Princess Jodi
Gallente
Cutting Edge Incorporated
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2008.12.09 17:29:00 -
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I disagree with the OP. There will always be people who disagree with the major powerblocks and come up with an attractive alternative plan. Sometimes this plan succeeds, sometimes it fails but there are always new ideas cropping up.
Here's my take on some personal history:
My first corp was an Empire corp. We wanted to go to 0.0 and made several attempts. Plenty of options were available: Be Industrialists for Alliance, Rent, PVP or just know the right person. Even tried just ignoring the powerblocks and taking a chunk. Overall the plan failed but individuals learned alot and moved on. Ashamed to admit it but Peoke started his rise to power with that corp. Say what you want about Smash, but they succeeded in holding space for years without any powerblock support.
My second corp wandered around alliances for a year before we had enough of the bull you get with established powers. We decided to join a small alliance that we could help grow and eventually take over. As the age of Capitals was upon us we elected to grab a bit of Drone lands on the day it opened, with the intent of building caps while being very low profile. We had to blue MM and Razor (D2 early) but were independant.
This plan had mixed success as we did hold space for 2 years. But as the alliance was based on CareBearing and the distance to enemies was too great we got soft. We fought to restore the North after MC's Steamroller and in the first Bob war, abiet as a very minor player. Many corps and individuals got rich.
At that time other groups took a stab at greatness. OutBreak, Insurgency and Privateers all tried living outside the powerblocks and also had mixed success.
On the combat side, the mantra in Delve was that Cynojammed systems with Titans were undefeatable. Mainly due to CCP's improvements with lag this is no longer true. Players also developed different strategies which made the undefeatable beatable.
During MAX, so many different strategies were applied until the NC found one that worked. That is where established powerblocks fail: they have a pretty rigid strategy based on their area of power. We learned to live with DD's and Titans became more Targets than Terrors. MM jumpbridged us so much I fougot how to use a normal gate. Iron learned that turtling up don't work forever.
These type of innovations and audacious new alliances will continue to breed in Eve. Most will fail, but next year's superpower may burst on the scene totally unannounced.
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