Himo Amasacia
Minmatar Fade to Black Inc Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate
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Posted - 2007.12.08 14:33:00 -
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I suppose I should not really be dipping my toe into this, but hey.
Firstly when Rise joioned up with BOB the odds were not nearly in the Coalitions favour as they are now. The odds were really in the order of 7:5 on the coalitions side, and BOB was expanding like crazy and with MC in their pocket they had at least 70-80% of the supercaps of eve at their disposal and the majority of the capital ships. And supercaps were things that didn;t need a support fleet at that time (its depetable where they to now) and litterally could wipe fleets out. PLUS they had nearly all the high skill point characters. When you have those kind of advantages a slight disparagy in numbers mean damn all.
At that time bieng anti-BOB was the hard choice in Eve.
Thats why RISE made the choice it did. And immediatly lost a third to half its memberships as those people walked. It was the easy choice. The leadership wanted to be in on the death of the goons and RA and get lots of fat rewards. Not nesseserily anything wrong with that, but claiminmg that you went there @for the challanges is the first thing that will make people laugh their head off.
What really has people laughing here is this talk of the herioc pass of thermopolie fight against massive odds for 10 months crap. YOu were assaulted allright for a few weeks till BOB got 3 of its titans into the area, which was what was needed to fend off the RSF and AAA. Then you were left alone for months. YOu then had a whole load of towers planted in your systems by KOS, a pos spamming attack that only failed becasue they ran out of fuel, not becasue of any action or skill of yours (unless spies were involved.) Then the GOons captured a system close by and waited till they had jump bridge capability. 2 weeks after that "eye" opened RISE was gone.
This is not "10 months of constant sieging" If you wanted not to be laughed at, you could have said:
"Rise bluntd the initial coalition offensive and held long enough for BOB to arrive with sufficiant forces to rescue the situation. We then provided vital financial and logistic support for the offensive, and when the front reversed itself, RISE managed to hold out for a solid month under constant harrasement, and guarded one or the routes into the Alliance heartland, suffering tremendous personal and alliance wise sacrifices to do so."
You see? That is closer to the truth, and people would only s****** a bit at it. Saying you were gloriously undersiege for 10 bloody months makes you look compleatly redicoulous to people like the goons that withstood months of POS bowling and 23/7 remote doomsdays. In all senses of the word, you got it easy.
So be proud of your real accomplishments, but be honest with yourself and everyone else, and you will gain a small bit of respect. Do not try and take credit for fantasies, as all that will get you is laughed at.
"Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill." -Cicero |
Himo Amasacia
Minmatar Fade to Black Inc Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate
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Posted - 2007.12.08 15:10:00 -
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Edited by: Himo Amasacia on 08/12/2007 15:10:02
Originally by: Hey You
Originally by: Evil Thug Back to sucking, and waiting till we got to fountain please.
ROFL to fountain Thug? You cant make your way out of wet paper bag let alone all the way to Fountaine :PPP
I mean by now you should have been in Nol, Mc was supposed to be dead. BoB gone etc etc.
As was IAC, you have to agree.
Its all nonsense anyway. Heart beating > Chest beating in anyones book.
"Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill." -Cicero |