Originally by: Leitari

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Edited by: Leitari on 10/12/2005 17:10:37

Originally by: Mistress Mango

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Originally by: Tony Fats

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Like em or not, BoB is the A-Team of the game right now.

Every game has a team of the best players in the game, they flock together and beat up on the noobs. That's BoB. It's called "team stacking" like when the good players in Counterstrike all go on 1 team.

But eventually there's always the phenomenal players who always play on the "weak" side for the challenge of fighting against the incumbent bullies, and a second strong team is formed to challenge the the first, then the first dies out etc etc.

I used to play a space FPS style game called Allegiance, was one of the best, we had a team called "Jihad" that attracted the best players in the game, we just pwned everybody for like a year and a half, totally undefeated like 24 and 0, and in pickup games we just stacked one side and dominated. Then one day we lost a game to XT. The record became 24-1. Like half the squad quit the game overnight, I was like "whoa whoa where's everybody going...its just one match..."

The second and third place teams just got stronger, kept playin, and started dominating more, and the rest of us who were ex-Jihad quit and joined those teams.

I wasn't around when Moo was dominating but I imagine they were the Jihad of Eve, then I guess when they broke up, BoB picked up that mantle and now they dominate.

Eventually it'll be someone else.

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What BoB got is a *lot* of dedicated players. While they have some topnotch pvpers, far from all of them are, but they do win their wars because no other alliances can actually come up with the force to counter such a huge numbers of actual pvpers. While there are small corps in the game with a much higher general PvP quality, they can never do what BoB does with their dedicated players anyways. Good thing with a structure such as BoB is that they can invade about anything, but at the same time, their players will never face the same difficulties as smaller corps, so it will be hard for many of their members to develop thier PvPing. Also, a bad thing about being a huge group is that, while you could be on very good terms within the alliance you will never be as a tight group of players as small corps are. That makes it possible for small corps to give very specific roles to their members while an alliance like BoB can not go as far when it comes to role assignment in their fleets. Well, I guess they could and create a whole detailed military structure if everyone in the alliance had good enough discipline, but somehow I doubt most players in BoB would want that ;)