CrazyCric
Caldari
Lethal Weapons Syndicate
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Posted - 2010.03.07 18:01:00 -
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To add something to the discussion:
I am a neutral in Providence. We moved here with our little corp (<10 active members) just a few weeks before this war started.
We were glad, the proviblock offers this kind of NRDS. It was not easy to convince every member of our corp to go in 0.0, but the relative security and good profits there made the move to 0.0 easy.
I see this war with mixed feelings: we lost the easy profit, but we are gaining some great experiences.
We moved our important assets back to empire, to stay survivable in case whole providence falls. But we try to give something back to the holders (especially -7-) and contribute to the defense. Thats not easy, as we can only maintain a small gang that can't cope with the big fleets, but we try and we have fun.
Personally I wondered how the good relationship between proviblock and -A- was destroyed. My (limited) experience was, that they fought each other in a friendly manner. I know of friendships between -A- and -7- Pilots. They want nice fights, but they don't want to really destroy each other.
Fights for sovereignty in their homelands just is not what they want.
I see how this relationship will get destroyed with a spiral of escalation. CVA claimed (unclaimed) sov in some systems in catch. That was a bad thing. -A- took inhabited systems in Providence, that was even worse.
Maybe CVA thought it would be fun, to have some sov fights with -A- and picked these unclaimed systems. But without communication I can understand that -A- fights back the way they do.
I would have loved if -A-/U'K and CVA would have chosen some systems for a kind of proxy war. That would fit nice into the RP. Just choose some systems from Providence/Catch and declare them important. Now fight for sovereignty in these systems.
These battleground could have been arranged before the actual fighting. I know roleplaying from other games, and good roleplay is mostly arranged. Develop a nice story, why control of these few systems decide the war about slavery. That way you could have thrilling sov warfare without threatening your friendship.
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