Jita Park Speakers Corner

I challenge Hans to be a true representative of Faction Warfare. I challenge him to spend the rest of his term on the losing side of the equation. To see how to other side plays faction warfare, to see how they view it.

Join iLaw (he wouldn't fit into Fweddit, so I don't suggest that as an option) until your term is up.

Instead of viewing the Amarr as simply a bunch of ungrateful whiners, who aren't appreciative of your efforts, join them and see why we view you as someone with only a single worldview where faction warfare is concerned.

You fled the losing side in the face of a horde of farmers () to join the winning Caldari, and are only now returning back after Agony Empire & company might have a shot at turning things around (and they're off to a fine start if the current map is any indication.) In other words, you're on pretty shaky ground when it comes to calling anyone out on "being able to hack it".

I extended a similar offer to Hans a long while ago. A spot in our fleets and on comms to get an idea of what being on the otherwise of the fence feels like. Make an Amarr alt, train him for a week, and come fly with us! The offer still stands Hans.

Not even an alt. He has to commit to the new faction. Spend the majority of his game time with them.

Thanks Poe for inviting people to our corp lol. +1 for Poe recruitment.

Not just Hans. I would love it if CCP (the ones working on FW) would join our fleets for a couple of nights and see how it feels to be Amarr Militia.

You assume he doesn't have an alt in Fweddit. Half of null have alts in fweddit. It is my understanding that a chunk of the guys who really, truly, game the FW system (well gamed until CCP started attempting to quash the LP printing business) had a collection of characters on both sides to properly game the system. I would hazard a guess that most of the big names in FW also did similar things with alts. He's likely flown beside you in fleets. I know I have.

He doesn't.

But an alt is hardly living and experiencing the situation. Short occasional vacations on the other side will tell you hardly anything at all.

More excuses. That and histrionics are all you seem to be good for.

^ What if he just asked for your opinion instead of changing sides? Would that suffice? Of course you usually complain about their lack of communication, so maybe it is hard to offer your opinion, but perhaps try giving it in game or through evemail and not just forums or so.

The problems the Amarr face are not something Hans, the CSM or CCP can fix. It's a lack of dedicated and driven pilots across all timezones that are willing to sacrifice time/effort to "play the sovwar game" doing stuff like d&o.plexing and such. Similarly, (and perhaps this has changed in the past few months; I haven't had actual alts [not just bunker-busting newb alts] in the Amarr since just after Inferno) you are not a very connected militia, whether it be across timezones or even within timezones. You (I'm speaking generally here, not just about one individual or even all individuals) like to lay blame for failures: W-BR wouldn't help, Agony just feeds, ARETR are just plexers, etc.

The Minmatar militia is a giant family and we have learned through time and hard work that we can depend on one another. We have our fair share of drama or whatever, but it never gets to the point where we can no longer cooperate or are no longer willing to cooperate. I am proud to be apart of the same brotherhood as Defiant Legacy, Swift Angels Alliance, Iron Oxide., Sicarius Draconis, U'K, and EM. I just don't see that in the Amarr militia; time and time again, the strength of the Amarr has crumbled due to internal conflicts that ultimately results in a lack of cooperation or pilots leaving.

tl;dr - there are great people in the amarr militia, but not enough of them mostly because the amarr don't like working together/compromising/etc.

Furthermore, why should Hans (a volunteer) have to abandon his friends in the game for your sake? He is a conduit between the players and CCP. He isn't a developer, he isn't a shot-caller or upper management who can decide what CCP does. He gives them player feedback. If you choose not to utilize him to represent your own concerns then that is your own damn fault.