Here is a copy and paste of some correspondence between myself and someone else via PM that I feel sums up the game from my point of view:
QUOTE BS is going good, its still one of the most active squads, but its obviously lacking from top tier players. That is not to say that it is not making progress though. This past Sunday, we played on Nova, and I organized our team into all ints+2 scouts anticipating a tough early game. I was right, as both BS and XT went low, and we mothballed. Believe it or not, but the BS dogfighters killed most of the XT ones, and both ops managed to plant.
But they pushed theirs further, as they could afford too (obviously, better dogfighters.) Since they were next to our home, they had pretty much free reign to go up and down and rape our economy, which had expectedly, lackluster (comparative) defense... but we won a bunch of "minor victories" that a lesser squad would never have been able to have accomplished.
We bombed that op, relieved the pressure on our econ, but by that time it was too late, and they had a shipyard and we were down 4 miners. However, we still managed to kill a rix corvette, and destroyer, with basic tech. Although we lost, and badly, it was a game worth playing. A bunch of things I didn't expect to succeed... we pulled off.
Its like sticking a poodle in the ring with a pitbull, and the poodle managing to rip the ear off of the pitbull, and bloody its face. Still got whooped, but damn, that poodle is one tough poodle
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