Beitrag von: Aura am Juli 02, 2013, 07:45:06 Vormittag
The CFC has stalled. We've even lost ground in the last two weeks.
Our bridgehead has remained unchanged since about June 14. The systems we were given when Mistakes Were Made [O7M8] left Fountain, we've lost all of that territory, except for 4-EP. Granted, the rest of that territory was deep inside Fountain, so our ability to hold it was going to be dependent on our ability to push into Fountain fast and hard.
We did come out guns a'blazing that first week of the war. By June 15, we'd captured and solidified our bridgehead in Fountain. Since then, though, we've gone no further. We flipped EI-O0O last week, taking a jump bridge system from Test, but then Test flipped it back. Although the value of that system was lost, it remained a moral victory for Test & Pals.
Without further inroads into Fountain, we'd given up trying to defend those O7M8 systems we were gifted. Even so, more moral victories to Test. We gained those systems effortlessly, Test retook them effortlessly. But they have every reason to crow about taking them from us. If the situation were flip-flopped, we'd be crowing about it as well.
As for the R64 moon situation, I have no idea. CFC leadership isn't talking about it much. And it's impossible to track. There are no API calls to determine who is mining moons. So the whole back-and-forth about whether we still own twenty moons, or whether Test has since liberated most of them, all of that is in the realm of pure propaganda. Without knowing where all the R64 moons are in Fountain, without flying around and checking out who has POSes anchored above those moons, that entire situation will remain a hazy mystery.
All that said, the war is going splendidly from a "having fun" perspective. The war so far has been a blast. If Test had pulled a Raiden or White Noise, that would have been a terrible outcome. Sure, it would have been great strategically and economically, for the health and longevity of the CFC. But it would have been a terrible, miserable bit of sovereignty grinding, that would not have been compelling gameplay. Much better that each side has lots of people to shoot at.
This will probably be my last post on the war for awhile. Even though big battles are still raging, there's just not much to write about. Lots of fighting, but not much to show for it. Seems to me, some major event, some significant flip of sovereignty is going to have to occur before there is anything interesting to tell. That might be 4-EP12 in a few days.
Kudos where they are deserved. Test & Pals are doing an excellent job turning the war into a quagmire for us.
Read more about the War in Fountain:
The War in Fountain - Battle For J5A-IX
The War in Fountain - What Are The Russians Doing For Us?
The War in Fountain - Fweddit Chooses a Side
The War in Fountain - Test Alliance Has a Bad Day
The War in Fountain - The Depth of Gameplay In Sovereignty Wars
War Poster - J5A-IX
The War in Fountain - The Importance of J5A-IX
The War in Fountain - Divide and Conquer
The War in Fountain - Gnrrr. History.
The War in Fountain - Cracking Down on Pornfleets
The War in Fountain - Blueballing
The War in Fountain - Old Montolio Had A Jump Bridge, EI-, EI-O0O
The War in Fountain - Hemorrhaging ISK
The War in Fountain - Fish or Cut Bait
Source: The War in Fountain - Metrics of Success (http://)