Posted - 2008.01.08 11:14:00 - [3]

 

Edited by: Hardin on 08/01/2008 21:20:06


Stain Empire - Indifferent. Don't really know much about them apart from fact they never seem to die and have very capable PvPers.
Sylph Alliance - Good. CVA friends and like Paxton have been improving their PvP skills and abilities over the past year. Bright future.
Tau Ceti Federation (TCF) - Good. One of the more apparently stable Coalition members. Seem to generally have good control over their members and substantail Cap fleet.
The Reckoning - Indifferent. Not in my sphere of knowledge
Triumvirate (TRI) - Indifferent. Certainly not a paper tiger. Huge sniper fleets and impressive cap fleets make them a force to be feared but internal growth pains seem to be affecting them now and recent setbacks may mean they are no longer the alliance of choice for high SP players. Only time will tell!
Ultima Ration - Indifferent. I think they are a RA pet alliance but dont know much about them
United Legion - Indifferent. Another Coalition alliance. Lots of pilots but not always terribly skilled. Now control a lot of space which could look ripe in a post-BoB world (if that happens).
Venom Alliance - Indifferent. Not in my sphere of knowledge

Posted - 2008.01.08 11:33:00 - [5]

 

Edited by: Hastrabull on 08/01/2008 11:47:28
Biased towards anti bob propaganda. Trying to be objective but hiding typical propaganda style between the lines.

/me wears flamesuit, take popcorn and beer and looks how this topic will evolve :)

btw, 1st page woohoo! :)

about what i think about different entities... just few of them that i have an opinion:

Against All Authorities (AAA)
good fighters - will survive another year prolly

Atrum Tempas Foedus (ATF)
just simple pets - allowed to live in 0.0 space. when any organized medium sized force will come to them, they will die. No leaders, no FC's

Band of Brothers (BoB)
Makes eve interesting - 3 years ago my worst enemy. Now my closest friend because most of the players i have played some time ago are now in BOB or blue to bob. Good old guys, best crew in EVE currently (from POV)

Curatores Veritatis Alliance (CVA)
Oldest alliance still holding its space afaik. good guys but they just got to deep into themselfs.

Ev0ke
good fighters. shame they accepted going into PB and shame they got into big politics. This will kill them.

Firmus Ixion (FIX)
Good old alliance, good guys, good friends. Shame they are loosing some integrity. I hope FIX will get together and rebuild what they were (still many good pilots there).

Goonswarm
Bunch of kids with emotional problems. Worst entity EVE could ever had. They will probably survive 2008 (unfortunately)

Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate (IAC)
the same as AAA. Good fighters, but additionally they need aid from bigger brothers or they will die.

KIA Alliance
Great alliance, great guys. Shame they are red one. Together with other old members they could clean up EVE from all the dirt/junk that came to the game.

Mercenary Coalition (MC)
The same as KIA. You guys could start thinking again, do not follow ideas of non thinking guys.

Morsus Mihi
Good fighters. nothing else i can say now.

Razor Alliance
NAP fest lovers and poor fighters. Alliance not worth joining afaik.

Red Alliance (RA)
Once great alliance, now they lost all of my respect. Maybe someone will wake up there someday... or not? :)

Tau Ceti Federation (TCF)
Poor FC'ing but huge heart. if i remember correctly, huge cap fleet.

Posted - 2008.01.08 11:40:00 - [7]

 

Edited by: Avon on 08/01/2008 11:40:06
Be more fun to do a prospects post on the alliances you have created Hardin!

Posted - 2008.01.08 11:45:00 - [9]

 

Against All Authorities (AAA) - against all (non-russian) authority
Band of Brothers (BoB) - at least they arnt goons...
Blackout - guys who used to pvp?
Brutally Clever Empire - brutally stupid empire.
Chaos Incarnate (CI) - drone regions are still ****.
Curatores Veritatis Alliance (CVA) - you go girls...
Dark Matter Coalition - how on earth are you still alive?
Destiny - tri pets?
Ethereal Dawn - alts 'r' us
Ev0ke - everyone seems to think they are good...
FANG Alliance - renters
Firmus Ixion (FIX) - lol not in 2008 your not ;p
Goonswarm - pubbies pubbies pubbies
Hydra Alliance - so much forum drama over nothing...
Imperial Republic of the North (IRON) - hi guys.
Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate (IAC) - tyraxx is my favourite officer spawn
Intrepid Crossing - hot dropping caps is bad mmm'kay
Ka-Tet - ra-ka-tet
KIA Alliance - wannabe mc
Knights of the Southerncross - so ****
Kraftwerk - i dunno
Mercenary Coalition (MC) - oh your neutral now?
Morsus Mihi - you dont know latin... i know latin... you dont.
Mostly Harmless - ****ing worst pos droppers ever... try and find a dysprosium moon... anywhere... i bet you these ****ers have already found it.
Red Alliance (RA) - something about ebay and inflation
Roadkill - you will brake for me!
Rule of Three - 5000 dollars later - SPACE!
Smash Alliance - havnt seen a peoke thread in 5 days! get to work on it.
Tau Ceti Federation (TCF) - french?
The Reckoning - cap hot droppers mk 2. now available with frege sauce!
Triumvirate (TRI) - past its prime... but still one of the best
Ultima Ratio - scared ra pets
United Legion - same

Posted - 2008.01.08 11:59:00 - [11]

 

Edited by: WowZilla on 08/01/2008 12:05:18
Commenting on only those on my radar. 2nd half of 2008 will be a year of returning to stablity and standing reset with agreements all round (esp for south) of 'POS NAPS' even though much pew pew to be expected between current blue alliances. I expect very few to lose space to hostile activities, after all the victors enjoy the spoils of war and whats currently left is mostly coalition forces anyway.

Against All Authorities (AAA) - Good. Strong Cap fleet and the leadership to go with it. Looking for more targets, neighbours beware!

Band of Brothers (BoB) - Bad. But now have forum hardeners set to max and I doubt they will dissolve. Expect them to lose all space, distill down and remove non (so called) l33t players.

Curatores Veritatis Alliance (CVA) - Good. Much respect for their continued development in providence. Only wish they were red to me as they are fun.

Dark Matter Coalition - Good. Whilst RA are still alive these guys will be safe and expand their super Cap ship production.

Destiny - Bad. Would probably fall if someone decided to take their space and allies did not intervene.

Ev0ke - Good. Tortuga will be secured.

Firmus Ixion (FIX) - Bad / Dead. Used to have respect, but now seriously need a reality check. Avernus will still say they are alive when he is the last man standing. They will dissolve.

Goonswarm - Good(ish) Expect the swarm to go from strength to strength in the first half of the year. When GBC is defeated I expect these guys to start setting up their own factions, possibly based around their squad system. Will remain on friendly terms but still probably shoot each other for fun.

Hydra Alliance - Good. Chilling in p3, learn to nano guys!

Imperial Republic of the North (IRON) - Good. Good core of guys leading. Will stick together.

Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate (IAC) - Good. Getting better all the time. But getting serious and losing that Drunkswarm image? will be interesting to see who ends up living in Querious. Expect to have friendly falling out with AAA and much pew pew.

KIA Alliance - Good. IF eddz can keep em together. Will depend on a stable tortuga, these guys need a home to RTB after contracts.

Knights of the Southerncross - BAD. I doubt they would lose space, but they are going to be the whipping boys when the south has a standings reset.

Mercenary Coalition (MC) - Good. As hardin said nice to see MC finally assert its independence. Initial rough ride will see them secure PB.

Morsus Mihi - Good. Have a common bond.

Outbreak - Good. Awesome pilots, scary cap fleet. Dont need a home like the rest of tortuga but as long as they keep themsleves busy and away from politics they'll be good. Only issue may be inclusion of more ex bob / fix pilots possibly causing internal strife.

Paxton Federation - Good. Steadily growing in stature and respect.

Pure - Unsure. Possible SMASHKILL pact should RA decide to have some fun with them. But i'm not really clued up on Vale/geminate/drone action tbh.

Razor Alliance - Good. Solid and motivated.

Red Alliance (RA) - Good. No danger of collapse, will probably look to secure borders and improve buffers.

Smash/Roadkill - See pure.

Stain Empire - Good. NPC land innit? pew pew galore.

Sylph Alliance - Good. See paxton federation.

Tau Ceti Federation (TCF) - Good. Highly motivated, may look to carve out a different part of 0.0 for a new home.

The Reckoning - Unsure. May get bored.

Triumvirate (TRI) - Good BUT may split up. Learnt alot from southern campaign, mainly about themselves, expect many bandwagoners to leave. Have a good core of guys. Most defintely not the new BOB. They're better.

Ultima Ration - Good. Uncle Ivan will look after them.

United Legion - Bad. Like KOS, probably for the chopping block once the southern standing reset occurs, other coalition alliances queuing up to shoot these guys. Will have to keep sweet with RA to survive.

Posted - 2008.01.08 12:15:00 - [13]

 

Posted - 2008.01.08 12:49:00 - [15]

 

Edited by: Gneeznow on 08/01/2008 12:50:13
Against All Authorities (AAA) - they love to blow stuff up, which is good

Band of Brothers (BoB) - Internet enemies! Coranor ftl

Brutally Clever Empire - they always fight, straight outta syndicate! fought them a good few times and it was fun, and i died a lot in the process

Curatores Veritatis Alliance (CVA) - very tough alliance, had some great skirmishes with them in providence, also great fun for the roleplay arguments in local

Firmus Ixion (FIX) - only real interaction i've had with FIX is listen to their forum warriors followed by sieging their pos's and then docking in their stations, not actually fought them.

Goonswarm - Dungar came from Goons so they cant be that good :(((

Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate (IAC) - tyrrax loses lots of expensive ships with style

Mercenary Coalition (MC) - more internet enemies!

Morsus Mihi - shot some of us while blue which we didnt like one bit -_o

Razor Alliance - very underrated, very dangerous and great allies.

Red Alliance (RA) - will ambush you with an empty bottle of vodka

Roadkill - >_<
Smash Alliance - see above

Sons of Tangra - in fountain somewhere killing people

Stain Empire - probably the most dangerous people i've ever fought in eve, made our lives in stain very unpleasant, highly underrated, extremely dangerous, I still remember what they did to my first muninn :(

Tau Ceti Federation (TCF) - Good allies, I've seen them do nasty stuff to unwanted people in their space.

Triumvirate (TRI) - I dont like tri tbh, they smack a lot in local, some talented leadership but generally unimpressive.

United Legion - these guys punch way above their weight.

Posted - 2008.01.08 13:15:00 - [17]

 

Against All Authorities (AAA) - for their size, very talented in all aspects of PVP. Will go from strength to strength.
Atrum Tempas Foedus (ATF) - Slowly growing to become what I know they can be, will be good US tz allies of TRI.
Band of Brothers (BoB) - Having the time of their PVP lives :P
Blackout - Another STK alliance :s
Brutally Clever Empire - Grown massively, wonder if they will push for space.
Chaos Incarnate (CI) - Think they'll continue on in the drone regions
Curatores Veritatis Alliance (CVA) - They own space that no-one wants, and don't fight unless their space is challenged. Ergo, will remain as they are.
Dark Matter Coalition - Think that the drone regions will eventually kick them out
Destiny - Heh.
Enuma Elish - No idea sorry
Ethereal Dawn - Ditto
Ev0ke - Talented bunch of guys, fit perfectly together with 0utbreak.
FANG Alliance - No idea sorry
Firmus Ixion (FIX) - Think this year could finally be their end
Goonswarm - Will continue from strength to strength, can't wait until they kill smash :P
Hydra Alliance - again, space that no-one wants, will continue on as they are.
Imperial Republic of the North (IRON) - Well who knows. Nothing like what they used to be, leadership inactive/left. Now with the merger who knows. Continue bearing it up in the drone regions?
Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate (IAC) - Expansion into Querious?
Intrepid Crossing - No idea sorry
Ka-Tet - Drone regions again, their conflicts don't really interest me
KIA Alliance - Caught a break with being allowed into the MC/0utbreak/Evoke "alliance". How long it will last, who knows. They certainly seem to be the weakest of the 4 entities
Knights of the Southerncross - Repelling people all year
Kraftwerk - Will continue as they are
Mercenary Coalition (MC) - Will be interesting to see what happens once all is done and dusted with -A- et al.
Morsus Mihi - I look forward to future skirmishes :P
Mostly Harmless - Perfectly content in the drone regions
Paxton Federation - Help CVA a lot, a good ally for them.
Phoenix Allianz - No idea
Pure - Wonder if the northern napfest will ever break
Rare Faction - Branch with insurgency, will see what happens there
Razor Alliance - Definately under-rated. Some great PVPers.
Red Alliance (RA) - moar caps? :P
Roadkill - The good half of the smashkill relationship. Would love to see civil war between the two.
Rule of Three - Still alive? :/
Scalar Federation - No idea sorry
Sempertirnus - Ditto
Smash Alliance - The bad half of the smashkill relationship. Will peoke cause the internal breakup? It's been close once recently
Sons of Tangra - No idea sorry
Stain Empire - Talented small scale pvpers, why would they ever want to leave stain :P
Sylph Alliance - Good CVA allies.
Tau Ceti Federation (TCF) - Titan BPO bought, will continue on with RSF
The Reckoning - Cloud Ring, urgh
Triumvirate (TRI) - Reshaping to fix the problems caused by growth and space holding. Hopefully a smaller, slicker alliance will be the end product. Need to sort out sounding like tards on the forums (probably not helping :D)
Ultima Ration - No idea sorry
United Legion - Ditto
Venom Alliance - Ditto

Posted - 2008.01.08 13:30:00 - [19]

 

These are MY opinions and therefore mean very very little and of course are biased as hell. Deleted the ones i dont know much about

Band of Brothers (BoB) - Bad, would like to see them fall for my own reasons
Goonswarm - Good, i like the goonies
Pure - Met one of their members, he seemed cool so therefore Good
Stain Empire - Xenobytes scare the hell out of me and are always attacking us :P they've got a certain style so i'd say neutral. Make the game more interesting definately
Tau Ceti Federation (TCF) - good, i like these guys
United Legion - We're allies so i'd have to say Good, but i have my reasons for not liking them.
Venom Alliance - ubar!

Posted - 2008.01.08 13:55:00 - [21]

 

Against All Authorities (AAA)- From what i gather a good PvP alliance in all forms.
Atrum Tempas Foedus (ATF) - Definitely starting to spread their wings.
Band of Brothers (BoB) - Start of the war I was dissapointed, now its nice to see BoB doing so well, where would be the fun if they were crushed?
Blackout - Dont know
Brutally Clever Empire - I hear they feel no fear!
Chaos Incarnate (CI) - Dont know
Curatores Veritatis Alliance (CVA) - The small core of CVA are decent, but they definitely do need their friends to survive. They play a good defence game, but not sure what their offensive would be like.
Dark Matter Coalition - They live in drone regions... dont know much else
Destiny - Residents
Enuma Elish - Dont know
Ethereal Dawn - Dont know
Ev0ke - ♥ for some of my german friends!
FANG Alliance - Dont know
Firmus Ixion (FIX) - They seemed to last a long time, but i think its finally over for them. GG.
Goonswarm - mmmmm some decent leadership, some not so decent members.
Hydra Alliance - FLA of the drone regions
Imperial Republic of the North (IRON) - Dont know much about their current circumstances other than they merged with invictus and hold a large chunk of drone regions.
Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate (IAC) - Give some good fights!
Intrepid Crossing - Dont know
Ka-Tet - Friends with Red Alliance? Drone regions.
KIA Alliance - Part of Tortuga, dont know what their position is or how strong they actually are.
Knights of the Southerncross - Repelling enemies since birth.
Kraftwerk - Dont know
Mercenary Coalition (MC) - I would have loved to have seen these guys stick with BoB till the end, though i can probably understand why they didn't. Good alliance!
Morsus Mihi - Intelligent leadership, they definitely show their true colours when theyre theyre playing defensively.
Mostly Harmless - TRUST etc. seem pretty content where they are.
Paxton Federation - Good allies to CVA, not afraid to fight.
Phoenix Allianz - Live in Branch...
Pure - Haven't heard much about them in a while.
Rare Faction - A small alliance in branch.
Razor Alliance - A decent alliance
Red Alliance (RA) - Crazy Russians, alot of caps and iskies.
Smashkill - Peoke's arrogance is overwhelming. But some of their members have their heads screwed on.
Rule of Three - Dont know what they're up too atm.
Scalar Federation - Have some moons in Pure blind, wouldn't really call them space holders.
Sempertirnus - Dont know
Sons of Tangra - Dont Know
Stain Empire - Dont know
Sylph Alliance - Friends of CVA also willing to fight at the drop of a hat.
Tau Ceti Federation (TCF) - Part of the coalition against BoB
The Reckoning - A small but powerful alliance, I hear good things.
Triumvirate (TRI) - Paper tiger, over rated, falling apart internally and some idiot called Darknesss is in there.
Ultima Ration - Dont know
United Legion - Dont know
Venom Alliance - Dont Know

Posted - 2008.01.08 14:49:00 - [23]

 

Jut observing most people seem to be predicting that those currently on the up will remain going up and those going down will remain travelling down in that direction.

I'm a noob and quite frankly you have to be in or work really close with an alliance or know people in it to know what the future holds. But here are some more wacky suggestions

AAA - Good? Will turn on someone in the neighbourhood if they can't get enough fights. KOS is the obvious target and CVA not so improbable either, but more likey some new target will present itself

BoB - Bad? Will fragment in multiple directions if they do finally lose their territory. There are going to be some serious goon-haters / die-hards who keep fighting in the region until goons themselves are no more. But others will join existing alliances where they have friends and contacts and might have been anyway were it not for being in BoB. And there will probably be a new ex-bob alliance who will have a 0.0 foothold by the year's end.if, big if

CVA - Indifferent. Could start getting dangerous for CVA if the status-quo of BoB vs. etc breaks down. Going to be a lot of people looking around for "what next?" and as Tri have proved / because of Tri's campaign in Providence, going to be hard to stay under the radar forever

FIX - Bad. As predicted with BoB. I'm sure ppl will jump to say they aren't the same though. I'm always feeling a split between wanting to go do something new and exciting and wanting to stick around the home area that is so well known for so long, and I expect many FIX members would feel the same. FIX might die or it might become something else, but either way it seems to be failing in its current form. (Also Dark Shikari joined MC)

Goonswarm - Bad. If they're not careful they'll be so busy patting themselves on the back or going "Uuuuh what nekthhst?" that someone will come in and undercut them. Even worse fate could be that they start thinking about "Uuuuh what nekthhst?" and trying to engineer splitting up before properly finishing off BoB. Die hard Bobbits aren't going to "mop themselves up" like most alliances who see inevitable defeat or suffer some crushing blow. Goons have a singular purpose and are thus doomed no matter what. Clever ones will carve something out for themselves, but whether like FIX and BoB the name will survive in a different form I can't say

IAC - Good. Are best placed to really make something if BoB split (Big if again), and are fairly secure if not. Even if it is a bad year for them, which is hard to see atm, they will still be alive and kicking in 2009.

IIRC at some point IAC were NRDS. If they decide to go back to that, it could pay off big time, helping create strength in depth in catch with a friendly pro IAC population. But if it causes friction with neighbours who can't shoot neuts anymore and IAC are caught in that horrible situation where the neuts are all complaining they are no good in protecting them and neighbours complain they can't shoot who they want, maybe it isn't such a good idea afterall. Either way, difficult, especially if catch gets busy with people who aren't obviously blue or red as was the case in the days of the Southern Coalition.

IRON - Good. Armchair generals like me see them lose Delekin long time ago and go "pfft they're dead surely" Evidently not, and I'm sure they will be one of the alliances to cream off some of the newly displaced, maybe like Tri did in 2007. But they'll have to be a bit more selective

Sylph - Indifferent. Wedged in between Providence, IAC and a number of other alliance's space I can't see them going anywhere in more than one sense

TRI - These guys need a proper enemy. I'm sure they'll find one in 2008

Drone Regions - Indifferent. Will keep plodding along and by the year's end, will be consolidated by a number of medium sized alliances. What happens after that might be a bit more exciting

North - Will grow fat and over-ripe as comflict in the south attracts pvp players away.

Posted - 2008.01.08 15:01:00 - [25]

 

Originally by: Darknesss

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Triumvirate (TRI) - Paper tiger, over rated, falling apart internally and some idiot called Darknesss is in there.

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QFT!111

Posted - 2008.01.08 15:37:00 - [27]

 

Originally by: Duncan Bannatyne

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Goonswarm - Bias opinion maybe, but from what i've seen of the Goonswam guys, very obnoxious, stupid and untrustworthy.

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If you're friendly with GS then there isn't really a more trustworthy alliance in the game, obnoxious and stupid is correct though.

Posted - 2008.01.08 15:57:00 - [29]

 

Just for fun. Only allies i know.

Against All Authorities (AAA) - Thug's pets. Next please.
Band of Brothers (BoB) - They will be here, at least this year for sure. Do not underestimate em.
Blackout - Saw them only once personally.. Killing their pos.. They showed just one rapier. Don't think 2008 will make them much better. Enough said.
Brutally Clever Empire - New horde growing in Syndicate and Fountain?
Curatores Veritatis Alliance (CVA) - They do fight. But is it enough to survive in `08? Like these guys.
Enuma Elish - according our killboard - they exist, but i don´t believe it. Hi to Captain Kaizoku! :)
Ev0ke - growing from chaos. 2008 opens good fields for them. Nice bunch of german guys. But imo they should go their own way.
Firmus Ixion (FIX) - they fought till the end. But they always were just FIX.
Goonswarm - who are they? Never heard abo...ouch..sorry...nooooooo.. ;)
Imperial Republic of the North (IRON) - "as sov count will switch to IRON sov by tomorrow"... tomorrow and tomorrow... someday.. :)
Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate (IAC) - Eeeak.. :) Hope it will be good year for them.
KIA Alliance - Newbe sov holder. "Give him an inch and he'll take a mile" and they do can.
Knights of the Southerncross - Bad year... very bad... Newbs on titans repelling heroes of great anti-BoB war (aka heroes of anti-RA war).
Mercenary Coalition (MC) - Hello, Seleene! o/ Hope they will keep their way to the end.
Morsus Mihi - good anti-POS warriors. (everything i know)
Paxton Federation - +CVA.
Razor Alliance - too ambitious. This year may be tricky for them.
Red Alliance (RA) - Thug's alts. Best alts afaik. :) Going their own way, but affecting EVE's main arena.
Roadkill - boom...headshot. Hope this year they come to Stain seriously.
Stain Empire - my grandpa told me a story about scary people living to the south from our home. I was there two time since then, and didn't meet anyone scaring, but saw so many hostile wrecks, that i try not to show myself there anymore. Believe me, they do exist and they do KILL people. Yarrrr... :)
Tau Ceti Federation (TCF) - one of most expanded alliances in the last year. Bring it on, guys.
Triumvirate (TRI) - nice targets. Fast, agile and strong. Hope see them more frequently on my overview this year.

Thats my own opinion as a Stain carebear. :)