Humpfgrunz
Gallente
Nex Exercitus
Raiden.
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Posted - 2011.05.15 16:37:00 -
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Edited by: Humpfgrunz on 15/05/2011 16:42:15
Lets see, I have been a small alliance leader in 0.0 by the end of april this year (2011).
- We moved in Eastern Tenerifis with the start of february, placed SBUs at the places we were interested in, took over the station with a horribly small gang, got a deal with WN and had our constellation.
- There were daily roamings of ROL/-A-/EnGarde visiting us, so enough PvP and enough time to recreate as well.
- Then in march we had some internal issues, where Helljumpers/EnGarde worked together with kicked Ex-Members, so we had plenty of PvP, but still good income in corner systems of our constellation.
- Then in april, we hade peace most of the time, but CCP devalued properties of about 15bil ISK (all those nice upgrades) and as the alliance had financed all that by taking depts from its members, it was a real blow.
- End of April, we decided that this worthless piece of crap was not worth the effort to defend it by any way against -A- and friends, so we evacuated.
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The only reason why the alliance could make ends meet and pay its depts was, because we were able to work on the expenses side by doing plenty of jobs for WN and got our rent drastically reduced.
Then we farmed some r64 moon which gave us some further income.
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In the end, most of the PvP staff, including me had talks how to continue.
We came to the decision that 0.0 is now only for PvPers of large alliances and for miners. As my alliance was definitely not anymore able to grant them any kind of decent income.
Result:
- many of our PvPers are now moving to RAIDEN. where we have some friends.
- the other PvPers went to EVE-Union which is a small and more freelance PvP alliance with some really good FCs and often leads the action of the G-Block
- for our miners and producers the rest of the alliance will rent some lone 0.0 system which is more easy to supply (max 2 Jumpfreighter Jumps distance towards the empire). They will do absolutely no PvP there, just get safe the second reds/neuts arrive in local.
- the dream to build up a small alliance without connections from the beginning and have it grown to be seen on the sovereignity map and be respected has just ended. This is just not possible anymore, the hurdles have become too big.
The reason why I gave up my dream to build an alliance from scratch was just simple:
Small Alliance: Huge Tax -> Crappy Income -> Crappy Reimbursements -> PvPers gone
Huge Alliance: Small Tax -> Good Income -> Good Reimbursements -> PvPers attracted
A Small Alliance can make up much just with its personal character and their leaderships charisma as long as the difference and the hurdles are manageable.
With the new hurdles, the difference is too much !
Why should ever a good PvPer go trhough grinding hell in a small alliance when he can have paradise in one of the privileged ones ?
I personally have adapted, but I was on the brink of cancelling all my accounts and I am still very angry at CCP because they ripped my alliance off 15bil ISK without even the slightes will to reimburse those investments which I would never have done, if I had known in time of such a horrible nerf to arrive.
CCP has lost tons of customers recently and there is no growth of active players over the last year. CCP trying to get it fixed by their new buddyprogram is a worthless and crappy effort to fix the loss in customers.
In fact CCP has ripped off thousands of its players/customers in this game off billions of ISK and they should have at least gradually reimbursed all those Pirate Upgrades for all the systems where they were put up for less than 4 months. And they should have reimbursed even the IHUBs where the only mounted and farmed upgrades where the Pirate ones.
Finally: Being ripped off by other players is ok, this is EVE. Being ripped off by CCP is not ok ! This is interference with the sandbox and in fact CCP f*cking off their customers off their own game.
This Nerf has cost CCP dearly ! The next one about JB will cost them as well !
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