Phoenix Pryde
Caldari
Infinite Improbability Inc
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Posted - 2006.09.06 09:13:00 -
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Considering how many more players there are compared to when alliances were introduced (nearly 2 years ago now ..) i guess it cant be really suprising that there are that many alliances nowadays. Also the alliance landscape itself changed a lot.
While there initially actually were only a few very large alliances (especially compared to active players) there are nowadays much smaller much more focussed alliances. Granted, some still control a 3 regions or so, but in relative comparison the alliances of today are much smaller then they were.
Besides, what is an alliance really, its sort of the next step after the corporation. Quite some alliances are probably just the extension of some corps, to give their corp and a friendly one a joint presentation or however you call it.
i dont really want to go into the debate if 1b is so much less worth then it was 2 years ago, relatively it seems to be the case tho. So effectively many more people are willing to spend that one billion just for an alliance tag.
Souvereignity, yeah, most definitely another reason for so many corps wanting to be in an alliance.
I guess all in all there are plenty of reasons for so many alliances, nobody can be really surprised there.
The 'mysticism' or 'coolness', or however you call it, of the initial few alliances is surely gone, yes. I sort of miss that too. Even the alliance map regularly brings another suprise with an alliance name i never heard of =)
so to 2.) yeah, some differentiation between the 'real' alliances of large that try to claim their corner of space and try to establish something ressembling a nationstate or such would certainly be nice. It probably could/should be tied to some sort of territorial control, although i couldnt really answer of the head how to do that. It shouldnt simply be 'size in numbers' tho.
ad 3.) well i guess that would tue directly in your suggestion above. If an alliance is non-territorial then its quite clearly nothing like a nation or state, so i guess it would be ok to remain a simple alliance like now.
and on this occasion, a big yay to the first ingame alliance ever established. XF forever \o/ 
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