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Moon Atari posted:The game seems profoundly boring, but I do enjoy the highlight reel articles that come out every now and then. But my one question is how, even for people who enjoy a spreadsheet simulator, it can be at all fun to play if goonswarm is so dominant? Doesn't that just mean you have the choice of either being wrecked by them or joining with them–which as far as I can tell means you are exploited by some sort of multilayered bureaucracy of more powerful players? From an outsider's perspective it also sounds like those more powerful players have developed a kind of lowtaxian style of administration. goonswarm has not been at the top all the time, we got our asses kicked in 2016 in a similar war of annihilation called the "casino war" or the first "World War Bee". in 2016 goonswarm was nearly destroyed, an alliance of every player in EVE attacked us and conquered all of our space. we have been preparing over the last 3 years, mining building up a Super Capital fleet to make sure that never happens again. https://www.polygon.com/2016/6/8/11875960/world-war-bee-over-the-imperium-the-mittani-casino quote:The community in Eve Online has been at war for months now. World War Bee, as players refer to it, has seen a mercenary-led faction called the Moneybadger Coalition move against one of the game's largest player-led organizations, called The Imperium, in a bid to drive them from the Northern part of the map. After weeks of bloody battles, including the most deadly engagement in the game's 13-year history, World War Bee appears to be over. what is happening now is World War Bee part 2 
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Goon for you OP, it's a pity you don't have any audio clips of pubbies losing their poo poo over an overly complex online JPEG simulator. I need the audio to get my juices flowing.
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Jan 1, 2021 14:52
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As a veteran of the aluminum war, the conquest of delve, the pr- hellcamp, the first fall of goon delve, etc. I really hope all of mittani's pubbie vassals can pull together to save the homeland
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Jan 1, 2021 15:02
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Suddenly thinking about that one goon who tried invoking copyright laws as a cudgel against being made fun of for a godawful EVE speech leading to all discussion of EVE being banned for some time and laughing really hard again
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Jan 1, 2021 17:49
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Hah, I ended up in A BOB affilaited industrial alliance because I played eve before I was a good and hence my account wasn’t old enough to join, however during the goon invasion of delve I liked to think I did my part by defueling a bunch of stations that were on BOBs jump network, before finally leaving eve about a month after. Last time I logged in like 3 months ago I got told by the game my production order of 25k hornet 1 drones was done.
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Jan 1, 2021 18:18
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I am so proud to be somewhat sorta kinda indirectly related to the dominance in these space games...maybe
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Jan 1, 2021 18:28
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FruitNYogurtParfait posted:yes, do you still want to gently caress and kiss a nissan 350z , he probably died of drugs or something irl, lol no It was a 370z which I liked a lot (but didn’t gently caress or kiss it) and sadly, I have moved on. Who are you?
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Jan 1, 2021 18:30
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As someone who ran fleet ops for the Aus/NZ Timezone. Good luck goons. Give em hell.
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Jan 1, 2021 19:21
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How many goons have had titans destroyed? Or is this just like where goons zergrush powers take hold? Is there ways to get these things and not spend 1300 on pixels?
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Are POSes completely gone now? I enjoyed the stories about their un-commented code written by a dev who disappeared, resulting in that one notorious POS that would fire at random, friendly or enemy.
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tater_salad posted:How many goons have had titans destroyed? Or is this just like where goons zergrush powers take hold? goons lost 124 titans in the last battle, slightly more than our opponents. most people get a titan by mining minerals for many many months and years, you only pay $1300 if you want to skip the poop-socking Animal-Mother posted:Are POSes completely gone now? I enjoyed the stories about their un-commented code written by a dev who disappeared, resulting in that one notorious POS that would fire at random, friendly or enemy. POS are still in the game because CCP dont know how the code works and if they remove it the entire game will implode
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Jan 2, 2021 00:55
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Rutibex posted:goons lost 124 titans in the last battle, slightly more than our opponents. most people get a titan by mining minerals for many many months and years, you only pay $1300 if you want to skip the poop-socking reminds me of the time someone who never played the game whaled for one and immediately lost it
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Jan 2, 2021 00:58
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tater_salad posted:Is there ways to get these things and not spend 1300 on pixels? yeah, spend 200-400 hours grinding in game to afford one or scam someone into giving you their life savings by promising them that you're just processing their application to goonswarm and yell "toodeloo motherfucker" as you take their money and vanish or be smart enough at market economics that you can invest your way to riches while the peons do the work for you or know more about the game than the devs who make it (note: this is not difficult) so you can monopolize a resource ahead of some change that will increase its value by 100x, or exploit a poorly-designed feature to make more of a money sub-type than literally everyone else in the game had made, for the whole history of the game, all put together (5 goons actually did this, they had to freeze and revert their accounts to prevent it from wrecking the game forever)
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dont fly titans because youll never be able to use them for anything outside of major battles. theyre called coffins for a reason. every titan pilot has another character so they can actually do poo poo day to day
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Klyith posted:yeah, spend 200-400 hours grinding in game to , or exploit a poorly-designed feature to make more of a money sub-type than literally everyone else in the game had made, for the whole history of the game, all put together (5 goons actually did this, they had to freeze and revert their accounts to prevent it from wrecking the game forever) Wait what I thought the Devs were pretty hands off for this kind of poo poo. Did they compensate them in some way?
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Jan 2, 2021 01:06
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theyre hands off for everything except major bug exploits and like hard r racism in local chat
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i had a titan once, but i sold it in a crooked raffle and made 50 billion isk. thats the best use for them
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ugh i havent played in years. now i kind of want to. i was like a month away from being able to fly a logi cap
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Jan 2, 2021 01:14
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The only thing I can imagine being more boring than playing Eve online is if you worked on it as an employee. Was there ever a proper sequel, or did they just keep adding new spreadsheet tabs and call it a day?
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Jan 2, 2021 01:43
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Are you boys having fun with your nintendo games?
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is there an estimate for the total value of the goonswarm's assets? e: whats one of those keepstar things worth? BasicLich fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Jan 2, 2021 |
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Telsa Cola posted:Wait what I thought the Devs were pretty hands off for this kind of poo poo. Did they compensate them in some way? They ruled that it was an illegal bannable exploit rather than legit gameplay. Which was kinda a stretch, but seeing as the faction 5 had made enough money to ruin one part of the game for large numbers of other players, I can see why they kinda had to. But as the faction 5 had already used the bug & exploit report tool to tell the devs about the flaw, and gotten zero response, they instead were rewarded with the token gift that you get for reporting exploits. IIRC a couple months subscription time. Far less than the infinity billion dollars they made, but at least they weren't banned. (Actually it's even better: one of the guys had told the developer making the feature that these bad things were possible, while it was was still in development, straight to his face on CCP's own forum thread talking about the upcoming feature. I think the response was something like "that's not possible, it doesn't work that way". So basically the devs gave themselves an atomic wedgie and then blamed the goons for saying they shouldn't do that, it's gonna hurt.) Nuts and Gum posted:The only thing I can imagine being more boring than playing Eve online is if you worked on it as an employee. To work on it as an employee you have to live on a desolate cold rock in the north atlantic eating rotten shark, so yes that's automatically worse than playing it.
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BasicLich posted:is there an estimate for the total value of the goonswarm's assets? goonswarms total assets is a strategic secret  a keepstar is worth about the same price as two titans, depending on what rigs it has equiped
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Jan 2, 2021 02:50
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To this day project hulkageddon is my favorite mmo saga ever.
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Jan 2, 2021 03:02
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Can I play EVE on my Google Stadia
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Man I’ll watch Goons win anything Someday I hope to win at something (besides Worst Posts)
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I can't find it in the Play Store for my fire tablet
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Jan 2, 2021 03:12
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It's weird to think that the whole saga of Star Citizen exists mostly because frustrated EVE players who were repeatedly ganked/scammed by Goons needed some kind of rapture game they could finally be successful in.
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Rutibex posted:the final battle has begun, log in and defend goon space! Isn't B-R $200k so how is this less than that?
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Nah, goons weren't destroyed in 2016, just evicted. Worse thing it can happen now is they get evicted again to somewhere else. With keepstars and lowsec asset safety this isn't hard.Rutibex posted:goonswarm has not been at the top all the time, we got our asses kicked in 2016 in a similar war of annihilation called the "casino war" or the first "World War Bee". in 2016 goonswarm was nearly destroyed, an alliance of every player in EVE attacked us and conquered all of our space. we have been preparing over the last 3 years, mining building up a Super Capital fleet to make sure that never happens again.
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fubolicious posted:Isn't B-R $200k so how is this less than that? inflation  
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Rutibex posted:the thing they are attacking is a "keepstar" which is the biggest space castle in the game. normal alliances can afford maybe one or two for their capital system. goonswarm has over 60 keepstars. the one they are attacking right now is in a backwater nothing system. our capital system 1DQ has what is called the "Dyson Sphere" protecting the most important Keepstar (the one where the goonswarm market lives). this is a shell of 50+ faction space castles surrounding the capital keepstar. if they attacked our HQ they would not trade titans with us 50/50, it would be an utter slaughter. are there any screenshots of the Dyson swarm? Because that sounds kinda cool. I last logged on to EVE like 4-5 years ago after moving on from the game years prior to that. I lost my T3 cruiser about an hour later, salvaged the wreck, and logged off.
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Vernii posted:are there any screenshots of the Dyson swarm? Because that sounds kinda cool. i will take a screenshot of it when i return to the station. right now my character is strategically placed for round two of the titan apocalypse. their fleet is still trapped in space, and we think (from our spys ) they are going to log on tomorrow and try again to destroy the keepstar. we're not going to let them continue to exist  
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Jan 2, 2021 05:44
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I don't have microsoft office, buy I do have open office that can open spread sheets can I play Eve with you guys too (:
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GAYIDS posted:I don't have microsoft office, buy I do have open office that can open spread sheets can I play Eve with you guys too (: i think everyones moves on to google spreadsheets. easier to collaborate. get wit the times grandpa
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Jan 2, 2021 05:52
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your character is "strategically placed" to sit there cloaked and post on a messageboard rather than actually help defend your home lmbo
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Ad by Khad posted:your character is "strategically placed" to sit there cloaked and post on a messageboard rather than actually help defend your home lmbo posting is the front line 
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Jan 2, 2021 06:08
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I love poo poo like this in Eve. I played in Goonswarm awhile ago (like 2006 or 2007) and I got Doomsdayed in a Swarm attack and then decided this game wasn't for me.
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I used to play eve and really liked playing with two goons specifically: mpozoy and thecrate. Haven't talked to them in years and I hope they are well.
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So this is kind of like Habbo Hotel except with space ships? I support anything that you do that possibly costs other people money.
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