• High Security Space, where NPC empires enforce peace and the NPC police Concord enforce the appearance of security. A "neutral" ground for players to engage in commerce and production and for clever girls (hi globby) to extract mountains of salt from the bleating of pubbies who don't understand the basic fact that Concord punishes crime. It doesn't prevent it.
  
• Low Security Space, where the tentative peace of the empires break down. Dominated by small gangs of extortionists pirates and players enrolled in NPC Faction militias; all trying their best to establish pockets of hegemony and stability. CCP has recently tried to increase the value of these regions by seeding certain types of basic minerals that are primarily found there, resulting in lowsec space actually being viable to live in for small to medium sized groups and having more things to "do" other than bot faction warfare sites and camp gates. Now there's actual honest to god mining there.
  
• Null Security Space, where vast, player-controlled empires rise and fall as they jostle for influence, resources, and renown. This is where you can find The Goon.
  
• Wormhole Space Above, below and through-out the zones outlined above, wormhole space is different things to different people. For many, wormhole space is a highway that can trim a 40+ jump trip down to 3 or 4 hops. For others, wormhole space are scary holes where bad man come from to savage peaceful krabbing encounters. For still others, it's a cozy little hobbit hole far removed from the hubbub and flexing of null security politics... at least until the wormhole cartels start eyeing your cozy hole for rental to russian or chinese botting farms.
  
• Abyssal Space. A relatively recent addition, abyssal space is Eve's version of an instanced dungeon. You go in, do a thing for up to 20 minutes, and exit with a pile of loot. Some of which can be sold for cash, other items are lucrative on the market to feed the gambling addictions of eve billionaires and trillionaires.
  
• Pochven. This space used to be a mixture of high security and low security systems. However, some triangle men got into a fight with some electricity men, and they disappeared their 27 systems into their own disconnected region that you get to by use of filaments and wormholes. The triangle men love triangles, so you see 27 systems are 3 x 9 and 9 is 3 x 3 so you see triangles everywhere. This has resulted in some hilarity in the eve universe. The trip from Jita to Amarr (two of the major market hubs in eve) used to be just 9 jumps away through high security space. Now a "safe" high security route is 45 jumps. Pochven has also led to some new social norms being discovered. See, for most of SA and EVE's coexistence, you could discover individuals with truly terrible poorly thought out opinions with just two facts: 1) Their SA forum name started with a D and 2) They posted in the Eve Online thread. Now, we can safely add a third fact to the list: 3) They post in the Eve thread about how great Pochven is. Narrator's voice: It isn't. Look, in my real life job, I bleed IT Azure DevOps. I get hard thinking about CI/CD pipelines. I'm all about agile development, iterations, and MVPs. It is a stretch to call Pochven an MVP. The system showers isk on a very small number of people in a poorly veiled attempt to gloss over how half-assed and incomplete the entire system is. If you are one of the 15-45 people making stupid amounts of isk, it's great. If you are not in the hand-shake cabal of sycophants slobbering to suckle from black and red veined teat of the triangle men, it's a waste of time and effort.
  

• Outposts were replaced with citadels. There are many different sizes and types, but overall, it's been a great improvement to making nullsec and lowsec space livable.
  
• Third-party gambling sites were replaced with the Hypernet. So, you can now legitimately gamble in Eve online inside of the client. There are methods to stacking the deck in your favor, but honestly, it's a function I completely ignore. Some people really like it though.
  
• Abyssal space. As I mentioned before, abyssal space has a chance to drop "mutaplasmids." These little darlings can unpredictably modify regular eve modules in unusual ways. Most of the time it makes your module crap, but sometimes you get some way better than officer level items. These items can be hard to value, but can swing small gang and solo encounters heavily in your favor. Ostensibly it scratches that random loot grind POE/Diablo itch, but in reality, it's after midnight and you wonder where all your billions of isk went while you stare at a pile of crap modules.
  
• Pochven. 27 solar systems serving as a gigantic honeypot for the literal worst human beings logging into this terrible game.
  
• Filaments. These little babies can take you and a few close friends yeeting across the galaxy looking for content. Great fun for an evening of jumping across the eve universe looking for dummies to kill and eventually being blobbed to your glorious death. These are a legit good addition to the game that give you that "evening of content" option that Eve has seriously lacked.
  
• Black-Ops battleships can now jump other black ops battleships and anything around them with a covert cloak to a covert cyno. This is amazing. You haven't lived until your Panther jumps a bunch of fully-capped neut Redeemers on an enemy cap and you suck it dry, murder it, and cloak before anyone can respond.
  
• Marauders are actually good. Yeah, paladins in delve have the biggest of BDE.
  
• Supercarriers can fit a module so that people who take a certain long-lasting drug when they are podded they reappear next to the supercarrier in system, where they can hop into a new ship and fly back into the fight. Did I mention supercarriers can be tethered to a citadel while that module is on? Because it can.
  
• POS. Yeah, POS are still a thing.
  
• Pipe bombing is still a thing. It goes by various names, but a popular one is done with Proteus. This gem of an image was generated from the sweet, sweet local chat dropped by a member of Fraternity who was very upset by how many corm fleets we had deleted off the map:
  

MOD EDIT :

Yeah, I can't really recommend any particular group in Eve right now. The up-to-a-few-days-ago defacto SA organization, Goonswarm Federation, is undergoing some things right now as they grapple with what kind of organization they want to be as it pertains to harassment of minority groups. Those reforms are in draft and have yet to be published. Organizational leadership shuffles are in flux and who knows what the result will be. As new organizations are created and other organizations are reformed, I'll adjust here in consultation with the moderators and some others. For now, I just recommend sitting back and reading a thread that went from something like 8 pages to 96 in 4 days.


Goonswarm Federation: GoonWaffe

What is GoonWaffe?
GoonWaffe is our engine of economic, political, and military domination. A baroque construct of weaponized space-socialism intended to give you, the common goon, immediate access to everything that EVE has to offer. Our worker’s paradise is built on the shattered remains of those who would deny Goons a place in New Eden. Over a decade of pubbie tears grease the treads of our war-machine. We have gathered the hard-won lessons of our often incompetent and comical bumbling, and dedicated them to sanding off EVE’s rough edges, mentoring newbees, and making the experiences that set EVE apart as immediate and accessible as possible.

lol, and dare I say it, lmao. I'm not going to whisper sweet nothings into your ear while fingering your butthole like Querns did. Goonwaffe is a shell of a corporation that serves as the defacto holding corporation for the entire alliance. Goon logistics, ship replacement, industry, and fleet command hangers run through this corp. Anyone who is anyone space important in the alliance no matter what corporation they originally came from probably has an alt in Goonwaffe to be able to do their space job. There is no formal "corporate" leadership, no mentorship program, and nobody there to hold your hand at the corporate level. That's not to say there are not distinct advantages such as:

• Nobody is there forcing you to log in every day. In fact, the "activity" requirements to remain in Goonwaffe are dead easy. Have done at least one of the following things in the past 60 days? Made a post on goonfleet.com, logged into jabber, logged into mumble? Congrats, you are still in! Staying in Goonwaffe is as simple as being engaged in the community.
  
• No paps/dkp/fleet requirements. Go on our ops or not. Your call. As long as you stay engaged in the community you are in.
  
• Nobody expects anything from you. No seriously. If you have a goonwaffe tag you are assumed to be some jaded, mildly (majorly?) bitter war veteran who drinks and knows things, but is often too burdened with ennui to do any of them.
  

If you want Goonwaffe to work for you, you need to join an alliance SIG (special interest group) or Social group. Or be a solitary bushido warrior like this guy:


Some of the currently active groups:

• GEF - Goon Expeditionary Force. This is a group that gets spun up for a specific campaign, it does it's thing, it's then purged and goes dormant for a bit, until the next mobilization campaign of less than full strength is needed.
  
• Recon - Be the eyes of the Swarm. Changes to the game have made scouting more important than ever.
  
• Pathfinders - We have a pretty cool app that makes mapping wormhole connections and getting from point A to point B easy-peasy. However, it needs people like you diving into strange holes to find the way.
  
• GSOL - GoonSwarm Offensive Logistics - Truckers and construction workers in space. Be a vertebra in the spine of our organization. (lol you fuel pos and citadels and do boring bitch work putting ratting upgrades in ihubs for whining ungrateful bitches). But seriously it's thankless but vital work.
  
• Corps Diplomatique - Yes, this game has diplomacy, and yes, it is important. Your honeyed tongue and sharp intuition deliver more damage and mend more fences than any in-game action ever could.
  
• The Black Hand - Dedicated to espionage, sowing sedition, and controlling the metagame.
  
• Insurgent Squad - Kind of like the black hand but with a more tactical mindset. You join enemy alliances and gently caress with their markets, their fleets, their logistics and just make their day-to-day tactical lives miserable.
  
• Locust Swarm - Mining ships in a swarm mining together in true hive happiness.
  
• Delta Squad - Play FFXIV with us and dial your fury (not furry) to 11 at even the slightest scent of drama.
  
• Welp Squad - Several FCs of low to middling ability and a distinct lack of self-control regularly go and crash cheap poo poo into random walls. Fun times for people that just want things to go boom.
  
• Social Swarms - Lawyer? Gay (no, really, actually gay?) Fat? ? We’ve got you (and many more not listed here) covered.
  

Is There Some Sort Of Manual?
The Goonwiki is one of the most complete guides to EVE online.

GoonWaffe FAQ:
IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT ANYTHING NOT COVERED HERE EMAIL newbies@goonfleet.com

What are the requirements to join GoonWaffe?

• Are you an active poster of the SomethingAwful community? If you think you are, you're probably not and you should post more.
  
• Do you have a SomethingAwful account of at least 3 months in age?
  
• Were you banned/probated for some creepy MRA/Furry/Rape poo poo? Yes we kinkshame here so
  

Ok, I'm not a J4G, I want into Goonwaffe. Now what?
Go read this helpful wiki entry, and it will guide you through the steps to join!
Are you Vacationed and want to come back to GoonWaffe?? (This means your forum group says Vacationer or Member on GF.com)
https://wiki.goonfleet.com/Joining_GoonWaffe_101 can also help you! Follow the steps for Process B or C, whichever applies to you.
Against All The Odds I'm In Now What?
Yet again, there is a wiki page full of helpful advice. Key amongst these is to follow the advice on how to crack Eve's unwillingness to let you talk to others and open the GS_Help channel.

What's Eve 2022 like?

If you aren't aware we pretty much won a giant war of attrition lasting over a year against 3/4 of the rest of eve. We unjustifiably found ourselves in a position we'd rather not be in... but... you know... We got out of that war with a massive numbers advantage in supercarriers and titans, and we've been using that edge to wave some BDE at anyone that thinks to come in range of our tantrum radius. This is because Eve "promoted" the dipshit that drove Dust 514 into the ground as the Eve product manager, and he's uniquely unsuited for the position. As a result, nobody is currently building supercarriers and titans, so our numbers advantage remains just that for the immediate and near future. One of CCP's more boneheaded decisions was to inject PI into the building of battleships, supercarriers and titans. "Wyverns made of water" while a funny meme, has more than a drop or two of truth to it.

So we spent the first few quarters of the year cleaning out the trash in the closest southeast regions of the map. I think we burned down everything in like 3 or 4 regions. Right as that was wrapping up, PAPI made the mistake of poking one of our allies, so we've tantrum deployed the entire Imperium on top of FI.RE coalition and are purging them from the map. PAPI promptly and unironically declared all of FI.RE coalition to be a floodplain and have been "vigorously advancing to the rear." So technically we are at war... in much the same way that one could compare the extinction of the dodo to a war.

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