Sameth
Technology Acquisition Collective
Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate
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Posted - 2006.12.24 20:02:00 -
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While this whole thread and most BoB threads tend to be fairly inane from what I can see of BoB and its operations they are a fair way ahead of the opposition. The best analogy, or comparison I can make is this. BoB are the Eve equivalent of old EQ guilds like FoH/AL/"insert other server top guild here".
So most people probably didn't play EQ back in the beginning (or at all), when it was cut throat and there was no instancing or carebear bull**** like there is in most MMOG's these days.
To be successful meant being hardcore, a good guild would be on 5-7 days a week 5+ hours a night from start time to until whatever time was necessary to get the job done. Getting up at 5am to get spawns and get them on your timer and deny them to rival timezone guilds, leap frogging people in the race for content, "accidentally training" mobs onto other guilds to get your crew time to arrive and mop up, ganking their mob while they were screwing around preparing and killing it in front of them laughing all the way in local.
Basically do whatever it takes to win and stay just that little bit inside of the rules, or sometimes break them if you couldn't be caught. The endless drama and flame wars on server forums, the rivalry and respect that was formed between competing hardcore guilds. And the endless crying about how you were baby eating bastards from the carebear casual players ruining their gaming experience 
Eve reminds me a lot of that style of game play and guild dynamics, and there were never many truly successful guilds on a server, usually 1 or 2 vying for supremacy. In Eve there IS only one server and it seems there is only one true hardcore corp at this time, and no one is going to beat them with just numbers or money. It takes time, dedication, skill and ruthlessness and in some respects, no ******* life what so ever to play a lot of hours consistently 
BoB have shown they have what it takes, and I am no fanboi but kudos to them for what they have done. You want to take them down you have to be prepared for it, play to the limits of the game mechanics, have the leadership, people who can follow the directions to the letter, the ruthlessness to remove people who are dead weight and control your internal politics. Make the sacrifices to be online when they are lowest in numbers to make your attacks, but also to be online so you can repel theirs. A bunch of cashed up weekend warriors is fine for 2days a week and the other 5 days you will get smacked. If you cant pull together to manage most of those things you might as well leave your hopes of "killing BoB" at the door.
I hope there is another Alliance who can step up to the challenge, and I am sure there will be, someone said it right that the best players will gravitate towards BoB because of what they have achieved, but with the player base ever expanding there are more than enough people for multiple hardcore Alliances. Its only time, there will be a challenger and BoB will go down, no one rules forever 
Enough nostalgia and vague philosophy, its 7am on christmas day and I have been at work the last 8 and a half hours so forgive me hah.
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