I remembered when I first joined Tau. The FIRST thing I heard in Skype right after Keelee sent me my invite to BridgeBurners was, "Hey, Meri, YOU can start taking all these inactives so we don't have to anymore. You need to get your city count up as fast as possible anyways." *haha*
What did I do? Instead of taking the inactives, I ran the INACTIVES OPS and rode everybody into the ground until our average inactive member 'gobbles' were over in 24 hours. That's ONE DAY. One day to eat 60 some odd cities. It took us about three inactive ops to get that fast and I'm sure everybody wanted to find my address and start sending me decapitated Barbi's for all the messages and griping I did in the forums when I saw anybody slowing down on the OP, but, it was a necessary evil. Man, the alliance HATED doing that, but, it's how we maintained our core throughout the server and held it till the end, and it also made it so we never lost ground and we kept pushing forward into enemy territories.
And yes, Keelee was a HUGE help in those OPs. He'd take them and then hand them off to others wanting to migrate to whatever ocean or area suited their playing style. But, I NEVER saw Keelee do just that. It was like every single night we were in Skype, I'd remember asking Keelee what was on the agenda tonight, and he'd say he was taking another enemy city. On top of all of the MVP for BB that he did, he ALSO took the time to teach every single one of us (in Skype) how to do those perfect snipes and send perfectly timed attacks/supports for a CS. I learned more from Keelee in a single month then I ever learned in the three years I've played this game. He helped me take my first hostile city (At the time, I only had two cities) and then he helped me take my second hostile city right afterwards. Due to my morale, it was a slaughter to all the UN that tried breaking that siege. I even named my city after how many LS that died failing to kill my CS.
Okay, it seems I'm waxing poetic about Keelee, and yes, I can count him as my top five favorite team members in this game and I also hold him in the highest regard as far as mentors go. But, I can't help it. The guy never had a wrong idea about anything when it came to choices or directions the alliance needed to go in.