EVE General Discussion

Let me see which is worse... running naked through a cornfield backwards, showering with jerry sandusky or joining goons. Either way your going to be butt raped.

I do love that people manage to downplay our success by saying that we somehow got to where we are now by abusing our members.

If that was the case, the website we're discussing wouldn't exist.

I get treated like a human being and I'm not even an alliance member let alone a member of goonwaffe.

Pretty sure he'll just buy a yacht, have a gigantic Dr. Strangelove vinyl sticker stuck on the side and sail the seas.

Havn't you heard? The plan is to set the entirety of EVE blue!

The beauty of Eve is that there are no badges or gear you can poopsock or grind to give you 'power' over other players. To be ~powerful~ in this game to a large degree requires social skills. Something lacking in many gaming communities. We have people infiltrate corporations and alliances all the time and become powerful enough to destroy them from within. By means of a keen intellect and social skills.

Eve is the thinking mans' MMO and in order to be truely powerful you should find your niche (what you enjoy) and do your best at it. Making a difference is entirely dependent upon your goals or "role" in a role-playing game. White knight, dastardly villain, etc.

Really that depends on what you do with your time. I mean I know if one person was extremely dedicated to it they could in fact crash out the market on any given resource that is available. You'd have to have the capital to do it, but it's possible. You could also single-handedly tear a corp that is powerful down around it's own ears if you so chose to. I mean we've seen things like that happen in the past right, BoB and similar? The wonderful thing is yeah it may seem like you're limited unless you are part of the large power bloc, but in reality you have as much potential to affect this game as anyone else. A hell of alot more chance to change things in this universe than in real life.

As the lead Dev of TheMittani.com I am saddened and hurt by all these comments claiming that what we have created is just another propaganda mouthpiece when that really couldn't be further from the truth.


We're actually a facade for The Mittani's new enterprise expansion into the business of selling space crack.

"Take a hit of this dude. It will take you places... Like Cloud Ring... Where you can mine or something"

God dammit. The quote and the edit button are so close to eachother.




It wasn't just me, there was a balanced and highly talented team behind this handling design and coding, and I won't hog all the love. But I also won't go shouting their name to the heavens because I know some of them don't relish the spotlight.

Since ISD thought this thread was better than mine :( here is the official announcement!



If you wake up in the morning and want to find out what happened in Eve while you slept, where do you go? If you are in a major nullsec alliance you probably go to jabber or chat channels and ask someone, or check forums for an update post. But the former leads to you being trolled by those merry japesters in your squad into believing that you have been invaded by Pandemic Legion and are evacuating to empire, while the updates only happen every few days or so at best.

There are a couple of eve news websites, but one, the archaic Tribune, is published fortnightly in some steam-powered 19th century factory while the other is Riverini’s cesspit of barely-literate squawkings and openly propagandistic flatulence poorly masquerading as language. Fact-checking is laughable, and relying on what you read there will get you laughed at when you repeat his paranoid rantings or obvious sock-puppeting.

Other news sources exist in the form of forums, ranging from the enjoyably coruscating Forum That Does Not Speak Its Name to the barely tolerable, well, here, but Eve lacks a broad-based source of news and insight. We think that it is time to fix that.

TheMittani dot com

I know what you are thinking: this time he has gone too far. Has our own Ozymandias erected an entire site dedicated to the worship and adoration of the Dear Leader? Will he arrange vast, coordinated dancing displays in front of the Peoples’ Palace complete with World of Tanks parades and rifter flypasts?

In fact, I chose the name TheMittani.com while Mittens wanted the new site to be called some dreary and worthy sobriquet: "Eve News Network" or something wearily quotidian like that. I’ve literally forgotten. The fact is that "The Mittani" is a brand these days, and I wanted to make use of it: it’s provocative, it’s well-known, it’s distinctive and most important of all it was available as a dot com domain at a reasonable price…

If we’ve learned one thing from the life and works of Noam Chomsky it is that there is still good money to be made by churning out articles with the old Random Postmodern Essay Generator, slapping your name on them and sticking in a bit about how all Americans are bastards at the top. But if we have learned anything else from his work, it is that it is impossible to entirely divorce a news source from the biases of its proprietors. We realise this, and I have already been prevented from running a scathing expose on Mittens' use of chin-wigs during photo shoots for the CSM campaign. But this isn’t about controlling the news cycle or disseminating propaganda. Nor is it just about sticking it to Riverini, although that is a fun by-product.

Our goal is to turn TheMittani.com into somewhere that everyone wants to come to read up-to-date news and insightful articles on Eve Online (and a few of the games that Eve Online players tend to enjoy, like World of Tanks, MWO, League of Legends and the like). We won’t do that by churning out attack pieces on everyone we happen to be at war with. So we already have writers on-board from other alliances like The Initiative and Pandemic Legion, as well as the mysterious epic poet James315 (from who knows where?), and we hope to draw upon sources across all of Eve as people learn that we’re interested in providing news and insight, not just propaganda.

Since going live, we have had interest in writing for the site from members of Black Legion, Nulli Secunda and others who are not just unaligned with Goonswarm but who are actively hostile to us. We hope to be able to publish their unedited accounts of the fighting to provide a fair and even-handed source of news for you, the Eve player.