This post was inspired by the silence over my last post about searching an alliance. Every time I wrote something on the topic, I got 20-50 publishable comments and countless (100+) trolls. Yesterday I'm not sure I moderated a single troll (offtopic an blue pill spam is different) yet you can see zero comment on the most critical point: the declaration of goals of alliances. Or rather, their lack of it.
Forget about me today! Let's talk about Jack. Jack has no blog, doesn't want to change anything in the real World observing MMOs. He doesn't even want to change anything in EVE, he doesn't aspire to be the new Mittani or Helicity or even the "hero of the 15 minutes of eve24". He just wants to have fun with a game. He saw the videos and had a "whoa" moment over EVE. Yes, spaceships, blasters, that's more fun than swords and orcs.
Jack started EVE and did like everyone coming without an external community: career agent missions, random training in the first months, L1, L2, L3, L4, peeking into lowsec, getting some kills and more losses, having fun with spaceships on his own. But now he start to get bored and misses what he saw on the videos: the large fleet battles. For this reason, he is now looking for an alliance. He doesn't have problem with doctrines or being Drake#231, doesn't want to be a pain-in-the-ass, ready to do what the FC says. He is online often, has reasonable knowledge about fitting and ready to read anything the leadership mandates him.
He opens up the alliance list and gets overwhelmed. So many of them! And they are so similar! I mean, after checking out a dozen pages he finds the same panels "we want to provide fun, social environment and spaceship pew-pew for our members, we demand activity, loyalty, basic game knowledge and no-drama".
It seems Jack would fit to any nullsec corp except for those who demand external group membership. All of them offers him flying in null with other pilots and none of them offers him anything more or special. How shall he decide who to join? X and Y are maybe at war. Shall he choose between them by flipping a coin? Please help Jack! Tell him why the alliance you are in is the right choice for him. Tell him why are you special, why are you a better group than your enemies.
Please spare him from the "cus we'll win" because you can't see the future. You might win, you might not. If I wrote a month ago that Nulli would be an FW corp doing the same as Fweddit, -A- ran away without a fight and TEST would be twice the size of GSF, I'd get more laughter than my 6-link titans. You can't guarantee victory.
Nor can you say "we are more fun to talk to", because that's a lie. You don't have more sense of humor or have better stories (or any other RL qualities) than the rest of the players. The only exception if your alliance recruits directly on RL group memberships, like GSF can honestly claim that Jack easily find partners to grief randoms or a corp that demands you to submit your PHD documentation can claim that he'll find more intelligent discussions. Feel free to inform Jack (and me, and the readers) if your alliance has such screening method.
Please also spare him from the "it's a game lol" comments. He knows that. He doesn't expect answers like "Our group collects money for curing cancer", though clearly welcomes and considers them. He actually expects game-goals like "we want to win the next Alliance tournament" or "we want to destroy Goons" or "we want to be the largest alliance" or "we want to have the most systems" or even "we want to have the highest number/ISK of kills in 2013". If your alliance has such game goals, please share, Jack is eager to contribute to some competitive goal. He is a good player.
So, dear readers, help Jack find a Nullsec alliance, recruit him to your own alliance! If you don't want Jack in, please write why. Remember, poor Jack has nothing to do with me. That guy is poor and does missions for ISK.
Back to me: I'm sure you are bored with my soap-opera "Gevlon seeking place in null". Please understand that I don't want to jump in the first opportunity, I want to join a place where I can stay for long and it can only happen if I understand what can I expect from them and what will they expect from me.
Thursday morning report: 108.5B I Liquidated about 1/3 of my item list because I want to spend much less time with trading. Also, I want to limit my assets in trading materials to 70-90B, keeping the rest in cash for nullsec purposes. (2B spent on main accounts, 1.3 spent on Logi/Carrier, 1.0 on Ragnarok, 1.0 on Rorqual, 0.9 on Nyx, 1.3 on Avatar, 2.6B received as gift).
Forget about me today! Let's talk about Jack. Jack has no blog, doesn't want to change anything in the real World observing MMOs. He doesn't even want to change anything in EVE, he doesn't aspire to be the new Mittani or Helicity or even the "hero of the 15 minutes of eve24". He just wants to have fun with a game. He saw the videos and had a "whoa" moment over EVE. Yes, spaceships, blasters, that's more fun than swords and orcs.
Jack started EVE and did like everyone coming without an external community: career agent missions, random training in the first months, L1, L2, L3, L4, peeking into lowsec, getting some kills and more losses, having fun with spaceships on his own. But now he start to get bored and misses what he saw on the videos: the large fleet battles. For this reason, he is now looking for an alliance. He doesn't have problem with doctrines or being Drake#231, doesn't want to be a pain-in-the-ass, ready to do what the FC says. He is online often, has reasonable knowledge about fitting and ready to read anything the leadership mandates him.
He opens up the alliance list and gets overwhelmed. So many of them! And they are so similar! I mean, after checking out a dozen pages he finds the same panels "we want to provide fun, social environment and spaceship pew-pew for our members, we demand activity, loyalty, basic game knowledge and no-drama".
It seems Jack would fit to any nullsec corp except for those who demand external group membership. All of them offers him flying in null with other pilots and none of them offers him anything more or special. How shall he decide who to join? X and Y are maybe at war. Shall he choose between them by flipping a coin? Please help Jack! Tell him why the alliance you are in is the right choice for him. Tell him why are you special, why are you a better group than your enemies.
Please spare him from the "cus we'll win" because you can't see the future. You might win, you might not. If I wrote a month ago that Nulli would be an FW corp doing the same as Fweddit, -A- ran away without a fight and TEST would be twice the size of GSF, I'd get more laughter than my 6-link titans. You can't guarantee victory.
Nor can you say "we are more fun to talk to", because that's a lie. You don't have more sense of humor or have better stories (or any other RL qualities) than the rest of the players. The only exception if your alliance recruits directly on RL group memberships, like GSF can honestly claim that Jack easily find partners to grief randoms or a corp that demands you to submit your PHD documentation can claim that he'll find more intelligent discussions. Feel free to inform Jack (and me, and the readers) if your alliance has such screening method.
Please also spare him from the "it's a game lol" comments. He knows that. He doesn't expect answers like "Our group collects money for curing cancer", though clearly welcomes and considers them. He actually expects game-goals like "we want to win the next Alliance tournament" or "we want to destroy Goons" or "we want to be the largest alliance" or "we want to have the most systems" or even "we want to have the highest number/ISK of kills in 2013". If your alliance has such game goals, please share, Jack is eager to contribute to some competitive goal. He is a good player.
So, dear readers, help Jack find a Nullsec alliance, recruit him to your own alliance! If you don't want Jack in, please write why. Remember, poor Jack has nothing to do with me. That guy is poor and does missions for ISK.
Back to me: I'm sure you are bored with my soap-opera "Gevlon seeking place in null". Please understand that I don't want to jump in the first opportunity, I want to join a place where I can stay for long and it can only happen if I understand what can I expect from them and what will they expect from me.
Thursday morning report: 108.5B I Liquidated about 1/3 of my item list because I want to spend much less time with trading. Also, I want to limit my assets in trading materials to 70-90B, keeping the rest in cash for nullsec purposes. (2B spent on main accounts, 1.3 spent on Logi/Carrier, 1.0 on Ragnarok, 1.0 on Rorqual, 0.9 on Nyx, 1.3 on Avatar, 2.6B received as gift).
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