EVE General Discussion

Ever since I've heard of EVE, the most terrifying tale is that of Goonswarm.
After looking up their history, they had two Great Wars with an alliance called Band of Brothers, which was defeated. After that, CFC was born.
They seem to have their roots in the Something Awful forums. I've paid a visit there and no post seems to make sense. All their content seems to be primarily composed of stupidity, racism and homophobia. Their fleet is also made out of reckless players that have no moral qualities whatsoever. And now, I'm telling you, CFC: do you really want your alliance to be that low? An alliance represented by trolls and the lowest scum the Internet has seen? You are better than that!
Now, I want to initiate a lil' poll. Who disagrees with Goonswarm and who doesn't?

*Rant time over, question time

1) How does Goonswarm maintain influential control over the entire game?
2) What drives them to destroy the game?
3) Why are they unstoppable?
4) Why can't all the powerful alliances team up and end Goonswarm once and for all?
5) How does one kill a Goon?

Popcorn anyone?

(I can't do better than the popcorn gif in Sibyyl's signature, so I won't even try).

It was fun whilst it lasted!

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Some out of context quoting fun:

So I actually will try and answer without controversy.

So background, my corp at the time (yes this is an alt) was in Goonswarm just before the moved to null. I loved it but my corpmates found the "Something Awefull-ness style of community hard to adapt to. So we left mostly because ot that culture. Sad choice in my opinion.

Some quick observations, the goons attracted some of the smartest eve players around. So they often were the best at maximizing the pay offs for game mechanics. Over time they seemed to have the most effective tactics. They kept it fun for their members. They embrace the "evil" part of the game which makes them perfect for Eve. They have had some amazing success at the "meta" of Eve.

They net of it all is they are huge, own enough wealth producing wealth to have amassed a huge force. They are pretty much here to stay unless somehow they melt down on their own.

So if you want to play Eve, welcome to the goon's sandbox. They used smarts and numbers to build and kick down any sort of sand castle they want. Good thing? Bad thing? You have to decide for yourself but it can make things "ineresting" around the 'verse'.

To the specific questions:

1) How does Goonswarm maintain influential control over the entire game?
Numbers, ownership of huge wealth building pieces of space, smart people in the right places of their org.

2) What drives them to destroy the game?
They started out claiming they wanted to ruin the game, they are well past the and not are more of "they are the game".

3) Why are they unstoppable?
See "numbers, wealth, smart people where it matters and they keep it fun for the members".

4) Why can't all the powerful alliances team up and end Goonswarm once and for all?
If you could herd all those cats and keep them focused you could. Everyone keeps waiting for that leader that could do that.

5) How does one kill a Goon?
Target their ship with whatever your favorite weapons are and keep shooting. If you are better at that than them they pop just like the rest of us. In fact my primary corp had a few of their corpses on display. Put your mind to it most anyone can be made a corpscicle.

Good luck!!

TCB Baby!

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- they don't
- they're not trying to
- they're not
- who cares?
- you'd need to rally all of the miners, missioners and incursion runners in highsec

I almost forgot, I have great connections with the goon leadership. The best way to know your answers is to join them. I can make that happen for half what they normally charge! $500 million to me and I'll get all your stuff out to null and a full membership!

TCB!

Goons ruin everything.