Death Merchant
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Posted - 2006.05.01 14:12:00 -
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Ok, All it would take is #'s. You would have to uber blob them like BoB,ASCN,AXE,SWA,etc..did to EC-P8R. Thats it. Its virtually impossible to "consistently" counter large blobbed mix fleets. With Cordinated attacks you would effectively either split their forces or force them to defend one area thus giving a force free run of other systems. You could hire mercanary or split forces to harass all the "back routes" that all alliances have to make sure everything they do would need an escort. You would send small roaming gank squads to harass anything that shows up on the map. Almost everyone has dreads know a days, so POS's arent' really that much of a deterent anymore.
BoB is players just like you(with better organization). At first it would be "Oh boy look at all the targets." Then it would be forum wars chest thumping every engagement they won against the odds. Then it would be flaming when they lose an engagement because the numbers were stacked against them. Then they would mobilize their alts to either post chat logs ,sew discontent or saboatoge infrustructure in home alliances or either send a force to said alliance space to try and draw them off. I mean..its "almost" predictable what would happen. There would be highs and lows, but eventually players wont quit they just wont log on as much because they were tired of being blobbed. Skilled PVPers, Hacs, Motherships, Titans, Massive Industry it doesn't matter. Constant pressure for months with numbers and they will break. Plus since theyre alliance is built on their "uberness" losses hurt them more than other alliances because it hurst their invulnerabilty aura 
That being said, that type of gameplay would ruin eve in my opinion. Then who would be next? Same situation. Maybe ASCN, Maybe D2, rinse and repeat. Plus it would mean NAP's out the ying yang. Who the hell wants that? Eve is a wonderful game with alot of seperate entitys and power blocks always trying to counter each other. It pushes envelopes and inspires creativity. Also on top of that, you cant kill an alliance, they would just reform into something else and go where you are not.
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