Most of us know at least a little bit about what's been going on between the Imperial guild -AI- (Alpha Imperium), and the Imperial guild EE (Electronic Enemies), who are the organizers of the weekly, organized base bust events.
Essentially, we have -AI- who are against Imperial guilds using base busts to get GCW points, because they see it as an unfair way for guilds to get on the GCW leader boards. Because of this belief, -AI- has been destroying the Rebel bases hours before the organized base busts, so that the others may not benefit from the GCW points.
Whether or not -AI-'s viewpoints are valid or not is not so much the point. I contend that organized base busts will probably continue for as long as the Developers keep the current system intact, and that any efforts on -AI-'s part to continually disrupt them would be a futile waste of time and energy.
Nonetheless, we cannot ignore that -AI-'s actions are unifying a large amount of Imperial guilds against them, and its starting to throw RID in the middle in the process. Some members are wondering why we're staying mostly neutral in this fight.
While I do prefer neutrality, I must admit that the continued actions of -AI- will force RID to somewhat pick a side. That side will be with the majority -- EE and the other Imperial guilds.
However, -AI- is a very large guild, with close to 500 members, many of them active. It would not be wise to brand them all enemies of the Empire for their recent actions against EE and the other Imperials. Just the other day, I came in contact with a person who happened to be in -AI-. A long time ago I had helped him start a business on Tatooine. Many months later, he came back to thank me, paying me 3 million credits for helping him. He did not seem to be the type of person to know about, or even care about what was going on between -AI- and EE. Therefore, most of our energy should be directed against Rebels, and not some large Imperial guild, no matter how unscrupulous their leaders may be.
Nonetheless, we will provide whatever assistance to EE and the other Imperials we can. This may include banning certain -AI- members from shops, or assisting EE in funding the base busts. I already talked to Goji-phen, informing him he can count on RID for support. I also asked him if SF PvP bases would be better for this sort of thing (due to their limited vulnerability times), and he said no. He said he tried using those bases before, but that it was too difficult to match the vulnerability times with the scheduled times of the base busts.
It seems the only solution to ensure secure base busts would be if Goji-phen could put down place-holder bases, to be pulled up and replaced by Rebel bases right at the time of the base busts. However, this does not work anymore, because their seems to be a bug which prevents owners of bases from destroying their own bases.
Indeed, it is very possible that base busts may be marginalized or even made useless altogether in the upcoming GCW 2 update. The Developers seemed to imply that this could be the case, though nothing is certain.
For now though, we should show as much support to EE and the other Imperials as we can, without getting into any direct squabbles with -AI-. I don't want to make an already fragile situation worse.
However, if there's one thing I've learned during my short time on earth, its that a crisis is always an opportunity. This "crisis" so to speak, could be an opportunity to further unite the Imperials together. Perhaps if this energy is taken advantage of, we could form a more solid coalition of Imperial guilds that can be better used to fight the Rebels.
Anyways, thats all for my "too long to read" post right now. Feel free to offer any input if anyone so desires
