Spokesman
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Posted - 2004.01.08 00:32:00 -
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Seems to CFS is clearly displaying the problem with having an alliance made up mostly of miners and traders.
Those greedy people think more in the way of "What I don't hand over to the alliance is profit for myself" instead of "If I hand over my money the alliance I will help us all".
Greedy people will always consider other people that demand money as greedy and without responsibilty when it comes to money. Even if these people need it for 'the greater good'.
People that gave up making money as the greatest goal in EVE, will have a lot more fun. They give a real purpose to the money they make other money to make more money. Wether that be piracy, claiming space or helping others.
Small detail: IMHO people that blow other people up with no intension to making money either directly (pirate) or indirectly (guard) but only for the kill, because they have money to burn, have a bad influence on this game.
I think another problem is that few people in this game are really willing to really give themselves to something. Meaning that you have to listen to orders, do boring stuff, risk everything you have etc.
Yes CEOs do that, since most of the time you are doing boring stupid stuff. But they do it because they have the need to be 'in control' or just like power. The main reason why there are so many of those useless 4 player corps.
But they don't sacrifce much, doing tedious stuff is part of the 'being in control'.
Especially in something like an alliance doing dull things are important and sacrificing for the greater good are important, yet nobody is willing to do it.
An example:
If I take a look at Stavros' little list is see that by far the most kills were in the A3-V27 system.
Ofcourse I'm not sure of this because I don't have all the info. But I think m0o would have a lot more difficulty with killing off so many players if CFS would just have appointed 50 frequent online players half-able to do PvP, put them in a corp, give these players a large stack of battleships and equipment, paid by all the other players, for which in return they are online as much as possible adn their sole task being to defend A2-V27 24/7 with as much players as possible. So not farming, no missions, and bad payment other then you are flying a battleship and perhaps a weekly small fee.
But then ofcourse the problem: who would be willing to sacrifice his time for this? Not many CFS members appearently. Both traders/miners as PvP-ers.
The first don't want to part with their money, the second don't want to do tedious jobs. How were you ever going to keep a alliance running that way.
You should be thanking m0o for clearing up for you that you are no alliance. Just a bunch of greedy kids who don't want to follow orders or support the few that do care and put time and effort into making an alliance work.
Being part of something larger ALWAYS means having to sacrificing something. That can be wealth, freedom and sometimes even fun.
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