Eternum Praetorian
Minmatar
Retribution. Inc.
E-P-O-C-H
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Posted - 2009.12.28 05:56:00 -
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Edited by: Eternum Praetorian on 28/12/2009 06:04:58
A reasonable post on CAOD? WTF LOL 
Que flashback . . . fade in . . .
Ok well, I was the founder of the former REIGN Alliance, which bought into all the Dominion Hype spread about by CCP. Thinking we would need a tremendously active player base in order to secure sovereignty (under what was thought to be a massive shift in game mechanics  ) we managed to create an alliance that had 150+ members active inside of alliance chat, all day, everyday.
An impressive feat I think, especially since we were based in Empire at the time.
At our peak we had amassed industrialists, PVP'ers and manufacturers, and had laid claim to nearly a dozen wormholes, complete with large deathstars and rorq's inside for the sake of industry. A limited and growing capital fleet, the works . . .
Sounds pretty decent right? Well no not really . . .
Do you know what happens when an extremely active alliance, based inside of empire, gets wardec by a small 30 man PVP corporation? Well first you send out wartime instructions VIA EVE mail (that no one reads), you put together a large PVP fleet (which the enemy never engages because they want your soft targets instead) and finally you make it extremely clear that you have neutral alts that can go shopping for your player base so they don't need to be hunted inside of the market hubs.
And then you loose nearly 2 billion ISK worth of ships and assets in the first 8 hours of the war Because ABSOLUTELY NO ONE payed attention to anything the leadership said. Lets hear it for the fool who undocked the charon inside of jita filled with random crap and didn't bother tell anyone that he was under attack until he was into structure \0/ and maybe a standing ovation for the vegetables who felt the need to move their entire life savings within haulers during that same war. The kind of stupidity one cannot possibly plan for ensued . . .
Having only lead and experienced PVP based corporations before, I became quite disenchanted with the smoldering pile of crap I accidentally created. Oooopss... I pooped an alliance 
So we "trimmed the fat", held some hands and passed out some pacifiers (mostly to the carebears who felt the need whine about every single little thing on an almost daily basis) The PVP'ers on the other hand got along splendidly, and we worked out a deal to merge with, and lead, two other alliances, both of which were former sov holder. However, by now it was clear that CCP was changing their minds about what dominion was going to be, and so we changed our objectives.
It was about then everyone realized that Dominion was mostly a farce and we were all chasing pipe dreams. I announced that I was done holding hands and handing out pacifiers, and when their were no more cookies to be had, some of you lucky folks here in CAOD ended up absorbing these tools into your very own alliances
Enjoy them... I know I did . . .
Back to leading a PVP training corporation for me. When all is said and done, even if it didn't epically fail cascade, being the head of a 1,000 man alliance truly sucked. I don' know how (or why) you people do it. If given the choice I would never do it again.
[First and last post on CAOD]
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