Crime & Punishment

lots of people do, the grand scale of the mistakes is what makes him unique

Well, as an independent party, and general despiser of goons, I figured I'd see if you would take the bait

nah, Gevlon the entity was known and public prior to even joining EVE.

Ultimately he has a luxury few other people have (and one which is often not really afforded even to the Mittani), which is literally to try every possible strategy rather than showing any particular strategic selection process in avoiding sub optimal and very expensive strategies. (ie the most effective strategy is to reroute poco customers to pcoos that are unlikely to be taken by goons or rvb any time soon), but instead we see him simply choosing to rent another expensive gold plated hammer.

I'm sure he is enjoying EVE far more, because being able to trade up large amounts of resources and then _use_ them for something is very different to most games especially WoW.

I heard a rumour that Gevlon Goblin got scammed out of an alliance, any truth to that? Now's it's a ~high sec~ mercenary alliance with an anti-goon bias.

I wouldn't say that RvB are goon pets. Both Goons and RvB have their strengths and weaknesses and their alliance benefits them both.

P.S. Goons, are you bros planning to do a Burn Jita 3.0?

True story bro.

Apparently it isn't a "Marmite 2" alliance, even though it operates in exactly the same way no besides recruitment. Apparently if General Lemming wanted a 2nd Marmite corp, he would just merge everyone into Marmite, thou with how incredibly precious their efficiency is to them, I'd very much doubt that.

The long and short of it though is that Lemmings is now the Marmite noobie corp that allows lower efficiency. Once you show you can camp Jita and dock fast enough when in trouble you'll get moved to Marmite. Both corps will continue to be mercenaries to the same extent that Marmite currently does (so none, since nobody in their right mind considers Marmite's an actual merc corp), and they will both shoot goons (as they have done for years). Gevlon will be some, but less of their war bills (as reality and his weird method of working out his profit margins seem to be conflicting and the donations aren't pouring in like he expected).

gotta hand it to gevlon, he came up with a new and exciting way of saying "i failed" without admitting personal failure

instead of other people having failed him through no fault of his own, his failure is actually not a failure!

So now that gevlon has divorced himself from the failure of darwins lemmings and marmite what is the next step?

But the question remains: does one man have enough isk to affect the gameplay (defeat) of 18,000 real people? I believe the presentation by Sion at EVE Down Under put the CFC numbers at around 18k real people and 36k characters.

Can one man defeat so many in a video game? And should he be able to?

Or is he just a laughing stock and delusional?

The premise of your questions is that one man can, through the application of his isk, bring about the defeat of a group of arbitrary size. Supposing that is true, it is then reasonable to conclude that the opposite is true - that in the very narrowest of cases, another individual could utilize his own isk to block or prevent the defeat of that same group.

In that case, Gevlon's goal is clearly doomed, as I alone am several times wealthier than him. So are my fellow directors of finance. So are many other goons, and the number at least as wealthy as him is even larger still.