Originally by: Xander Magnus

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Edited by: Xander Magnus on 11/01/2007 00:48:38
Ofcourse ISS isn't a pvp force, and the fact that people ridicule ISS for it shows they don't understand the concept. If ISS had been a pvp force to recon with the surrounding alliances wouldn't have been very fond of having ISS so close to their space. By not intimidating and posing a threat to other alliances there would be no reason to fear and attack ISS. The only pvp they did was trying to keep the pipes as clean as possible, which safed my life a couple of times I recon.

But ofcourse IAC has the perfect reason, of which I heard several:

1. ISS started it, which is kind of weird because IAC invaded ISS space first. But then again, placing market orders can be an act of aggression as well. There were several other reasons which are today referred to as: ISS didn't listen to our complaints in the past. Note this war started after ISS adjusted the charter to adhere to IAC concerns, which is dismissed as being too late.

2. ISS may not have started the war, but they sure as hell started attacking POS! They should have waited for us to do that first, we just kept our options open. Now you can see how very clever of us this is! If we did attack their POS first we could have said: we didn't say we wouldn't, and base out of The Bottleshop. Now we can say: we didn't reeeally plan on shooting POS, you made it into that and now we take their stations for a reason. Smart!

3. EVE is about shooting stuff. So we don't really need a reason, we'll just take those nice stations from the shareholders and enjoy the income. After all, EVE makes it possible for us to go back in time to where brutal strenght determined who owned something.

You may notice some sarcasm in there, but that's mostly because of the bashing ISS has gotten on the forums here. They don't deserve that, they worked hard on this concept and they have earned our respect for all they have achieved. If you want to take the stations and do the fleet battles go ahead, but respect your enemy, which goes both ways. Anyhow, the reason why this war started is probably not a point of discussion anymore, it's just a repetition of what we've already read.

Let it be clear I did not mention D2 here, they have reasons of their own that are a bit more convincing. This is really just a smart strategic move from their part, although I do feel sorry for the shareholders.

I somehow still have hope that one of the bigger alliances will step in and stop the fall of the outposts of ISS, or else prices will rise in 0.0 once more and I'll need to go to empire to get my stuff.

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