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Fashionable Jorts
Jan 18, 2010

Maybe if I'm busy it could keep me from you



GreatMrPopo posted:

Was there a goonfleet presence in Dust 514? Am I the only person that remembers that class based online shooter exclusive to the PS3?

I actually enjoyed that game, for what it was, kinda miss my one character.

Dust was such a cool concept, but making it a ps3 exclusive was pretty much asking for it to die.

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downout
Jul 6, 2009

FruitNYogurtParfait posted:

also I tried to get the GBS mod that was in goonfleet at the time of the bfm thing to perma bfm here but he ignored it and I didn't bring it up on the forums directly b/c importing drama was still crazy bannable

Later when I saw he was playing archeage I tried to get people who could literally see the goonfleet threads and were playing archeage to get rid of him and they didn't.
So the only reason he got banned from SA at all is because I was bitching about him in the dota IRC channel and zoolooman saw and immediately hit me up asking if I was being serious and for any proof, bfm was permaed like an hour later

What's the "bfm thing"? Sorry I probably missed a few pages.

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle





downout posted:

What's the "bfm thing"? Sorry I probably missed a few pages.

Former goon "Bob From Marketing". He was one of the goons that would go to iceland for the annual EVE thing, where he was grooming a 15 or 16 year old kid. Got her to send him nude photos. Posted the nude photos on a goonfleet.com sub-forum. While his relationship with the girl may or may not have been illegal in Iceland, posting CSAM to an american message board was super illegal and the webmaster went spare when he found out about it. Which got BFM kicked from goonfleet, and I think got porn (or maybe just home grown?) banned from the forum as well. It was a pretty big deal.

So when a "Bob From Marketing" showed up in another MMO goon guild years later some people thought it was just edgy goon humour to use the name of a known pedo, some people had never heard of the incident, and at least a few people in the guild were old friends from his EVE days who knew it was him but didn't think it was a problem that's he'd posted private photos of a teenager at some point in the past. When people who knew the whole story brought it up it took the new guild leadership a few days to respond (because, again, most non-EVE goons didn't know) and everything blew up.

Turned out no one from EVE had ever bothered to report him here, or possibly it was ignored as "importing off-site drama", so his SA account was in good standing. A mature SA account in good standing was the minimum requirement to get into most goon guilds. When it blew up in the second MMO the story did make it back here and his SA account was permabanned.

CaptainTofu
Jun 1, 2021

I recall the first time a very baby goonfleet of maybe 20 people raided Syndicate, and we (Black Omega) ended up taking them under our wing, helping to turn it into the absolute eve destroying juggernaut it was. I maintain that this is one of the most hilarious things to ever happen in gaming. The old guard alliances, who we were mostly already at war with anyway after the breakdown of 5ive, absolutely hated that poo poo.

Also I'm still irl friends with Suas/Kia Tolon and he's eve free and doing good.

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

I got to experience a Suas guitar serenade live and that was the most worthwhile thing I got out of my GF stint.

left very soon after digi attempted to out someone as gay because of stupid internet drama.

downout
Jul 6, 2009

Facebook Aunt posted:

Former goon "Bob From Marketing". He was one of the goons that would go to iceland for the annual EVE thing, where he was grooming a 15 or 16 year old kid. Got her to send him nude photos. Posted the nude photos on a goonfleet.com sub-forum. While his relationship with the girl may or may not have been illegal in Iceland, posting CSAM to an american message board was super illegal and the webmaster went spare when he found out about it. Which got BFM kicked from goonfleet, and I think got porn (or maybe just home grown?) banned from the forum as well. It was a pretty big deal.

So when a "Bob From Marketing" showed up in another MMO goon guild years later some people thought it was just edgy goon humour to use the name of a known pedo, some people had never heard of the incident, and at least a few people in the guild were old friends from his EVE days who knew it was him but didn't think it was a problem that's he'd posted private photos of a teenager at some point in the past. When people who knew the whole story brought it up it took the new guild leadership a few days to respond (because, again, most non-EVE goons didn't know) and everything blew up.

Turned out no one from EVE had ever bothered to report him here, or possibly it was ignored as "importing off-site drama", so his SA account was in good standing. A mature SA account in good standing was the minimum requirement to get into most goon guilds. When it blew up in the second MMO the story did make it back here and his SA account was permabanned.

Well I wasn't expecting that.

Lets Get Patchy
Aug 8, 2006
It died when Hole Squad (Squid, 3rd iteration) was denied a rapier loss, resulting in Garnt, eventually mimi (good morning) being blasted into the void.

Thunder Moose
Mar 7, 2015

S.J.C.
We're still here. Waffe is even only a semi-retirement home now.

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle





downout posted:

Well I wasn't expecting that.

Always more, always worse.

drilldo squirt
Aug 18, 2006

a beautiful, soft meat sack
Clapping Larry

Thunder Moose posted:

We're still here. Waffe is even only a semi-retirement home now.

Probate this guy for still being in goonfleet.

Thunder Moose
Mar 7, 2015

S.J.C.
:negative:

GoonGPT
May 26, 2006

Posting for a better future, today!
I'm probably remembering things incorrectly but as my time with GF was winding down because I couldn't stand the sounds of DBRBs voice anymore, i co lead a highly successful drunken gimmick ship raid with bfm (we all died).

At the tail end bfm started sharing some pictures on jabber of this girl he was seeing. I remember thinking that she looked awfully young and then like 2 days later he was booted and I was absolutely disgusted with being involved.

So I quit and never logged in again.

drilldo squirt
Aug 18, 2006

a beautiful, soft meat sack
Clapping Larry
Congrats on having standards.

Fabulousity
Dec 29, 2008

Fuck you say?
I was gonna ask who was that fleet commander that was angrily fall-down drunk for every operation he led but then I realized that was most of them. I think Tolon is the specific one I'm thinking of and he's gotta be six feet under by now perfectly preserved to this day by a supernatural blood alcohol concentration that makes embalming fluid look like Gatorade.

CaptainTofu
Jun 1, 2021

As mentioned earlier, I know Tolon/Suas irl and he is both sober and eve free, amazingly.

Definitely who you're thinking of though.

MJP
Jun 17, 2007

Are you looking at me Senpai?

Grimey Drawer
I am morbidly curious if any goonfleet types ever read the book that someone wrote about the Eve wars, which apparently has spawned a second volume: https://www.empiresofeve.com/

I wasn't in goonfleet and tried Eve only for a month or so a year ago, but I love reading about SA stuff and culture taking up residence elsewhere online. I would pay good money for more books of war stories or oral history of goonfleet and related side projects.

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

MJP posted:

I am morbidly curious if any goonfleet types ever read the book that someone wrote about the Eve wars, which apparently has spawned a second volume: https://www.empiresofeve.com/

I wasn't in goonfleet and tried Eve only for a month or so a year ago, but I love reading about SA stuff and culture taking up residence elsewhere online. I would pay good money for more books of war stories or oral history of goonfleet and related side projects.

unfortunately a lot of that book was sourced from the now cancelled alleged sex creep Mittani who was really into self mythologizing so it'll be hard to do another book. I think the era of big mythic stories is probably over.

GoonGPT
May 26, 2006

Posting for a better future, today!
If anyone has a link to the Ottoman art inspired telling of the Scouring of Delve that would be fantastic.

I ride bikes all day
Sep 10, 2007

I shitposted in the same thread for 2 years and all I got was this red text av. Ask me about my autism!



College Slice
Glad to hear SUAS is alive and kicking. Little Bees still makes me smile.

The Artificial Kid
Feb 22, 2002
Plibble

CaptainTofu posted:

I recall the first time a very baby goonfleet of maybe 20 people raided Syndicate, and we (Black Omega) ended up taking them under our wing, helping to turn it into the absolute eve destroying juggernaut it was. I maintain that this is one of the most hilarious things to ever happen in gaming. The old guard alliances, who we were mostly already at war with anyway after the breakdown of 5ive, absolutely hated that poo poo.

Also I'm still irl friends with Suas/Kia Tolon and he's eve free and doing good.

When you find yourself inside a bubble
Hold your cloooak and wait for me
Always follow orders, little bees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-m-0RlqMHM

Has there ever been a video game guild with higher production values than Goonswarm?

The Artificial Kid fucked around with this message at 11:08 on Mar 26, 2025

I ride bikes all day
Sep 10, 2007

I shitposted in the same thread for 2 years and all I got was this red text av. Ask me about my autism!



College Slice

The Artificial Kid posted:

Has there ever been a video game guild with higher production values than Goonswarm?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDr182CXeL0

Nope

Charles Bukowski
Aug 26, 2003

Taskmaster 2023 Second Place Winner

Grimey Drawer
I used to play a glorified spreadsheet based browser game called Astro Empires with goons. Eve without the graphics, all the drama. We had hundreds of goons playing across multiple servers about 20 years ago.

i am harry
Oct 14, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 7 days!
everything started to go bad when i left

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle





i am harry posted:

everything started to go bad when i left

It's all your fault.

wizard2
Apr 4, 2022
https://www.wired.com/2008/01/mf-goons/

I found this Wired article back when Google still worked looking up darker stuff about MUD, Warcraft, Second Life harassment

it's just a prank, bro

some truly grim quotes by Lowtax within

I wonder how those three EVE goons are doing?

CuddleCryptid
Jan 11, 2013

Things could be going better

wizard2 posted:

https://www.wired.com/2008/01/mf-goons/

I found this Wired article back when Google still worked looking up darker stuff about MUD, Warcraft, Second Life harassment

it's just a prank, bro

some truly grim quotes by Lowtax within

I wonder how those three EVE goons are doing?

This being a time capsule to a different age is fun but it also sounds like it was written by an alien. It also seems to make the common mistake of thinking that a "$10,000 spaceship" means that the owner actually paid ten grand directly to make it, which isn't how that works.

Griefing people's stuff is lame, especially when it's their own space that they created for their own enjoyment. That said, it's almost quaint to hear about people griefing digital slumlords and presidential candidates rather than what happens today, ie finding some random powerless person and making their lives hell 24/7 until they commit suicide.

wizard2
Apr 4, 2022
I read Wired Magazine for years. my dad would get used copied from his CAD team after they were finished laughing at it. even in 2008, they still had a really corny oh golly gee wiz Web 1.0 tone, similar to those books that would describe 100 webpages you could visit on the World Wide Web.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

CuddleCryptid posted:

Griefing people's stuff is lame, especially when it's their own space that they created for their own enjoyment. That said, it's almost quaint to hear about people griefing digital slumlords and presidential candidates rather than what happens today, ie finding some random powerless person and making their lives hell 24/7 until they commit suicide.

Oh don't worry, they did plenty of that back in the day too.

CuddleCryptid
Jan 11, 2013

Things could be going better

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Oh don't worry, they did plenty of that back in the day too.

Oh sure, just off the top of my head there is a reason why Christine Chandler is the way that she is. But at least it wasn't the *only* thing they did

kaschei
Oct 25, 2005

The Artificial Kid posted:

When you find yourself inside a bubble
Hold your cloooak and wait for me
Always follow orders, little bees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-m-0RlqMHM

Has there ever been a video game guild with higher production values than Goonswarm?

I only know of one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCZn61K4pT8

kaschei fucked around with this message at 18:02 on May 14, 2025

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Charles Bukowski posted:

I used to play a glorified spreadsheet based browser game called Astro Empires with goons. Eve without the graphics, all the drama. We had hundreds of goons playing across multiple servers about 20 years ago.
Did Astro Empires involve sending fleets at certain hours and then waiting like 5 hours for them to reach and scanning before your fleet arrives to check if it's a bad idea? Because I also played that but not with goons

Like, what it was like 24 years ago, not what it is now

Mr Wall Street
Jul 15, 2008

Tattoos? On MY black quarterback?
I think you're thinking of OGame.

Fashionable Jorts
Jan 18, 2010

Maybe if I'm busy it could keep me from you



Mr Wall Street posted:

I think you're thinking of OGame.

Ogame ruled because I could pop into the computer lab at school to update my tasks, thus making me one of the top players in the game.

The ability to log in twice a day was broken as hell, I wonder if they ever patched that.

evobatman
Jul 30, 2006

it means nothing, but says everything!
Pillbug

CannonFodder posted:

Did Astro Empires involve sending fleets at certain hours and then waiting like 5 hours for them to reach and scanning before your fleet arrives to check if it's a bad idea? Because I also played that but not with goons

Like, what it was like 24 years ago, not what it is now

The biggest one (at least for my group) was Planetarion, and I think the biggest competitor was Hyperium.

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

evobatman posted:

The biggest one (at least for my group) was Planetarion, and I think the biggest competitor was Hyperium.
Planetarion rings a bell, I think it was that. Thanks!

Rick
Feb 23, 2004
When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

Mr Wall Street posted:

I think you're thinking of OGame.

drat I haven’t thought about that in ages.

Saint Celestine
Dec 17, 2008

Lay a fire within your soul and another between your hands, and let both be your weapons.
For one is faith and the other is victory and neither may ever be put out.

- Saint Sabbat, Lessons
Grimey Drawer
Good loving riddance to this game that took up a year of my life.

lolman
Jan 7, 2023

a real newbie

Kazinsal posted:

goonswarm is run by reddit pubbies now. technically there's still an actual SA goon at the top but he lets the reddit pubbies dictate everything the alliance does

the now goonswarm is TEST?

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SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva
the main things i remember from eve are

this dude trying to use an industrial ship to mine and getting fried
loving poo poo up in a destroyer / cruiser
trying to figure out how to set up planetside bases
poaching rare farts and turds from someone's wormhole
someone tried to use goonfleets rep to autopilot a freighter and got blown up so i stole all the loot
it was ok but not really that amazing in retrospect
sexual criminals like scifi and weird authority complexes or something which makes it all dramatically worse

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