The problem with Vanu

[The_Ham]

I don't think the problem the vanu are having is from lack of numbers, or from lack of player skill, or unbalanced weaponry. It is from lack of organization. I had a discussion about this the other night with some guys in my outfit. From the leaderboards on myplanetside.com the #1 vanu outfit for number of members has 632 people as I am writing this. That outfit has a total of 349330 outfit points. That is about half the points that the #1 NC and TR outfits have. Those NC and TR outfits also have less than half of the number of people.

Now, the top 5 vanu outfits for number of members total over 1800 people. The top five for the TR is barely over 1000, and NC is just under 1000. We all know that this isn't because the vanu have alot more members overall than the nc or tr. So what does that mean? The vanu have roughly 800 more people in the 'verg' outfits than NC or TR, and the NC and TR have that many more people in more organized outfits (these are obviously rough estamates on numbers based just on those top five, but the proportions do seem to be accurate). Now I don't mean any disrespect to the people in the extremly large outfits, but I know people that are in some of them and I know that they don't have the same kind of organization as the smaller outfits.

So mabey the problem with the vanu isn't that they are unbalanced or lacking in skill. Just organized outfits. Playing with the same people every day can build a kind of teamwork that can accomplish so much more than just joining the biggest outfit and getting into the 1st squad that invites you.