Aphex188
No Trademark Notoriety Alliance
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Posted - 2008.09.20 01:14:00 -
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This has been a long time coming and is sure to bring a smile to the faces of former friends and foes alike.
We are disbanding our corp. If you are wondering why, here is the series of events that lead up to this decision.
A few months after we formed our alliance in October 07, our CEO at the time disappeared from game for an extended period of time. We continued in his absence, as others stepped up to handle the duties on a "temporary" basis waiting for his return. He returned and disappeared several times over those early months, but we pressed on as an alliance due to our involvement in the Alliance PVP tournaments.
The truth was no one in our corp wanted to lead a corporation, much less an Alliance, other than our former ceo. After the tournament was over, and it became apparent that his periods of activity/inactivity would continue, we dissolved the alliance yet continued on as a corporation. The burden of leading a corp or being executor of an alliance burned out many of our core directors, who either left the game or took a new stance on the game when they returned. This resulted in everyone capable of leading our corp not wanting to do so. However, everyone wanted to stay together as a corp.
Therefore, we have been a corporation without a leader or any sort of leadership structure for nearly a year now. All of our decisions have been made through either coercion or via a sort of mob mentality, being neither a dictatorship nor a democracy. We have been a corporation without rules or any sort of consequences for our actions for a very long time. As many of us are close friends from other games or RL, no matter what we may have done we knew that ultimately we would be forgiven. The only people we ever kicked out of our corporation were recruits we did not know very well who went inactive, or people we recruited who sucked at pvp (and refused to get better).
We have enjoyed absolute freedom to do whatever we wished to do in game, and this more than anything is the reason we have stayed together as we have, for as long as we have. The only rules which were ever enforced on us are those made by CCP, which is why we probably rank high on the list for "corps with the most chat bans or 3-5 day bans for smack talking in local."
If we have set you blue and shot you moments afterwards, now you know why. If you convo'd a director to ask for standings and were wardec'd for it, now you know why. If we made any promises or commitments to you or your alliance and then later were told to "go F-ck yourself" when you asked why we did not follow through, now you know why.
Of course, a corporation like ours has no chance to take part in the more "advanced" parts of the game nor can it actually maintain real relationships with the larger groups and alliances in eve, so our time as a corporation must come to an end. Obviously it has not been a pleasure being the diplomat of such a group, answering for a corporation that doesn't even answer to itself, but I regret none of the time spent flying together.
To those that fought us, thanks for the fights. To those we were a not-so-great ally to, we apologize, our bad.
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