DigitalCommunist
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Posted - 2005.09.14 05:12:00 -
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Hrmm, sitting here for five minutes thinking how to start. I know for certain you couldn't care less about my opinion, but personally knowing and befriending many of HDY's members compells me to share anyways. Believe me, I could flame or I could sympathize since my feelings go both ways, but I don't intend to do either.. just share my view.
When I was in JGR and we were allied to HDY, I found a lot of the members nice, generous, and always up to the task or goal at hand. Never once did I see them whine, they followed orders to the letter and stayed focused on their style of gameplay at all times without expecting other people to conform or even understand it. Very organized corp.
Its of my opinion that you, OverKill, in the assistance of Badger utterly screwed HDY and all of EVE in the process. You see; and I say this with no intention to insult, HDY is not a big player in anything. You have almost complete political neutrality - you have almost no combat operations. HDY may be a shipbuilding corporation. You might get orders, you might get sales.. but EVE on a whole will not come grinding to a halt in your absence. In fact, very few industrial powers could lay claim such a throne, one of those being the holders of the CRII monopoly and maybe NAGA/Stepstone.
How is EVE screwed? Well, people need someone to look up to, someone to idolize or mimic. In a sick and twisted way, all well-established beta or early retail corporations share this responsibility. Even when it comes to industry, people enjoy doing formal business more than buying off the market from some faceless alts with a stack of tech 2 bpos. And your uniqueness/reputation comes from doing that for three years, after all other complex and simple ideas have failed. You guys add more to the roleplay of EVE than anything.
It may be novel to start fresh, and you still have the blueprints and members.. but the (very good) corpname and three-year reputation is the greatest asset. Any competent leaders would have resolved whatever differences there were to keep the original HDY in active service. You treated corporate affairs like robots with tunnelvision, and not as people who realized customer and member loyalties are bound to name and logo.
To me it seems that the founding member wasn't really ready for the life of a powerless peon, and the sterling new CEO wasn't ready to spend the time and energy on a proper solution. Both are acts of selfishness.
GG HDY, and GL PPL.
Perpetually driven, your end is our beginning.
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