Ax2Grind, on 15 January 2015 - 04:07 PM, said:
Starting planets has nothing to do with how your team performed. However, performance was at the very heart of the post that I responded to.
In terms of net loss or gain Wolf, at it's best, from the 18th of Dec till the 20th of Dec managed to go from Net Gain 1 to Net Gain 5. (+2 planets a day with no losses)
During this time SJ stayed at 1 net gain planet while being held back on Turtle Bay.
By the 22nd Wolf was down to Net Gain 4, while SJ jumped to net game 3.
After that point, from the 22nd of December until the 31st, Wolf and SJ both gained 1 planet a day, with Wolf staying exactly one planet ahead of SJ.
Jade Falcon maintained a higher Net Gain the entire time, and CGB was much higher yet. ie, Wolf was the third ranked Clan for the first 2 weeks of CW, staying 1 planet ahead of the SJ faction during most of that time. During this same time PGI announced special benefits to SJ due to low population. Wolf apparently had a much higher population yet was only making the same gains each turn.
You may want to graph it so that you can have a clear visual indicator. Or just go look at one of the graphs provided by the community. If you have an issue with the data take it up with PGI. It is based off the JSON file they provide.
The argument that you lost planets due to..."backstabbing" doesn't even make sense. As Alexander stated, an attack is an attack. You either win or you lose. Put the RP aside for a moment and the fact is, historically Wolf has under-performed.
I sincerely hope that the patch on the 20th of January motivates more Wolves to rejoin the fight, and I would applaud if you were successful and shot up the rankings. My well wishes do not change the facts of your historical performance as a faction however.
You forget, for an entire 2 week period we were canned by a negotiated ceasefire with Steiner that was foisted upon us.
The fact that most chose to uphold it for the sake of maintaining honor (in spite of the fact it was negotiated without consent) does not speak poorly of our performance. It shows, more than anything that we consistently took the only world per day we could even attack. Meanwhile, we held every world that was ours in spite of attacks from several groups, and we even pushed YOU back and drove Lords from our space during said time.
So, while you may have some numbers without the details, the devil is always in the details.
Wolf has never underperformed. We have now lost population due to the fact that it took the entire Inner Sphere basically to hit us and drive us back.
So, keep talking smack about performance, the fact is...YOU are in OUR forum, and trolling us here without bothering to pay attention to details is worthless.
You think what you want...you do not know the truth of the matter.
Honestly, we would have expanded much more dramatically were it not for the fact that we DID choose to uphold a foolish agreement in spite of the fact that many of us, on numerous occasions, fought to bring it to an end early.
Now, that will not happen again, because we have accommodations in place to prevent it. However, there were some DIPLOMATIC mistakes made early. For example, trusting anyone from CGB that does not have a permanent contract is a huge mistake, and one that will not be made again. As well as the numbnut that negotiated with IS for a ceasefire when they came to Wolf...which was foolish as well.
Thankfully those lessons were learned early.
Edited by Gyrok, 15 January 2015 - 04:39 PM.