expect people to let them by, so that route is also a disadvantage to the Serco.

That route is why I don't really get involved in CTC as Itani. It's stacked too far to the Itani side for me to want to push it any further.

Once Unrats are back having Random Unrats attacking the Itani convoys only might be a balance factor.

i think thats jestatis goal. Hes alarmed because we serco might actually win this week ctc.

The whole thing is going to be replaced eventually. Hopefully kind of soon (TM?)

My goal was to explain this to all players. I was quite frankly tired of explaining it day after day. This way at least everyone knows about it. If they want to participate they will if not at least they know. This is just another aspect of the game that most vets don't do but noobs can have fun doing.

The serco route has been unfair since the game started. i can't change that only the developers can. When fighting was going on in Latos H2 it was a little fairer for the serco. Right now a lot of Itani don't deliver cargo but they do make a point of killing transports.

Cunjo less and less players do ctc each week. Both sides need an influx of new players. Serco can if they wish, and if the vets support them, win anytime they like. Yoda, with CLMs, helped proved that a few weeks ago.

I personally would be happy if this was only a serco and itani thing and the UIT din't count, or give them a convoy too. (UIT: let me clarify feel free to help the Itani. We love you:) Thats not how the game is played though. So we live with the UIT helping each side. And usually (not always, usually) the UIT help the serco more then the Itani.

Finally: Shadoen, I never fear serco. The Itani will win because some of us care to win. It only takes a few determined players to win ctc as it stands right now. Its not about the neut mk iiis anymore, its about beating the serco and having a little fun doing it.

To both sides: Have some fun!!!!

Thanks for this post, I was pretty unclear how this worked being I'm a UIT player. I'm a serco sympathizer but I'm not willing to take any sort of faction hit at this moment as I truly just want to be a trader.

The Wailing Widow looks at thread, saw the sell-by date, switched over to Oprah.

Cunjo: quit complaining that it's unbalanced, it's not, you're weak, that's all.

Hanging out in Latos H2 or O12 or Sedina B8, it's a *lot* further for itani fighters to get faction-specific kit like Cent IBG or Valks, than it is for you to get Vulturius, or Proms. Now, if you wanna bring the battle to Edras, just bring it on.

Shadoen: You're way off base here because i) Jestatis isn't alarmed at all and ii) you serco are gonna lose again this week, because we pwn you.

-- Foo Fighter

Rofl I made some nice captures myself already!
And one less nice one, since there's a serco HAC at the next warp from the serco tranport starting place... what is that thing doing there anyway?

Serco promjocks don't care about neuts anyway

Weak? don't make me laugh. We had HALF as many Serco playing CtC as Itani, and we were STILL winning last night. It was you, the Itani, who were calling for help on the forums to fend off the already vastly outnumbered Serco. And you talk of weak....

You have the surplus Cunjo. Look at the stats now.

Cunjo:
hehe. hehe. :-)

Foo fighter just kpwnt you Cunjo... XD

[14:12] <vo> [201] Foo Fighter delivered 1 unit of Mojo to Coranis Watch
[14:13] <vo> [201] Foo Fighter delivered 42 units to Coranis Watch.
[14:13] <vo> [201] Foo Fighter delivered 1 rather large Melon to Coranis Watch.
[14:14] <vo> [201] Foo Fighter delivered 24 units to Coranis Watch.
[14:14] <vo> [201] Foo Fighter delivered 2 more units of Mojo to Coranis Watch

Gee, considering I'm not playing this week, I'd be surprised if anyone managed to suck so bad as to be outdone by me.

Also, just because I haven't made forum posts to gloat about large deliveries doesn't mean I've never made them... like that time a few weeks ago when I delivered 72 units at once.

Cunjo, admit it, you're weak at CTC, and we pwnd you.
- I did not make the Forum post gloating about my delivery (someone captured it from their chat log).
- Also, the record will show: your side only won the CTC one of the 2 weeks that I wasn't playing (When I was off on vacation in Tuscany).

The record will also show that it wasn't the serco that won but the CLM who helped yoda win :)

http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/1/9910?page=1

wheee and goes back to his eternal slumber.

PS: point was big deliveries are logical otherwise that amount wouldn't be manageable...

Wow dudes, Apr. 2005.
I'm impressed :-)
and I salute you, elders and vets, that pwnd CTC -
Renegade, Jestatis, yoda, roguelazer, mr_spuck et al.
-- Foo Fighter :-)