Crime & Punishment

Would you be willing to make a new character called Inigo Montoya and become the games most deadly meme?

I would keep you in purifiers for an age...

This is probably my favorite thread in eve-o

If the OP is real, reading that post made me feel like my winky was too small and that I haven't been playing the game right. Seriously.

Keep Derping around Branch, I hear SMA space is full of carebears.

Goons even blob anti-goonswarm threads :)

Have there been any kills? All I have seen linked in game to me lately have been Goons on the winning side.

I agree with both of your assertions.

First, as I've already said in this thread the guy is doing a great job and his solo pvp skill is definitely impressive.

Second, most goons and for that matter most members of nullsec alliances fly ships that are literally free for them due to the ship reimbursement programs that have been standard in nullsec for years. I cannot speak to the particulars of any other nullsec entity, but within Goonswarm any given player may have a literally infinite number of frigates and cruisers gifted to him at no cost whatsoever; may purchase on alliance contracts a fully fitted ship that is for sale at around ~80% Jita price and for which he will be reimbursed ~100% Jita price when it dies; has access to a huge infrastructure and transportation network that makes manufacturing, marketing, ratting, ship construction, starbase mining, and many other forms of commerce and industry readily available and reasonably safe; and, need merely x up in an intel channel to summon any of a dozen intrepid Sky Captains like myself, as well as a horde of rabid newbies and bitter vets, whenever bad guys show up.

It's a great thing to boast about a few kills, but for every one of them there are hundreds if not thousands of other ratting tengus, ratting carriers, r64s, and so on, chugging along, contributing to taxes, and making it so that whatever is lost can be replaced and everyone can have what they need.

Space communism is amazing, innit?

This is true and the very reason why I ask my fleets NOT to put in for reimbursement if they can afford not to, which is something I never do unless I lose a very expensive ship.

Why? becasue I believe if there is nothing to lose then there is nothing to gain.

The risk of losing a ship that you have to pay to replace gives the pilot (generally) a bigger adrenaline rush then losing a ship that you couldn't care less about.

case in point. If I'm solo roaming in a hurricane I literally get a bigger rush from an engagement than I do if I put a dread on the field? why? becuse that hurricane is mine but the dread sort of belongs to alliance.

Last time I lost a hurricane I think I was out 30 mil by the time I replaced it. Last time I lost a dread, I MADE 100mil by the time I replaced it.

Just saying.

Ship reimbursement is excellent in times of war but makes people lazy the other 99% of the time.

Oh no. You forced me to copy and paste the Kum Ba Ya starfish story. One kill may not make a difference to the Goonswarm hive as a whole, but....

A young girl was walking along a beach upon which thousands of starfish had been washed up during a terrible storm. When she came to each starfish, she would pick it up, and throw it back into the ocean. People watched her with amusement.

She had been doing this for some time when a man approached her and said, “Little girl, why are you doing this? Look at this beach! You can’t save all these starfish. You can’t begin to make a difference!”

The girl seemed crushed, suddenly deflated. But after a few moments, she bent down, picked up another starfish, and hurled it as far as she could into the ocean. Then she looked up at the man and replied,

“Well, I made a difference to that one!”