First off, i'm posting this here because there's really no where else to put it. Anywhere else has got nwchat spies, and we have no real chain of command or organization here. It's the reason we've been getting owned these last couple of days. One of the reasons, anyway. I know omni can view this, but something needs to be said about our current problem gathering clanners for defense and offense.
I'm not gonna yell, i'm not gonna scream, and i'm certainly not going to say im not going to defend X guild's base. The facts need to be stated.
I was in disbelief, after wednesday - on thursday and friday - that there were clanners logging in as if our offensive from the previous day was still going on, and we were 'winning.' It tells me something that, clan is too used to fighting mobs - properties with no intellegence, no reasoning and no coordination. I thought it was going to be common sense for every clanner to *know* that there was going to be a price to pay, big or small, for taking CAV. Instead people seemed to think omni is just some damn big mob. Well lately omni's like one damn giant fixer - we try to strike it but miss, the bases being the key points of attack, if we don't get some specials out here we're going to be screwed.
These specials are the clan guilds. Folks say clan is overpopulated, people say whole guilds outnumber omni as a population. These statistics are completely irrelevant; the amount of people clan has means nothing if we are not all together in this. Being that the fact all omni organizations - from Renaissance to First Order - are ALL working together to fight us, and raze our bases, we cannot afford to remain divided. I have just woken up today, and i have to admit that i expect the xp % to be lower when i log in due to the lack of response i've been seeing. I'm sure I can agree we did good these past couple of days considering the circumstances. key phrase there is 'considering the circumstances,' we can do a lot better than this and we should be.
This whole CAV raid on wednesday is going to mean nothing soon if we don't get our act together. Last night two bases in efp were assaulted, finally a clan response, but more like a whimper...If we had two guilds i know of that were after loot during that time the ren base would've been ours and so would have mayhem.
What is the problem wih getting people together? Well, aside from minor problems such as building and timing suppression etc, the big problem here is that people are choosing aces over base defense when we so desperately need it, and won't join the joint operations. Now i've said this before, i got no right to tell you, being a GA4 fixer, that you don't need loot. I understand soldiers need their hellfurys and hellspinner upgrades, enfs need their EQB, people want PoPs, azure, etc...Now is not the time to be doing this. Where is there an item that adds bonuses 3-4 towers do?
Another thing ive been noticing is guilds that spend all day looting get on nwchat when their base is attacked and shout for help. I always come to defenses, i've come to almost every battle these past 3 days, but it pisses us off a good deal when we see the people we're helping just aren't responding to us.
I won't say this fight isn't fun - this weekend of war is a total blast, best **** in a long time, i've almost forgot what a mission looks like and i haven't visited tir again in all this time. But to ****e things up we need to give omni the fight they expected upon planning this.
I get these /tells about how im always here for other people, how im doing a good job or whatever. I took the helm when no one else would take it, I hope this will change as i'm no natural born leader. There are several people I know on the clan side who can do this better. We need a chain of command, it's all been broken by the desire of loot. Aces can be done anytime. NW cannot. There are guilds and people like me who put a lot of effort into NW and we'd like to see progress. The past three days, excluding wednesday ive been online for 10+ hours. I'm often finding myself losing sleep because ill say 'im going to log off' and then another base is attacked and yet again - there is not enough people to defend it. As i've previously stated - I don't like bullets flying over a dormant head.
As for some people's excuses, other than loot it's something like 'i play this game for fun, i dont feel like pvping right now.' When i object to that im 'infringing.' If you don't want to come don't come but they'll have to accept responsibility. The way i see it, any guild allowed to have a base should be more responsive than the guilds without bases that im seeing very active in NW fighting by my side.
Which brings up another point. Dark Brotherhood had a ql 200 base that omni took without problems. We held them off good in 25% but then when 5% came, all hell broke loose because there was NO MEMBERS of their guild on to team with. I had never even heard of this guild before, i didn't know anyone in it. So meanwhile, people like morelian were being hit by their own comrades' nukes and being pummeled by towers, and were really discouraged to come back. I don't blame him one bit. We should not be giving ql 200 bases to people who cannot defend them. Call it what you want, it might be hurting the less powerful guilds but we can't afford to let emotion rule our disposition of power in this war. There are guilds out there who have 150 bases who would better have a 200 base because they can defend it. One of the problems with base distribution in NW is that people want to please everyone, it's just not possible and if you can't defend it then you don't deserve the advantages of it. It isn't anything personal I have with anyone, it's more of a common sense issue.
I've talked to leaders of guilds about this stuff. So far, tortureyou, not surprisingly as he was the brains of CAV, is the most cooperative leader. I used to have a real bone to pick with redemption when nw first came out and messman was the helm, and prior to that with their issues with tarasque. Tarabot was scrapped for a good reason, i might add. I've gained a great deal for redemption these past couple of days, and i feel they're more of a force to be reckoned with. Other guild leaders are either looting, or helpless to the situation and agree with me on these topics. Further proving we have no control of our troops at the moment, and we need that.
All i'm sayin here...If we're gonna take back whats ours...If we're gonna throw rocks at the eagle's nest...We better do it together. The people who have been vigorously fighting back omni as hard as they can cannot do this task alone; extend a hand. This is currently a one-sided battle and we're at the wrong end gun's barrel. Let's get through this so omni doesn't have a 20% exp rate by monday.
