Your point about victory being amorphous is entirely true. I tend to consider ‘winning’ to be holding our space because I’m a player-sov 0.0 dweller; on the other hand, we did lose a titan (not to mention Geminate — whether the eastern front should be considered a separate conflict is questionable). For an alliance like Tri that doesn’t actually hold space the famous “moving goalposts” of objectives that people tend to give, in decreasing order depending on how well or poorly they did — holding the field, positive isk ratio, accomplishing strategic objectives, and having goodfights — are all valid goals.

It does sound like we’ll be doing more tower-tearing-down, but I also see a lot more standing fleets for ratting and mining than ever before. There’s much less intensity to it than when we were in PB.

As a Razor member my understanding is that moving to Tribute was a redeployment in order to tear down enemy towers in Venal and Black Rise, rather than any sort of disengagement; I know I have spent a vast amount of time shooting towers in the weeks since we’ve come here, though things have slowed down lately.