James Snowscoran
Coreli Corporation
Corelum Syndicate
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Posted - 2007.05.11 20:16:00 -
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 Originally by: Shayla Sh'inlux
Originally by: Joshua Foiritain
Edited by: Joshua Foiritain on 11/05/2007 17:23:07
Originally by: Shayla Sh'inlux
It's called "joining the winning side".
People want to win games. It's nature. People want to fight other people that are 90% of their skill or less. Only few can remain true to where they started.
It happened before, it happens in every MMO where conflict between players happens. It will also eventually end.
If it is before Eve is ruined or after remains the question.
So Bob was the winning side since the start of the war? Even when when we had hundreds of people doing who choo choo rapetrain thing on the forums claiming they where gonna steamroll bob and allies? So why did people bother with the war at all?
We? Remember Joshua, you're a "neutral" mapmaker, a forum camper deLuxe, a Serpentis RP alliance and probably a lot more, but frankly, there is absolutely *NOTHING* you have done for BoB other than bias-coloring the map to take them where they are. Get that fact straight. Don't even dare to suggest that their success is only for a tiny bit yours as well.
Oh please.
How do you make the statement 'we had hundreds of people doing who choo choo rapetrain thing on the forums claiming they where gonna steamroll bob and allies' mean something to the effect of 'We, Coreli Corporation of Corelum Syndicate, have singlehandedly defeated the barbarian horde and handed out Righteous Punishment to the heathen Coalition dogs'? He wasn't even making any mention of what we have or haven't been doing over the last months!
There WAS a huge forumsquad going choo choo. In all honesty, the dismantling of LV's 0.0 Empire seemed to carry a lot of momentum for the Coalition fleets. D2 was sporting their 'Fountain Terror Campaign' signatures, SMASH was still fighting with the coalition, same with FLA and Intrepid Crossing, and Xenobytes and FIRMA and Triumvirate. Cloud ring was captured by northern forces. MC and FIX and Xelas under siege by coalition fleets. Ev0ke didn't exist, LV baby titan died in J1V1, 'see you in NOL' was a term used by coalition members and not as a running joke by alliance sympathizers, and the hip thing to do for the analyst alts was to wisely nod and explain how RA+Goons was an unbeatable combo of destruction and mayhem.
See what I'm getting at? If joining BoB was joining the winning side at the time, there were preciously few indicators of it to be seen. When Molle made his famous 'You're all dead, you just don't know it' speech, even BoB's allies kept rather quiet while he was ridiculed on the forums. While I understand your feeling, it's important to distinguish between merry bandwagoneers and people who stick to their allies even when things look bad.
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