Ponderous Thunderstroke
Republic War Machine Industries
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Posted - 2007.06.04 06:59:00 -
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 Originally by: DiuxDium
Edited by: DiuxDium on 04/06/2007 03:35:49
Originally by: Alias11
so you're admitting that bob winning will result in the collapse of the game because everyone in 0.0 will be blue to eachother
I'll postpone the smack, since I'm no good at it and simply say.
When this war comes to a 'close', a new one shall erupt; standings will be reset, and old friends shall become new enemies. Bitter blood shall become friendship, and friendship shall become bitter blood. It's been happening for quite the few years now, and honestly...as DC said, you guys are nothing new.
Except that, every time BoB puts someone out, or BoB is putting a beating on someone, inevitably a good chunk of the 'hardcores' that are getting trod on sign up with McBoB. This process of distillation, where all the high-powered players continue to sign up with the Molletrain, makes fighting against BoB progressively more difficult.
"They took all our good PVPers!"
"Um, get a bunch of second-tier PVPers and we'll outnumber them 10-1!!"
"D'oh, CCP just nerfed blobs again! Oh crap, it's McBoB's 200-capship attack gang w/30 supercaps!"
Lather, rinse, repeat.
So, if the SE goes belly up, all the people on the losing end with skill join BoB. If BoB refuses them, then they join BoBPets to get in on the next gangbang. So, next alliance that dares to challenge BoB, instead of McBoBFixXelasRise being arrayed against them, you get the practical effect of McBobAAAFixRiseXelasRAGoonTCF's best. This has only one possible ending, that being a failure cascade -- either for EVE, as people get tired of bothering with going after BoB+ and stay in empire, or a failure cascade as BoB can't get anyone to fight them, and quit. Which may very well result in an EVE failure cascade.
Now add in that people not involved with 0.0 already have a low opinion of CCP and BoB because of the recent PR firestorms. You get less people wanting to sign up with any 0.0 alliance, or go to 0.0 altogether. Again, Failure Cascade starting. May be 6 months, may be a year, may be 2. Who knows. The people you need to keep replenishing 0.0 are not coming as fast as they used to. And people are giving up the 0.0 scene faster than they used to. Better find an answer to this, or it's not going to matter who's in control.
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