Well I have been getting a foreboding feeling for a while about how the alliance it going at the moment.
I have tried to participate in the last few alliance pvp roams. There was a medium turn out on the last one, but the NRDS in MH / GW really got in the way of us finding targets in Low Sec. I think there is a lack of committed FC's. The first roam ended up taking us off into Low Sec in The Forge/Citadel with no luck finding targets that the FC was willing to engage. Personally I don't mind suicide attacks because I fly very cheap ships in PVP. under 10Misk fits, and I think we need to educate the pvp noobs that this is really the way to go. But I digress.
Twenty minutes into the second roam, he threw in the towel because of lack of low sec targets, and said lets all go to M-M and join up with Re-Al. Which cut our numbers in half because some people didn't have the right clones or ships to go running off to null sec.
I have to give credit to Jdizzer for even trying to run an Op, but I have had more luck joining up with Re-al's fleet on my own than on Alliance ops.
I also think they are taking the High Sec carebear thing a bit far. Tis is a He btw. Have hung out on TS with him and the active guys, mostly NERF guys, and they all seem reasonable and nice for Europeans.
I am looking forward to Hulkageddon, and have been since Hulkageddon 2. But I don't want to have to leave corp for it. Luckily I have enough time to train my industry alt into a battle ship by the 9th. I'm worried about getting him too much negative Sec status, but I guess we will see how that goes. Nothing a lot of missioning can't fix I guess.
Have had almost no interaction with 4tune guys. So I have no opinion there.
Fun is my goal. And I think a little griefing now and again is fun. Coming from games like Everquest and SWG, where it would get you banned, I think CCP's stance on actions and consequences is what makes Eve the best game on the planet at the present time. And as long as I am willing to take the consequences of killing miners in High Sec, why should that cause problems for the Alliance if its ok with CCP? It's not like we have never been war dec'ed.