Exactly, and Masago did build some cool looking ships. I personally have no patience for ship design, so I used whatever the Faction gave me.
You can even tell in the towers I built… most of them were basically walls with guns on them lol.
I think everyone loves to hate on us for being ‘the big Pirate faction’ and we were constantly accused of things we didn’t do - and then one guy went and actually did do something wrong and caused the rest of us a huge pain in a sensitive place.
Even when we had those 26 turret bases deleted, we had though we had done everything to Achilles specifications, as he had shown us exactly how to make them look, and then we ‘thought’ we had done them up to his standards, and then the next day they were deleted anyway.
We were quite upset about that, and also felt a bit ‘singled’ out for whatever the reason. There were also times when we reported factions for things, and no action was taken
Or - I report something with screenshots and it turns out to be not true to a visual glitch, and I get a ‘benefit’ of the doubt and warning not to falsely accuse someone again. Then someone else makes a false accusation against us, and they get +RP for making the report.
Because of those two instances, we’ve felt very targeted by the Admin.
Now, no one will argue that what Masago did was wrong not in anyway; but I also think everyone’s forgetting all the fun and action we generated because of us holding Gold -
- The amount of CV battles that happened in Orbit.
- The massive land battles we had.
- The fun RP opportunities.
- The organized ‘blockade’ attempts.
- The unification of Alliance
All these things, and possibly more only happened because we took and held Gold. And as Mord points out, it wasn’t really all that of a beneficial thing anyway. Why the heck we did it is beyond me anyway, we had guys fueling and ammoing those turrets everyday anyway, so why there was even a need to use ‘hacked’ turrets is beyond me.
So in summary, I guess what I’m saying is let’s try and remember there was a lot of fun and good that came out of what we did. We faced a lot of false accusations simply because we were the big guys on the block, and then one or two guys messed it up for us all so ‘we’ could get a little advantage.
For those who say I benefited greatly, well I had roughly 3 million in credits going in, now I"m around 4.5 million. Any and all benefit I got in terms of ‘pixels’ was wiped out as I stored most of everything I needed in my tower to defend the base.
What can’t be wiped out is all the fun and tense moments I had defending the base against massive SFA CVs. I can still remember sitting there mining a meteor, and then next thing I see is 6 massive CVs flying overhead, all on their way to assault our base.
I enjoyed that immensely, and all I can do is hope we can somehow get those moments back again.