I have had some startling revelations lately!
Several members of other prominent orgs have joined TEST over the past few months, and they all say pretty much the same thing.
Other orgs are scared shitless about the TEST threat!
YES! Its you in your Aurora! You are potentially a big problem to other players!
You heard that right, our lovable, newbie friendly, game loving, respectful and polite organization is feared out there in the universe that does not exist yet!
I can understand why, I myself am guilty of the same back when we were 200-300 members in size.
Back then when we were small, Imperium was the big, evil and faceless org with their fancy 3000 members.
We would say "Ha! Stupid Imperium and their military like structure, no ways they last long enough to make it to the game, they are bigger than us, so therefor they are stupid and evil!"
Speaking of Imperium, do you know that the upper ranks are not really permitted to speak to me unless its approved by the top guys?
Seriously, if one of them gets caught talking to me without permission, they get the boot!
Same probably goes for a lot of orgs out there.
The point I want to make is that it is not our goal to be the Goons of Star Citizen. The Goons of Star Citizen are the Goons, they already called dibs on that.
We are the big newbie friendly org that wants to maximize the fun factor as much as possible!
Because this fun factor will sometimes require us blowing up other peoples ships, we are considered a huge threat to almost every org out there.
Just be aware, if you are out there on the RSI forums or reddit, and you get some hate from some random 16yr old, don't get mad, be honored, be polite and thank them for the tears!