Revising Alliance Rule: A Solution for BoB and Goonswarm

Summary: BoB is being held in a firm grip by SirMolle and Goonswarm my Sesfan. CCP must implement more forms of government to free these repressed groups so that they can get along.
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Revising Alliance Rule: A Plan for BoB and Goonswarm

Alliances have been around for quite a while – May of 2003 to be exact. Of course since them players have had to develop strategies and methodologies to facilitate the management and function of Alliances, surely a difficult task. But perhaps this task is simply too difficult to be manage? In the following expose we will examine two major alliances, the methodologies to run them, and what CCP can do to make this both easier and more productive for the Alliances themselves and all of EVE.

History of Alliances
Alliances have been around since the original EVE was released. Ever since then, their importance has only been increasing. From their inception, to the early alliances of M00, FIX, Curse, Phoenix, and several other original alliances, it’s clear that these large, ungainly entities will be deciding the fate of New Eden’s markets, players, and gameplay. Soon they will come to dominate every aspect of EVE in PvP, PvE, and market warfare. Don’t respect one alliance? Time for them to break the market for you! Don’t take another group seriously? Time for them to break your systems!

The Structure of Alliances
Alliances, of course, are not nebulous structures in and of themselves. They’re composed of uniform (or non-uniform) components, namely corporations and the leaders of said corporations. But! There are some corporations that are taken at higher esteem than others, figuratively and literally – in any alliance there must be leadership of some kind. These “holding corporations” are used to maintain control over the unruly masses of these gigantic player groups through cunning, kindness, or with an iron fist. But regardless of the style, clearly there must be leadership, correct?

Different Styles of Leadership in Alliances
Obviously there are many leadership styles in EVE. From what I’ve seen, most tend toward several different types:

Republic – Representation of Corporations forming a “council” with a leader of some kind

Democracy – Direct rule by the players, utilizes voting to determine goals

Oligarchy – Controlled by several powerful members of each corporation

Theocracy – Used by the Amarr alliances to determine what god wants them to do

There are prominent examples of each type of leadership. BoB and Goonswarm are dictatorships (more on this later), CVA or PIE is a Theocracy, and many alliances are Republics and Oligarchies as well. There are problems with this though!

Problems
Band of Brothers, oh sweet BoB. How sad it is that you are all forced to submit to the will of your grand master, the one known only as SirMolle (sir mole or sir molly? I could never figure it out). This blind and blighted dictator drives you on for better of for worse, hammering the individual corporations and groups together with an iron fist. His will extends not only around you but seeps into you, driving you to carry out his wishes on not only your enemies, but all of EVE. To put it simply: BoB is trying to suppress and oppress EVE. This must be stopped

Goonswarm, my good friends. Though your methodologies and image is much different from that of BoB, deep down the members of Goonswarm are generally good people who aren’t interested in screwing up other players’ time. The leadership, specifically that of the fool Sesfan, forces members of Goonswarm to engage in this unsightly and unbecoming activity. Without this poor leadership Goonswarm would not have its current reputation, and might not even be at war with BoB. Who knows? But this also must be stopped.

THE SOLUTION
CCP MUST IMPLEMENT ADDITIONAL METHODS THAT LETS THEIR PLAYERS CONTROL THEIR DESTINY. How do we do this?

1. Implement firm control methods for alliances: Dictatorship, Democracy, Oligarchy, Theocracy, extcetera. This will allow members of both BoB and goonswarm to shrug off their impotent, harmful leaders and control their own destiny once and for all! By changing these things members of BoB will no longer be interested in suppressing the rest of EVE and Goonswarm will be less evil overall if they revolt against their leadership.
2. Right now I’m issuing a call to action to both BOB and GOONS to rebel against their leaders. Until CCP provides you with more direct means of rule you need to show them that you need it by causing havoc within your respective organizations. Since CCP is in BoB and GOONS anyway they’d notice anyway.

MC Isn't out of the fight yet!

Summary: The Mercenary Coalition will be attempting to cut off the supply of veldspar from high-security space in order to harm the Coalition's ability to construct capital ships.
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I recently made a post in general discussion about the problems caused by the new modifications to ore and compression in Revelations 3, and how this shows developer sympathy towards certain players, but that’s not all. I watch these forums a lot and I think you guys know a lot about politics (especially the posts by WhatIsItGoodFor) but theres something that youre missing here that I’ve uncovered.

Mercenary Coalition Isn’t Done Fighting Yet

That’s right people, MC may say that they’re not on contract anymore (and goons say thet theyre ****ed off at Bob) but its neither of those reasons, and mercenary coalition will still be fighting on BoBs side but in a more subtle way. Red alliance has kind of the same idea but they might not be as organized so it wont work. But before I start I’ll review what I posted in the other forum:
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Basically the fact that CCP is making mineral compression not work as much anymore is because low end mineral prices will go up and make Chribba richer because CCP wants to pay him back for making all his eve related websites (the link is in my sig by the way).
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But this is only really half of what’s going on here! MC is going to be using capitals or supercapitals (they have a lot) to camp lowsec without having to worry…but despite what some people may think this isn’t being done just for ****s and giggles – Mercenary Coalition will be fighting the export of minerals from empire before the compression nerf goes through.

Why are they doing this? Because this is part of SirMolle’s plan to win the war (though his alliance is like him being the one-eyed man in the land of the blind lol)! It to halt the production of all capital ships not a part of Bob or his allies who are also involved in this plan (Dark SHikari is good with the markets to he may have planned it*)…but how to do this without having to actually invade and risk lots of their own ships in the process?

Keep competing alliances from having enough low-end minerals to build them

Everone knows that the majority of low end minerals are made in high sec, compressed, and then moved out to 0.0. But CCP is nerfing mineral compression and making it taking it down to 0.0 to make capital ships with (from the first eve econ dev blog) and if MC blocks all lowsec gates with their capital ships but only take out ships carrying modules they can pretty much keep most low end minerals from leaving empire space (and more for Chribba lol) and therefore make people miner their own out in 0.0...but they can do this much more slowly than other minerals so it very much limits their production of capital ships, and those are essential to removing Poses and other things like taking out other capital ships (kind of like the civil war).

*Those blue robots are weird, they make me thing he has a my little ponies collection somewhere lol

All this is part of their plan to win the war, so you have to watch out and keep this from happening to you (RA, TFC, AAA, IAC though youre in trouble already) but this is very very important. You can write this off as just another post in these forums or flame and troll all you like (though that’s kind of like 80s fassion, and is very lame) but you should really take some time. Think of it like this:

1. MC is like the philharmionic orchestra and SirMolle and DS are the composers (both of them are just too much of a weird thing, like those razors with 4 blades)

2. MC is called the mining coalition sometimes …maybe there is more to this than just a joke?

3. If you lose, youll wish you had listened to me

Otherwise you guys could end up dead like Ophelia in Othello (I saw the 1982 movie version…the girl was cute what can I say) because of your own actions.

Also, I heard that SirMolle has 1 glass eye in real life? D you?