Splagada
Minmatar
Tides of Silence
Hydra Alliance
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Posted - 2008.08.26 11:48:00 -
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Two years.
Two years ago, Jedek and I decided to found Tides of Silence
Based on a simple idea : this is a game, a game which, to be fully enjoyed, requires some dedication, at least quite some different skills. Our plan since corp creation was simple : build a group, as closely-knit as we could, and be self-sufficient as a corp, and make our corpmates self sufficient. every single action of the corp has the goal to improve the corp, its home or our members skills.
There are many things were the most active can provide something to those who are more casual gamers. If those are good friends, things come a lot more naturally.
Simple, utopic, naive ideas, but a lot more difficult to make real.
Our slogan is "just Chilling" since this time, a relaxed corp based on free will. a group oriented corp, regardless of the initial "quality" of the avatar. If the guy shows good will, we will get somewhere.
We started as guests in Ushra-Khan space, living from one med pos near 9uy. it was really a fun time. space "quality" was awful on the nowadays standard, but damn did we enjoy our freedom. Many of our older corpmates are still there from this time.
After a while, we decided an alliance would be needed for us. We decided for a complete change of scenery and moved up north, totally at random, and we were accepted into Smash. Things did not really work out well as Smash at this time was pretty "hardcore" and asking a lot from members, most of them being too new to the game or not enough experienced to provide.
A friend of us talked about Hydra at this time, which was a 30+yrs old group (that's how we learnt from it, it appeared as Pure space and noone knew about Hydra). We were accepted and happily came.
I know it's CAOD and Hydra is flamed left and right atm, however we found a home there. At this time Hydra was really unstable and i like to think we provided a bit of stability in the group. not the main reason but we did our part.
From there over the last 18 months our corp has been, as part of alliance, involved in rebuying 2 outposts, and investing entirely for one, 5 rather large scale wars as members of NC in assault, defense or as primary targets,
Most of all, our corporation continued its development and its simple goal: self sufficience. We were so proud when we built our first Battlecruisers, now we followed the standard growth curve so its bigger toys, but the enjoyment remains the same.
My corpies are the reason i play this game. Our corp was and is a "low maintenance" one, where our members have the attitude i enjoy to see in eve.
Today Tides celebrates its second birthday.
We did not do any BBQ yet but i could enjoy a lot of beers with corpmates around, including 2 that are right now at my home for a visit. (and i gave them both keys so im locked out argh!)
Continuing our path, Tides from tonight will come back as a single entity, and focus on what we currently need to improve, our capital fleet and our pvp skills.
We decided to part ways with Hydra, a friendly way. before the flamewall starts, It's not related to Triumvirate invasion we saw recently, and i will not get on the reasons.
Now our move is done, we are coming back in the fight as blue friends in Hydra space to help shoot some targets with our NC mates, and taking a month of deserved vacations to go explore other areas of eve and do random goofing around.
I hope i will have the opportunity to celebrate the 3rd birthday the same way :)
I personally thank our dirs for the very nice organization now corp shoes, and all the current and past Tides members for their trust, and Hydra for the fun years there. Our friends and foes have to be thanked the same way, and i hope our lack of hardcore pvp training was partially compensated by the energy we show to learn.
I know i am biased, but i wish every corp the same loyalty, fun in corp chat and attitude that i have the luck to see everyday in corp chat.
for me, it's a game, people make it fun, but corpies make it great :)
See you in space,
Happy Birthday Tides
Splag <3
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