EVE General Discussion

OP, you may be interested in these interviews by Eve Uni:
http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/EVE_University_Class_Library#Special_Q.26A.27s_with_The_Heads_of_Various_Other_Corps_and_Alliances

The interview with The Mittani is especially interesting and takes you through a very brief overview of the history of Goons.

Also a good read for you:
https://wiki.pleaseignore.com/wiki/Dreddit_Corporation_History

The landscape of Eve is a flat, nearly featureless dystopian plain dotted with the sand castles of self important potentates who gather sychphants and drones around them while they play at being king of the sandbox.

Actually I think that makes nullsec sound like a lot more fun than it normally is.

At present all of sovereign null is divided pretty neatly down the middle between two groups, which basically sucks for everyone - them included. Unfortunately, the mess that is the Dominion Sov System (which everyone who actually played the game agreed was a Bad Idea™) is the root cause of many of the problems, and until CCP fixes that, nullsec players will continue to farm Providence and High Sec looking for content that doesn't really satisfy.

The current state of the game is a bit like going from a world class wine with every meal to drinking nothing but grape juice. It's not terrible, but you long for the days when it was better.

To the OP, you'll notice that most of the players in Eve are bittervets who log on to Eve in order to be able to play World of Tanks with their friends, who they have flown with for years, and who will take every possible measure to pidgeonhole you as an idiot or a spy or in some other way be negative toward you, scam you, kill you, and lie about you and ruin you. As a new player I strongly suggest you look at the HERO coalition (TEST, BRAVE, HONOR, and some other alliances) who are the only nullsec group where this attitude doesn't prevail. Highseccers are usually loners who don't talk much though good groups do come along. Like the poster said about Wormholers, Faction Warfare is a generally unbroken part of Eve that has it's own world and politics. Goonswarm claims to represent noobs but actually they are not Eve players, but rather gamers who have met through an out of game forum and are only in our game to ruin our game. Any recruitment effort from them in this game is a scam. Do not join them if there are any strings attached (there will be).

As others have said, nullsec is divided among CFC and N3 as well as Provibloc who live because CFC and N3 let them and HERO. If you want to go to null I can only recommend HERO. Otherwise putter around in high and low and FW.

The truth will NOT be found in the forums.

Most players have never even been here.

Also, be sure to check out greedygoblin.blogspot.com for some wisdom.

And finally: GRRRRRR GOONS!!!!!!!!!!!

Being a 9-year WoW vet, I get how playing the same MMO for an extended period of time can grind down on you. It becomes a force of habit to log on, muck around doing your chores, and not really focusing on the whole purpose of a game - to have fun.

I'd be surprised if there were EVE vets that are having as much of a blast than when they first started out. It's natural. Not worried at all about being pidgeon-holed by people (why do so many people think I am an alt?). Forum banter is very amusing for me, and I'll get more out of it once I have some game experience under my belt.

Not quite sure what direction I will take, but I do assume I'll end up with my favoured (<--- Canadian detected, where's my Tims?) underdog side. Thanks for the suggestions, BTW.

I came here looking for the join. Bad BAIT
AND SWITCH!

We are talking null and more specifically goons here , since when does anyone have a reall objective non-biased vision on that.