Ships & Modules

Create a jump clone where your stuff is in highsec and set your home station to your new corporation base. (search for it in "people and places", right click "set home station"

Undock in your pod and self destruct - you will be resurrected in your new corp base station.

The recruiter should have explained all this or pointed you to a web site that explained it.

You can fly down but I recommend using a speed fit interceptor. If you don't have the skills for that use the "pod express"

Tiberius,

You should be asking your new corp those questions.

-Kirst

Next they will ask you to buy a bunch of ships, and contract them over for delivery.....

Ehh don't join.

Them not giving you indication on how to reach their base of operations seem a bit fishy.
Years ago some Goons were doing that as a practical joke. Convince a player that he had been accepted and invite him in 0.0 with all his stuff and then blow him up for giggles and loot. I don't know if someone is still doing it.

Ask if there is a market or there are already fitted ships on contract where you are going , and what are the ships (or look in contracts, my corporation/alliance)
Buy and inject the skillbooks you will need in the near future. If you have a jump clone you can always return in high sec to learn new skills, but it is annoying to be struck there for 24 hours if you corp/alliance is doing something.
Get a jump clone (or more than one) and use the pod express as cited above.

and

Never, never, put all your eggs in a basket. I.e. don't bring all your stuff in 0.0. soone or later you will be on the losing side for a time. always keep enough in high sec so that you can restart over if needed.
As your isk increase that will become less and less important, but you need to have a reserve to start over.

I have been away for 3 years and now they seem a bit different. But for a time part of the group enjoyed playing the Evil Villain role, playing some nasty trick on unsuspecting people. Some of it was pose, some not.
So old players and forum goers like me remember threads about tricking players into going into Goons territory, with everything they had, to join them, and then ambushing them and looting the remains, with Goons gloating and complimenting themselves for a job well done in the threads.

The simple thing that you are already a member of Goonswarm Federation mean that probably that is not happening here, but for people like me that is a reputation that is hard to overcome.

It probably would have been better had you spoken to the recruiter about your concerns as it those sorts of things that you would use to decide whether or not to join a corp. What made you choose taht corp over another for example, you may move there and have a blast, at the same time you may move thre and think you have bitten off more than you can chew.

They have gone from being a major player in null to a bunch of washed up has been types clinging to the deeds of prior goons that no longer play the game. You're hopping on a sinking raft. There are better choices out there.

Their rep is because as a group they didn't have a white knight code of conduct. They were OK with their members scamming and awoxing. It was all in good fun and only folks that take their internet spaceships took offense to their antics. They were very good at Eve on many levels - from recruitment and ensuring the newbro had fun while playing their part up to the end game meta hoo haw. Again, that's all past tense. BOB was their nemesis and once gone they kind of floundered. The fun and exciting leadership lost interest in the game and moved on. The replacement leadership was all corporate and about piling isk really high (not fun) so more folks left. In the end they were a shell of their former glory and would only log in for important timers and events. Then that got to be too much of a bother. World War Bee exposed them as an empty husk. Now they are attempting to get back to relevant in fits and starts in various parts of Eve with little to no success.

Not sure how their training department is, but based on your post - 'NOT GOOD' comes to mind. The hallmark of a great corp/alliance is how they bring their newbros in and help them along to greatness. If the current Goon training program ends you at the forums.... you need to think about what that really means.

The difference between this game being awesome and sucking has a lot to do with how compatible you are w/ the guy you choose to hang out with.