Devvon Maelstrom
Minmatar
Reikoku
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2007.01.02 01:56:00 -
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Edited by: Devvon Maelstrom on 02/01/2007 02:00:16
The following are my viewpoints as a long term member of BoB but I would be foolish to say I speak for the whole alliance. I've been there since the beginning but still pretty much consider myself the average 'grunt' and the following should be taken as such.
BoB is a fighting force. We live for combat and in the current universe setting that means we are almost always the invading force. We start wars and our overall goal is to control all of lawless space.
Your post accuses us of smacktalking and then patting our enemies on the back when its over but it lacks any substance as to who we were attacking on the forums and whom we feel we respect in the end. Sure, there has been alot of 'smacktalk'. From the beginning of this war, we have been accused of hacking the servers, cheating using bugs, and recieving special treatment from the GMs. Not only has this been posted on the Eve-O forums but has been seen repeatedly by members of the HC in ASCN on their forums (of which we had access to through the use of our 'spy' network.) And let's not start on spys.. the argument about corporations using spys or not has been run into the ground. I believe that this has led to alot of resentment within BoB towards ASCN's HC and towards those who would so blindly believe the lies that they were told. Although we love to win, playing the game is what we truely love and cheating would just take away from that. With that in mind, of course our anger has shown up on these forums. Some the posts were to discredit those who were defacing our name but I suppose many were just written in frustration of enemy whose commanders would blame losing on anything but the plain simple fact that they lost.
As to the telling the enemy that we have respect for them in the end... well, we do. We know who have fought and how they have fought. We know who have lied and who have not. Sure, many of the very corps we have come to respect, we will hold out the offer to stay where they are and help us control the space we have acquired. Eve is big and even BoB knows we cannot simply hold it on the power of our pvp fleet. Who better to help us hold it then those we know will put up a fight or who can help with our logistics. Some corps have earned our respect... some should move very far away.
Also in reguards to Celes, the drama between BoB and Celes goes so far back that a whole forum could be filled with posts about it. In truth, there are still some members in Celes that I have respect for. I had fought beside them in the early days in the north and later down in Curse. Some of my first pvp experience in RKK were fighting along side Celes. However, there is a sense of betrayel when it comes to Celes. Many of the comments by Celes's leadership have rubbed us in the wrong way. The game was changing and we changed along with it. Celes had to take the long way round to the same conclusions, unfortunately, slandering us in the process. My own opinion is that Celes speaks too big for what they are. They often post as though they are a major power but I feel in truth that they could not really stand against any major power in Eve. Part of me almost wishes this wasn't so...
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