Fireside Chat Transcript 22 Aug 2k20

into this.
Make sure we don't have an op going out.
Okay cool.
So things are going pretty well overall.
I'm really happy with the things that we've been seeing in the war so far.
As we know, the way that defensive wars work is you are losing the defensive war until
you win.
We are going to continue to shed keep stars.
We're going to continue to shed space.
But as you have seen from KVN, we have devised effective doctrines and we are having a hell
of a lot more fun on keep star defense than we were when we were on keep star offense
against these same nerds.
One of the things that I would expect to see is probably, I don't know if it's going to
be 10%, right?
But I would expect to see a pretty significant reduction, maybe a full 10% in terms of the
hostile numbers on the field on post KVN keep star fights.
As you guys know, our overall strategy is to drag this whole thing into the mud and
make them realize that this is going to take them a very long time.
Our enemies have essentially underestimated how difficult keep star offense is.
And it took me a long time to try to figure this out.
I didn't really understand this until just, I think, the explosion of tears after KVN.
Sure, a lot of these puppies have never dealt with CCP blowing up a server out from under
you.
A lot of us vets have dealt with this over and over and over again over the years.
So we're kind of used to it.
But it was strange yesterday after the KVN win because the sheer explosion of puppy tears
was a little bit more than I had expected.
Like the amount of crying that we saw yesterday is probably more puppy tears than I have seen
since Giga X got banned.
And that was a few years ago.
But like the last real tantrum level, screaming to the heavens, crying, rending their hair
level of bullshit and tears, it was kind of surprising to me.
And I'm happy for it.
I'll take it.
But it made me wonder.
I don't understand what's going on in our enemy's head.
It makes me worried.
So I was like, why?
Why is this?
Why are they crying so much?
And something kind of clicked.
So we finally lost the ITAC-C faction Fortizar today.
You might not know that we had a faction Fortizar in ITAC-C, but we did.
And that is where Horde is staging.
Panfam is staging in ITAC-C. It's a system in Fountain.
This is a faction Fortizar that has been in their staging system since they moved there.
And by all rights, it should have been gone a long ass time ago.
And one of the things that was strange to me once they started grinding on our Citadels
and we would send XTDZ over there just himself to gun a Fountain Citadel on his own, is that
in many cases we would kill them just with a Citadel gunner and then they would back
off and then these things would keep repairing because they couldn't seem to understand how
to attack our Citadels.
And then after the KVN thing, the amount of tears that came from that, it finally clicked
in my head last night.
What's going on here is that these guys are so confident of victory because they have
never really attacked Keepstars on offense against a block level defense.
So in our case, most of the time we've had Keepstar fighting experience, we're the ones
on offense and they're the ones on defense.
And we are just now discovering, and one of the reasons why we're having so much fun with
this thing, is holy shit, Keepstars are a force multiplier.
Like oh my god, defense on a Keepstar is so much fun.
I'm inclined in a praxis and they're accusing our praxis of destroying the servers and all
the shit and whatever.
But basically the force multiplier aspect of a Keepstar is significant and these guys,
their lived experience in past campaigns fighting us has been them sitting on the Keepstars,
us attacking them.
And so when they planned this whole thing, they planned it around the idea that the Keepstar
fights would be kind of like their experience I guess, but maybe they would win more.
They didn't really think it would be so much more different in terms of effort to attack
a Keepstar versus defending it.
Now if any of you have been on our past campaigns where we have blown up their Keepstars and
you have also been on one of these Keepstar defense ops, you know it's a completely different
world.
Like it's night and day.
Like the tether thing is amazing, the PDS thing is a doomsday.
Like holy shit, fighting on Keepstars is awesome.
And the interesting thing, and I want you guys to know this because I intend for us
to drop more Keepstars and to lose more Keepstars and to have more of these fights, is they
cost about 175 billion isk.
So it's about the price of reimbursing two titans, right?
Two fitted titans, not unfit titans.
So it's about 175 for a Keepstar and then we get those three timers and the armor layer
is fucking hilarious.
Our enemies have convinced themselves that offense is just as difficult, actually now
they realize that offense is a hell of a lot harder.
And they've also convinced themselves that we are broke and that we are going to give
up when we start taking losses or something.
And I think the reason why the screaming is so intense is because their expectations and
their assumptions of how this is going to be are finally getting to be into the reality.
As you guys know, in the casino war, when it was clear that CCB was not going to ban
the casinos that was funneling trillions of isk to our enemies, we said, okay, we're going
to preserve our assets, we're going to retreat and we're going to say, fuck you, you're not
going to get our super cap fleet while you have infinite isk.
Now these motherfuckers do not have cheated casino money.
So maybe they're expecting us to like pull everything up and go away.
And now they're running into the reality.
I was watching spy reports showing chat logs of them talking about how they're noticing
our numbers are going up on these Keepstar defenses because they're so much fun.
And that is a big concern for them.
Their numbers are going down, our numbers are going up and we're not broke and we're
not going to just randomly give up and roll over because they don't have cheated isk.
We're going to fucking make these people suffer for every single step that they take.
They deserve it.
One of the things that's really funny to me is on the shows and all these things and in
diplomatic conversations of people who are the principles amongst the enemy, they like
to talk about how, oh, well, you know, nobody is really, nobody really is doing this to
try to get rid of goons from forever.
Nobody really thinks that, you know, we're going to eradicate you guys.
But if you were fighting on these keeps the last two days in local, you've seen they,
their line members genuinely believe that there is going to be like an eradication of
the Imperium and goons farm and that if they win this war, we're just going to quit.
And then it'll be like rainbows and sunshine and Kumbaya.
And the fact that we are fighting and the fact that it is not easy for them is really
giving them some trouble.
So we're going to keep doing that.
All right.
So I need, so we had a big win yesterday.
Dave Archer is really in touch with the Welp gods, though I've never seen such a direct
acceptance of a sacrifice to the Welp gods of a jacked off fleet out of position, get
smart bond and the Welp gods smiled upon us and the server went away.
I used to make jokes about the Welp gods, but I think over many years of EVE Online,
I have come to establish almost like a superstition or a genuine, like kind of half pagan belief
in the Welp gods.
And after watching Dave Archer sacrifices, Jack Dawes and the Welp gods smile upon us,
I will fucking take it.
So he is blessed by the Welp gods and he is a hero to our people.
So thank you, Dave Archer.
But for some reason, the puppies were blaming the praxis, which is, you know, whatever praxis
of evil I'm down.
I just think the whole thing yesterday was hilarious.
We were probably going to lose that time or we were probably going to have them like.
And again, I want you guys to expect this.
Keepstars are there for us to provoke fights like that.
We're basically putting 175 billion isk on the table and we get to have these fights
where we get to have a fucking turkey shoot and use all these cool, wacky doctrines that
we would normally not be able to do.
Looking back on our past campaigns against our enemy, it really gets you thinking about
the lost opportunities that they had to develop keepstar specific defense doctrines because
they didn't do anything other than like blob up their faction titans and then dock them
on keepstar defenses.
We're like not even really able to use our capitals and we're doing keepstar defenses
and fucking fountain.
And lo and behold, we're having a grand old time.
So yeah, you know, I think they would have reinforced into armor and then eventually
they might have all blow it up.
But the point is that they suffer in 10 percent tie dye getting smart bombed and aimed on
by cackling goons who are having a grand old time and high fiving each other.
And while they're sitting there impotently and local talking about how we're bad people
and how we're totally going to quit the game because they don't like us.
Actually, this is a little off topic, but one of my favorite things from local yesterday
was there is this fucking guy who was basically and I've seen it.
I've seen this argument a couple of times, but their line members are basically like
everybody in Eve hates you.
And so you should feel bad and quit.
And like if these people fucking hate us, you know, to me, that's just a good start.
You can judge a person by the quality of their enemies.
And I am proud to have these people as enemies because they fucking suck.
All right, so let me get back on topic here.
So let's talk about cash fights.
As you guys have been in these fights.
No, we have a new method of fighting, and that is because of our heroes in G ship who
are procurement organization, which we didn't have two weeks ago and it already made a huge
difference.
Strategically speaking, that means that we have prearranged catches of ships in all of
these key stars that we're fighting on.
And you guys, if you've been on these ops, know the score now, and I want you to understand
that this is the new normal.
So if you have any complaints or any concerns, if you're like, gee, are we really going to
be doing this?
Do I need to do this?
This is how we are going to roll is in areas where they try to keep us away from the fight.
We're going to tell you get in a taxi scepter.
So I want you guys to have taxi scepters ready to rock and one DQ one such that you see a
ping that we're going to go from point A to point B.
The bad guys cannot stop us when we're using taxi scepters.
You do not need a ship.
You just get your fucking taxi scepter, go to where we are.
Heroes and G ship have created a cash for you.
And then we will just give you ships for you can buy them off contract, depending on the
circumstances of the cash.
Right.
So we are developing the capacity.
We like the first fight that we had using a cash.
It was like just fair oxes and a few other things.
Now it's like a fucking toy box of random shit.
And what's so hilarious to me about it is the enemy doesn't know what we have in these
fucking hangers.
Right.
They have no idea because we haven't told people in advance.
Hey, come down here.
Like, you know, we're going to hand you blah, blah, blah.
Right.
So there's a lot of cool aspects of that.
That's how we were able to basically the rock doctor and out of a hat.
The super train thing was, you know, normally speaking, when you introduce a new doctor
and you have to tell everybody in advance, you have to have doctor, this, you got to
do that.
But using the G ship system, we are able to surprise the foe with doctrines that they
do not anticipate.
And we are able to make sure that our guys have supplies.
So we are still working out some kinks in this, but it is a huge, huge, huge aspect
of our strategy.
And we love it.
It's a lot of fun.
I can tell you guys are having fun because I was handing out fucking practices yesterday
and those were brought in by these dudes.
So, yeah, the system fucking works.
Get used to it.
All right.
So what else we got?
I want to talk about the G ship thing a little bit more, not just telling people to get used
to the taxi sector thing.
But we have had a bunch of corporations that have reached out a muck dot in particular
and muck dot and KMW have been helping a lot with the guys in G ship.
Like these corporations have reached out and said, look, we have a huge stockpile of minerals.
We have a huge stockpile of like dictors.
We have a huge stockpile of whatever.
How can we help the Alliance?
And if you are in a scenario where you would normally be like exporting your minerals or
something to Gita and you can't easily do that because there's a war and also we don't
want to fund our enemies.
We are building lots of things because we have the money and fuck puppies and we're
going to do it.
So if you are interested in doing that, please get in touch with them.
If you have like a big stockpile and you want to like help the cause, then we have a use
for you.
And obviously we always need more Ospreys.
We can't allow an Osprey gap.
And I would, I think point of contact for that is probably Atrium.
We are working again, like this is a system that didn't exist like not two weeks ago.
So like it's rapidly developing and it's pretty fucking cool.
Like the fact that we have the ability to like point at any given system or Fortizar
and like have whatever doctrine ships we need there extremely rapidly is huge.
Okay.
A few other things.
I have a note here to discourage General Goons from seeding G-ship cash doctrine stuff and
1DQ on it just leads to member confusion, bad prices, bad fits, et cetera.
I need to hammer home the idea that the whole process is interceptor to location, get ship,
not buy ship in advance.
That's absolutely the case.
So like in the case of excellent, somebody got bingo in the case of like our Ferox doctrine,
right?
Like when we're using cash fighting ships, they will be fit for keep star stuff, which
is different than our normal doctrines.
Right.
So that's a, that's a really good point.
I'm glad that you brought that up.
We are, we're a question here in chat is a hope super trains got seated for the next
fights.
I love the Ferox, but I want to try out the train.
Yes, we are.
Obviously it's really funny.
There is such a, a run on rail guns in general, both medium and large in the game right now
because everybody is using rocks or Ferox is or whatever for these grind fests.
So we are working on the rocks.
We are planned the enemies Ravens.
Yes, we have the same plan that we did yesterday, which was to shoot the fucking thing or super
trains.
Alrighty.
I have a lot to go through here.
Sorry.
It's a, it's been a, a really big week for us and I'm really happy with things.
So I want to give him a shout out here.
This is a bit of a tangent, but it's an important tangent.
So as you guys have seen in local, like they'll, the enemy leaders will say things on like
crying and stations or whatever, but from their line, you know, listen to what people
tell you.
If in local, they're like, you're going to quit the game and goons are going to quit
the game because magic and rainbows.
And if we blew up some goon or they will just roll over and vanish and then life will be
free because there won't be a goon swarm anymore.
You know, these, these puppies actually believe it.
One of the things that's interesting is, is that in many cases they have bought into
this Kumbaya idea of like a post-war post coalition Eve where people who have never
cracked a history book or studied psychology or sociology think that a bunch of fucking
barbarians attacking an empire is going to make the empire go away.
As we know, what actually happens is that when you are outnumbered three to one by the
worst posters in the history of Eve collectively coming at you, it results in more coordination
in more centralization in more focus and usually makes an empire grow.
And I'm delighted to give a shout out to French connection who are now formally members of
the Imperium at the start of this war.
They were accused of being members of the Imperium because some random fucking puppy
like coalition map said that French connection was part of the Imperium or Imperium associates
and they weren't in many cases, like they shot us and we shot them.
But because of these fucking puppy idiots, accusing, you know, thinking that they're
going to get rid of the Imperium, they have added another full member to the Imperium
because looking at the sweep of foes, anybody with half a brain doesn't want to be on the
same fucking side of Villy and pickles.
Like who wants to be friends with these fucking people?
So welcome French connection.
We appreciate you joining the Imperium and also fuck you to all of the idiot enemies
that are listening to this that think that all of you banding together to attack us would
result in the Imperium getting smaller or breaking it up because when you all attack
an empire with a barbarian horde, you fucking inept, like just read a fucking book.
Look at any example of history.
They would know that they are creating their worst nightmare by attacking us in this way
because we are far more of an Imperium now than we were before the start of this war.
All right.
So what else we got?
So we should talk about other things that will make our enemies unhappy.
Oh, I want you guys to know now we had a big win yesterday and it was a lot of fun.
And so I'm going to I'm going to tell you guys the real talk.
We're going to set some expectations about losses because there's never been a better
time to talk about bad stuff right after a bunch of good stuff has happened, which is
tomorrow.
There is going to be a huge hostile super form up.
They are going to move all of their supers from FAT to presumably a key star that they're
going to drop.
Maybe in North Quarius.
I'm not really sure where, but they have set up a chain of 11 key stars to try to move
their entire super forces from FAT the long way around to come in through North Quarius.
And the reason why they're doing this is that they need 11 key stars and 150,000 puppies
because they are too afraid to jump into 49 pack instead of taking one jump through one
gate into 49 where we keep murdering them.
They are going to spend tomorrow schlepping the long way around in an op that we hope
will become a new trail of tears.
And we have some plans for that.
So please do be around tomorrow.
They're going to start moving around 1600 and we would like to do, you know, we're creative
people.
We'll see what we can come up with.
But the intention is that you will see thousands of Titans and thousands of super carriers
moving this thing and you will feel fear and you will give up because they believe that
if they simply wave a big super fleet around on a move up that you will suddenly stop getting
a taste for hazing nerds as they try to attack our keep stars.
So we're going to do something during that.
But I do want to point out to people that we're planning on fighting on these keep stars.
We will fight on these keep stars.
It's hilarious and a lot of fun.
But you know, there are things are going to get tougher like defensive wars.
They get harder before you win.
There's going to be a big blob.
They are going to finally bring the fight close to us, which means many things.
One, we're going to fuck with them to a lot of you.
You know, we haven't really had a chance to we've used our supers like we've dropped our supers
on a pretty regular basis on legacy fleets when they're like in our space and stuff.
But these guys have been like taking so long to get through fountain and they're too weak
and stupid to jump through 49 that they dropped 11 keep stars and went the long way around
after dropping two keep stars in FAT.
Originally, they thought they wanted to go through 49, but I guess they just didn't really have the balls.
So we are going to lose I hubs, right?
Like we're going to start like things are going to start blowing up.
They're going to start waving their Titans around.
What I want you guys to do is be ready to use dreads.
Be ready to use our supers.
Be ready to use our Titans.
We need to bleed them.
We need to reduce their numbers and we're going to have opportunities that are close to home.
Now that we're finally going to get a crack to go out after some of these fuckers superfleets.
And so here's the thing.
We were concerned about using our supers offensively against them away from Delve precisely because test had this really big dread bomb that they moved to hop hip after the resistance nerf.
Everybody knows that Titans and supers are at much greater risk to dread bombs.
Well, I know that and I don't know why he did this, but he's now run his mouth in public about it enough.
I can openly talk about it, but like Billy has really bought into boat stroll from crying in stations the other day and Billy has convinced himself that we have no money.
We are doing just fine on Alliance finances, and if they want to believe that we're broke, that's great.
But what I want you guys to know is, is that we're going to have opportunities here to start dropping dreads on these Titans as these Titans try to chew on our keep stars.
And we're going to do something really mean, and I want you guys to be down for it.
We're going to fight this thing for as long as goons are willing to have ships handed to them and kill puppies with them.
And this is this is a good stuff.
So you got a big coalition.
I'm not sure whether I'm going to do it by dice roll because we pick a particular target.
It will actually make it a less effective deterrent.
But what I want to do is when they actually put their assets on the field against us is I'm going to like make it like a table of the names of the alliances that are there, and I'm going to roll a die.
And then we're going to basically maybe we'll pick depending on who we think will suffer the most.
Maybe it'll be a die roll, but we're going to start priming by Alliance.
Now, this is going to be for like the dread bombs and for the super fights.
Our FCs are going to start doing this to where they can, but it's not always going to be a certain thing.
We want to win the fights when we're taking sub cap fights.
And so we can't always primary by Alliance.
But when it comes to them actually putting their heavy assets on the field, a lot of these motherfuckers we can point to, like if we wanted to take out, like, you know, let's say let's say there's a BR five style fight or let's say that they have a buffet of puppy super caps around the field before us.
And we get to choose who we drop our dreads on.
Maybe we roll the dice and comes up brave.
Maybe we roll the dice and comes up Voltron.
Maybe we are not Voltron.
That's their little click.
There is no technically Voltron Alliance.
My bad.
You know what I mean?
Requiem Eternal.
I guess there's an Alliance called like vindictive dot that I even know existed until some motherfucker opened his mouth and local yesterday.
Whatever.
Evictus, Horde, whatever.
The point is, is that we are going to focus the suffering and the fights.
We instead of just distributing the suffering because all these guys think that they can bring their shit against us and that they will get out free because they're following behind Panthem.
They have all these random trash alliances and legacy.
And now that the rubber is hitting the road and they're moving all their fleets up and bubble Bob is we are going to even in a BR five scenario.
We get to choose to destroy at least like let's say there was a beer five and let's say that we were on the losing side.
We're more competent than the enemy.
But even in a losing scenario, you can essentially ruin the super fleet of many of these medium to small size alliances because we just have and we can.
We've got more stuff.
We can just do that.
Even if we're going to lose some of these fights, we can completely take off the table.
Some of these smaller alliances.
And I think that's going to be a lot of fun.
We want to so fear fear is our ally in this because the more miserable the enemy pilots are, the less fun that they have, the less of them will turn up.
We are 100% invest in this war because it's our home and our people and our tribe.
Well, a lot of these random ass puppies just showed up thinking it was going to be easy and it is on us to make them show to make them know that attacking the Imperium is not something that is done lightly and that they will pay a very high price for every inch that they get.
And I think that's going to be a lot of fun.
I think that the screams that are coming from us primering by alliance be excellent.
Oh, and incidentally, for sub cap stuff, I'm just going to say this out loud so everybody can get on the same page.
I think that now for now, I want us to start in sub cap fights.
We're going to primary when we can.
It doesn't again like don't tell the FCS about this because they're going to shoot who they need to shoot to win the sub cap fights.
But after the whole thing, you know, where now our Sammy sent that broadcast explaining in great detail how terrible it is for brave newbies to have to deal with the extra runs because they're high cyclic just sticks so much.
I don't know if you all saw that.
It's pretty funny.
If you haven't, I'd like somebody in a lease him to link it.
This is all caps paying that got us to go to my Arja and flip it for the trigs and cut Empire in half.
We're going to start bringing some pain to brave newbies.
So if you are in an opportunity to do that, if you want to go do some harassment hacking, I think that brave newbies is currently the weak link in the legacy coalition.
At first, we were doing a lot of these things to test, but test has actually been getting hazed by like the Russian basically for years.
And they're just sort of used to getting shit on by everybody.
Brave newbies hasn't really suffered and they are very, very active in FAT.
So if you have a chance to shoot somebody randomly in terms of subcap priority for now, let's focus on brief.
All right, let's see.
No, Sammy, you get like punished or like, here's something about how we got banned.
And I can't tell her they got banned for either where they got like told to sit down and shut up by the brave guys.
It's really confusing because they're they are like a very high drama culture over there.
Yeah, bar ghost has linked it here.
Evangeline Dyson says you've talked about new exotic and fun keep star defense mechanisms.
We haven't seen those yet.
Do only keeps and delve have those?
Dude, I don't know if you've been on the fights where we've been using completely new doctrines to defend keep stars every single fight or not.
But maybe you should check that out.
We're coming up with basically every single fight.
We do something new.
Sometimes it's an iteration.
We will try a new doctrine out and then we'll go, oh, shit, this didn't work.
Let's tweak this and tweak that.
But our entire keep star defense mechanism is something that didn't exist weeks ago.
All right.
Does the hostile keep starting to really, really impact our logistics or was it just a brain fart?
So here's what they've done.
They've dropped like 11 keep stars to be able to do a move up tomorrow to move their super cap fleet from F.
E.T. to bring it the long way around because they don't want to jump in 49 because we'll kill them and they're afraid of us, even though they have 150,000 puppies.
They're afraid of us.
And they at the same time, even though they're afraid to jump in 49, they believe that if they bring their supers around and maybe they'll drop a new keep star and put it down in various somewhere to attack us or something that we will break and fold and go home.
I am delighted for them to bring their supers into our parlor and start using them on our keep stars.
We will fight them on our keep stars.
We will probably lose some I hubs because they're a lot less defensible than keep stars.
But I also just don't give a shit.
I am happy to spend 175 billion to get three long, hilarious fights for us that are miserable for the bad guys for every single keep star we have.
Let me check my notes.
All right, let's see what we got.
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How bad did Nyarja hurt for them?
It's going to be hard to see the exact impact of that over the next few days.
It mainly is a thing for Brave.
I think it will add pressure to test logistics,
but it's kind of hard to tell exactly how much is going to fuck them.
We do know that it is a huge issue for Brave specifically,
and that's one of the reasons why we're going to fuck with them a little bit more.
Is it true that some legacy groups have cut SP?
It's possible. I haven't actually checked.
I don't know.
What areas should we focus on when hunting in Toastmasters?
I would expect Quarius to be a hot zone.
I think that the pubbies are going to be coming through North Quarius, or trying to,
so I would expect to push there.
How are the metastorms going to change our defenses?
I don't know because they don't exist yet.
When it comes to CCB implementing things,
usually speaking we won't go, "Oh my god, we're totally going to do this, that, or that,"
or "We need to plan for it,"
because usually they end up changing things at the last minute.
They got released a couple days ago.
They're not near us right now.
The closest one is Pravi, so it might go out of catch.
We could get here in a long time, but yeah.
There might be one in Cloud Reign too.
Either way, they're not near us,
so we don't have to play Space Weathermen for a month or two.
Let me check some more here.
Do we feel manipulated for having to keep our force covering 49 now that they're destined?
Not really, no. It wasn't a manipulation.
They were just pussies.
They put down two fucking Keepstars and FAT,
and they moved all their supers there.
Little history rewind here.
This war officially started on July 5th, eve time.
In that time, in what? It's been like seven weeks now or whatever,
they moved their supers to FAT,
and they did nothing with them because they didn't want to take one gate.
Now, in order to avoid taking one gate,
they put down, I don't know, 10, 15, 20 Keepstars, whatever it is.
We kept getting reports of a Keepstar chain in LowSec,
and it kept growing and growing.
We knew why they were putting these Keepstars down,
because the idea was it was going to be this long schlep,
and they wanted to use them in North Polaris,
and they were afraid to take one gate.
So they put down a bunch of fucking Keepstars,
mostly flagged with FRT, though I heard today one of them was in Panamecord.
Presumably, they're going to drop more. I don't really know.
But the whole idea is that they're doing this
because they don't want to take that one gate into 49.
The reason why they don't want to do that is because we posted up,
ready to defend it, and they decided that even though they had
103 alliances and 150,000 fucking puppies,
that they did not want to make that one jump.
So I don't feel manipulated by us gearing up to defend 49.
If you're going to defend Delve, this is what you have to do.
The fact that TKAG became one of the flashpoint areas,
the fact that we still have stuff in Fountain,
the fact that we have Quarius at all at this point,
when we talk about floodplains and stuff, that's legit.
We have areas that we think we can defend
and areas that we can only do a fighting withdrawal on.
And the fact that some of these areas we still have,
and it's like we're seven weeks into this,
is I think a testament to the fact that we're doing pretty good.
The only way you can handle 150,000 puppies
and 103 alliances is to just drive this thing into a ditch
and slow it down. We've been doing a pretty good job about that.
Do I expect any desertion amongst the hostiles in the short term?
Not desertion. I don't think you're going to see alliances
announcing that they're leaving the war.
What you will see, and what we've already been seeing
with the Keepstar fights, the way that you chip away
their participation isn't to get their alliances
to announce that they're leaving or something.
It's to make it shitty for the line members.
They expect a fun time, and our job is to fight, fight, fight,
and have fun ourselves on all these Keepstars,
such that less of them turn up. And you're already seeing that.
After KVN, I think you're going to see even less.
When they started running through Keepstars and Fountain,
they had many more numbers, and we started learning
how to defend them using our cache doctrine,
and we're doing a much better job all the way around.
Our defense numbers are going up, their numbers are going down.
You don't have to get whoever it is that's in charge
of Requiem Eternal or whatever to announce
that they're withdrawing from the war.
All you have to do is get the 20 pilots that were coming,
the 20 pilots from that random-ass Legacy Alliance
that were turning up to the war, to go, "Wait a second.
I don't really want to have my balls in a grinder
getting shat on by goons nonstop for five hours
in heavy tie-dye. I'm going to go back to Faithfulness and Ratt,"
or whatever, wherever they live.
So that's basically how you go through
and you grind through their participation.
"Do we have plans to fuck with the Keepstar chain?"
That would be a future plans question.
And if you didn't have future plans in your bingo, now you do.
"How alpha-friendly is the cache fleet system?"
It's pretty--I don't know about alpha-clone-friendly,
but I think that we have Ospreys and Vigils and shit there, too.
So there are some newbie-friendly ships there.
Looking at some of these questions here,
I haven't had a chance to do the normal--
and we had a meeting day at the normal time, too,
the last couple of weeks, and we've had several days
of meetings, Fireside, Metashow day,
and I'm realizing that I've run long
because it's nice to actually be able to do this
and answer questions and talk about campaign expectation.
But I probably need to only take a couple more
and then set up for the Metashow.
"How would I gauge the general mood of the pad group now
versus three weeks ago?"
That's a very good question.
I would say that they are losing their confidence
from a leadership perspective.
I would say that some of them are grasping at straws.
We still have to contradict some of their assumptions.
So one of their biggest assumptions
will be tested tomorrow.
They're going to form up all these supers,
they're going to come through,
they might drop a Keepstar in our space
and then bang a bunch of pots and pans,
at which point we'll probably tell them,
"You know where our Keepstars are.
Come hit us on our Keepstars, motherfuckers.
Please, please, please, please put your Titans
on a grid with our Keepstars so we can drop Dreads on them
and delete by alliance."
That is the dream.
They're going to announce that we're out of money
and that we're withdrawing everything
because they moved a big super fleet.
So as they have their assumptions
about how easy it is to grind through Keepstars,
how easy it is to take things from us,
how easy it is to scare us away,
we're contradicting those assumptions.
They are losing morale.
They are clearly not making the progress
that they thought that they would.
They are clearly not having fun.
I mean, you guys saw the screams yesterday as well as I did,
and they didn't make them hard to see
because they howled to the high heavens.
They didn't make them crash.
That was a primal scream of frustration
about the fact that they are not having
the time that they thought they would
and that we are not rolling over
like they were convinced that they would.
They keep talking about how we should be
splitting up from initiative and also,
shout out to the fucking initiative.
In case you guys haven't noticed,
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