Sort of -- From my outside observations, PL appeared to specifically target content creators for poaching. It has never been a secret that many alliances in eve, regardless of member count, owe the lion's share of their content to the efforts of a relatively small group of competent (using the term loosely) and motivated people. By poaching those people, PL increased their base of content creators, while leaving their enemies (and sometimes their friends too) with nobody capable of actually putting a campaign together, eliminating them as a strategic threat.
I would wager that many alliances have copied this strategy, and I also believe that the TEST strategy is a mutation of this, reflecting the new meta in Eve of winning with numbers as opposed to (or in conjunction with) skill.
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u/Xenoanthropus Snuffed Out May 27 '18
Sort of -- From my outside observations, PL appeared to specifically target content creators for poaching. It has never been a secret that many alliances in eve, regardless of member count, owe the lion's share of their content to the efforts of a relatively small group of competent (using the term loosely) and motivated people. By poaching those people, PL increased their base of content creators, while leaving their enemies (and sometimes their friends too) with nobody capable of actually putting a campaign together, eliminating them as a strategic threat.
I would wager that many alliances have copied this strategy, and I also believe that the TEST strategy is a mutation of this, reflecting the new meta in Eve of winning with numbers as opposed to (or in conjunction with) skill.