[Tommy]

Well since we're arguing about it.

When I said we couldn't give a toss about killing Ascendancy, that was entirely true going into the round. We came into the round as a group that had played as a BG before, and looking for a fun round. We're not looking for planet ranks but for consistency, teamwork and a pretty good average score, and considering we have less players in the top 50 (2) than DLR have in the top 10 (4), I can't really see what Byrney's talking about when he says we've been trying to fly under the radar to gain ranks. I was top in SPOOOOOON until I started xp escorting our smaller players rather than landing for roids myself, and quite genuinely do not care if others overtake me.

When the war started and the BGs blocked together, we decided to get involved, but we did so to have some fun in the round, whereas everyone else did so because they hate Ascendancy. That's the long and short of it. I've said at many times that I don't want to fencesit, but again, it's because this is a war game and defending and retalling against incs is generally more fun than struggling to find a target because you've NAP'd the universe. You can interpret my posts however you like, but the fact remains that lokken's rant about the reasons for the existence of the BGs doesn't really apply to us. This isn't the first time we've played as an autonomous entity, outside of any other alliance - we did so in Spaceminers, and felt this would be a good round to repeat the idea.