Comments on: Goonswarm wants YOU

By: Nubilus

Nubilus — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:17:25 +0000

Goonfleet is #1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfv1QtZDirY&fmt=18

By: Gooncifer

Gooncifer — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:07:50 +0000

To the posted above, teh interwebs is serious business indeed.
My advice to the original poster is sign up, and dive in. You will soon find out which direction you want to take your charactor and a corp/allience to join.
Goonfleet is #1 - qoute this if your down

By: rgoff31

rgoff31 — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:31:05 +0000

I still don’t like the idea of the SA crowd and the /b/tard attitude being brought into a virtual world.

Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World
http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/magazine/16-02/mf_goons?currentPage=all

“The ability to inflict that huge amount of actual, real-life damage on someone is amazingly satisfying” says Houston. “The way that you win in EVE is you basically make life so miserable for someone else that they actually quit the game and don’t come back.”

“EVE is the only game I can think of in which morale is an actual quantifiable source of success,” Houston says. “It’s impossible to make another person stop playing or quit the game unless their spirit is, you know, crushed.” And what makes the Goons’ spirit ultimately uncrushable is knowing, in the end, that they’re actually playing a different game altogether. As one GoonFleet member’s online profile declared, “You may be playing EVE Online, but be warned: We are playing Something Awful.”

By: Ethic

Ethic — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:20:20 +0000

http://www.killtenrats.com/2005/10/12/interview-istvaan-shogaatsu/

By: James

James — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:24:40 +0000

News of that heist was what originally hooked my interest, too. I think I have some future blog entries to write about that (yeah, I know it’s old news…)

By: Havohej

Havohej — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:11:10 +0000

Hey James. I played WoW for 2 years, did the 70 thing, did the arena thing, did the huntard thing, and finally did the NOT a huntard thing (god how warlocks hated losing to an orc with a ghost saber from elf land). I had a blast with it, but then I saw this article about a heist that happened in EVE which would’ve gotten the guy banned from WoW. http://eve.klaki.net/heist/

I immediately downloaded the trial version and after 2 days, I was hooked. There is no *downtime to fly a nice ship unless you buy isk*. All you need is a good head on your shoulders. I’ve been playing for 5 months and already I’m running my own successful corporation in DEEP 0.0 space, flying battleships, flying two different types of advanced (tech 2) ships, and basically doing whatever the heck I want to do. The alliance I’ve gotten my corporation in happens to be friendly with goonswarm and the constellation of solar systems we own, complete with our own outpost, is actually only a few jumps away from one or two of GoonSwarm’s constellations.

I’ve done (and continue to do) all of this without ever having bought ISK. There’s no need.

All of the people trying to discourage you with how complicated it is or how hard it is just aren’t the type of people the game is geared towards, to be honest, and I don’t say that to be mean so I hope nobody takes it that way.

By: James

James — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:08:47 +0000

@nate-c: Sorry, I just found it in a forum, as well. Don’t have an original source for you.

By: nate_c

nate_c — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:06:24 +0000

Hi, I cited this poster in this document (politics of eve 0.0):

http://scratchpad.roaringshrimp.com/?p=84

If you have a more complete citation on its source I’d be interested in referencing it using that.