I'm training for hulks on my alt right now, time to mine doze roids. :toot:

Lets not pretend what he did was a good or socially acceptable thing, but I accept that his apology was real, personally. I know the guy, to some extent. I worked with him on the CSM and I genuinely believe he fumbled the ball and the price exacted for it is more than apt. He himself expressed regret and I honestly feel thats noble of him. My primary complaint, personally, was with the aformentioned witch-hunt that occured.

Why do people think I'm conducting some sort of 'Mittani Apologism' here. I pointed out what he did was stupid and wrong, I also pointed out he apologised. The ultimate point I was trying to make was that by witch-hunting a person, our actions become as vile or worse than the actions of the original perpetrator. 

I think mob justice is ridiculous.

But eve owns???

I certainly wouldn't object to the occasional tl;dr here's whats going on in the south evemail. If you want to shoot me the occasional few lines about something to White Tree in game I'd certainly read it. 

Edit: That goes for anyone else who reads this article too. If you have comments, suggestions or corrections you feel I should make, evemail is a great way of getting in touch with me. 

Originally posted by Mors.Magne

I don't agree with the author - It's not a pity that xXDeathXx are losing their industry. This is because you can't really develop an emotional attachment to this sort of activity.

I pitty the loss of the XDeath bloc the same way you pitty the loss of a tree that has stood in your back yard since you were a child and was cut down. You'll get over it, it's not a 'deep emotional loss', so much as it's a large change that you weren't necessarily ready for and something that might take you a while to get used too. 

I know xDeath personally from our time on the CSM, and that's about as far as our relationship goes. I was also present for the fight for what was it, C-L? Or something. The system name escapes me, it was a good rumble, 1900+ in local.

Anyway, in the long term, change is good. It's good to see -A- get some long-coming revenge. I'd mourn -A-'s complete destruction the same way I'd mourn xDeath's. I have no vested interest in these blocs or alliances the same way I'd have no vested interest in the aformentioned tree, never the less, things change, you miss them, you move on. 

Originally posted by Calfis

Jeez Ross you seem to check your sources about as often as Riverini does, in the xXDeathXx alliances its well known that Legion of xXDeathXx is the big bro so to speak and Shadow is simply a renter alliance that has no leadership role at all. Sure shadow has more members and occupies more space but that is because Legion rents out membership and space.

Another thing, "the crown jewel" Fey has been under the control of Against ALL Authorities for some time now and has never been a front in this war.... and yes the correct spelling is with ALL in CAPS.

I don't pretend to know the inner workings of the sister xDeath Alliances with 100% accuracy, and if I implied that I did I'm sorry. In addition to this, UAxDeath really was the top man for that bloc. 

And yes, Fayth IS a crown jewel of the south, the gas acquired from these regions is heavily controlled and managed, I lived down there for a while under that thumb and was ordered to not touch it for fear of punishment.

And the point about AAA's capitalization seems like semantics.

Don't compare me to Riverini, I don't pretend to peddle ABSOLUTE TRUTHS about what is or is not happening, and I don't write like a 6 year old. Much of my information is acquired through diplomatic contacts, and a great amount of it is me merely pondering possibilities.

Feel free to take what I write here with a pinch of skepticism, I can't be everywhere at once and I can't garentee you that 100% of what I say is going to be accurate in your eyes. This is an opinion piece, and don't have the resources necessary to become a human RSS feed for EVE Online news.

I'm not in Goonswarm, so no. 

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Completely oblivious to the point I was making.  Territory should be hard to keep, it is in everything else.  Fleet combat is just who brings the bigger ships.   Fleets should be all about who has the better mix of ship types and knows how to use them.  It has nothing to do with who is the better aggressor, current tactics is just brute force with zero finesse.   One of the most critical points of any warfare action is logistics, which is practically nonexistent in Eve.  

Again 0.0 is just a bunch of elitests who are highly averse to any change and act like the spoiled brats they are when something is changed.  Just read the forums sometime.  CCP caters to them, that is their priviledge, but the game would be so much better if they opened up the game more.

There isn't much challeng in owning sovereign space beyond paying the bills admittedly. Whether or not an enemy wishes to invade you or not is when the challenge of owning space presents itself. But even then it favors the defender, as it is inherently designed to be that way.

Fleet combat isn't so much about the blob as the makeup of the blob. 250 Maelstroms using Artillery have routinely shown to out-damage 250 Abaddons using Beams. But then again, should the FC muck it up it can easily go wrong. FCing a bloc-level fleet isn't just about mashing endless numbers towards a final goal, you do need to make tactical decisions. The idea that it simply requires 'brute force' is something that I can personally say isn't true. 

Now, to be fair - When an Alliance of 5000 comes down on an Alliance of 1000, sure, numbers are going to win out. But when two relatively equally matched entities come to blows it ultimately boils down to tactical decisions, leadership capability and all of the things that should matter.

As for logistics, well, no Alliance could function without a complex logistical backbone? Surely? My Alliance alone uses 20 or so jump freighters to get its business done, and ferrys ships to the frone lines via Carriers. Deployment warfare is all about logistics. 

As for 0.0 being elitist, I can't speak for every Alliance but I know GSF, TEST and ESG all recruit day 1 newbies and train them on how to live and survive in nullsec. We don't have SP requirements, only requirements that people come from specific communities. No, not all Alliances can make the claim that they're actively attempting to bring day 1 players into nullsec, but some can.

And nullsec players throw temper tantrums when the structure of their corner of the game is dictated by and changed by people who do not live in Nullsec and do not share the concerns of they have as players. In addition to this, the vast wealth of resources in EVE Online such as rare mineral moons come exclusively from nullsec. Nullsec, despite its relative size in terms of population - Dramatically shapes EVE Online in every imaginable way. 

Hi guys, you can now follow me on twitter @csmwhitetree

EVE really gets people riled up and I think thats always been one of the more amusing things about it. 

I'm actually playing EQ2 right now, heh.

Originally posted by Vonatar

Now what did I read someone say about Eve the other day? Something like "intellectual masturbation while looking at spreadsheets with a space wallpaper". Thought it was quite apt.

Luckily I was like this before I played EVE Online!

And yes, I'm not a member of Goonswarm but I did participate in VFK. It was the most pressing and immediate event in the game with regards to the motions of the monstrous blocks that the game is famous for.

Don't worry folks, I'll be writting about much more in the future. Thankyou for the reads and the welcome to the MMORPG.com community!