EVE New Citizens Q&A

I live in provi. I am not a sov holder. I do what I want when I want and stuff happens around me.

I'm sure that if you wanted to fight goons you could find someone who is. However being part of or fighting the largest power block in all of null sec is not the only thing to do in null sec.

Instead of asking what everyone else is doing why don't you explain what it is that you like to do or are interested in trying and we'll give some advice on how to make that happen or where you can find it.

If you can find what you are looking for what do you care what the rest of null sec is doing?

There most certainly are smaller sov holding Alliances out there that do small and medium gang stuff.

I'm not sure why you keep focusing on the big power blocks if that's not something that you are into. I live in null sec full time and have for years. You mentioning "Imperium" is the first time that I've heard that name. I did not know what it was until you said it.

So once again I say what I said before focus on what you are looking for and not what everyone else is doing. I told you that once and you felt the need to re-state your question. IDK who imperium is. I'm not in that Alliance or Coalition or what ever it is so I can not comment on it. If you are not interested in being a part of it then why do you feel the need to keep re-framing the discussion around what you don't want?

Well in my humble opinion, you are either in goons or you dislike them like with any other alliance that made an imprint in EVEs history books (PL, BoB, MC, etc..)

As for the superpower - yes basically no one bothers to pick a fight because they are the biggest cow on the farm and removing them would take a lot of effort/coordination and time. So rather than fighting against them they just sit around and complain. Additionally the sov mechanics and the whole game has been broken for a while and ppl generally lost interest. Not the best climate to recruit ppl to put unreasonable amount of work and time into something that might eventually fail or take a very long time. Even if these hypothetical alliances win in the end, what would they have gained ? They would either die up again as PVPers look for the next big thing or replace goons as the biggest cow it is basically a no win scenario unless something drastic changes in the mechanics that would make it worthwhile.

Anyway until that day comes Goons and all the other pets will whore titans and cap ships to increase the threshold even further and make an attempt to fight them basically suicide. Some Goons have voiced an opinion lately that they don't get fights and are frustrated with that, so will be interesting if the famed goons stability fares in the long term.

You can read propaganda or you could play the game.

I do not know how much more precisely I can say this. The type of corp that you claim to be looking for is out there. The type of combat that you claim to be looking for is out there. I've told you probably about a dozen times to stop telling us what you don't want and start looking for what you do want and you keep coming back with telling us what you do not want.

Instead of whinning about goons in the NC Q&A you could be asking how to find a corp that you are looking for. But then again there is a sticky about that just above this post.

Or you could serf the recruiting section of the forum looking for a corp that might be a good fit.

I'll tell you that NRDS seems to be conducive to small and medium gang combat. The main places I can think to find that is the Provi block and the Pheobe Freeport Republic.

No one, two or three entities in game, even working together, are in a position where they can inflict strategic defeats on the Imperium in their home territory at present.

That doesn't make them invincible or unbeatable. Someone has to be top dog and the Imperium are it right now.

like all these "super powers" they are filled with alot of people who just know how to anchor up, hit f1 and do ratting, these are easy prey for alot of smaller groups who can do damage to them.

you dont need to beat them you just need to have fun and fun can be had with only a couple of people who know what they are doing. it amazes me what small organised, heavily outnumbered fleets can do against kitchen sink sov monkeys.

As said you aint going to really defeat them but you certainly do damage and provide yourself with fun.

Reading through this thread I kind of feel sorry for the op.

No wonder a lot of players don't actually post in these forums.

Seems paranoia and suspicion runs deep in this game.

If small gang stuff is your interest you might consider low-sec or even wormhole space as an alternative. Lowsec is very active and it's proximity to highsec means you end up fighting different groups pretty often as people roll through. Wormhole space is a whole different "wild west" type lifestyle, but it's also very fun.

One thing you should remember about large groups is they are harder to get mobilized. Just because goons are large doesn't mean you can't pick a fight with them. The vast majority of goons don't personally know or care about the small group you just attacked - whether or not they respond probably has more to do with whether they "feel like it" than any sort of loyalty to their alliance mates. This is one of the great things about small corps - there is a much better sense of community and loyalty that makes fights more meaningful than "everyone press F1, haha we're unstoppable goons".

Edit: And as far as being unstoppable, very few groups in EVE are actually beaten out of existence through combat. Most groups end up failscading due to morale or leadership issues instead. Goons have built a culture that lets them keep up morale by stoking the pride of being in the huge blob. Their leaders have proven quite good at this so far, but just like any organization it can crumble quite quickly if the people at the top stop maintaining it.

Ok, I'm still brand new at the sov game, but I'll take a stab at this. "The Imperium", aka Goonswarm and friends, are the top dog in nullsec sort of. In the sense that they have the most pilots by a wide margin, the most capital and super capital ships. Nobody can face them in a head to head war - the only way they could be directly attacked and removed from their space at this particular moment in the narrative would require more effort and diplomacy than anyone can be arsed to do - getting together 100 alliances, massaging the egos of all their CEOs, getting them all trained for the same doctrines and coordinating operations.

However, the thing about the Imperium is that they are deeply settled in the northern half of the map, and their primary activity and purpose is PVE, not PvP. The do PvP but it isn't their focus. Their focus is mainly to kill NPC rats, mine, extract moon goo, and generally to extract wealth from the space that they hold. They are extremely immobile. If you live on their borders they will probably attack you at some point and may even decide to keep your space. You will not be able to hold space that they want to take, but you may be able to wait until they get bored and leave, and then move back in. If you live on the opposite end of the map from them, they will have absolutely no impact on your game - they are not an expansionist power at all in that sense. Sometimes they get all riled up and invade Providence or something, but after awhile they will go home.

Apart from the Imperium there are several other entities of significance in nullsec. The Pandemic family (PL/Horde/waffles) are a confederation of three autonomous alliances with a PvP focus who are extremely mobile and much more interested in taking space than in holding it. We may pop up anywhere on the map at any time. CVA and their Provi bloc friends are another "we live in this one region (Providence)" sorts of groups. They do Amarr RP and are famous for being the only nullsec entity which possibly won't shoot you in the face if you happen to be in their space. Northern Coalition. and Northern Army are another relatively mobile PvP centric group. The Russians in their various forms remain a power in their timezone, and there are numerous small alliances that hold a few systems here and there mainly by bluing their neighbors rather than carving out their space and defending it by force.

Also worth mentioning are numerous mostly PvP centric smaller groups that stage in lowsec or NPC nullsec and make it their business to attack sov holders for fights and occasionally take a system or two as a means of generating PvP content.

Ouch!

Don't know what you mean. I change the skill queue, I buy books, even travel to a station from time to time picking up such books. Although I have run out of books I presently need.