User blog comment:NovaTopaz/Finally! - Resolution post/@comment-14850713-20170427171131/@comment-24882568-20170512001724

Sorry, again, getting caught up in life.

1... No, that tech disparity was NEVER a reason why alliances were nessecary. The technology disparity is so easy to counter, if you actually invest some time into research and not just copying research everyone already has. The ones with a disproportionate amount of tech also usually have smaller fleet sizes. The problem came about when nations like the UAC(the first one to do it, really, minus Israeli, but it got that tech at a time when tech was mostly cosmetic and such, so doesn't really count. That, and it got most of it's stuff after the UAC did so.) went the number spam route with massive numbers, grabbed tons of technology from people like EAF, and combined those together at essentially no cost to make super fleets capable of taking out multiple low tech(and even high tech)navies at once, with only a few exceptions. And then the majority of those thought they needed protection from a nigh non-existent threat(comparatively), and formed the Coalition. I have no problem with the small, low tech navies making an alliance... Flame did that a while ago, and I'm clearly not bashing his alliance, am I? I'm hitting at THE Coalition, the continuation of the SSA mentality with numerous navies, with several of the top navies included in it, among others, the UAC, AIF, Israeli and ANF. Categorically, the largest, most powerful navies in the RP, barring Protoss, who was taking the mentality of what I just mentioned to the GM extreme, because of that coalition. The SSA was good at the time it was created, but over the last 2 years, it went from ok to Over-Freaking-Powered. Like, it's not GM, but it's still not OK, balance wise. It encourages stagnation, because the 'baddies' don't have enough users or enough navies to counter the massive Coalition. There just isn't. How many are in the Resergent Axis? 3? With 1 inactive cause civil war, one obliterated recently(Protoss), and one hiding out in a hidey hole(Sith)? Doesn't sound like something that will take down even the 4 current super powers, much less all of them combined with the numbers provided by the rest of the Coalition. And that's not even factoring in the broken Axis.

2. Zum decided to leave because of that BSery, which never should have been allowed. Again, setting the record straight. There is a lot of good reasons, none of which I will explain here, but they should be pretty obvious, and if not, I will list them out on discord or smtg.

3. ... But most small wars have been averted BECAUSE of that Coalition. Why do you think I wanted it broken up? It's ruined many battles because when you try to fight a navy 1v1, it quickly ends up being 1v8 with several of those being super powers which, again, can obliterate multiple medium size navies by themselves. It's pretty well illustrated when people have tried to attack Israeli. For example, when Israeli got attacked by the ICR(or whatever it is), ISR, and the Crusaders(... Memory is bad...). The only reason it didn't get the normal reinforcements was BECAUSE enterprise controlled the ICR, but even then, Marc brought France and the US. Same with kitty trying to attack France, WHICH SHOULD HAVE DIED, but it didn't, because Israeli crushed all of those dreams. Why do you think I haven't attacked more often? For those exact reasons.

4. Well, speed is up for suggestion, but probably nothing more than 200ly/d, and optimally, under 100, with some speed restrictions while in a system because you still need to accelerate while in warp... Smtg along those lines. Basically, keep the system stuff the same, increase inter system speed, and decrease the effect of the warp storm in terms of speed decrease and all that, and indirectly nerfing the rift projector, which so many complained about before being hypocrites and going over to BSCF. Not to say they are bad people, or that they hate the wiki or something, but still...