The whole campaign was flawed due to not brining anything back to Atlas, the only campaing that would have any gain for Atlas was Drone space as it would add space, borderzone and postpone any russian invasion for a year at least. A preemptive attack on maybe not the most popular target, but most valid one.
The true reason why Atlas or so many others dont fight Drone space isnt that the space is useless (its is unless you want really take care of it with renters and supercap builds).
It is people not seeing it fun to fight russians in general. Wrong TZ, which means us/euro tz alliance wont have the battles and if they know the other side wakes up at 3am to be there, when everony else says fuck this. Thats why Bobby made the NIP in vain attempt to not go to fight the most resilient enemy in game ever more after they got kicked out of Drones.
You have to understand that Atlas was fighting the same enemy for year+ and for every gain they made against the crumbling drone alliances, russians took 2. Krutoj is right, that you could extrapolate how long Atlas will hold up just with CTA´s as there i prolly not other group in eve that would for 9 times invade the same system and i am sure they would do it for 50times if needed. As it is not logic or sane to do this in game, it is trully the extra mile that makes that like RL combat.
This was the reason Atlas haven´t attack drones, or dared to try them with a pole from 20 feet, lack of good and fun fights. Compare it to NC, where everyone awaits the blob, but like now, you get at least 200-300 people getting killed due to being normal casual carebears, that die a lot. Which is much more fun, than looking at cta after cta not knowing when you see 20 titans logging at the same time in your secure timezone and raping you.
You will see tons of excuses, but most people are actually scared of Drone space, so came with the excuse its not worth it, lets generate some better tears from people we can understand and crush. Fighting russians is not about fun, its about determination and it would be weird that westerners would have that in game.
Atlas mistake was a repeat one from drones, trying to evade the russians and just not fighting them, giving themselves sense of power by going after all non russian entities with smashkill till they were slain. Goons humiliated Atlas a lot, however the biggest battles that costed Atlas+smashkill in the end were fought with Solar/xdeath even before. Those have taken too much humanware out.
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