Sep 29th 2011, 13:59:20
First off, PANLV is hardly a force?
I know we wouldn't have won if it had been 1 v 1 against NBK, but PANLV put up a war effort in that war that showed that we've learned what we need to learn in having multiple conflicts with NBK and IMP in our first several sets to be a good war clan. We simply choose not to war most of the time because we prefer to beat TKO's butts in ANW.
Secondly, for better or worse, this is a server where netting clans have to watch their backs and play as diplomatically as possible with the war-hungry clans. The only netting clan that had a big enough stick to dissuade anyone from ever hitting them was LaE, and for most of their existence, the main reasons for their success was that NBK actually pacted them and for a set and a half, they had massive numbers of illegal multies.
PANLV had set after set ruined before we ended up getting our membership solidified to people who would play in a style that wouldn't get us in trouble.
TKO has had issues with IMP ruining their players' sets a few times.
Even Mercs, who mostly got a free pass in their first set, had CC destroy Rockman, and then were tagkilled this set.
SemperFi is clearly a group of very good players, but in your first set, you ended up in a war. I admit that sucks, but ultimately, you can't claim you're going to be a peaceful netting clan in your first set and just expect people to leave you alone. There's no track record to rely on, and there's been plenty of people to come on FFAT and claim they were going to netgain quietly their first set who have used that guise to try to grow stronger and stronger to try to whack one of the established clans they have a beef with. I'm not in any way saying that's what you were doing, but no one gets a free pass in set 1.
In set 2, you came back bigger and stronger and took out NBK. Unless NBK wants a revenge war, this probably will give you a chance to netgain simply because if you come back with 300+ countries again, no one outside NBK is probably going to have the ability to challenge you.
You don't just get to netgain because you want to though. Even though you can almost always war if you want to, that's just not the case for the netgaining clans. You have to set up a reputation that if the war clans leave you alone, you're not going to end up screwing them over in the end (like TKO and PAN) or you have to be small enough to where none of the big clans consider it sporting to go after you (like ESD).
If PANLV wars, just like TKO, it'll be because we get FSed or because someone has given us a reason to war them.
