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21 Feb 07
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yes and no. The eve world used to have 4 power blocs--BoB and its vassals, D2 (a bunch of ruthless Germans) and its vassals, Ascendent Frontier (a bunch of carebears), and the "Southern Coalition", a mix of PvPers left over from some dead alliances and some vassal carebears. Goonfleet allied with the Red Alliance (a bunch of ruthless cutthroad russians) and pretty much nuked the southern coalition. BoB nuked ASCN.
The goonswarm/red bloc gained a ton of allies in people who had been left out of the four old superpowers, and was slowly chipping away at the last hardcore PvP elements of the Southern Coalition, who then allied semi-secretly with BoB.
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The thing is, CCP really wanted to make EVE much more of a role-playing type game, where the 0.0 alliances would work with the NPC factions and create some kind of shared storyline. The problem was, the NPC/RP crap was more or less boring and lame, and the deep-space alliance battles far more compelling and interesting. The whole thing has really shown that what the EVE populace really wants is a game with fair rules and to be left alone by the management. That's kind of a big change from the old days, where it was almost more like playing dungeons and dragons with a DM buddy who, when the chips were down, always let you make that last saving roll.
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It looks as if God has chosen a side and made it known.
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You see up til now I've been interested in the comings and goings of eve (all the stuff about that huge corporation infiltration etc) because it's been players using the game to the fullest extent possible while constrained by the rules.
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I'm not a player so I don't have any vested interest in this, but I see this as more Machiavellian than outright evil. Their ill-executed scheme might have just backfired.
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