[LukeyLove]

Originally Posted by ellonweb

Looking at the second half of this sentence I've quoted, brings me back to the original topic. If you admit the most efficient way of achieving your goals is to hit Apprime or Ascendancy, then why did you hit Vision? While it may have provided short term success, morale boosts etc., in those same nights both Ascendancy and Apprime were allowed to grow unrestricted, the former jumping into first place and the latter quickly closing down on second place, which they have now taken. The net result? A block war that looked to still be an open and undecided competition suddenly has a victor; you may have boosted low morale in your block, but on the other side morale was boosted that was never anywhere near low. Without wanting to downplay Vision's role in their block, roiding them had zero negative effect on their block and while it may have had a positive effect on your side, the positive was much higher in the winning block.

Apprime havent had incs in weeks and were always going to close the gap to asc, if anything its in the interests of the block for those two to be comparable in score as while it may not change the alleigance of either side it may lead to other elements such as less out of ally defence between the two alliances - especially if apprime is the alliance always defending. Asc were also always going to overtake ND when ND got targetted by the asc/app possy and other elements such as kicking 3mil+ score in anders who went directly to join asc didnt exactly help ND's plight for #1. Alot of VSN lost fleet during the two days of inc they recieved, certainly alot more than would of been lost by asc/app over that period and while they may not wield it as efficiently as asc/app it was still a reasonable political decision and definately not worthy of 3 pages worth of flame and propaganda.