[wakey]

Anyway heres my take on it.

Imho the guy's explanation does indicate some poaching has gone on and it highlights the growing trend for alliances to carry out what i've labled 'polite poaching'. Gone are the days where threats, direct insults and other 'dirty' tactics were used to poach, now we have a situation where alliances use players own ambitions as a tool for poaching, the closest you get to a 'dirty' tactic are the cloaked insults about the persons current alliance or the comments like "We would like you next round, however we can only guarentee members this round a place"

What basically happens now is an ambitious player whom is looking to move next round gets identified by someone in the poaching alliance (Normally through someone enquiring about recruitment for next round or through things like galaxy mates) The recruiter then seduces them by making them feel wanted by this alliance and edges them towards ship jumping now by doing this.

Now I understand fully that alliances want all the good players they can get but it certainly would be good if perhaps as a community we all decided to push loyalty a bit. The poaching midround does push the alliances its happening to closer to the door each time (hey last week with the poaching that happened to F-Crew I had the "F-Crew Leaves the Universe" post written and ready to post) but your breeding the ship jumping nature of the game. If as a community we dont encourage poaching and we push the loyalty and seeing out a commitment we will have a better community for it and we won't have to have a situation where someone has to piss off all the friends they have just made to progress (after all leaving after the round while also not great isnt as bad because you arent relying on these people or made plans around these people and you have time before the round to make plans to cover the loss they represent)

Also to the players, dont let alliances seduce you or make claims that its now or never. If they want you they will always want you. Your current alliance has invested time and effort into you and the least you can do is make sure you see out the round so as to pay back this effort and faith they have put in you