On the question of looking for a leader, this is, frankly, the last thing we need. Single figureheads are more often polarising than unifying and we will be far better off going down the pluralistic route as this is not only the best way to get numerous organisations working together in the absence of the kind of nullsec framework that pushes towards space dictatorships but will also be more enduring and not liable to collapse in the event of the one true god having RL issues or burning out or moving on.

The discussions in this thread were the basis for my piece this week btw, check it out.

Crossing Zebras: Lowlife - Militia Mentality

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Truth is found in the strangest places.

Props to the core CalMil groups for taking a hard look at how they were doing business and adapting to the times. You're going through the same process GalMil did back in the day, and coming to similar conclusions.

Looking forward to seeing what you all can do with this newfound energy.

Jesus. This thread is so aweful.

Fine. I will join Caldari if it gets everyone to shut up here and stop posting. Please get those nano hacs ready to go by next week. Let's do this.

#ItsGoTime

Jesus. This thread is so aweful.

Fine. I will join Caldari if it gets everyone to shut up here and stop posting. Please get those nano hacs ready to go by next week. Let's do this.

#ItsGoTime

guys i know we lose almost every single fight when we undock but our corp and alliance leaders all know eachother and have a good time chatting in a joint channel

hecon lost 2 dreads cuz our support fleet was 3 caracals and 2 kestrels, but templis was almost there to get blown up with us, i mean... to help us... so thats good

more good news: we can almost fly doctrines... ill give a tentative eta of 2 years

i have a good feeling about this new coaltion

i think cal mil is finally starting to turn things around!

...if we can only deal with these pesky awoxer trollz

Caldari pilots still hate logi, and it's difficult to get things solidified. We simply don't have the response time established Gallente groups have..

This is the main basis to start from sp-dr in its hey day and even now pride ourselves on our logi backbone its something we ask all new pilots to train to.

If they had 4-5 pilots ship into shield logistics they would have not lost 2 dreads, or at least would have had a potiential of 5 dread kills on top of their 2 losses.. Simple fact. While people are unwilling to do so, be unwilling to undock a fleet. Though i have seen caldari fleets with significant logistics.

It does happen, but in general from what I've seen, with the exception of Templis as mentioned before, is that when running a random general militia fleet, it will take 15-30 more minutes per Logi pilot you request to get formed up and undock. The average pilot in Caldari refuses to fly Logi. This mindset is changing in certain corporations around CalMil but for the most part it's the general way things over here work. As much as I would love to be able to form up a fleet of even 6 Sacileges with 2 Guardians, finding the pilots to do so is incredibly difficult (that time frame I gave is just to get T1 Logi).

Weird. Pretty much any GalMil FC worth his salt will fly T2 Logi at the drop of a hat under any other GalMil FC. Kinda hard for your line members to whine when FCs will step up like that when needed.

Weird. Pretty much any GalMil FC worth his salt will fly T2 Logi at the drop of a hat under any other GalMil FC. Kinda hard for your line members to whine when FCs will step up like that when needed.

I'm simply commenting on the fact my alliance isn't 6 months old yet, which is no time at all in the grand scheme of things. For the most part the alliance is made up of relatively new corporations and they all have different philosophies on how things should run. It's not the alliance icon specifically that's the issue, it's the fact we are new and are still getting our grounding.

Repeat 0ffenders is also less than six months old.

It feels like individual corporations in Gallente, despite being smaller than the larger groups in Caldari, can field more numbers in any given timezone with a faster response time.
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I can count on one hand the amount of times we've had more than 20 people in corp in JustK.
I don't think I've ever seen us break 25.

Numbers aren't the issue.

It's what they can bring and how fast they can bring it.

I agree here. If you have 20 people online in JUSTK but you bring a Sentry Ishtar fleet with T2 logi and our alliance only responds with a bunch of short ranged Carcals with T1 logi it just doesn't work. That's our biggest thing right now. Aside from the fact that Gallente ship up faster and are highly capable pilots, they generally field much higher end ships. It's something I'm move towards right now but the number of pilots that can consistently do this is very low in comparison. Blobs of Kestrels and Corms are great and all, especially at first when we're fighting large T1 fleets on the Gallente side as well (I'm guessing while they scope out our doctrine etc). However, after the initial fights you guys upship and we can't compete anymore, and it'd be far more interesting if we could get people to spend the extra isk and bring the same numbers of Harpys, Heretics, etc.

i agree calmil is bad and galmil is not-that-bad

so you agree galmil needs a civil war?

I agree here. If you have 20 people online in JUSTK but you bring a Sentry Ishtar fleet with T2 logi and our alliance only responds with a bunch of short ranged Carcals with T1 logi it just doesn't work. That's our biggest thing right now. Aside from the fact that Gallente ship up faster and are highly capable pilots, they generally field much higher end ships. It's something I'm move towards right now but the number of pilots that can consistently do this is very low in comparison. Blobs of Kestrels and Corms are great and all, especially at first when we're fighting large T1 fleets on the Gallente side as well (I'm guessing while they scope out our doctrine etc). However, after the initial fights you guys upship and we can't compete anymore, and it'd be far more interesting if we could get people to spend the extra isk and bring the same numbers of Harpys, Heretics, etc.