Wormholes

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Another celebrity posting!

Actually, I do need to spend some time of Hard Knocks comms soon. Its been too long since I reconnected with my heritage--you guys did pop my w-space cherry after all. Let me know when is a good time in game or lets get on comms together.

ON ANOTHER NOTE to others:

The paragraph structure is not exactly what I'd do on more formal writing, but I'd have also proof read better if this wasn't for a video game. Something I learned in my writing courses at college is that sometimes breaking a paragraph early is easier on the eye than letting it wander on, even if its not optimal, and I realize I'm dealing with a largely "tl;dr" crowd.

I'm not pro at it, but I write fiction as a hobby (sometimes), and have been known to do a lot of more formal type writing. I also know I talk too long for my own good sometimes, especially when I'm trying to be thorough.

Then don't waste your time on them. :)

Seriously, do you even know what the actual topic is yet? lol

:P

^My thoughts without my trolling, i will still prefer my troll method though.

The power of a similar culture held by many groups to subscribe to a set of values has enormous potential power.

For instance, take the general culture of wormhole space. The culture of taking a fight for a fight's sake was an idea I was brought up on. It brought me to wormholes and has pulled me back again and again. We have built -EOL around it.

We fight, even if its not the brightest idea, and we often do our best unless its outright suicide.. I also see this idea repeatedly uttered in wormhole space cultural narrative, though how true it is or isn't is debatable, and I see the value gradually eroding (its sad). I believe in it though; it has earned me friends and respect (I think), and I think its still a good idea I teach my recruits. Its part of my gaming DNA and even affects how I act in other games now. All it takes to change wormhole space is groups deciding to change it.

However, I still believe my point is valid, regardless of how far this change does or does not go in wormhole culture. Large alliances cause their own woes with fight availability through a history of blobbing smaller groups to death. When these groups later do not fight, then we call them farmers, evict them, and say we've done some-wormhole-deity's work. When this gets boring, we realize we can find something to do elsewhere in game, and spend our e-lives chasing greener pastures all over k-space and w-space, but never quite grasping what we want, because sooner or later everyone wises up and we have to re-deploy somewhere else to get fights.

If PvP entities even individually decided, "Hey, we're not blobbing everyone to death anymore" and figured out ways that worked for them to implement that, well, it might be slow to change their reputation, but eventually word will get out, "Hey, these guys just want a fight, not to pad their killboard," and smaller groups would engage. We wouldn't see wormhole empires arise, become powerful, revered, and respected only to have them have to leave wormhole space. Each time it happens, we loose a little of our collective soul as a people.... It is sad.

Consider, would you rather be able to roll into many holes and get small skirmishes and be able to show your self openly saying, "Fight at x planet and x moon" and people actually show up, or would you rather every single person hide when they see your corp? I'd rather be known to be honorable and have people willing to engage me, even if it means splitting up my fleets and having them roam different parts of space, possibly loosing a few fights I'd otherwise win.

Just because someone has a bigger stick then you do doesn't mean they should down size. With that said I can see where your coming from. ( yes I read your full post)

Just my opinion all these smaller fleets getting there **** pushed in should entice them to recruit more pilots into there corp. if not gtfo of wh space or take all the smaller corps and let them create there own alliance.

Just my thoughts.

So if your not mad about getting blobbed and you dont care what is the point of this thread?

Or are you just trying to convey my ideals and sentiments for wormhole space pvp then as you can see I disagree a little.

Blobbing is the natural progression of the "Group" it does happen it is up to you to break the norm. "over-ride" your natural instincts. Ragnarok. since it's intrusion to Class 6 wormhole space has done what it can to try and break the norm by not requiring T3 cruisers and simply saying "fly what you think is fun" weve been repelling away from the t3 norm as best we can but eventually more and more t3's leak into fleets.

The natural progression happens. Don't regret becoming the size you are it simply means people like to fly with you and enjoy the cohesive unit you have created with blood sweat and tears. With END. being a 300 man alliance we are able to put up 30 man fleets and go roaming. With that being said we like to break our fleets up with multiple FC's and go do different things so we arent rroaming around in the WH equivalent of a blob. it takes leadership being strong and willing to break that paradigm

Was this sentiment the same when you were part of AHARM?

Or was it you grew tired of that style of play and decided you wanted to try something different.

You see some people like playing this game as a team and some dont. Being lazy has nothing to do with it or it could have been with people you have flown with in the past.

The generalizations in this thread is just hilarious.

We like to blob with wrecks as we conga-line into fleets....does this count?

For serious though, there is a reason we're trying to stay small while being large enough so that we have consistent number of bodies for activities daily. I'd rather overpower someone with skill then numbers, we're still working on that skill part