Tenebrys
Havoc Violence and Chaos
R0ADKILL
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Posted - 2008.05.07 23:43:00 -
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Edited by: Tenebrys on 07/05/2008 23:43:46
This is an interesting look at things. As a business student, I've often asked myself this question as well: "What goals are these people after?"
The one problem I find with this particular view of "goals" is that since EVE Online is of course a game, the goals of most alliances seem to be shorter-term and less realistic than the goals of actual, real-life business firms.
Furthermore, corporations and alliances in EVE are separated from corporations in real life by a rather nasty difference: In real life, the workers are hired hands who are paid to do a job; in EVE, the members are recruited individuals who are taxed for the privilege of being in the corporation. The result of this is that an EVE corp's management's non-industrial (start building capships in 12 months, find a nice moon and mine it to death to make more money, etc) goals are more nebulous and dedicated less to the corporation's well-being as a whole than to keeping all the members under the same umbrella.
It remains a disputed topic what the actual, long-term goals of Band of Brothers are. Some individuals on a website that Dianabolic mentioned above claim that Band of Brothers originally intended to draw as much of a siege as possible to the Delve region and have lots of fun and lots of good fights repelling it; much of the accepted "CAOD goon" opinion, however, is that Band of Brothers originally intended (based on a New York Times article that may or may not be part of the "set-up" for the previously-mentioned belief as to BoB's goals) to take over all of EVE. This belief was the subject of a series of articles posted on the forums last year by one "James 315," an individual who expressed serious concern that one alliance conquering the entire galaxy would result in eventual death and stagnation of a unique, wonderful MMORPG and called for the destruction of Band of Brothers in order to keep this from happening.
Whatever the case, BoB appears to have failed the "conquer EVE" goal but succeeded in the "get sieged and get some good fights" goal, if it was a relatively short siege for the amount of setup time (over a year of warring outside of Delve) it took.
As for Goonswarm, the alliance does appear to have some goal, one has been stated in last year's "State of the Goonion" address written by The Mittani and seems to be accepted by most individuals that Goonswarm has come into contact with. This goal is, and I quote, "push some****gots' **** in." In any case, it would appear that they have achieved this goal, though this is disputable if we try to work out an exact definition for what all this goal entails.
In terms of the war, Goonswarm's goal is somewhat disputable as well. Some in the Swarm have called for complete and utter annihilation of the Band of Brothers alliance, though something of an attrition process -- I recall from post leaked to CAOD (as one of the oft-quoted "three people left who still don't have access to GoonFleet's forums") that part of the intention in invading Delve was to make the game completely unplayable for BoB; this motive fits with the "attrition theory" of the attack on Band of Brothers. Others on CAOD claim that Goonswarm has won the war due to, as they claim, reducing BoB to a "footnote;" however, it is disputable as to whether this goal was the actual, long-term objective of Goonswarm management.
With this, I'll leave a summary as to at least -some- of the goals of Band of Brothers and Goonswarm.
Did Band of Brothers get some "good fights?" From the sound of things, yes.
Did Band of Brothers take over EVE? No. Was this their intention? Maybe.
Did Band of Brothers get Delve sieged? No. Was this their intention? Maybe.
Did Goonswarm "push some****gots' **** in?" Probably.
Did Goonswarm make a footnote out of BoB? Disputable.
Did Goonswarm take space from BoB? Yes.
Did Goonswarm destroy BoB? No.
Thanks for reading. I hope that CAOD benefits from this, though I doubt it will.
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