Tien TheSecond
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Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2012.09.22 21:32:00 -
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I listened to it, and it's pretty accurate. The way EVE players organize vs. the way your average FPS player organizes is different. In looking at clans, and the tools they use to organize, I find that they are much less streamlined and polished then your average alliance. Also looking at the major EVE players vs, major FPS players, the podcast hits the nail on the head: I bet that you can name more MLG players then you can EVE directors, CEO's, or even out of game tool devs.
At this point in the beta, none of that is a big deal. Next build will see clans become corps, with many of these clans falling flat and learning some very rough lessons. Director roles, logistics, comms, intel, propaganda, industry...man the list goes on and on. I've heard people brag about their connections to people, places, and things in EVE without ever having set foot in my world, having never played eve on the scale that I have, but let me tell an anecdote.
I subbed to EVE under the buddy program because of my fascination with the player run economy. I went from a 20M to being able to plex in my first week and joined an industrial corp in the forge. I log in at the end of my first week and BLAM, some HR idiot didnt do a background check properly. A proteus griefer proceeded to pop every and all unsuspecting pilots in the corp, repeatedly. Worse? he wouldn't dock, taking advantage of the fact that a pilot in space couldn't be kicked from corp, leaving us all stuck with this guy for 24 hrs before we could drop corp. It's the nature of the game.
Knowing EVE like I do, from a highsec pubbie to a nullsec grunt who's spacerich, I can tell you this: you're barking up the wrong tree if you think you are going to take over New Eden from DUST. You've been infiltrated, probably at the officer level, and every plan you have, everything you've said and done, has already been noted by any number of organizations within EVE. Once the NDA drops on DUST, dont be surprised to see chat logs and forum dumps on blogs and forums. If you want to make waves in this game, you better come correct and with a poker face.
That being said, I see some clans making baby steps towards building great things, and applaud everyone who has taken the initiative to start transitioning from clan to corp. Basic services are provided by many of these clans, and dialogues have begun with power blocks. History is being made here. Perhaps competition, not animosity and contempt, will move us all forward. |