Typical response from an alliance that has always been someone elses pet.

*snort*

You should listen to your enemies instead of your leaders.

You know what really struck me on that influence map? Against All Authorities. Man do they have staying power.... hat's off to you gents o7

What's wrong, Archer? We all know you aren't like that. Well, ok, there was that one time with that Cuban dissident that Castro tried to have killed...

1. TEST failed, then noticed that someone said meeeeeaaan things about TEST, then fell to the floor and wailed like a toddler. New strategic goal: take these three regions. For this reason: **** YOUUUUUUU.

2. CFC decided that the best way to take these regions for crybaby TEST was to do it as easily as possible: so, as much as possible, without fighting anything. So, fleet doctrine: maintain 3-1/4-1 odds, and punish the enemy for any decision to engage. There's a blob 3x their number at the undock? And they're engaging?! Light that cyno for dreads.. Com spy says they're about to undock? Into this?! We need more people nao. Bridge more in. We need a huge local spike.

3. Of course, to actively not-fight is boring as ****. And being a meatshield is not humiliating like "being +1 in local so that they won't fight us" is. People may propose alternative plans that are more likely to yield fights, like half of this blob ******* off. People may come onto the forums and whine (seriously, not for propaganda purposes) that they're not being engaged. People who are perhaps too brainwashed may popularize recordings of SoCo comms in which please-don't-engage-us manoeuveurs are always what the CFC is doing, whilst the alleged "we-just-stay-docked" faction are always appalled by this.

4. Thus, the heavy propaganda (mainly for your own members' consumption, but also to poison what rubes of the enemy coalition it finds), the quick digression to the next war which surely won't suck like this one, and... well, I'm still waiting for the next bit. Given that TEST space may as well display as 'Unclaimed' by how controlled it is, what do you plan to say when the blob really does recede and the space really is lost?

Anyway, for anyone for whom the spy comms are tldl, listen only to http://soundcloud.com/dariush_records/ra-meeting-07-07 . Not because it supports what I say above, but because it's totally awesome. Little gem in there: real allies, who are separate sovereigns and not one of them the pet of the other, are allies for a given end and will reset standings after that end.

I'm not sure whether to feel relieved that you're not threatening to set us blue (As happened in 319 local over something trollish I said there), or disgusted that you refer to my post in order to make a point against one of my blues ... Either way, I am pondering on how long into Fountain I could get in a stealthbomber before you** shoot me, and whether that effort is worth it in terms of harassment.

I think a nice war between TEST and Goonswarm would really spice these forums up.

You have to admit, it would be pretty awesome. When I first saw you guys (TEST) in 2010 buzzing around Orvole/Osmoden/PF.
I even thought at that time... wouldn't it be cool if a new Goonswarm started up and challenged the old Goonswarm?

But I think the Goons made a very prudent early decision to "friend up" with you guys as to avoid such a catastrophe.

Now, of course I don't follow politics enough to know all the ins and outs of how your friendships formed, but that was just kinda what I gathered at the time.

All in all, I always thought Dreddit was very similar to the Goons in structure, but quite different on an individual pilot level. The Dreddit guys I have encountered were always pretty civil and relatively mature.

Blah, blah, blah.

I started watching the online population, looking for 50k spikes and left disapointed

I may have little PvP experience, but i heard that 5:1 odds were the reason they collapsed so quickly lol.

You know I keep seeing references to this Loki death wish fight and not any from other battles. Was that the only one that really happened? The only other so called 'battle' reports I see are just something about camping in people who wont fight.

This was the epic war you guys were going on about??...