Below is a copy/paste of a post I made on the forums....I'm starting to see a bit of a pattern in my blog posts. I can't seem to get on a schedule, but when I decided to make a simple lolpost and suddenly I'm writing blobs of text....

I have to get myself started and then my thoughts just naturally start to come out. :P

Below is that post (the important part)

Eve is really a quite simple game. Blobs are a part of it, as blobs were and are a part of real life.

To take an oft-referenced example, look at the Persian Empire v Greece.

The Persians had a vast slave army, which was mostly unskilled/inferior (NC + vast hordes of pets/"bffs").

The Grecians had lesser numbers, but vastly superior weaponry, skills, and were backed by a strong armored/professional core of hoplites/spartans(PL/NCdawt/skilled pvpers).

Though outnumbered, the Grecians were able to slaughter the inferior Persians, and save Grecian City-States from conquest.

Years later, the Grecian city states became divided and were individually conquered.

Another example were the Roman Legions. Through strict discipline and attention to detail, there are numerous examples of heavily outnumbered Roman Legions absolutely destroying far greater numbers (slave uprisings, barbarians) of inferior forces.

In early medieval Europe, the knight-class emerged, and for years the Knights(supers) were an undefeatable force, with the heavy cavalry charge(supercap hotdrop) being entirely unbeatable. The immense cost of the arms, armor, and upkeep of a stable of horses + servants meant that their numbers were always lower than that of the common peasants. He who had the most Knights easily won every fight.

Knights were not, however constant assets. Knights were expensive, and there are many cases of knights deserting or leaving the service of a lord when morale became low, or when the flow of money was interrupted.

What is happening with the NC + Blobs currently is a combination of all of the above.

The "city states" of more skilled pvpers are uniting, and the difference between them and the NC, is they have organized supers that are motivated, experienced and firmly loyal. The NC's supers are mostly based off of isk, and are personal toys, rather than firm military alliance-backed assets like the DRF/PL/NCdawt's are.

As the NC's morale falls, more and more of their supers are leaving/not showing up for ops. The same goes for their large meatshield/peasant base, as morale drops, so does the body of serfs they have to call on to bolster their blobs.

The NC was formed on an unsustainable model, and is currently witnessing the results of that failed model. They would have fallen under MAX 2 had there not been internal friction between the SC at the time. PL provided the prototype of what a small core of seriously skilled/experienced could accomplish, and with larger amounts of skilled pvpers arraying against them, the NC will fall without drastic model changes. It is inevitable.

-Lord's Servant