Originally by: Kugutsumen

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John the Hero is preparing for defeat:

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Eve Online

Eve is undergoing a change in direction. I cannot go into full details without betraying a confidence but suffice to say, it is moving away from the hardcore Empire building and more into a casual gamer friendly enviroment.

Eve Defence Force

In the last 18 months, EDF has reached the pinicle any corp in Eve can reach. We've done it all. We've had a kill/loss ratio in the top 10 of any of the major Alliance's corps. We've built two Outposts, one of which was the fastest in Eve taking 10 days to build and less than one hour to raise the cash for it, the Other being Eve's first ever Amarr Outpost. We conquered one other in the Paragon Soul war. We've also been the largest corporation in Eve for over a year and at our peak, had a POS network of 38 POS, all producing Tech 2 Components.

Ascendent Frontier

ASCN when it first formed, was formed on the principle of everyone fights. At first we where a very strong Alliance where people would be afriad to come down to raid our space because when they did, they'd be blobbed off the map. The apitome of this was during the EC-P campaign where we camped the EC-P stystem for 5 days straight whilst BoB and The5 took out G's Capital Yards. This lead to G disbanding and reforming as D2.

At some point we lost our way and became soft. Raiders would come and people would dock or expect corps like EDF, CoRM, IXC and CLS etc. to do the killing. When DDC, EOG and Solst split off to become AXE, the balance was never redressed, despite Drakma and I long saying we needed to get out of the mentality of being a hobbit - i.e. and contrary to popular opinion that it meant we where carebears, it meant we had a policy of keep your nose out of our business and we'll keep it out of yours. This made us soft.

The BoB war

When we first started, we outnumbered BoB 3-1. Problem is not enough people wanted to get involved. Cyvok refused to listen to Drakma, Virtuozzo, Gilbert and I about getting tough with corps and kicking them out if need be. As a result, we reached the point we have today with the apathy that's set in. As you all know, ASCN was even sat on its collective arses last night when BoB where attacking C9N.

Then we lost the Titan, 0OY to underhanded tactics and Cyvok left and Virt took over. The problem is it looks like nothing has changed with the new Executor. The problem doesn't lie with Virt, nor HC. It lies with too few CEOs being willing to kick out members who don't want to get involved. This has left the board awfully stressed and burnt out.

The Future

EDF is going to undergo a transformation. We're going to downsize ourself and change our priorities towards the central theme of having fun. We all feel that in persuit of our ambition as a corp, we lost focus on what is important. Our members. When we do soemthing, we will do it together. Everyone will fight. Everyone must be capable of self sufficiencey and everyone will have to have the right attitude.

Skill points will not even enter it. It's an attitude. We want the corp to be a collection of friends who all know each other. We will close the doors to recruitment and will only recruit via referal and infrequently. Everyone will always be there for each other. We will not be a freelance corp but we will get back to our routes and do more Pirate hunting. We also have no shortage of targets to shoot because we've made plenty of enemies during the last few year and half. There will be more PvP but we'll still do other things like mine and missions, in order to make money. If one of us needs help, we all help.
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