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Originally Posted by Mzyxptlk
If PA pros keep finding themselves faced with galmates who **** up at the drop of a hat, they're less likely to bother cultivating a relationship with them. When you depend on someone and are let down, that's more harmful than never depending on them in the first place. You could lose your entire fleet that way, rather than just a wave of roids.
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It is however a bit of a vicious circle. The people who care about value and not crashing cluster together which often leaves educating new players to others who would often not be considered the top tier and who are more likely to be forgiving of crashes - or may even encourage it when there is xp involved. We often mock alliances like HR or bows for the amount they crash while at the same time shoving every new player in their direction telling them to learn over there. How can we then expect them to learn to be as active as our elite and play conserving value?
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Originally Posted by Mzyxptlk
Additionally, when there's less opportunity for long-term cooperation (ie, more than 7 weeks), there's less to be gained from educating newbies. Mind you: less, not nothing.
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I think I might have lost your meaning here. Presumably there is still the option to invite them into your alliance for long term cooperation? Presumably the bp is likely have been full to start with so an invite into your alliance is probably more likely than an invite to remain in the bp next round anyway.