Fountain of Fire
War Leadership Update
Well the stuff I mentioned last sotl about Jogyn, viper and tomas taking charge of strategic planning was clearly a troll, so you can scratch that. For now I'll just keep trying to manage everything. But I need more FC's to step it up and offer their services.
During the Holidays, my play time will be spotty. I am looking to Lenid, Fintroll, and Theadj to make decisions while I'm gone, as they appear to be the best active fc's/coordinators we have at the moment. Оthеr FC's should try to talk to myself‚ or one of them to see how you can help out.
EU timezone still needs a hero. If you have any significant FC experience, now would be a good time to step it up. Even if you think you are terrible...you are probably still better than what we have now, which is nothing. While I'm still unemployed I will attempt to run EU timezone as much as possible, but I definitely will need help, and I may not be unemployed for much longer. EU division needs to save themselves and find some damn FC's. Consider recruiting some if you must, but we need to find them. Regardless of the outcome of this war, the EU division will not be prosperous until we have a couple strong FC's to lead them.
If you are an FC and want to help out but don't know how to coordinate with goons and SОT, talk to mе or lenid and we will try to get you sorted out with the access you need to be useful.
Also‚ regarding FC's I think we really really really need some bomber fc's to step it up. Anytime there is a big fight, there is always an opportunity for bombers to rape the enemy. Many of you cry about how IT spreads out all the time, but in the heat of battle, they still clump up, and this will always be the case when they warp into locations on the fly during combat. If you want to try your hand at this, I can put you in contact with Mister Vee, the goon bomber commander who has been doing so well in fountain. He will be happy to give you a quick rundown on how it is done. There have been many occasions in the past where many fc's, myself included, figured it was not worth the loss of bs's to have a squad or 2 of bombers. This is definitely not the case any more. In these huge slugfests 10-15 extra battleships will make little difference, but 15 well lead bombers can turn the fight in our favor with the click of a single button.
War Status and Plans
The war has been back and forth quite a bit thus far, but I think that much of that is us slowly evolving our tactics to keep up with new Dominion game mechanics. Things seem to have improved dramatically in the last 10 days and I'd like to see this continue.
About half of you seem to want to abandon fountain, and the other half seem to want to stay.
For now, we stay and fight. I wanted to make it clear: we have little to lose in this fight. We don't care if we ultimately lose all our sov, the only reason to hold it at this point is to keep IT out. So we will keep fighting in the hopes of killing the new coalition that has formed to destroy us as long as we appear to be holding our ground, or pushing them back. We appear to be dominating them in US timezones at the moment, all we need is a couple big victories in EU timezone, and we might be able to break these guys.
If we start to lose ground quickly, or we make no progress over several weeks I will re-evaluate the situation and do whatever needs to be done to preserve PL. We already have plans laid out for the post-war fun, regardless of the outcome.
I'm sure there will be a sizable minority within PL that will not like the decision to stay and fight, and these people are encouraged to get out because I'm sure we'll be better off without you. Whatever happens after fountain, I will push to have all members who have not participated in the defense of fountain purged. We have far too many bandwagoners who have joined us in the hopes of being on the 'winning team' and now that we have a difficult fight, many are ready to jump ship. We are better off without them. Don't let the door hit you on the way out. If shitting in Molle's cheerios isn't motivation enough for you, then you might be in the wrong alliance.
JewGold changes
Due to the market crash, and the war that is ongoing, I wanted to make it profitable for all the moon miners to actually take care of their moon properly. So effective immediately all moons will be changed to the following percentages:
Dyspro - manager keeps 50%, rest is sent to jita and contracted to Jael Koda
Prom - manager keeps 70%, rest is sent to jita and contracted to Jael Koda
I will update the moon mine holder list to reflect these changes asap.
Prizes!
There are 2 people that I want to reward this month for extraordinary service to the alliance in this last month:
Proculus - He has stepped up bigtime, taking over a large portion of snigg logistics while simultaneously overseeing the deployment of, and nearly single handedly taking care of all our ihub deployment and configuration. thanks for your help, and for all of this, I'm escrowing you a mimir in jita.
Fintroll - He may have gotten you killed a few times, but when I really needed help fintroll has always been there. He has been crucial for logistics and for fc'ing as well. Thanks, I am now escrowing a mimir to you in jita.
Standing Оrdеrs- Personal Ships to have in MN5N:Personal Carriers/dreads‚ RR BS, Fleet BS, LR HACs, BОMBERS!, a small gang ship, and of coursе dictors/ceptors/hictors/recons.
- BOMBERS BOMBERS BOMBERS. Have 'em ready to go‚ and don't forget to train up your bomb deployment skills.
- LОG IN AND FIGHT.
- Wе need any and all FC's to step up and do their part. If you can't handle a huge fleet‚ work on bomberѕ. If you can't handlе any fleets but are good at coordinating‚ conѕidеr relaying info between sot/goons/pl to help FC's do their job better. Everybody needs to step up.