Roy Ventus
Axis of Chaos
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Posted - 2014.03.23 14:04:00 -
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Zatara made a bad call...
Excluding the fact that you could've build back up without leaving Tso's,
You're increasing the chances of the Big Bad effect to the point where it WILL happen inevitably. FA, in a lot of people eyes, was the Anti-Blue Donut, the Anti-Eon if you will. People will see the change and a bag of mixed feelings will be had. This wouldn't matter if RND joined or Red Star or any other big corp, but only you. I'm not saying there's a cult following behind FA but rather they were a symbol, a ******* beacon. Some people don't even like you much, like myself, but still favor the Hell out of your corp. "We build this corp in only a few months. Just by bringing the best players together." is what players hear when they think FA. It's what small corporations use as inspiration to build up a force. It's all full circle now; everything's being forced into the cycle. The third war is about to come. The red horseman has saddled and drew his sword, Ares has taken an interest, and rage has begun plaguing the people.
This isn't a plea, but a warning. I hope for FA's sake that it doesn't go to **** thanks to being man-handled into a hole. I still hold FA in some strange honor... I prefer they come out of all of this better than before, on top and with the hindsight to realize that they need not call upon the Big Bad effect and that a Fourth Regional War doesn't need to be approached, and with the foresight to not be put into such a situation again.
"There once was a time when there wasn't a Roy Ventus and it wasn't much of a time at all."
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Roy Ventus
Axis of Chaos
1461
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Posted - 2014.03.23 14:33:00 -
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Patrlck 56 wrote:Roy Ventus wrote:Zatara made a bad call...
Excluding the fact that you could've build back up without leaving Tso's,
You're increasing the chances of the Big Bad effect to the point where it WILL happen inevitably. FA, in a lot of people eyes, was the Anti-Blue Donut, the Anti-Eon if you will. People will see the change and a bag of mixed feelings will be had. This wouldn't matter if RND joined or Red Star or any other big corp, but only you. I'm not saying there's a cult following behind FA but rather they were a symbol, a ******* beacon. Some people don't even like you much, like myself, but still favor the Hell out of your corp. "We build this corp in only a few months. Just by bringing the best players together." is what players hear when they think FA. It's what small corporations use as inspiration to build up a force. It's all full circle now; everything's being forced into the cycle. The third war is about to come. The red horseman has saddled and drew his sword, Ares has taken an interest, and rage has begun plaguing the people.
This isn't a plea, but a warning. I hope for FA's sake that it doesn't go to **** thanks to being man-handled into a hole. I still hold FA in some strange honor... I prefer they come out of all of this better than before, on top and with the hindsight to realize that they need not call upon the Big Bad effect and that a Fourth Regional War doesn't need to be approached, and with the foresight to not be put into such a situation again.
What other choice did they have? FA was overwhelmed with all the opponents they had, couldn't defend their districts, and when RND left, it was pretty much over.  Zatara joined so he could save FA. There are people like Himiko and Knight who didn't like it, but it was for the best of Zatara's corp. edit: Also, a lot of members in FA were recruited from pubs (like TTW3x  ).
Well they could've been kicked out of PC, which is more honorable of course, and then dealt with re-building their forces and making a strategic push onto a planet with the assistance of other corporations with similar goals. I mean, we, small corps, are constantly told that we can "just build up a small collective of players and fight" by every big corp but from your perspective from the inside looking out, it sounds like all of that was BS meta meant to keep corporations from being painted a Big Bad.
I wish I was in-game to talk to you more about this...Hell maybe grab Zatara's ear if he'd allowed it but my RL situations aren't allowing for it right now.
Maybe you are right. Maybe joining was the more logical choice for the current survival of the corporation but I still fully believe FA will be pushed into a war that they should've, at the most, been on the opposite side of. It's why I'm hoping they don't get liquidized after all of this.
And yeah  the fact that a lot of FA's players were recruited from pubs gives them major cred with a lot of corps. To me, Zatara sold FA, publicly, as the "dream" corp, because it's what every small corp tries to become and essentially FA is still a small corp so you can imagine why I'm saying this is such a blow in the grand scheme of things.
"There once was a time when there wasn't a Roy Ventus and it wasn't much of a time at all."
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