Kilostream
Caldari
Roving Guns Inc.
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2007.04.07 11:38:00 -
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 Originally by: Fitz Chivalry
I would say the total opposite. I fully expect BoB to "win" this war at which point loads of people will just say "meh **** it" and go play something else because if/when bob win the only options are quit or join bob/become a pet or a pointless gank-a-corp it seems.
Having said that I would say a good proportion of my friends in-game have already quit or are winding down the amount they play massively, and I would be surprised if the same were not true of a grat many people.
This war is not good for eve at all as it just shows the futility of trying to have large fleet battles (lag, spurous system caps, metagaming, cheating, spying and other lameness) and the ridiculousness of super capitals.
I think you're missing the point.....
Eve will always have war - and history repeats itself, so lets look a little way into the past....
BoB are fighting ASCN - ASCN (as the history books tell us) lost pretty comprehensively - took about a month.
But ASCN employees (or whatever you want to call them) went somewhere, taking what remained of the ascn fleet, the bpo's, the skill points and all that other stuff with them.
The fact that BoB beat them doesn't automatically mean they will either align with BoB or quit Eve.
Sure some of them may have aligned with BoB, and joined up, some may have quit Eve, but I know for a fact that some joined the coalition - point is, they are still there, the Phoenix has risen from the ashes in a sense.
So it really doesn't matter (in the long term, I'm talking about here) who wins this war - the characters, skillpoints, resources (apart fromt the resources that got blown up ofc) will endure - if BoB gets beaten, another BoBlike entity will emerge eventually, if the coalition gets beaten, same applies.
This war has already lasted longer than the ASCN one, and regardless of what you think about the "baby titan/empty POS" scenario, the fact remains that one of BoB's core home systems was sieged - BoB are finally getting a serious challenge, and to be fair for the most part they seem to be loving it.
The main downside for this war is the same as most wars (irl ones too) which is that wars are 99% boredom and 1% helter-skelter madness - it just takes a bit of self discipline to maintain that more-or-less constant state of readiness - but dude, seriously tell your buddies who quit not to be so lame - pick a staging point, drop off a fleet ship there, and a jump clone, then go back to doing whatever you want - you can be on the other side of the universe, and still join in gangs within a second or two......War has never been so easy!!
I've rambled off at a bit of a tangent, so I'll shut the fsck up now!!
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