Bandwagon? You know, I'm seeing some new corps in EON, too. The difference is, LOI is welcoming in corps that are new to PC, offering them districts, helping them to learn the PC game, and generally growing Dust514 as a whole. I also see a lot of corps joining Eon who are already involved in PC and want to farm in safety.

Corps in EON could always leave, so its on leaders of corps in EON to create more competition. Mavado isn't going to say "We spliting the alliance up" no chance and Corp A would say "TPTPTP! let us be on TPs side".

That alliance has gotten very large considering the corp count, who play PC.

Honestly with few exceptions the most talented corps are melting pots of former corps talent. I mean, I think RND, and synergy, and even si (not sure) are exceptions but you either have people like NF who tried to recruit talent from others based on their perceived and established success, or people like radar who amassed talent from friendship/disgruntled players of other corps, or people like TP's who come with a lot of exclusivity and only recruit talent, and then you have inbetweens.

Honestly it'd be nice if the battle academy and npc corps fostered the creation of new friendships that would in turn create new corps, but it doesn't. There's rarely anyone willing to make a new corp with fresh talent cause of the struggles implicit. It's like Hollywood and new ip.

Well it's not like they didn't lose 3 matches. Sure they can complain they didn't have their tankers on but that's a copout. They chose not to search alliance wide for tankers and the strategy they employed ultimately failed. When they adapted I hear it was terribly one sided, but they were going back and forth, winning and losing and appearing even, while kujo lead his best team.

There were very few alliance ringers Loi could have brought in and expected to pick up the slack on the a team kujo built. Just stupid he decided to run away

I was not referring to you, but thanks for the life story.

Yea, OH was kicked out of LOI for many reasons, one of which was trying to start a war with TP before Kujo decided to do the same thing they did anyway, right before he left. What are the odds What The Flux ends up in EON?

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Oh I get it you're talking about a second team as well. Their a team from Hellstorm couldn't have been improved much from the likes of 187 and war ravens. Maybe one I know from Molon Labe. Maybe a few from ie and a few of pro hic but honestly yeah I think they coulda had a 2nd team drawing from 2 players in 187., 5 or so from pro hic, sev and a few choice Molon Labe. Guys, and some extra ie and Hellstorm talent. But honestly, you never got ie to commit. If they did they'd of like asked for districts so they could send more than 100 clones, they'd have brought 13ear, youngcuz, and always fielded the best they could muster. Nyan San was like mia the whole 5 days of war. All these were factors. It was like a half hearted attempt at war. Eon was ready pull in a teams for days and days, Loi had a very good Hellstorm team, the potential for a great ie team, the potential for a strong pro hic team, and an alliance team made from the remaining people not already on previous a teams. The rest hit double timers and hope TP's don't show up.

Well sure NF had a great amount of elite players, but did we know competitive matches would only be 16 vs 16 back then?

I'm sure we were building up to be able to field at least one 24 or 32 player team with only elite players. At one point I think we had the players to field two elite teams of that size. We were not building up to be able to zerg anything at all. We never intended to hold any districts at all, but the mechanics of PC required that.

I guess TP can be viewed as NF 2.0 in some sense. Though from what I can see they're mostly built with 16 vs 16 in my mind and I'm not sure how deep they are beyond that. Since the matches are only 16 vs 16 they don't need to be much deeper than that.

That strategy works in giving One team a good fight as for the others still losses on the board. Lol

0tryhard does not play. Markof22 does not play. I would know. Doug doesn't play. I agreed on the nyan san thing in the prevous post, they never really committed. In substance we're on the same side, they should have brought the best alliance wide, like fiddle said 2 ringers with great slaying ability can bolster a team. We're just distant on knowledge of who's still playing this dying game.

Edit: and when you're talking about a team of 13ear younycuz mark, exmaples, and djinn kujo's...chilled pill wouldn't be bringing more to the table, just trying to fill a broadways shoes and doing a poor job in light of it.

Chilled pill is a great player, but only on the level of a broadway with the great chemistry he has with a mostly pro hic team.

Wow. Ill take your word on it, but it's weird, I totally thought they left for good like markof22 kept saying. Did they win? When was this? During the war? I heard they only played 3 battles in the 5 day skirmish.

Sorry to tell guys but if only A team on each alliance side can play PC we got a real problem, where is the fun or the enjoyment of it for the 99,5% other

War is over for the most part, but there is nothing stopping you from playing 1-3 matches against any of those guys. We might have gotten a little carried away with pro hic.

^lol