Metagaming in EVE - Page 55

On October 29 2009 07:33 WiljushkA wrote:
oh also CVA (curatores veritatis) got disbanded today. it is the only roleplayers alliance holding sov, and resides in the shitty part of the universe known as providence (also one of the rare alliances operating under the NRDS policy - "not red dont shoot". this usually ends up with the said alliance setting almost everyone to red). the question of "who will we shoot now?!?" echoes in many a players minds. look them up on the sov map before they disappear: http://go-dl1.eve-files.com/media/corp/Verite/influence.png

2009.10.30 23:06
Privateer Alliance has declared war on IT Alliance. Within 24 hours fighting can legally occur between those involved.

You say, "That's IT?" insinuating that what they did was something small. Yet you immediately run back to the ultra nap train getting blues. So its either:

1. IT did something small and that was all it took to make you hop back on the nap train.
2. IT did something big and you needed the nap train to deal with them.

Which one was it?

I don't see a problem there...PL withdrew all unnecessary fighting in preparation for a war against a large coalition of forces (Not just IT).

I think the general feeling here is IT didn't do much, but we all know its going to get messy soon. Playtime in the north is over. Smart move by PL.

On October 30 2009 10:34 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
It's pretty sad to see how low Pandemic Legion has slid, and even GoonSwarm is not far behind. Not sure if there was a fight or not since there is no killboard link but apparently PL lost 20 billion to NC's 2 billion in a fight and PL states that they were outnumbered and the increase price in hulls, so it doesn't count. WTF...?

http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1202826

EDIT: Here's the Killboard, I think.

http://kb.morsus-mihi.org/

http://kb.morsus-mihi.org/?a=system_detail&sys_id=1983

In addition, we had screwed up the diplomatic side of war. When you think about invading a target and you run the idea past your allies and friends and they respond with crushing disinterest, that needs to be carefully weighted. The reaction of our war-buddies and allies to the Esoteria adventure was a resounding 'meh'. We went through with it anyway, and found ourselves fighting nearly alone, save for Zenith Affinity. By contrast, SysK had friends close at hand geographically and motivated emotionally. Goonswarm's allies had nothing to gain from attacking SysK (just like Goonswarm had nothing to gain) while SysK and their allies were fighting to protect a near and dear friend. This little miscalculation saw the normally blobtastic Swarm outnumbered 700:100 at one point. Yikes. If you're going to invade somewhere, make sure you consider the diplomatic situation more carefully than we did.