Let /u/dertydan tell you about the various recon spreadsheets that had to be maintained because of hostile agent infiltration of recon. Sure Delve V was probably a more interesting campaign and certainly more entertaining for us, and sure putting the pillow over Morsus Mihis face till the twitching stopped has a more satisfying ending to it for us, but the people involved in it and the actions that were taken during the war are far more compelling. Sometimes, us fountain war vets sit in the bacon bar on TEST mumble and recount stories from the war. The way this book is written allows for narrative voice not just about what it was like as a player in a ship contributing to the success or failure of our efforts in the war, it ALSO greatly enhances the ability to tell the story of those behind the scenes helping to shape the success or failure of the war. I think this community has become so circle jerk with grr goon that it can't see a good opportunity when it's presented to them. While it's true that the fountain war book is being produced in association with TMC media and obviously that means The Mittani is involved in it and really spearheading this initiative, that's not a bad thing. But it doesn't attract new players as much as it used to. To us, we see the brackets, and know the players, and understand the comps, and we enjoy watching these things. The only real media we as players produce and show the world is youtube videos of ship fights. Huge spaceship fights sell subscriptions, but the longer you run to that well the faster it will dry up. 6VDT was a massive slog of tidi, but CCP did a great job keeping the servers from melting and the fight alive so that we could get thousands of people in a single system brawling over a single objective.
The fountain war had a large amount of ship combat on huge scales, leading up to the largest battle of as far as I know any multiplayer online game, 6vdt. The fountain war is an amazing case study of the sandbox nature of this game, and the mechanics behind fighting a war that isn't just space ship slap fights. What attracted me to the game, what attracts many to the game, is the sandbox nature of the game, and how so much of the game takes place behind closed doors - in the meta, so to speak. We have a long road ahead of us to be good at games again, and even I want this book to be written.
The outcome of this war caused the darkest period in TEST's history, a period we are only now pulling ourselves out of, and we are still not out of the woods. The war that kicked off our 40 year in the desert period. I have been in TEST since 2010 and was a participant in the fountain war. I don't know that anything else about me is really relevant to this post so that's prolly all I need to say on the subject. To email the author directly with your fountain war submission, send it to those that don't know me my name is Sapporo Jones and I am a testicle.