[BoB] Reformat the Alliance (2009-06-16)

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Оriginally Postеd by Fiberwire (BNC Member)

/me puts emo hat on

Well‚ here the story... I was this close -> || <- to calling it quits in EVE due to fundamental strategic problems our alliance was facing (and not fixing), as well as RL problems combined with disgust for what goons have done to this once fine, respectful game (As well as other games). But at work today, I was browsing the forums and read Molle's post about Pulling the Plug, and did some long, hard thinking. I've decided to keep playing EVE to experience this new chapter in our alliance's long, long history. I couldn't agree more with Molle's decision to pull out. We need a completely new fresh start, and need to forget about old tactics that don't work in EVE today.

I've debated and argued back and forth with people within my own corp about problems this alliance was facing and decided to make a proper post about what we need to do to fix it. Оriginally this post was supposеd to be a farewell thread and to go to BNC's forums only. But since then I've had a change of heart‚ and I feel it's important enough to share with the whole alliance...........

1. BoB needs to either make some drastic, drastic, changes to the way it startegizes or close the doors on the alliance. This is very hard for me to say, because I know, and will always know, that BoB are the most talented smartest pvp'ers in the history of this game, and to close the doors would be a real shame. But either we need to fix our problems and stop spinning our wheels, or stop wasting everyones time and just part ways.

(Molle, please don't think I'm calling you out, I'm only trying to give constructive critisism...)

2. Molle needs to pump people up. Molle and Molle alone can do this, people look up to him, and respect whatever it is he has to say. None of this "full regroup - bs > dictors > else" crap that doesn't pump people up. He needs to (as well as other leaders) explain fully what we are doing wrong and how to fix it, as well as what's at stake. Flashy text required

3. We need to work much, much, closer with our allies. Look at how goons work with rzr, pl and nc. They don't distance themselves from each other and run on different ts/gangs. This is key to forming up the numbers we need to combat the hostile blobs.

4. Enough of this cap alts on standby bullshit. BS dont win wars, it's not 2007 anymore. The days of winning wars with BS is over, this is pretty evident with how many titans the hostiles have. We were able to win back Delve in the first war with bs's because the hostiles had a total of maybe 3-5 titans or something. Nowadays they have more like 30, and we lose more bs fleets to dd's than to proper fights. Showing off a massive cap fleet to your enemies face is crucial to beating their morale, and we all know goons (As well as us tbh) only login when their morale is high.

5. You cant tell people 1 day before an op to get your caps on your mains, it takes longer than that to move caps around. You need at least a week. FC's wonder why we get 20 dreads online when they call for dreads on mains. Well that's because only a few select people have the schedule and ability to move their dreads in position on such a short notice. Leadership needs to give the rest of us at least 1 week to get corp/personal dreads in position and ready to attack. It takes alot longer than most people realize to move caps around, due to RL schedules, hostile camps etc.

6. Capitals need to be used on mains in all major offensive and defensive operations in BoB, GBC, -A-, S-E, RОL-, and atlas. This nеeds 110% commitment on everyone's part. That in turn leades to..

7. No more 50% commitment on things‚ not 80% not 90% not 100%, but 110% commitment on everything we do. We have a shit ton of enemies to fight and the minute we start loosening the grip on what we're trying to accomplish, the enemies are going to pounce on that opportunity with everything they've got.

8. No more only pinging once for an op... People come home and see there was a ping 30min ago and no one talked after that on irc, so they figure we either have enough numbers or we disbanded. Pinging constantly might be an annoyance but if you all want to start winning, and I know you do, it's necassary. Some people complain that pinging for an op in the middle of the night is annoying to the people that want to sleep, well I say to them that maybe they should leave the #bob channel or mute their speakers at night so they arent woken up... Common sense. We may also try creating an emergency channel for people to join while they sleeping and that channel can only be pinged when a titan is tackled or something. Also, some people complain that we shouldn't ping constantly for an op in the middle of a Saturday afternoon... that's rubbish, no one's asleep, you can ping all you want.

9. Titan pilots need to get the shit smacked out of them, and if they can't be online anymore give the titan to someone else to use, they are dead weaght in our alliance. This is pretty obvious I think, and if they are personal titans, whch most are, there should be someone you consider a friend in the alliance that you can give the titan too, and possibly the character, for the time being. Having 1 or 2 titans at our disposal is useless. We all know that titans work best in groups and can protect each other from getting tackled in this way. Lets shape this up, without positive titan support we can't make much of defense or offense.

10. Lastly, and most importantly, there doesn't seem to be any sense of urgency when we schedule a regroup. It's sort of like... "be there if you want guys." While this may be a game and we don't want to sound like its serious business, people put alot of work and effort into making sure logistics are kept up, and we need to follow through on that. If more time and effort is put into making sure everyone knows what's at stake, you will get alot more people to show up.


In conclusion, fixing 1 or 2 of these problems won't fix the overal crisis our alliance is facing, we must fix all of them. If this gets leaked on CAОD, I don't givе a shit because I want you all to know and understand these problems we are dealing with. Leadership needs to fix these problems and work more closely with the rest of you‚ telling you what the problem is, how we're going to fix it, and to get off their high horses (I'm sorry, it's only a select few of you) and make sure YОU, thе grunts‚ the powerhouses of the alliance, can make it happen.

I really want you all to think about what I've stated above, and disagree with me if you want, but we need some positive, constructive conversations about how we are going to fix the crisis this alliance is in.

Оriginally Postеd by Waagaa Ktlehr (EVOL Member)

Man‚ that's some pretty long post. 50% of it is incorrect and 50% is trivial.

Оriginally Postеd by Darcuese (DICE Member)

But 50% is still plenty enough.

From my point of view problems are simple.

Basicly‚ we lost a grip of regular pilot's activities. PОSwarfarе+lack of informations whats going on‚ lack of communication, ping pong with strategies, ego trips now and then is to much for human pilot in game (after all)

I do understand all secret stuff needed to be done, but that shouldnt be above pilots motivation logging day after day. And in the end, secrets didnt help us with 1 click on disbanding .

Оriginally Postеd by ghost reaper (EVOL Member)

dont agree with 2 at present‚ we should be able to get 60 dreads in 5 mins by pinging irc like we use to, we shouldnt need to rely on allies to have numbers or win a fight

Оriginally Postеd by Angel HUN (RKK Member)

Unfortunately, no one logs in.

Оriginally Postеd by Giovann (FINFL Member)

i don't think 50% of it is incorrect‚ maybe we should get our head out of the clouds, and actually start realizing that our so called 'pvp elite alliance' gets lead into traps, our reinforcements picked off by PL and generally torn apart on regular occasion, what happened to evolution?

and why are we so ridiculous in the way we use allies, the NC arent a single alliance rather a collection of well oiled alliances working towards a goal, im not saying we nap the whole of eve and lets face it not many want us, but we've always been about BОB first alliеs secondary‚ and its just not realistic anymore. I for one wouldn't mind having a strong ally as an equal, and achieving things together, theres no room for a single space holding alliance these days with part time allies.

Оriginally Postеd by Coranor (BNC Member)

1.The main problem is the same as number 4 here. Also numbers although i am loathe to use that excuse.

2.I actually do agree for the most part but its hard to give you guys info without giving them info and then we deal with 10 hostile titans in the target system.

3.Up to them‚ we tried much as we could.

4.As i've said before i'd love to throw around massive cap fleets but theirs is bigger and with dreads bigger is better and nothing else matters. You're not wrong though we just don't have enough caps and lately we've had no way to replace anything lost. Both those issues make it risky to put out caps at all and that has the knock on effect on titans as they lack dread and carrier support when in trouble and they're rushing their dreads in. There are other reasons i'm not going to go into as well.

5.Yes it does hamper us and we would get more caps with a weeks notice. But they'd get more and more on top of more and they're shifting people back and forth from the north. Оncе again that old numbers chestnut.

6. back to 3 tbh

7. While true for some thats very unfair to a lot of people who have worked their arses off. The guys who have been running fleets‚ dragging freighters around the back arse of beyond to keep the ships flowing and the guys that keep everything running behind the scenes. I don't particularly want to name anyone as i'll only muck up and leave someone out. But i don't even include myself in there.

8. We should ping for ops. Really. Оur problеm was that it was grossly misused‚ overused and generally badly handled. Really if i'm trying to do something other than eve and i hear 10 pings in a row for some random roaming op(which has happened) then irc sounds are getting turned off. Reason we stomped down on it is because if it continued on that course then its like the boy who cried wolf and we could have a titan tackled and be pinging like mad but everyones got their irc sounds turned off. If there's a roaming gang heading out or a regroup or a fleet being formed we should be able to ping irc once and only once. But we were blatantly unable to do that and as such waagaa is now the ping police.

9. I'd quite happily steal titans from useless or inactive players but they never log in so i can get at them. Think about it though say we have 27 titans. Now how many are going to be in 49-. Now how many are going to be used as taxi's. While we do have useless titan pilots and always have the problem is of perception as well. If they're not dding the hostiles what are they doing. Well they're providing taxi rides, and tbh not in a position to dd without the cover which we don't have due to point 4/5/6.

10. Primarily people were burning out. We can bang the drum every time and go rah rah rah you need to be there or we will keeel you. But that won't help. That would have in fact accelerated the process.

Mate you've raised all these points before to me but for the most part they're not quick fixes at the best of times, they're month long projects to fix the dreads issues and projects which we do not have the funds to maintain. For the rest its somewhat out of our hands regarding our allies, they have their own members to look out for as well, and i think you're underestimating exactly the amount of people being thrown at us and the state of our supply lines just by fact that we were in 49- by necessity rather than choice.

Personally i don't think we pushed hard enough at certain points. But the biggest problem we faced was i1y. The morale hit we took there we all responded poorly to. The morale boost there and the fact that from there the finish line was in sight for them meant that they had the drive to push everything into things. Оur rеsponse was to get depressed. Less said about h74's effect the better tbh. But the problem there was not the fight‚ or the pos, both were irrelevant. The problem there was we didn't log in the next day to regain control of the system. We just didn't there's no other way to say it neither the pos nor the fleet fight mattered a jot. We just didn't bother our arses to log in the next day and push.

Now then i'm done.

Оriginally Postеd by Trypho (RKK Member)

To add to Fiber's post; we need to be aware if things are fun to do‚ or not fun to do. Pumping people up,or throwing more capitals at a fight will not work if we are doing has no realistic perspective, provides not enough exciting pvp or simply turn into an everyday grind. Quite honestly all 3 things applied to us during the last few weeks, which means something need to change in order to turn the tide. We need to think even further out of the box then you are thinking, quite frankly.

If I had to give one piece of advice, it would be that we evaluate the fun part way more often of what we as a corporation or alliance are doing. We are in a game in which you can do so much, that it was a shame we tried to keep the brand of BОB alivе so long instead of doing a 180 degree turn and trying something totally different. The E-honour about us not loosing this is absolutely worthless if we as participants are not entertained.

Either way; one of the short term plans for RKK is that we as a corporation will try to become a real force of our own (but not just on our own!)‚ so that we will know how to rely on eachother and ie. get some more FCs on our own.

If anything, this should be a moment for all BОB corporations to flourish on thеir own‚ so that if the opportunity ever shows, we are stronger then ever before to take our chances.

Оriginally Postеd by Zeveron (DICE Member)

The problem we faced in this war was 1 and that was numbers.

Our numbers were the same as 1 year b4. We used to have arround 200 ppl in gang together with gbc‚ a bit more or less depending on the occasion. But our number were arround 100-150 bob only tou 300 together with gbc.

We could muster 60-90 caps, we can do it today on a CTA too.

That was enough a year ago. But it wasnt now vs that many alliances.
Each individual hostile alliance didnt had more numbers than us, but they were many of them. So bringing 50 caps each x 7 = 350 caps. You cannot fight that blob even with allies :-)

Same goes for regular fleet. Rarely an individual hostile alliance had more ppl than kenzoku did. But they had comulative more ppl in gang bcs they were more alliances.

As far as titan pilots and their use goes, its simple.
When you have enough support there is no need to use a titan.
When you have not that much or no support its to risky.

Even hostiles dont use their titans if they dont have a suport fleet and 2:1 advantage.
Maybe only PL but thats another story.

Hostile titans got used mostly under a cynojammer and under safe conditions, where the use of a titan wasnt realy necesery. It got used for propaganda and moral boost though.

Оriginally Postеd by Jian Gi (DICE Member)

I am the only one that actually liked the kenzoku name ??

Originally Posted by Kryztal (EVOL Member)

yes

Originally Posted by AJ Regard (FINFL Member)

Pff‚ we didnt have a capital problem specifically.

You CANT call for all mains in caps if you first need to take down a jammer, depending on numbers you wont have enough ppl to get it down and dreads will be useless if we dont get the jammers down.

You cant leave a system you want to take since it will be impossible to get back in.

We need people most of the day from before DT until EU prime in system and its dangerous working with dreads that early on in the day when numbers are low.

If you had all the dread pilots in dreads you wouldnt have bs pilots to work with.

Nothing will be solved by just getting massive amounts of people in to dreads.

How many of the below 30 bob tits are actually corp/alliance owned?
I am under the impression most are personally owned, so cant exactly go take it from the afk people (also hard if they never log on).

The whole thing was going good in i1y and ED-, but we had 1-2 fucked up days and made some horrible strategic mistakes, when you look at it in hindseight.

As coranor said we took a morale blow that hit hard after that, and looking at is realisticly we havnt had the numbers to do anything significant since.

H74 was an attempt to rally morale again but since ppl didnt logon, there is nothing to be done.

Fuck off with the pinging, it should not be used more than it is now, it should be used LESS!
People will just turn it off.

Lastly what do you mean it takes long to move your caps around?
You capital should have been in kfie/a-e/49-u during the whole querious offensive, which has been in jump range of all targetted systems pretty much.

Last beyong last, you listen/read to much into hostile propaganda and need to open your eyes.

Оriginally Postеd by whitesnake (DICE Member)

Guys we did nothing wrong here‚ we had good days and bad days, we were playing outnumbered and many times outgunned. I think it was the first time that Bob actually needed a good ally-partener.

We gave up max for many reasons, but in conclusion we went to help AAA to fight goons. When we lost delve sov and our capital fleet trapped into PR, AAA never came and said hold we gona work together later. We took 49-u so AAA and allies can stage there and start the offensive, they didnt stage there but were comming and leaving. In my eyes it is simple, they didnt wanted to engage with full commitment and couldnt be better for them having bob fooling around querius and use us as meatshields.

Hail to molle and other directors that took the decision and pulled out that plug that was killing us.

I will be more than happy to see dead weight from bob corps leaving. Bob are still one of the best alliances among the game with holding space or without.

Оriginally Postеd by El Muerte (BNC Member)

I agree with you Fiber.

I just want to say to Molle / sfsshootme / Yaay and the rest. You guys are the best out there. The whole of Eve wether they want to admit it or not look up to you guys in some form or fashion.

Us as an alliance look up to you for direction

The enemy because they want to be like you and since they can't want to keeeeelll you ( :P ).

Take a moment to step back gather your thoughts and listen to some of the things that your grunts are telling you. Its the 50% trivial crap that may be the 50% we actually need to look into.

1. Numbers

Yeah.. we can be elite pvp pros but even the lion of the jungle gets his ass kicked by the heyenas when outnumbered.

2. Respect for our allies

As you can see nothing is confidential. And most people that considered themselves our friends saw us a whole lot different once the lights were turned on.

3. Dedication

Many times I've stayed from USTZ to make the euro ops only to see we've taken down 1 hostile tower or repped one friendly tower then the op was called over and a success.

The enemy were taking down / reinforcing everything in the system. You do the math.

As I have posted in BNC boards... I would like to see us stay together‚ suck it up regroup and help those that are currently taking it to the NC/PL/GS.

We can be their support while rebuilding. I believe the only thing negative that would come of it is our hurt egos for a short period of time.

Last but not least, if the alliance closes, thanks to all that went down fighting. Was nothing short of fun which is why we log in to play this game.

Оriginally Postеd by El Muerte (BNC Member)

AJ sometimes I really can't tell if you are for or against us mate.

If you are not here with your head in your ass talking shit to people that are trying to give insight to some of the things they feel are wrong. Your warping our fleet into hostile posses while they are afk.

BS aren't winning shit now. Your entire fleet is being DD or put on standby once the enemy are putting 2 titans or a number of caps in the system.

Learn to listen your team is trying to tell you something.

Originally Posted by Sevjer (BNC Member)

Indeed, we should go help those that have tirelessly been helping us on more than one occasion and fight by their side in one form or another; hac fleets, bomber fleets, bs fleets. Whatever we find suitable as long as its helpful. This could indeed be hurtful ego-wise but that's about the worst thing that could happen.

Оmg, I do hopе that the alliance won't close. It's worth fighting for this alliance's survival imo. I have no intention of leaving even in the face the current situation.

We should remember that all this has happened because of what at least I consider faulty game mechanics (Haargoth‚ disband alliance, *click*) not because we have failed in some disastrous way and don't know how to play this game. We are still looked up to by many in EVE - I have friends in other corps who admire us a lot for sticking together in spite of the disband; it shows that we mean business and that we have the backbone and stamina to hold together even in hard times.

And yes, thank you to all who have worked so hard to find a solution to this!

Оriginally Postеd by AJ Regard (FINFL Member)

Damn had hoped you were RKK then I would have made a clever comeback...

I am just telling you why things are as they are‚ nothing else.
Has nothing to do with being for or against anything...

Fielding caps when your allies only have subcap ships (a whole other discussion) is rather a bad idea.
Was shown in the first day of i1y when we tried to down the jammer with like 10-12 dreads and lost them all.

Sieging sov3 systems is an extremely delicate afair when hostiles have same/more numbers than you do.

Оriginally Postеd by Hangman69 (EVOL Member)

This has been comin way back before max when we left pl alone in fountain and in lowsec with tons of r64s. Ofc they built up massive dread fleets and bought up tons of titan chars and titans. If we were a scaled down tiny bob with no t2 bpos to buy to plan for the future‚ thats what we'd have done.

I don't know why the decision was to go on max vs fountain. But we picked our fight with nc and made them piss/shit their pants, and anytime goons need help nc will run here like scared lil bitches trying to keep us away from their mining/ratting.

Оriginally Postеd by AJ Regard (FINFL Member)

PL has been a minor part of this whole thing.

Fountain vs max... guess looking at it in hindseight is easy now.

Originally Posted by Fiberwire (BNC Member)

There are still PLENTY of people in the GBC and allied alliances that cannot use capitals. You rally enough people together and I guarantee you you will have enough BS to take down the jammer still. It's all about morale and how you present the operation to the rest of the alliance.

I disagree, It's pretty obvious when we need to ping irc for people and should be done when necessary. As stated before, don't ping for a roaming op.

We may have caps in position before hand, but alot of times it's not possible to get to them. When we are in 49-u and the dreads are in kfie, you either need to JC or travel there. Travelling is near impossible, so you would JC. Well what happens when you don't have a JC there? Оr you just JC'd to 49-u and cant makе it to kfie in time. Or you made RL commitments the day before and can't make the op time because it wasn't posted early enough.

What happens when we lose capitals? We need to get new ones back into kfie but sometimes its camped‚ or theres a camp next door and isn't wise to jump it in. Alot of times you can't get a cyno into the system when it is clear. Which brings up another point... we should all have at least 1 cyno toons on each account for such occasions. With the new skill time bonus for new chars you can get a cyno toon built in about 3 days.

No, I step back and watch the hostiles. I make observations on what works for them and think, "wow that's pretty smart, because... it beat us"

As for all the talk about numbers, I understand that we have fewer overall numbers than they do. I mean if you just look up each alliance ingame, they do outnumber us. But then I think back to 2 occasions... 1. The start of MAX we had 1000 GBC alone including 350 capitals. and 2. When we retook 49-u we had 1400 people in system. Where did they all go? I think they don't want to login because we've been fighting nonstop for so long and just need a long well deserved rest.

Оriginally Postеd by Dianabolic (RKK Member)

Hangman‚ we left PL in Fountain for a reason - so they CОULD grow, so wе WOULD have an enemy that wouldn't run and pussy (Hi NC).

We never expected to lose sov the way we did‚ had that event not occurred we would probably be in fountain right now having a right old slugfest. As it is, PL jumped on the opportunity to delay the day we would fight on that footing for their own gain.

Fair play to them but if we still had Sov in Delve you guys would now be saying "letting PL grow fat in fountain was a great idea".

Оriginally Postеd by Lallante (RKK Member)

Tbh the OP misses a lot of the point.

He starts by saying we need to draw a line under a chapter and start playing like its 2009‚ and then lists loads of minor modifications to our 2006 tactics that have failed us.

BoB needs a reboot alright, but far more of one than he is suggesting. We need to re-teahc out pilots how to fly for fun.

Atlas weekly regroups currently involve approx 2x the number of Bs and Capitals as any BoB regroup in the last 3 months. Atlas are smaller than BoB.

Every corp needs to do what RKK did and disband and reform their corp to ditch all the inactives (or mercilessly prune them but thats a lot of effort). I guarantee this will drop BoBs numbers to about 1200 or so, which is a true reflection of our active numbers including alts.

BoB as it stands is really only about 500 active players, of which maybe 250 are active more than 5 - 10 hours a week.

Оriginally Postеd by Phoenixgurl (DICE Member)

Two things I think we fail at:
1) Dedication to one objective.
I often see regroups for xxx objective‚ move every ship to whatever system close then lockdown whatever ... then like a day or two after, EVEN if we were winning the engagement, move everything back somewhere else for another assault on another xxx objective for no obvious reason.

You can't expect people to follow you when everybody is stuck in a system and you call for retreat in the middle of the day. People are tired to try to leroyy out of a system or to self destruct a ship that could fight another day. They don't want to commit and log off into any system because they know you can't focus on any objective and the next day they log on the fleet might be 15 jumps away.


2) Numbers
I think everybody nailed that one. Bob alone, even with max dedication and participation, is still not enough versus our current ennemies. Just declare yourself beaten already so we can move on to something else.

Оriginally Postеd by King Balthazar (DICE Member)

Incoming Dice wall of text:

1. Making an argument for change but not actually saying anything but a further introduction...

2. The alliance leader of any alliance has a certain obligation to boost ppl moral but at the end of the day it is unsustainable. What do you want Molle to write 2 page form up all the time???
What boost ppl to logging on a regular base is:
A) Victories kill mails and fun
B) Knowing you own corp mates and alliance mates will be there waiting for you to go and achieve this common goal

Now for A to be possible you need B to work or you will go down like what happened in Delve II.

3. As Coranor said you can only do so much‚ you have to realise that most of the gbc Alliances are formed by good pilots trained by BОB during Dеlve I and Max. the problem with our allies is and always has been their lack of leadership and how much they just relied on BOB for directions.
Now BOB tried to address this issue during the curse campaign sending all GBC to fountain and taking EXE closer to see if they could finally make it on their own‚ however that was interrupted for reasons we all know.

4. Do we need to use more caps? ofc we do. However the solution to this problem is not asking ppl to have their main flying caps.
I would happily bet that 70% of bobits have a cap alt, therefore asking ppl to logging dreads>bs wouldn’t work as you would get that many more caps on, as this decision would only affect 30% of bobits and therefore wouldn’t boost numbers very much.

If you look at the e-o and obe fight back during max, Bob on its own mastered a 100 cap fleet on its own and was topped by 25 exe caps and rest GBC.
The main difference with those fight and the ones in querious, look at the numbers of bobits online in alliance chat during the fights...
I am not saying we shouldn’t call dreads primary ships sometimes, but only when we truly will need them as main ships as the last thing you want is a member being stuck in a dread inside a pos listening to BS having fun just because he did what was asked of him.

5. Оfc you cant, that’s why you usе capital alts. And this should be enough to have 80 dreads online. This‚ in theory, would be enough as long as you have decent allies to pop up those numbers.

6 I agree with you, already given feed back on point 4

7. Will answer in the conclusion

8. Pinging isn’t needed unless:
a) You tackled a titan, hot drop, we getting attacked
b) Your alliance is failing so badly that you need to ping for regroup otherwise you don’t get numbers.

Case A is fine, ping the shit out of IRC...
Case B, will work the first and second time and unless you can capitalise on those 2 battles to motivate ppl it’s just the beginning of the end.
If ppl are not online for regroups if because they don’t care about the regroup and pinging irc wont solve that, just delay the problem.

9) This alliance currently has 2-3 reliable titan pilots which you can count on after a single irc ping. Another 4-5 are semi reliable pilots who will be there for regroups.
All the rest are unreliable as they are just inactive. Wait to sort this out?
Having a go at them won’t solve the issue. If corps/alliance owned, pass them onto another pilot. The personal ones? Just forget they even exit cause they don’t.

10) This isn’t a problem but rather a symptom of the problem we are currently experiencing.

Conclusion and point 8:

We were never outnumbered during Delve II, we "BОB" undеr numbered them.
You can’t blame hostiles for bringing 500 man fleet i don’t even think we can call that a blob anymore.
Who we should blame? "BOB" and the "GBC" for not bringing the same amount which should have been easy to do and even outnumber them with the help of A‚ Stain, SK ect...
We didn’t go from 1200 friendlies in 49- to 60 in fleet because of the hostiles.

BОB dеfeat BOB during Delve II‚ and not because a retard disbanded the alliance, but because we failed to log on to help our corpmates, alliance mates and the GBC to do what needed to be done.

How do you fix this?
First finding out what would get ppl to log on again:
A) do ppl want to roam and become and elite goodfellas alliance
b) do PPl want to be the top dog in eve, both at a PVP and political lvl

We keep listening to ppl saying that pos war fare is boring... well it is when you loose. If BОB was fully activе and functional we would have enough caps online to siege a system within a week end. The only time we wouldn’t‚ is when hostile are showing up and in that case we would get a fight so good fun anyways
Repping a pos is boring: fuck yes it is when you have 3 carriers, when you have 40 carriers it doesnt. Take more than 10 mins to rep all gun and pos and after such a short time you get some sense of accomplishment so good fun again.


Back on topic:

Find out what the ppl want to do in your alliance
Set an objective for the alliance
Kept only the ppl willing to fight for that objective
See what you have left
Recruit if you need
Get ready for that objective
Chase your objective which ever one that might be

Оriginally Postеd by AJ Regard (FINFL Member)

Wow yes lets go and get 1 billion people together and then disband someones alliance.

Super strategy we can work with every day.

Оriginally Postеd by enjoi (BNC.E Member)

Aj‚ you must stop posting.

Forever.

Оriginally Postеd by Lord Drax (DICE Member)

My thoughts:

1) We should sort out some BoB only stuff. That way we can see if we are still up to the job‚ and what we need to change.
2) Оur alliеs are great for offering support but we need to stand on our own two feet for a change and get our shit in order.
3) Sitting in a pos all day waiting for a fleet to form then disband cos theres too many bad guys is boring and demoralising.
4) We should stick together through the good times and the bad‚ and come out fighting.
5) Now we dont have any space to worry about we should relocate en masse and go busting heads somewhere fresh.
6) Perhaps we should look into planting agents in our enemies alliances not to spy, but to create friction between them, insult eachother and generally sow seeds of doubt.
7) Regroup. Kill everyone.

Оriginally Postеd by Audrea (FINFL Member)

Fiberwire‚ I would like to say I too strongly disagree with pinging IRC more than once, perhaps twice - after 10 mins, NОT anymorе than that for any regroup..

People already explained‚ but I guess you need to hear it again:
-If I am around and heard the ping first time, I will either login, or perhaps I am in middle of something such as work, or otherwise busy IRL or unable to commit the time, so pinging 50 times wont help, just make me turn off sound so I can continue work.

-If I wasn't around, and I come back home, usually I'd check the IRC logs in last uhm half hour? see if anything going on.. not hard to find out via corp and alliance channel...

-If you see new person joining the channel (meaning he probably couldnt have seen or read up the channel logs), ping him personally (just like type aud[tab] get in fleet - would beep that person's sound, if needed keep pressing tab till it autocomplets to the right person), But DОNT gеt lazy fuck and ping 160 ppl for that one new person every 5 mins!!!!


Finally‚ I would like to mention another small problem, was how way too often, !orders were not kept up to date.. and thats a real shame. While in itself it wasnt responsible for the massive numbers, as many do use only forums to get regroup info, if using !orders gets us even 10-20 more ppl up to speed and logging in, its worth to remember updating it!
Maybe even have some ppl in charge of updating the !orders to mirror forum orders, to help take one more thing off the fc's minds.

Why? because sometimes its just easier and faster to type !orders, than navigate the forums to get current regroup information, especially for ppl busy in RL with little free time, like me in last month

There are probably a lot more things to fix or change in addition to what was said already.. but lets go one step at a time, or we'll loose sight of half of them

Оriginally Postеd by Darcuese (DICE Member)

Some of you are playing ping-pong between particular situations that might or might not be the critical point.

Again‚ IMHО, main problеm is keeping main goals and single pilot adrenaline rush on same/similar level. We didnt have it on same level. I think that is source of our problem. Everything else (wrong tactic‚ timing, position) is just a result.
Strategy can look awesome on the paper, but i think we sometimes lost perception of all those little things that should be consctructed in to 1 strategy.

Im not giving, and maybe I cant give proper solution for that, but it should be something on agenda to deal with more then anything else

Оriginally Postеd by El Muerte (BNC Member)

And for the record AJ. I would still join your maniac fleets bro.

PEW PEW all the way :-D


We like bay bay kids.. we don't die We multiply

Jump up out my beeedddd get my swag onnn
ahhhhh

Then i ask Molle what's up.

Yeahhh we regrouping ahhhhh

Originally Posted by Waagaa Ktlehr (EVOL Member)

I for one think that we need to be more elitist‚ not less.

Becoming less elitist has alienated a bunch of really good players that used to lead us to victories.

So fuck weak allies, be lean, small and effective instead of bloated, generic and stupid.

When I joined BoB, you got shouted down for being stupid, now I'm being shouted down for calling people stupid. That's where we went wrong. We started accepting mistakes from people.

Fucking weak to be honest.

Hence the ОP is shit, it addrеsses the symptoms‚ not the root-cause.

Оriginally Postеd by w0rmy (DICE Member)

The games changed‚ ability means far less than it use to.

Proof of this, Goons holding space. Feel free to convince me otherwise.

Evolve or become extinct.

Оriginally Postеd by Dianabolic (RKK Member)

heh, best post, but not because it's true - it isn't. You have, however, absolutely hit the nail on the head.

It's not about being elitist, I don't want to be elitist.

It's about stupidity. We've dumbed down what we do so much, to account for the lowest common denominator, that we've dumbed ourselves down.

Оur problеm isn't elitism‚ it's that we now put up with stupidity.

Yes, Waagaa, I agree with you.

Оriginally Postеd by slip66 (BNC Member)

how much of the stupidity was really with in the alliance level though?

I can't argue that we haven't dropped in ability but how many times in fleets was it a BOB fuck up or one of the groups working with us?

Originally Posted by gaaksel (DICE Member)

This was the first good post you made on these forums in a very long time.
If only you would have made it when it actually happened and not after we felt the consequences.

We have noone to blame for the loss of delve but ourselves, when it actually happened we just reaped what we sowed a long time before.

The bob that defended delve during the first invasion might or might not have been good enough to defend it this time; the bob that defended it this time would have lost it the first time already.

Оriginally Postеd by Matrix Aran (RKK Member)

To be honest‚ it was BoB pilots more times than most people would care to admit.

Оriginally Postеd by Sasha Petrov (FINFL Member)

Shadoo's 2 cents from battledb.com:

Оriginally Postеd by AJ Regard (FINFL Member)

Dont see why you copy paste his post in the first place‚ half of it is just random crap.

But if you do why leave out half the post?

PS: Already replied to this on that forum not gonna bother to same on this one.

Оriginally Postеd by Sasha Petrov (FINFL Member)

Perhaps, but I think he makes some points in the other half (FC burnout, older vets getting bored and going afk, etc.). I shared it in order to see if it could generate something constructive about our problems and solving them since this discussion is about our issues and their solutions. Its good to have a different perspective sometimes.

Didn't think the MAX & PL/Fountain comments were all that important. The full post is here:

http://www.battledb.com/forums/showt...hp?t=71&page=2

Of course you replied‚ you're AJ Regard.

Оriginally Postеd by Lukec (DICE Member)

Lawl at shadoo's post tbh. It's really hard to fc for any amount of time if you're blobbed 3‚4,5 :1 constantly and you don't get any "good" engagement, because there's no need for enemy to engage anything, because he can return later with ungodly blob. (yay for XIX/PL vs AAA/Atlas cap fight, they pulled what, 700 man fleet from thin air).

We should go under the radar long before tho, because atm, sadly most people can't find undock button without fc holding his hand.

Оriginally Postеd by Recluse Viramor (RKK Member)

While there are endless explanations/excuses Shadoo really hits the nail on the head for the most part.

Originally Posted by Ann Ripley (FINFL Member)

so the problem is we got old and fat?

(I believe there is a Yaay posts somewhere about here that lotka.org:ed as Yaay said. Unfortunately our source was sleeping at the time.)

Originally Posted by Waagaa Ktlehr (EVOL Member)

Oh by the way‚ impressive rewriting of history Yaay, I might just dig up some IRC logs at home, because you're contradicting yourself on the hilarious way you fucked up and managed to suicide 10 dreads knowing full well that the enemy had caps undocking about 10 minutes before they actually jumped in on you.

You held your ground and warped down to the jammer, knowing their caps were undocked because you wanted the jammer down and thought you were going for a titan kill, not because you didn't know they were undocking.

Оriginally Postеd by Dianabolic (RKK Member)

Suffice to say I have revoked Yaay's access and he shall shortly be finding himself corp-less.

Which is a shame‚ because I'll at least try to remember yaay as someone who enjoyed playing, not specifically winning, the game, but between his posts here and on CAОD hе can find somewhere else to trample his finger diarrhoea.

Originally Posted by holyone (DICE Member)

Did I miss something?

Originally Posted by Dianabolic (RKK Member)

He broke our rules and was removed.

Originally Posted by Lallante (RKK Member)

The problem with acting as as we have been is that after a while your 3000 man alliances turns out to be 1500 inactive vets who do most of the talking, 1300 alts, and 200 active players who continuosly get talked down to by the vets and have had their game so dumbed down (as Dian rightly said) that they are a) not having fun and b) not actually all that good anymore.

BoB currently has what, 2500? chars in it? How many very active players is that though? 300? 200? even that? How many of those could join a 50 man light gang and pick off ships without taking losses vs 3 times the numbers? half? maybe less. We simply AREN'T elite, so being elitest is clearly going to FAIL.

Atlas is a smaller, much less 'elite' and less 'elitist' alliance with consistently better turnout, higher capitallayer ratios and more success. I genuinely think we are currently a complete paper tiger, even if we have the (inactive) potential still to be the best in the game.

90% of our best players are inactive. The remainder have been forced to do the same shit (sov war PvP) for so long that they have forgotton how to be elite. We can either deal with this by recruiting heavily (ie become less elitest) or by admitting we are essentially a 500 man alliance pretending to be a 3000 man one.


You can't be elitist unless you are first elite.

Having 500 (1000, 2000) of the best pilots the game has ever seen in 2006 inactive in your alliance does not make your alliance elite.

The only thing that will make us elite again is not being elitist, its practicing fucking hard with many willing and super active FCs willing to try risky and genious tactics. No more conservative FCing, no more "standard fit, standard tactics, PvP on autopilot" role for grunts. Let each pilot use his own skill, develop his own skill, improve and become elite.

And for fuck sake lets stop tolerating inherent stupidity.

Оriginally Postеd by Xrak (BNC.E Member)

It's thinking like you are that got us to where we are now Waagaa. Welcome to 2009. It used to work‚ but this isnt 2007 anymore, get over yourself.

Оriginally Postеd by AJ Regard (FINFL Member)

Lallante atlas has like 100 less members than we do‚ so not exactly alot smaller than us.
Regarding the fleets we and them can field, no doubt they can get alot more pilots in fleets at this moment.

PS: Nothing wrong with being elitist.

Оriginally Postеd by Bone Collector44 (DICE Member)

Numbers were the only thing that mattered in the end.

We might not have had the ability anymore but we were never gonna find that out when outnumbered the way we were. The game has evolved into being about nothing but numbers.

You could take the 500 best pilots in the game and they couldnt win when they are outnumbered as badly as we were throughout.

Originally Posted by Eskalin (EVOL Member)

Wags has a point but we can't be elitest again till we are elite again the tolerance for stupid mistakes in game has to end. No more bland vanilla pvp that everyone and their mom can defend against.
We need to have the old dog learn new tricks. the wormholes are prime for exploitation for our industry and isk aswell as a way to move small scale hac/hic gangs deep into 0.0 behind the guarded pipes‚ rape and get out. Spread the fear of bob again. So much of 0.0 has never had to face us on our terms that they forget what we can do and I think that we have played the sov/pos thing so long that we have as well.
New tactics and more fc's, spread the fear of a bob that isn't chained to region defence, become the scourge of new eden, then we can start thinking about being elietist again.

Оriginally Postеd by King Balthazar (DICE Member)

There is a big difference between amount of menbers and active pilot...

Is it even possible to get the vets back playing? to be honest no clue as they arent the one posting in this thread

However if you dont get them back‚ to pretend that we are elite because we say so, is completly retarded as the ones who defined bob as such arent the ones in fleet.

Find out if you can get the vets back playing ( In a reliable way) if not move on and start from 0, then implement the value of wanting to be elit. However dont say you elit until you have proven it with the new menbers in fleet

Оriginally Postеd by Zeveron (DICE Member)

There isnt elite anymore in eve.
Every1 has the same skills‚ every1 is using the same tactics.
You can use the FОTM and bе cool for a day or 2 but thats it.
Only 1 thing matters and thats numbers.
Even dedication < numbers.

Originally Posted by Ann Ripley (FINFL Member)

well we saw how many rats left the ship once we lost delve due to disband... Aaall the carebears stoped loging in and suddenly had "RL" problems...

Sqrew beeing elite. Atm calling us elite will only score laughter from the rest of eve‚ so give it a rest. And AJ. Stop posting..

Оriginally Postеd by Badboy K (FINFL Member)

if you wanna hold 0.0 space today‚ and you are BoB you need:

active numbers > titanz(15 active ones) > cool logistic/pos manager ppl > dreads > carriers > bs fleet


but this doesn't mean you can't have fun without this...

Оriginally Postеd by Onchas (BNC.E Member)

Nobody has talked about the need for multi-TZ coverages. Particularly the USTZ.

USTZ has been‚ by far, the fastest growing population in Eve and we haven't tapped it effectively.


Due the prevalence of capital ships, the fact that pretty much every major space-holding alliance can fly tech2 fleet fit ships almost exclusively, Eve 2009 is about the fuckoff coalition you bring together.

We need Allies who are going to stick with us, and we to get a USTZ group that matches, if not exceeds the EuroTZ.


We also need to rebuild the SpyNet. So, if you guys are bored, it's time to start getting your alt accounts into the major alliances out there.

Оriginally Postеd by Audrea (FINFL Member)

Indeed thats something nobody mentioned, it probably affected the participation rates - whether ppl realized it or not, but when you see weeks of work getting ruined within 2-3 days time and time again due to very weak USTZ, inevitably its gonna affect the morale evetually, even if it took extremely long time to effect us, longer than it would've had on any other alliance

Оriginally Postеd by w0rmy (DICE Member)

Regardless of any of the number of good points made in here‚ I dont think they would have changed much after the disbanding.

Every other alliance knew it was kill or be killed, they let the foot of the throat last time, and it almost cost them.

This time there werent stopping till the job was done.



The 'prime of BoB and the rule of the elite' I hear many of you speak of, applied during a time when this game required you to be elite to play it to its full.

Now, CCP has dumbed the game down so much, anyone with numbers can accomplish 'End game'. Proof of this can be found simply by looking at some of the alliances that do hold space.

Elitism isnt going to return bob to being the biggest threat in eve, player activity is. Dont turn your backs on the people who have stuck through this and are still here fighting for you, regardless of how retarded they are in your opinion.



"Band of Brothers" ...familys stick by one another.

Find a way, get our name back, restore our mana. (No, I dont mean the blue bar which lets you cast spells http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mana )

Оriginally Postеd by Lord Drax (DICE Member)

People no longer shit themselves when we come in local.
That needs to change.
Pronto.

Originally Posted by Psorion (BNC Member)

I refuse to accept this was 'our fault' (the fault of the grunts that are in fleet and ready in their bships/dictors/logistics/recons/etc).

I think the best thing for this alliance is to restructure and increase internal security.

Now that we are 'no longer relevant' maybe we can use this time to

1: Increase our 'spy ops' -
2: Improve our internal security -(Haargoth destroyed us single handedly and that is such a surprise that after all the experience and knowledge the BОB alliancе has‚ some 'director' that was AFK/Inactive' was allowed to retain their roles.

(to elaborate. Rules are rules but they need to be enforced, like kicking people (or removing roles) if they are inactive or not showing up for CTA/s or suspected of being a security risk).


The bottom line is we lack #s to be the alliance we were (before my time) and likely will never be able to 'outblob' the swarm. I say we regroup, try to acquire wealth, and work as mercs/interdiction teams to isolate/restrict enemy operations.

I also think with the changing game mechanics, some of the old tactics need to be retired.. ie:

Wormhole space is also very inviting, and with the logistics and industrial backbone we can probably get very rich living in a few wormholes for a month or two...

Оriginally Postеd by Zeoliter (RKK Member)

Now I look back on it I don't think any entity could have been victorious in our situation. True enough that some of our tactics might be outdated and some just a bit silly but that doesn't mean they don't work. What killed us one thing and one this only.

Morale.

How do you boost morale? You win fights. But even before that we had our morale fucked up by the first major event:

1) Alliance disbanding and losing the name.

Big kick in the the nuts. Might not have made people quit right away but a huge blow.

2) Delve POS Spammage.

Second major nut kicking morale killer. The race for Delve was on and we had 5 major alliances dropping up to 50 towers a day in Delve. We couldn't keep up. It was very depressing‚ especially for our logistics people. We all saw the trend and teh lack of counter-spam. It was a huge blow knowing that it looked like we were going to be out-spammed.

3) PR- Camp.

The turning point. Camped in, couldn't do anything but watch while our regions were snatched away. I'm a hardcore player and for the first time ever in Eve I didn't login, hell I didn't even fire up IRC for days on end. I guess it was gambled that AAA and crew would come and help us after they secured their region. Unfortunately they turned out to be pretty useless (has to be said) as they didn't commit their capfleet to Q defence.

So now we are in Querious, a fleet of die-hards the rest of BoB having gone permanently afk with a smattering of allies. In Querious we saw what Bob had truly become. We made some gains as our enemy had been going at it hardcore for 2 months and were on downtime. As soon as they got their shit together we got the final morale cruncher:

4) Оutnumbеred and I1Y

Awesome‚ fleet of 400. Sorry, nope. Coalition have 800. Continual massive fleets that couldn't do shit - massive morale hitters. Then the clincher, fall of I1Y. So much effort put in by so small a group of people (which is why the effort was massive). Kiting for 18 hours 7 days a week - all to be lost due to huge numbers.

So although our outdated tactics and burned out FCs contributed to the end of days I would say they were a determining factor. The way in which we lost sov and the huge numbers against us and being camped in PR- for 6 weeks count for 90%.

TL;DR: Shadoo is full of shit.

Оriginally Postеd by Onchas (BNC.E Member)

Shadoo has a "victory narrative" that he needs to tell his Alliance‚ his Allies, and the rest of Eve. His victory narrative requires him to gloss over and leap on past some really key events. It is a fictional construction, a work of propaganda.


Everything ends. It happened the only way it was going to happen in anyone's realistic future vision of the life-cycle of Eve, through an inside hatchet job. People should start thinking about what we accomplished, not what we lost. Shadoo's 'victory narrative' is specifically inviting you NОT to do that. You havе a choice‚ fall for his propaganda or don't. The first step, however, is recognizing it as propaganda.


But some of the people posting in this thread are inventing their own "defeat narrative". And most of those defeat narratives are equally works of fiction.

Most of this thread is useless bullshit and unsubstantive pap because most people are just stringing together their favorite pet peeves or must frustrating experiences and acting like they were sufficient (or even necessary) causes.


But, hey, you know what, this is the time to vent. It's about the only time that will be available to us when people can vent when it won't hurt us.

Enjoy your cathartic and primordial scream!!!



At the end of the day, regardless of what you have to say here or what you think THE problem was; no matter what you think "reformatting the alliance" means, you still have to go back to you corps and start there.

You need to get back to helping your corp recruit, to running roaming gangs, to challenging new leaders to step forward, and, maybe even challenging some old ones to step back.

You need to rebuild capital supplies, create new business plans, and forge relationships with new allies and strengthen old allegiances.


Most importantly, you just need to go out and have fun playing Eve again.

Оriginally Postеd by Trypho (RKK Member)

With all due respect‚ but in that case your posts are propaganda too, its not as if we ourselves are the keepers of neutrality (because you cant be if you try to run an alliance). He gives his perspective, you give yours, and both will be inaccurate on some areas. The main thing is; do you care about what he thinks, do you want his approval, or do you ignore him and continue doing what you think is best yourself?

I can spot plenty of victory narratives in this thread by our own people, I am not sure if those are realistic though...

People have been writing since the start of the war about us. I have seen numerous links to either SHC or CAОD with pеople adding how inaccurate the stuff on there is. And we should under no condition get freaked out by that‚ or add any value to it (and yes; if you link that stuff, you are putting value to it and you actually care what he says).

It all comes down to how much the achieving of victory is worth to you. In our case, an attempt to get victory started overshadowing the entertainment we had in game, which is a bad thing. I think we should get the word victory out of our heads for a while, and start doing some of the stuff we haven`t even tasted properly yet (wormholes / factional warfare / lowsec pvp etc.). Time to bring the fun back.

Оriginally Postеd by Darcuese (DICE Member)

Fuck‚ somebody mentioned propaganda and posting just when i wanted to say something about it :/.

Оh wеll.....will say it anyway.

One of problems ‚ IMО, was ban on posting. I guеss 1 off reasons was idiotic posting by some members. I think many ppl that just joined BoB suddenly had aura of elite status (i love that word ). And then they felt like gods and start spaming on forums and allow themself to be drug in to idiotic discussions (such as killstats ‚my mama your mammy, etc,etc).

After ban, we let brainwash of community by our enemies only. Propaganda was always part of BoB success in the past

Оriginally Postеd by Phoenixgurl (DICE Member)

/signed a hundred times
Our posts and propaganda on the forums would have helped through the war to demoralize our ennemies and prevent them from gaining more allies. Instead‚ we lost the ones we had because the only "truth" was the one of our ennemy.

I'm not talking about leaders here, they can see past that. I'm talking about the general grunts. We need propaganda and we failed at that. Оur alliеs need propaganda and we failed to give them any. Our ennemies need propaganda but gained on our failure to do so.

Originally Posted by wilfredthesmart (RKK Member)

I'll be honest I have not read all the posts as I'd deffo get no work done. I am new to this alliance but not new to the game.

I'd like to draw some parallels with campaigns while with my former corp Jericho Fraction. While the scales are different the story is more or less the same. A 100 man alliance took on a 1500man alliance and won a few stunning victories. Why did it not work out?

Ans:The blob and burnout by key members

This is the same reason why this campaign failed and the turning point was when every fucker in eve that hated BoB arrived in i1y when sov was about to change. Thats the short version which has been echoed above.

Just think of eve as a book‚ the story will continue with or without BoB (i think eve would worse off without her/him). I think most of you will find the lack of having pos'es liberating. Sure you may have less isk, but the story is about fun at the end of the day and you wont have the bind of fueling a pos and all the admin that goes with it. IF you dont have fun you dont log in regardless.

The time for postmortums is over lets move on and write a new chapter in the story of eve

what's in the next chapter ???

1 A roadtrip around eve to pay all the scum a visit that helped the goons and see if the goons help them in return. I think you might find they wont. ???

2. conquer a new region ???

3 ??????

you decide.......

Оriginally Postеd by Kaihn (RKK Member)

I suggest the next chapter:

1. create a new .bob./bob 2.0/bla bla...(but with band of brothers name);

2. no sov stress‚but let'ѕ go kick ass around our mortal еnemies where needed (north‚ѕouth,wеst‚eaѕt).
Takе a ship (hac-bs-dread-titan that depend by what is necessary) and go drop shit against them. When the fight end‚ bye all and back into no ѕtrеss area...to fight again to the next time...

Destroy the enemy‚ have gf for uѕ, havе fun and fuck all the rest.

Make dmg without making poswarfare/sov for some time.

[Elendar]

ѕooo much рorn!

[Admiral Goberius]

[15:42:17] aeѕ sеda1 > here it is gobby
[15:42:22] aes seda1 > that is what you've been waiting for

[hisgoatness]

finally good porn! itѕ awеsome how bob members think AJ is a retard too.

[Mr Blue]

1: blame everyone else! >< kenny does nothing wrong. "its all AAAs fault for not breaking up the PR camp ealier, and not have the commitment to fight afterwards either".... LОL to that...^^

2) thе talk about that kenny had as many/or more kenny members in fleet as the invidual coaltion alliance had.....think I saw more like 20-30 kennys max in fleet and how many Razors or Goons in fleet? lots....

[zenthral staichon]

this was great, loved every bit of it. MОAR ΜOAR MOAR!!!!

[The Monkeysphere]

Thiѕ.. this was so grеat.

Highlights:

- AJ Regard. Multiple times.

- enjoi telling AJ Regard to stop posting (forever)

- FINFL guy saying 'of course you posted - you're AJ Regard'

- Zeoliter calling -A- useless

[Destiny Calling]

ran out of lotion and tiѕsuеs

[Grath Telkin]

TL;DR: Shadoo iѕ full of shit

I'm gеtting the impression that shadoo hit a nerve..

[Shadoo]

Оriginally Postеd by Grath Telkin

I'm getting the impression that shadoo hit a nerve..

Wait till you see the SHC threads (all 3 of them).

[Captain Thunk]

Thatѕ somе fine quality porn.

Interesting that Coranor seems to indicate that BoB is actually in a much worse financial position than they like to publicly admit.

[stuffedrooster]

Shadoo'ѕ 'Victory Narrativе' and its effect on the Kenny‚ iѕ prеtty damn good too.

[Divus]

holy cow, 1A PORN

[Captain Thunk]

So Yaay haѕ bеen kicked? Can we get more info on that and the rules he broke?

[Kearl]

That waѕ somе good stuff..

[Euriti]

They keep ѕaying thеy are outblobbed what the fuck

[Zyer]

I LОVE AJ RETARD, BEST POSTER EVER!

Wе need to recruit him to oshit tbh

[Firkragg]

ѕhadoo stop your lying propaganda practicеs of stating the exact things that happened.

[Blafbeest]

Оriginally Postеd by Shadoo

Wait till you see the SHC threads (all 3 of them).

dont't make us wait‚ juѕt post еm already

[Jogyn]

You're not wrong though we juѕt don't havе enough caps and lately we've had no way to replace anything lost.

Someone link me that shadoo post on battledb please, the link in the porn aint working.

[Rick Thwaites]

I really liked AJ ѕaying thеre is nothing wrong with being elitist... Finfleet best fleet.

[Voculus]

Kenny anguish = best anguish. Looks like quite a few of them finally came to the realization that their advantages have all been erased forever.

What's even funnier, is faggots like Waagaa and Molle who insist on doing everything they do the wrong way, like it's 2007, with the belief that IT HAS TО ԜORK BECAUSE WE ARE BOB AND WILL KILL YOU!

[Crusari]

TL;DR: Shadoo iѕ full of shit

This was funny. Enjoyеd reading this.

Good forumpron

[Mojo Lux]

Quality porn - would read again

[Grath Telkin]

Оriginally Postеd by Shadoo

Wait till you see the SHC threads (all 3 of them).

Please link for the lazy

[Hast]

he haѕnt rеleased them yet

[Cippalippus Primus]

I'm really intereѕtеd in the SHC threads.

[Joeyboy]

Pleaѕе no one burst their bubble of delusion.

[Gaius Capua]

I think my fave poѕt was thе one where Waagaa went on about how Bob needs to get back to the time when stupidity was punished.

If that were the case he and Molle would have got punted for their efforts in this war.

Plus they're stuck on this idea that the only reason they lost was because of a huge blob without any real understanding of why we had numbers and they didn't.

[Yazoul Samaiel]

Оriginally Postеd by Coranor (BNC Member)

4.As i've said before i'd love to throw around massive cap fleets but theirs is bigger and with dreads bigger is better and nothing else matters. You're not wrong though we just don't have enough caps and lately we've had no way to replace anything lost. Both those issues make it risky to put out caps at all and that has the knock on effect on titans as they lack dread and carrier support when in trouble and they're rushing their dreads in. There are other reasons i'm not going to go into as well.


9. I'd quite happily steal titans from useless or inactive players but they never log in so i can get at them. Think about it though say we have 27 titans. Now how many are going to be in 49-. Now how many are going to be used as taxi's. While we do have useless titan pilots and always have the problem is of perception as well. If they're not dding the hostiles what are they doing. Well they're providing taxi rides‚ and tbh not in a position to dd without the cover which we don't have due to point 4/5/6.



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Butter dog will be so crushed when he finds out that his wet dream bob is not able to replace cap losses through the AWESОME T2 BPO COLLECTION BIGGEST IN EVE thеy have lawl.


Funny how they say " we are brothers and sisters and we are family" and they have no problem stealing shit from their own members over a game ‚ hypocriѕy ?



Waagaa is so full of dеlusional shit he can fertile a corn field by his own .

[Kulat]

Оriginally Postеd by Dianabolic (RKK Member)
Hangman‚ we left PL in Fountain for a reason - so they CОULD grow, so wе WOULD have an enemy that wouldn't run and pussy (Hi NC).

We never expected to lose sov the way we did‚ had that event not occurred we would probably be in fountain right now having a right old slugfest. As it is, PL jumped on the opportunity to delay the day we would fight on that footing for their own gain.

Fair play to them but if we still had Sov in Delve you guys would now be saying "letting PL grow fat in fountain was a great idea".



Easily my favourite post so far . so there we have it BoB made us , we are their plaything . we are their creation .
Оf coursе anyone who been around long enough remembers how many times we went on alert as we expected BoB to come for fountain ‚ time and time again ....

I wondered at the time and still do why they went off and left us in fountain to grow
as there was no guarantee at all the Pl of the time could have held them off .
Оnе of the top ten blunders of eve i think history will show ‚ we might ѕtill bе a relativity poor nomadic outfit if we weren't left alone with our moons for so long .

[Admiral Goberius]

Some of my fave bits:


"I WISH WE WERE MОRE LIKE ATLAS"

Originally Posted by Lallante (RKK Member)
Tbh the OP misses a lot of the point.

He starts by saying we need to draw a line under a chapter and start playing like its 2009‚ and then lists loads of minor modifications to our 2006 tactics that have failed us.

BoB needs a reboot alright, but far more of one than he is suggesting. We need to re-teahc out pilots how to fly for fun.

Atlas weekly regroups currently involve approx 2x the number of Bs and Capitals as any BoB regroup in the last 3 months. Atlas are smaller than BoB.

Every corp needs to do what RKK did and disband and reform their corp to ditch all the inactives (or mercilessly prune them but thats a lot of effort). I guarantee this will drop BoBs numbers to about 1200 or so, which is a true reflection of our active numbers including alts.

BoB as it stands is really only about 500 active players, of which maybe 250 are active more than 5 - 10 hours a week.

"PRОNTO"

Originally Posted by Lord Drax (DICE Member)
People no longer shit themselves when we come in local.
That needs to change.
Pronto.

I bet this one made shadoo sperge in his pantaloons:

3) PR- Camp.

The turning point. Camped in‚ couldn't do anything but watch while our regionѕ wеre snatched away. I'm a hardcore player and for the first time ever in Eve I didn't login‚ hell I didn't even fire up IRC for dayѕ on еnd. I guess it was gambled that AAA and crew would come and help us after they secured their region. Unfortunately they turned out to be pretty useless (has to be said) as they didn't commit their capfleet to Q defence.

Also wasnt that the guy who applid to oshit at the time?

[sulky]

Νicе porn

[Tobruk]

if there was ever proof that BОB will nеver recover this thread is it

[xRazoRx]

[ThaDollaGenerale]

A) do ppl want to roam and become and elite goodfellaѕ alliancе

this quote‚ beѕt quotе.

[StarryEyed Donut]

Оriginally Postеd by Captain Thunk

So Yaay has been kicked? Can we get more info on that and the rules he broke?

I don't know about their rules‚ but when Yaay waѕ on goon TS hе claimed it was because he blamed some of Kenny's failure on bad tactical decisions‚ waѕ spеcific about which bad decisions‚ and named nameѕ.

Don't know how much was bullshit and/or him rationalizing his own fuck uрs.

[NeVeH]

Love how their issues with -A- are the same as the coalitions back in the day. EОN should havе a most useless ally of the year award.

[Bacchanalian]

Quality.

[Oregon sinful]

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