Mistress Mango
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Posted - 2005.12.10 16:03:00 -
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 Originally by: Tony Fats
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.
Your analogy applies perfectly to m0o, but it simply does not work for BoB. m0o went around hitting alliance after alliance, from FA, NSA, CFS, PA, CA, to just about everything else in between. Every time they would come around, they would steal some of our best pilots (the ones most attracted to pvp and least offended by their crap talking).
However, if I'm not mistaken all of the BoB corps have history with shaping 0.0 and dealing with all the politics that come with it. BNC started out in NORAD I think, RKK spent time fighting in the north against Forsaken Empire (they were allies with JF and Celest iirc). Evol was formed from a Homeworld gaming clan, and has history killing some of the biggest corps in beta like TTI and Endless. They formed FA with Xanadu, BIG and a few others out of the chaos that took the region shortly after retail.
So as far as BoB is concerned, they have a lot of old and experienced members, and their leaders have been through probably hundreds of fleet battles in the past three years. Is it fair to say they are good because all the good members go there? Or is it better to say they are just far more experienced players in general. That doesn't make them the A-Team, that makes them a superpower.
I spent the majority of my time in the north from the start of the game, been in NVA, both "versions" of PA, and now F-E. Each time an alliance reforms it loses some of its core or founding members, until today I can maybe recognize a handful of people flying in the north that have been around as long. These days it doesnt bother me much, I barely play the game anymore (posting this from trial), but when I was this always gave me headaches to see "new" leaders make the same mistakes of the old ones.
So to the OP, BoB is probably successful because they havent changed in two years.. having that much history from 1 corp name helps their members morale. Which is strange because youdd think "evolution" would mean constant change (yeah bad pun  )
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