During the FEC war AE had too much PC and not enough people. We were barely scraping by with our tourney matches.

A little while later we had just the right amount of people to field into our PCs and began to do well

Now we have too many people and very little PC. It's hard to find a unlocked district these days, and the ones that are, the owner would probably just no show.

Literally our only income of PC is from newberry corps attacking us at random. We originally had no interest in policing PFC, but now we gots nothin' better to do.

I think the tough part for me is the (perhaps incorrect) idea that any corp I join outside of those big ones will not be attacking AE on a regular basis, which is exactly what I want. I want the best, most tough matches. It's tough for me to reconcile the idea that you want PC and to help build up a corp, along with the realization that most likely you're going to be stomping corps so badly while simultaneously aware that if you were facing better talent it would be way more fun and competitive.

I want the challenge so badly I refuse to consider playing for a corp that (in the limited timeframe I plan to continue playing) will not be able to become competitive at the highest level, nor do they wish to try (with the commitment it engenders).

Now if Pradox or Valor Coalition said "hey bro, we're not quite on AE's level, but OH is gonna be having some fun battles in the future, and I spoke with Radar and he's fine having you ring because we're in an alliance an all..." Then that'd be a huge deal.

Actually I joined up because I like playing with people that know what they're doing, and playing against people that know what they're doing. If I didn't want a challenge I would be joining a low tier corp playing against low tier corps.

AE was made for competitive matches. Kujo only took in PC ready players that can compete at the highest level because our main opponent was TP. I find it hard to believe you really think after fighting our way to become the "top dog" we would all figure it was time to disband and evenly distribute among all of the other corps in the game. I made friends here and I'm not joining another corp because there isn't anyone left for us to fight.

What you don't seem to understand is that players like to play with other players that are on their skill level. It causes friction and frustration when an experienced player see's a less experienced player make what seems to them very simple mistakes that cost them significantly. I've seen it happen too many times.

One of the worst idea's that seem like a good recruitment scheme is a filter corp. Let me ask you, why was the Operatives of the Goat disbanded and in its place became Molon Labe, which was no longer the A team of PRO? Why did they separate? lol I don't actually know if that's relevant I'm still curious about what happened.

Anyway, you are right about that first sentence though. There aren't enough good players for many competitive corps like AE to exist.