Pandemic-Legion.com forums made public, courtesy of TEST Alliance Please Ignore.
This weekend marked a bit of a disappointment for EN24 and many others who in the past months invested some time, interest and wasted effort trying to obtain some pandemic-legion.com forum leaks. Truth be told there existed a mystique around the whole PL forums, with the alliance full of “meta-gamers” and known for having what some players called “an unfair edge” while playing eve as they heavy employed espionage tactics, DDoS attacks and many other “questionable approaches” to their sov warfare.
Over the past week Kugutsumen.com long known as the forerunner of EVE Online leaks, experienced a sudden change in staff. Half of the moderators were removed, all of whom belonged to the Pandemic Legion alliance – the alliance that many would argue is the backbone and leadership of the website.
What followed was something that many of the Kugu members had long yearned for. In the exclusive pay-for-access section of the forum, known as EVE Foreplay, director level PL forum leaks began appearing. Many of the leaks featured internal drama, ship fits and general boredom, a few focused on the terms and executions of their mercenary contracts. Combined with the analysis of the denizens of Foreplay, a much broader insight on the inner workings of PL has emerged.
While leaks were slowly appearing on Foreplay, another group had already managed to obtain a copy of the Kugustumen mirror and host it themselves. TEST Alliance (Please Ignore) have now publicly begun hosting the mirror, allowing the world to have an inner look at PL’s dirty laundry. While many of the threads on the mirror appear to be of no interest to anyone with most of the threads containing chest beating on how superior Pandemic Legion is compared to others. Some of the threads however are of major importance and of particular interest.
Other threads were more relevant to in-game actions, featuring lists and locations of cyno-alts, tactics, and super capital fittings. There is also a good text-book example of why is a bad idea to host corp forums inside an alliance forums. While more industrious players have already started pointing out the “good threads” from the “drama threads” inside their very own alliance/corporation discussion boards.
Numerous alliances have already begun bitter spy purges yesterday in response, having obtained a number of IP addresses off of the forum mirror. Guides for PL members on how to spy have been thrown to the pavement for all to see and counter. With PL’s counter-intelligence tactics now well known, other spy agencies have begun to slowly clear their own ranks and infiltrate into the once impenetrable fortress of PL.
What’s left for Pandemic Legion? The walls of might and impenetrable counter espionage flamboyance that oversaw younger players has surely been taken down. Alliance morale is at an all time low, so now is perhaps not the best time to troll an already pissed off Shamis Orzoz. With their cunning tactics, meta-gaming and in-game assets exposed, some would alliance leaders hesitate to decide that this is a good time for the alliance to reinvent themselves? It is left for the Pandemic Legion members to encourage their leadership take the hint and act before they join a long list of memorable but defunct alliances falling into the eternal abyss of the failscade.
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