Originally by: Vladimir Titov

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Edited by: Vladimir Titov on 26/07/2007 17:51:18
I got in trouble last time I posted with my main (in the GBC) so this time this is self-admittedly an alt.

I wanted to address what you said about how PvP'ers are recruited from among BoB's targets. You really hit on a point I often spent a long time thinking about. But I don't agree with regards to saying they are riding cotails of others.

The thing is, when you are a vet who has been playing EvE since launch, you really have very few options. I spent most of my 4+ years in EvE fighting against Evolution or its allies and interests. First it was FA/SA, then ATUK, then ATUK's pets and the 5 and so on. So for me after so many battles there is no aura of invincibility or feeling that fighting them is futile. They are just people, and when someone like me is always thinking several steps ahead in a fight, more often than not I was able to not let them get the best of me. It takes a lot of control, patience and determination to fight these people and to know when to strike. I cannot emphasis patience enough.

Whenever it was a war of wills, my will was something that could never be broken. If ATUK did not want to show its hand and was waiting for my fleet to camp the gate so they could dictate the fight, I would simply keep my fleet in an SS and deny them that pleasure, for as long as it took.

The way I feel about BoB is very clear, but I also came to a realization that this was a game, and I was tired constantly offering guidance to people with less experience than me or did not approach EvE with the same competitive edge as me. Its impossible to win a battle of wills when the people you are with break down easy. It wears you down. Yet at the same time I didn't want to join BoB because it is those who go against BoB that stand out in EvE. For better or worse, they are the people that are remembered. But like I said, your options are limited. I suppose if I could speak russian I would have joined RA, but I don't. Instead I created this alt with this name to honor their achievements in EvE.

Joining BoB or the GBC is not about taking the easy road or winning all the time. Its about joining people who have the same hunger as you, who will analyze a fight after its done instead of saying "oh well its just a game and that was fun". You want people who will be there in battleships after they lose their dreads, in cruisers after they lose their battleships...and so on. Its not only about pvp though. You want to be able to go to bed at night and not worry about a POS's fuel level. The worst feeling possible is feeling when the weight of the world is on your shoulders, that if you don't log in certain things wont get done. Finally you want to fly with people that don't know the meaning of impossible. If item xyz needs to be in system abc in the next day, they will treat the same way you do: find a way to get it done. And to top it all, I wanted leadership that is going to make the best use of my peristence and tenacity, not leadership that will demand 1/5th of what I can really do.

And so the choices become really slim, and before I knew it, I found myself in a situation I didn't think I would. I am not riding their cotails, they are riding mine.

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Originally by: KIATolon

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