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The greatest scam of EVE online

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Grunanca
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#261 - 2014-02-21 16:35:12 UTC
Gevlon Goblin wrote:
Muhaha.

"We don't really care who we shoot" as long they are called "The Marmite Collective" and is shooting Goonswarm Federation.

Honestly, I can believe that this FallenTitan guy is just another honest mark who didn't see what's going on under his nose. After all we are talking about 8 wars over 14 months. Every other month the Goon spy (who probably has "P.C." as initials) contacted him, "Hey, I found a fun war, shall we join?", and he said "Yeah, sure!".

The Goon wars were buried under half hundred of zero-kill wars, and without a detailed list (which isn't the favorite thing "the most chilled easy-going guys") you can't notice that the other wars have no fighting and the wars with actual kills are always protecting GSF, usually against Marmite.

I have to confess that even I didn't see this coming. I made the Blue war database to prove that RvB usually don't fight that many wars and the intensity of the Marmite-Lemmings permawar is too much for them. Which is by the way true, as 2013 had 345B worth of voluntary wars and 2014 already has 158B and it's not even the end of Februrary. When I sorted the wars by value I was like "WHAT????"

However me not knowing is no excuse for RvB directors. It was their job to know. If they didn't notice, they are incompetent. If they knew and did nothing, they are traitors and scammers of newbies.


The real question is: Are the people in RvB having fun? If they are, who cares who they work with? If you want to untie them from goons, simply offer them more fun... While I dont care for 0.0 politics myself, I definately think politics in EVE is one of the things that gets people hooked. So lets hook a bunch of new players by letting them tag along goon wars. I dont see the problem, nor the scam as long as it is fun.
Gevlon Goblin
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#262 - 2014-02-21 16:44:31 UTC
Guys, you are not helping Mynnna/Mangala here, get your **** together!

Look, you supposed to build a "wall of opinions". All of you telling the same thing, preferably with the same phrases. This causes the random reader to say "OP said X supported by a bunch of numbers and points I couldn't be bothered to read, and everyone else said Y, so Y must be true". It won't work if you all saying conflicting things! I could count at least 5 different damage control stories killing each other:

  • RvB is having a mutually good treaty with Goons limited only to POCOs. Burn Jita was a random coincidence.
  • RvB is supporting Goons because Gevlon is bad at diplomacy and made RvB mad. Burn Jita was a random coincidence.
  • It doesn't matter if RvB is a Goon pet as long as the RvB line members are having fun
  • The data Gevlon provided is inconclusive because it doesn't contain nullsec wars where RvB ganked fleets killed Goons
  • RvB is indeed a Goon pet now, but there isn't any evidence that it was originally created by Goons

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Pete Butcher
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#263 - 2014-02-21 16:44:38 UTC
Gevlon Goblin wrote:

Damn, people like you make directors cry. READ THE DAMN MOTD!
"Gevlon is bad in diplomacy" is the 2 versions old narrative and was replaced. Read what Mangala wrote, you should be echoing that. Claiming that RvB protected Goons in 2013 April because Gevlon was autistic in 2014 February makes you look stupid.


As your "argument" was proved false, there is no point for you to use it anymore. It only makes you fail more.

Gevlon Goblin wrote:

No, my first contact with RvB was them jumping on my 50-man baby alliance to finish it before it started.


Which means you didn't even bother to check the situation with goon POCOs, not to mention using any kind of diplomacy along the way.

Gevlon Goblin wrote:

Then why are you trying to stop me? I'm a bliss to GSF. You should be hoping I never stop.


Can you image the amount of hilarious sperging you will have to write when you ultimately fail this?


Gevlon Goblin wrote:

In January Goons and pets lost 135B to Lemmings and Marmites. I'm embarrassed.


In January, Lemmings took 0 POCOs. You should be embarrassed.

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Pete Butcher
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#264 - 2014-02-21 16:48:59 UTC
Gevlon Goblin wrote:
Guys, you are not helping Mynnna/Mangala here, get your **** together!

Look, you supposed to build a "wall of opinions". All of you telling the same thing, preferably with the same phrases. This causes the random reader to say "OP said X supported by a bunch of numbers and points I couldn't be bothered to read, and everyone else said Y, so Y must be true". It won't work if you all saying conflicting things! I could count at least 5 different damage control stories killing each other:

  • RvB is having a mutually good treaty with Goons limited only to POCOs. Burn Jita was a random coincidence.
  • RvB is supporting Goons because Gevlon is bad at diplomacy and made RvB mad. Burn Jita was a random coincidence.
  • It doesn't matter if RvB is a Goon pet as long as the RvB line members are having fun
  • The data Gevlon provided is inconclusive because it doesn't contain nullsec wars where RvB ganked fleets killed Goons
  • RvB is indeed a Goon pet now, but there isn't any evidence that it was originally created by Goons


The funny thing is, none of this is contradicting. What kind of argument is that? Are you sabotaging yourself now? Is there more than one of you? Which one am I speaking to now?

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Lucas Kell
Solitude Trading
S.N.O.T.
#265 - 2014-02-21 16:50:30 UTC
Danalee wrote:
Stupider is grammatically dubious to say the least
Not at all, it's just less commonly used.

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Froggy Storm
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#266 - 2014-02-21 16:54:02 UTC
Gevlon Goblin wrote:
Guys, you are not helping Mynnna/Mangala here, get your **** together!

Look, "I said X supported by a bunch of numbers and points I couldn't be bothered to read, and everyone else said Y, so Y must be true".

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Lucas Kell
Solitude Trading
S.N.O.T.
#267 - 2014-02-21 16:54:58 UTC
Gevlon Goblin wrote:
No, my first contact with RvB was them jumping on my 50-man baby alliance to finish it before it started.
You picked your target, so you brought it on yourself. It's not like the treaty was a secret. Had you actually investigated what you were getting into, you'd have known this. It's nobodies fault but your own that you jumped blindly into it, so quit all your crying about it.

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Domino Artan
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#268 - 2014-02-21 16:56:26 UTC
Gevlon Goblin wrote:
Guys, you are not helping Mynnna/Mangala here, get your **** together!


We don't have to help Mynnna he's already richer and better at this game than you.
Aralyn Cormallen
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#269 - 2014-02-21 16:57:58 UTC
Danalee wrote:

Lucas, read before posting maybe? I replied to your poor attempt of rebuttal and I'm 99% sure the words are indeed originally written by Mangala, hence my question, to make it 100% sure either way.


How about we make it the 0% you know it is. The post you are falsely portraying as Mangalas was fabricated in post #129 by Gevlon (and at least Gevlon had the honesty you lack to indicate it was such). It's an easy thing to check, since Mangala has that cool CSM tag against its name, which makes spotting his posts really easy, and makes it hard for people to misrepresent his opinions.
Khanh'rhh
Sparkle Motion.
#270 - 2014-02-21 16:58:35 UTC  |  Edited by: Khanh'rhh
Gevlon Goblin wrote:
Khanh'rhh wrote:

You've been linked the chat logs wherein we used ~diplomacy~ to form RvBee. You could have done the same thing.

Damn, people like you make directors cry. READ THE DAMN MOTD!
"Gevlon is bad in diplomacy" is the 2 versions old narrative and was replaced.


Sorry I'm not being a perfect-actor in your fantasy of how this thread would go, but since you've claimed there's no functional difference between people and NPCs we're back to pointing and laughing at you for not understanding how people work. Keep up, chap!
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No, my first contact with RvB was them jumping on my 50-man baby alliance to finish it before it started

This is where you were being hopelessly naive. The RvBee pact was already announced on the forums. You failed to consider this in your ~~grand scheme~~ because you thought you wouldn't have timers to fight over, it would be small gang fighting and lots of re-enforced POCOs losing us money. What you should have done, is realised RvBee existed and try a diplomatic approach. But of course, in your mind attacking first and then calling everyone pets was a better idea. How's that working?
You built your whole plan on several flawed premises, which is why you're in the situation today where you're tilting at new windmills and we're still printing ISK from our POCOs.
Quote:
Then why are you trying to stop me? I'm a bliss to GSF. You should be hoping I never stop.

You will note I literally posted that I want you to continue. I'm not trying to stop you (there's nothing to stop, you don't register as a threat), I'm pointing and laughing that you even tried.

Everyone is pointing and laughing.
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In January Goons and pets lost 135B to Lemmings and Marmites. I'm embarrassed

Yes, losses in Jita. As I said: congratulations on throwing your money at people and having them camp Jita.

The losses are a rounding error, and we still have all our POCOs.

You quite literally have a Marmite guy in this thread telling you he thinks your plan is nonsense and that he's just in it for the free wardec. What else proof do you need that you're paying for someone else's free wardec and nothing else?

"Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads -- they are not there accidentally." -Soviet infantry manual,

Kaea Astridsson
Hoplite Brigade
Ushra'Khan
#271 - 2014-02-21 16:59:17 UTC
Only bothered reading to page 4. But to answer your question.

Quote:
But please, dear Goon pet, show me ONE war, where RvB choose to engage a CFC entity.


In almost EVERY RvB Ganked Roam I've joined we've ended up locking CFC. Heck even the Ganked 100 afterparty went straight into HED to find something to shoot. Only deviation I can think of is this last one we got fighting BNI.

Get on Comms, or die typing.

Khanh'rhh
Sparkle Motion.
#272 - 2014-02-21 16:59:43 UTC
Gevlon Goblin wrote:
Guys, you are not helping Mynnna/Mangala here, get your **** together!

Look, you supposed to build a "wall of opinions". All of you telling the same thing, preferably with the same phrases. This causes the random reader to say "OP said X supported by a bunch of numbers and points I couldn't be bothered to read, and everyone else said Y, so Y must be true". It won't work if you all saying conflicting things! I could count at least 5 different damage control stories killing each other:

  • RvB is having a mutually good treaty with Goons limited only to POCOs. Burn Jita was a random coincidence.
  • RvB is supporting Goons because Gevlon is bad at diplomacy and made RvB mad. Burn Jita was a random coincidence.
  • It doesn't matter if RvB is a Goon pet as long as the RvB line members are having fun
  • The data Gevlon provided is inconclusive because it doesn't contain nullsec wars where RvB ganked fleets killed Goons
  • RvB is indeed a Goon pet now, but there isn't any evidence that it was originally created by Goons


Again, people don't act the way they do in your fantasies, Gevlon. Whatever hurf blurf you think we need to do is completely unnecessary, because you simply aren't a threat to us.

"Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads -- they are not there accidentally." -Soviet infantry manual,

Lucas Kell
Solitude Trading
S.N.O.T.
#273 - 2014-02-21 17:06:48 UTC
Gevlon Goblin wrote:
1. RvB is having a mutually good treaty with Goons limited only to POCOs. Burn Jita was a random coincidence.
2. RvB is supporting Goons because Gevlon is bad at diplomacy and made RvB mad. Burn Jita was a random coincidence.
3. It doesn't matter if RvB is a Goon pet as long as the RvB line members are having fun
4. The data Gevlon provided is inconclusive because it doesn't contain nullsec wars where RvB ganked fleets killed Goons
5. RvB is indeed a Goon pet now, but there isn't any evidence that it was originally created by Goons

Allow me me to explain in the simplest terms possible so you might understand.
1. They did have a treaty. Burn Jita was not stated as a coincidence, it's always open to all, and RvB chose to join in, like many many others.
2. RvB are supporting because of the treaty. You are bad at diplomacy, thus they are unlikely to suddenly break the treaty and/or support you. So to clarify, your lack of diplomacy strengthens that treaty.
3. It wouldn't matter, yet it's still not the case.
4. Separate point entirely, independently true. A pet wouldn't be tolerated taking action which affected null strategically, such as tackling capitals.
5. Treaty != Pet. It's been explained in depth, with a full chatlog explaining how and why the treaty was made as well as the specifics. Just because you deemed that "irrelevant" as it didn't suit your preconceived conclusion, it doesn't mean it's not still a fact.

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Domino Artan
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#274 - 2014-02-21 17:10:46 UTC
The best thing here is the moment he stops funding the wardec he's been beaten by Mynnna - again.
Samahiel Sotken
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#275 - 2014-02-21 17:24:26 UTC
Gevlon Goblin wrote:

Khanh'rhh wrote:

Christ man, why haven't you slinked off in shame yet? Is this not embarassment enough? How many billions do you need to throw in the bin before you will finally realise you should have backed out in week one, when you realised you would need to actually fight for them?

In January Goons and pets lost 135B to Lemmings and Marmites. I'm embarrassed.


CFC and pets losses by alliance for 2/14:

GSF - 574.00b
CO2 - 225.36b
RZR - 105.95b
FA - 178.31b
EXE - 36.87b
PBLRD - 180.90b
FCON - 169.57b
GENTS - 86.55b
LAWN - 46.03b
SMA - 76.01b
TNT - 57.42b
RVB-R - 98.27b
RVB-B - 73.77b
TOTAL - 1,909.01b

Goblin's Folly - 135b or 7.1%

Funnily enough I would wager if you look at any month previous to Goblin's Folly, I bet the loss numbers would be the same. The same number of idiots would be killed by concord, or on the Jita/Amarr undock even without Goblin throwing money at it. But, cling tightly to your sunk cost fallacy there, kiddo.
Fade Toblack
Per.ly
The 20 Minuters
#276 - 2014-02-21 17:28:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Fade Toblack
Just saw this on Gevlon's blog:

roigon wrote:

Gevlon, instead of fighting a war of propaganda why do you not simply take RvB on their word?

Heck offer to sponsor the RvB ganked roam with prizes if they take it to goon space. There is a element of gambling in it, the average roam does between 1-10B in damages which is a fairly large spread.

If you say promise a billion in prizes the worst that can happen is that you "paid" a billion for a billion in damage, but more likely you get a much higher amount of damage per isk paid.

It also sends a message to goons that RvB aren't loyal pets, and not to be trusted.


Gevlon" wrote:

@Roigon: ganked roams are consensual PvP. I mean you really have to be asleep to not notice the fleet incoming on intel channels. They don't RF structures to force a fight, so if you fight them, it's your call. Therefore they kill no one who don't want to be killed.


Actually roigon has a good idea, I've been on a few RvB Ganked roams and they also kill targets of chance - not unlike the targets that Lemmings are killing in high-sec.

Eg I'm sure this guy: http://rvbganked.co.uk/kills/index.php/kill_detail/5782/ didn't want to be killed by the RvB Ganked roam.

Offer to pay the roams a percentage of kill values in prizes to be handed out to the fleet.

To be honest this is a no-lose situation for you. If RvB accept the offer, then you're effectively paying them to shoot Goons in null-sec - exactly the same as you're paying Marmite and Lemmings to shoot Goons in high-sec. Eg you've found somebody that will go disrupt Goon activity in their home systems. If RvB don't accept the offer, then this is more evidence that they're actually Goon Pets.
Gevlon Goblin
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#277 - 2014-02-21 17:29:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Gevlon Goblin
Khanh'rhh wrote:

Quote:
No, my first contact with RvB was them jumping on my 50-man baby alliance to finish it before it started

This is where you were being hopelessly naive. The RvBee pact was already announced on the forums. You failed to consider this in your ~~grand scheme~~ because you thought you wouldn't have timers to fight over, it would be small gang fighting and lots of re-enforced POCOs losing us money. What you should have done, is realised RvBee existed and try a diplomatic approach.


Now we get to the fundamental problem of this "diplomacy" thing. Assuming I would be capable of diplomacy and RvB is an entity not run by Goon alts, what could I realistically reach? Could I, with only 50 people backing me convince RvB to abandon the RvBee treaty?

Seriously, even if I did everything perfectly, how would that negotiation end?

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CFC and pets losses by alliance for 2/14:
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Goblin's Folly - 135b or 7.1%
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So one man enabling 7.1% damage of a 40000 men coalition is failure.

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Leto Thule
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#278 - 2014-02-21 17:34:54 UTC
Gevlon Goblin wrote:
Khanh'rhh wrote:

Quote:
No, my first contact with RvB was them jumping on my 50-man baby alliance to finish it before it started

This is where you were being hopelessly naive. The RvBee pact was already announced on the forums. You failed to consider this in your ~~grand scheme~~ because you thought you wouldn't have timers to fight over, it would be small gang fighting and lots of re-enforced POCOs losing us money. What you should have done, is realised RvBee existed and try a diplomatic approach.


Now we get to the fundamental problem of this "diplomacy" thing. Assuming I would be capable of diplomacy and RvB is an entity not run by Goon alts, what could I realistically reach? Could I, with only 50 people backing me convince RvB to abandon the RvBee treaty?

Seriously, even if I did everything perfectly, how would that negotiation end?



Stop posting.

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Samahiel Sotken
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#279 - 2014-02-21 17:43:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Samahiel Sotken
Gevlon Goblin wrote:

samahiel wrote:

CFC and pets losses by alliance for 2/14:
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Goblin's Folly - 135b or 7.1%

So one man enabling 7.1% damage of a 40000 men coalition is failure.


The hilarious part is that you're not enabling anything. There was is no net change in damages. I can throw money at the sky all day and claim that it caused the rain, but it doesn't make it true.

edit: Technically you drove down to the home depot, found a bunch of day laborers who looked vaguely Native-American, bought them headdresses, payed them to dance in a circle, and then claimed you caused the rain.

edit2: Also I had to fix your god damn quote tags so my post didn't look like a Thalidomide baby. Learn to post.
Khanh'rhh
Sparkle Motion.
#280 - 2014-02-21 17:48:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Khanh'rhh
Gevlon Goblin wrote:
Khanh'rhh wrote:

Quote:
No, my first contact with RvB was them jumping on my 50-man baby alliance to finish it before it started

This is where you were being hopelessly naive. The RvBee pact was already announced on the forums. You failed to consider this in your ~~grand scheme~~ because you thought you wouldn't have timers to fight over, it would be small gang fighting and lots of re-enforced POCOs losing us money. What you should have done, is realised RvBee existed and try a diplomatic approach.


Now we get to the fundamental problem of this "diplomacy" thing. Assuming I would be capable of diplomacy and RvB is an entity not run by Goon alts, what could I realistically reach? Could I, with only 50 people backing me convince RvB to abandon the RvBee treaty?

Seriously, even if I did everything perfectly, how would that negotiation end?


Had you have gone to RvB before RvBee and put an offer on the table - then the outcome is unknown. We can, however, be entirely sure that ignoring their existence after-the-fact, and then running about screaming that they must be goon alts if there's a treaty is the exact, literal, worst possible thing you could have done. You've galvanised people who probably didn't even care who you were, into hating you and having fun stopping you and making you rant and rave some more.
'Purple fleets' might have ended up being a chore, if they weren't a comedy meeting of people pointing and laughing at the mad man. You've ruined making them form up as an objective now, since this is fun unto itself.

Quote:
So one man enabling 7.1% damage of a 40000 men coalition is failure

You're not enabling it (since they were doing this before you even had 10mil ISK to your name) you've just decided to pick up the bill for it.
It's roughly akin to someone donating money to a restuarant, then telling all their friends they're a great chef. One does not equal another.

In fact, you have explicitly stated that you would at no point actually help run or organise anything, which is tantamount to openly admitting you lack the ability to be the enabler.

I know you really, really hope that people will believe that you are causing the losses, but you aren't, and no one does. I don't even think you do, either. You're just so locked into this now you can't back down, even if you have to look ever more ridiculous with each claim.

It's actually beautiful, when you think of it. We know you can't back out. You know you can't/won't back out. So, by hardly lifting a finger, we've gotten ourselves into a position where you're just throwing all your money away for literally no reason.

Our win condition is you keep throwing your money away and blog about it, fyi.

(Oh and keep all our POCOs, but then that's a self evident truth anyway).

"Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads -- they are not there accidentally." -Soviet infantry manual,