Vlad Rostok
SAM-MIK
General Tso's Alliance
105
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Posted - 2015.02.02 02:51:00 -
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Well, I was a little disappointed that the question I gave you seems to have gotten lost on your desk (about how the addition of SAM-MIK's A team helped ML - and to what degree - in the month after FF2014 during ERA's attempt to re-establish in MH).
None-the-less, the camera shy ML director D Pizzle was fairly instrumental in leading that exodus from SAM-MIK to ML and put an end to our meager PC attempts of the day. FF2014 really put a dent in our activity, but when the majority of our active members went to ML, our corp pretty much died Dust-side. We are still in Tso's, but only because of an EVE presence.
Back to the interview, I was disappointed to not see more seasoned and vocal ML veterans like Thor or Leadfoot on the panel. (Although maybe that's why they weren't there......)
I think that if you are going to ask "calendar" related questions, you should make some notes from evemaps or something so you have the answers ready and can prompt when necessary. It appears that most players have a pretty short memory of historical events, especially when they're engaged in heavy PC battles daily. Truthfully, though, I'm starting to find that re-hashing of "events leading to now" to be a little underwhelming, largely because no two versions match.
Regardless of whether or not there were audio or rendering issues, the pace of this recording did not lend itself to easy listening.
It might take the surprise element away, but perhaps you should consider providing your list of questions to the folks ahead of time? You can always hold back a handful of "gotcha" questions to fill in as opportunity permits.
A final comment would be a suggestion to leave your corp loyalty at the door during these pieces. You need to become Silverwind the objective interviewer and stay away from being Silverwind the guy from Cap Acq asking a few questions (and getting a bit defensive is someone says something about your corp). |
Vlad Rostok
SAM-MIK
General Tso's Alliance
105
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Posted - 2015.02.03 00:28:00 -
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Leadfoot10 wrote:
Answers to my questions.
Thanks Leadfoot. I appreciate your candor.
I was unaware, prior to this interview, that umc had mostly merged into ML at about the same time. Is that corp pretty much gone now as well?
Anyways, glad to hear our guys were able to successfully bolster your PC teams. Hopefully they found what they were looking for.
I have another question for you: ML continues to actively recruit (at least with periodic bumps of the recruiting thread in the recruitment section) and evemaps shows total membership to be in the 670 range. Are those players active? How many of those are actively participating in PC?
I know you don't have stringent requirements for joining (have a MIC, don't be a jacka$$) so I imagine you have a lot of not-ready-for-PC players. Still, I'm curious about that.
With the PC regimen, it almost seems like you'd want to have an "A" team for every district you hold. Unless, of course, you hire mercs from outside your corp. Or, I suppose, use alliance members too.
Anyways, thanks again. Appreciate it.
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