Boutique Alliances and The Problem Therein

[Emperor Adam]

22 hours ago, Thalmor said:

It is entirely beholden to what Singularity wants

This part tickled me. The only thing we're "beholden" to is the treaty we signed and agreed to. Hopefully that's not too foreign a concept for you? 

[Sketchy]

3 hours ago, Thalmor said:

In this thread, I've explored the "boutique alliance" archetype. A second archetype I'm formulating is the NPC alliance archetype. Alliances whose lack of meaningful action go beyond the average. Alliances who are particularly incompetent, and have very little projection in the community; yet, in spite of these problems, continue to persist for years. They're just always there for some reason. They never really change, and are just waiting for a party to go and beat them up for experience points. 

I would consider Fark and Polaris to be historic examples of this archetype. UPN, USN, and WTF are current examples. 

I'm also exploring an archetype. The archetype in question are often found on the color orange. They usually can be found with more than 50 members, but rarely do they go over 140. They normally reside somewhere between 5th and 15th place. They tend have at least one slightly unusual fellow who runs his own radio show.

They have the word Knights in their name. I'm calling them "Knights Alliances".

Edited December 24, 2023 by Sketchy

[Mayor]

On 12/23/2023 at 9:21 AM, Victor Truchev said:

 

As someone who watched from afar, The Media was an exciting thing to watch and always had my attention for sake of the names I knew in that alliance. Its culture was what mattered in that moment and they held a degree of influence by virtue of attention they held. What informed their motivations is entirely lost on me as I've admittedly not pursued the "why" to any measure. 

The Media was all about a last huzzah and having fun raiding and doing stupid shit. Anyone was allowed to join so long as they participated in our raids. Even tho there were some discussions eventually of becoming a permanent alliance, initially it was always supposed to be temporary (which is why I left when people joined DB). I think for the most part it was a success. It was fun to have guys from all over Orbis and fight with them and try to gaslight RON together.

[Buorhann]

The Media disbanded too quickly imo.

[Aksel]

On 12/23/2023 at 12:59 AM, Thalmor said:

 

With that said above, I welcome all those who disagree with me to say so below. 

 

I disagree with you.