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Want to join GoonWaffe? Well, this is my experience...
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Killer Gandry
The Concilium Enterprises
#181 - 2012-02-03 13:49:56 UTC
Any corporation or alliance that want's me to pay them to join them or to hand over ISK as collateral, just incase, is either too weak anyways or just a scammer.

In both cases don't join.
Dunbar Hulan
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#182 - 2012-02-03 14:54:20 UTC  |  Edited by: Dunbar Hulan
Dear Maxx86,

Greetings from my country, Gallente. And by God's grace this is a warm embrace of a lifetime and mutually beneficial relationship between us, hence my writing you.

Dr. Dunbar Hulan is my name. Special Adviser on Ice Mining to the Gallente Head of State and presently, Chairman of the Contract Review Panel (C.R.P) appointed by the Gallente administration, with the mandate to re-evaluate, scrutinize, approve and recommend for payment all previously awarded and executed contracts for the Ice Mining Fund (I. M..F).I want to award you exclusive ice mining rights in Gallente.

You were introduced to me by a trusted contact in the Gallente Ministry of Foreign Trade Mission to act fast by helping me and my colleagues by transfering the sum of 25.5M ISK (Twenty Five Million, Five Hundred Thousand ISK to us. You must treat this letter with utmost confidentiality and trust. We cannot afford to toy with this rare opportunity of a lifetime. It may interest you to know that this is no Scam or fairy tale.
we urgently need your assistance to send this isk to us.


Dear brother, all modalities for the successful transfer of this fund including legal and administrative requirements in Gallente as well as that of Inter Faction Arbitration has been worked out. We hope to conclude this transaction within ten (10) days once you open communication with me to furnish me your willingness needed for easy transfer of the fund:
God willing brother, we can work out this transaction fast for all of us.

I expect the goons to start this sort of thing soon :)

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Darth Tickles
Doomheim
#183 - 2012-02-03 16:22:43 UTC
The rule is unenforceable.

What is a "recruitment scam" compared to a normal scam?
How long after posting "looking for corp" in the recruitment channel is someone immune from various forms of scamming?
Is demanding a security deposit always scamming now?
Is keeping the stuff of an attempted infiltrator "scamming"?

The GM who is trying to push this should be fired because it makes their enforcement look incompetent and it gives a false impression of security. These are fundamental failures to perform his job, and show a worrying lack of judgment and forethought. A simple warning should be plenty, as with all scams and tricks that mostly newbies fall for. If people refuse to read or follow the warnings, then they do so at their own risk.

Trying to enforce an unenforceable rule just makes authorities look incompetent and impotent.
Blawrf McTaggart
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#184 - 2012-02-03 19:24:02 UTC
dw, i'll deal with this
Ghost Severus
Ghost Ship Inc.
#185 - 2012-02-03 19:53:45 UTC
Goons recruitment strategy filters out the really stupid and gullible .....don't know why people get mad at them.
El Sergio YBrava
Doomheim
#186 - 2012-02-03 20:07:08 UTC
Ladie Harlot wrote:
El Sergio YBrava wrote:
Goons will never be for me as EVE is a game I play for fun only

Right because Goons are known throughout the Eve universe for how seriously we take the game. :cripes:


come on in generally you take it more seriously than a player with something like 20 hours a month and no forum activity Lol
Duck Mouth
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#187 - 2012-02-03 20:13:00 UTC
Goons tried to recruit my main account. When they asked me for 500mill fee that would be returned after the first 30 days, i lol'd at them and told them to get f*cked :)

Welcome To Eve
Alavaria Fera
GoonWaffe
#188 - 2012-02-03 20:32:00 UTC  |  Edited by: Alavaria Fera
NaturalBeast wrote:
Anyway they did him a favour as the alternative would have been to move all his stuff to 0.0, then kick him from Corp.

That would imply he would be in corp. That's a serious SPAI/awoxer risk right there.
El Sergio YBrava wrote:
Ladie Harlot wrote:
Right because Goons are known throughout the Eve universe for how seriously we take the game. :cripes:

come on in generally you take it more seriously than a player with something like 20 hours a month and no forum activity Lol

Hey, we're damn well hardcore. Mining op, 5 hours NAO! Elite pvpers camp the gates. Commisars execute SPAIS.

And then there's Rifterswarm.

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JC Anderson
RED ROSE THORN
#189 - 2012-02-03 21:06:54 UTC
Tore Vest wrote:
I cant understand why ppl want to join goonswarm... Roll


Free T-Shirts and cup cakes.
Xyrcaryn
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#190 - 2012-02-03 21:27:32 UTC
It's easy to join GoonWaffe, all you have to do is just follow some simple and publicly available instructions and not be a spy.
Krios Ahzek
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#191 - 2012-02-03 21:35:55 UTC
Duck Mouth wrote:
Goons tried to recruit my main account. When they asked me for 500mill fee that would be returned after the first 30 days, i lol'd at them and told them to get f*cked :)

Welcome To Eve

Joke's on you, now you're not playing EVE in GoonWaffe and are therefore not playing EVE.

 Though All Men Do Despise Us
Feligast
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#192 - 2012-02-03 22:37:24 UTC
Xyrcaryn wrote:
It's easy to join GoonWaffe, all you have to do is be a spy.


Fixed that.
Dsparil Fel
SUNDERING
Goonswarm Federation
#193 - 2012-02-24 02:39:53 UTC
In the short time I have been playing this game I've been jacked up several times(pvp) and had a lot of dumb stuff happen to me. Crap happens, oh well. There's plenty of times I'd have loved more than anything to bash my monitor in. That's the life of EVE. I came here from WoW to get away from the nanny system. Scams are a part of this game and it saddens me to see that CCP is deciding to go the way of Blizzard(btw WoW has pretty much been completely destroyed as a game). To OP, dude sorry what happened to you but that's the life of EVE and you're even warned about it in the rules when you first sign up, man. I'm not here to bash on you man but next time you might want to be more careful. I think everybody's had some dumb crap happen to them. I'd implore CCP NOT to set rules against scamming since that's what makes EVE different from any other MMORPG.
Andski
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#194 - 2012-02-24 03:01:08 UTC
not that I disagree but nice necro

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Little Brat
Provincia Septim Reborn
#195 - 2012-02-26 02:03:38 UTC
Players have asked..."Why join the Goons?" Read this:
When asked the following questions to a member of a Nullsec alliance about life in Nullsec "How about building a really awesome sandcastle and taking a few photographs before it gets swept away by the waves?" The response was "YOU don't own squat in Zero Farm. YOU are a DOG in a PACK, so YOU don't build squat." and "whatever your CORP builds will likely get swept away" during conflict "unless your PACK is larger than the neighboring animals. That somehow seems pointless on both counts, because YOU haven't really accomplish anything." Another answer "As for rewards? Unless you are blue to the serf squads guarding their "massahs" moongoo, what rewards are we talking about here? A ship replacement in return for guard duty? WOWEE! GEE! How thrilling. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.....snore." when asked about "...sources of income that enable you to replace your losses - missions, exploration, CAs, plain ratting, mining sites, markets waiting to be tapped, ..." the answer "This is a fallacy since you won't have time to tap them while doing your "guard duty" for the Man. Besides, you're there for PvP, right? and the Man will require you be doing just that or you're out."

The paragraph above goes a long way toward explaining why Nullsec is not attractive for all players. Some players like to build, trade, mine, rat, explore. They want to own a POS or two and a few planet operations. There are missions, storyline missions and factional warfare. And dipping into Lowsec for some excitement and some PvP is ok too. At least they have control over their destiny. As it stands today, if you are not blue to somebody strong in Nullsec, you are dead. So what is the point?

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OfBalance
Caldari State
#196 - 2012-02-26 02:08:06 UTC
Little Brat wrote:
So what is the point?


I think the point is always "having fun."

Shocking, I know.
Little Brat
Provincia Septim Reborn
#197 - 2012-02-26 02:17:41 UTC
Andski wrote:
Parthonax wrote:
Andski wrote:
Parthonax wrote:
it is simple , CCP introduced rules to protect new players from scamming , two simple rules , no scamming in the rookie channel and no scamming in the recruitmentchannels


gee i wonder how many new players tend to have 500m isk plus t3s and faction ships sitting around

Does it matter , they violated the EULA
which crime is worse , stealing from people who are on benefit or , stealing from working middle class people
Rules are there to protect the whole community and not there so a few can break them whenever they want


you're kinda dumb because scamming has been a part of this game since ever


I was playing this game six years before you were even born...so...it hasn't been "since ever"

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Alavaria Fera
GoonWaffe
#198 - 2012-02-26 02:21:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Alavaria Fera
Little Brat wrote:
At least they have control over their destiny. As it stands today, if you are not blue to somebody strong in Nullsec, you are dead. So what is the point?

Titan turret tracking is balanced.

So balanced that five guys, titans and spais can wipe out your new 30 man corp starting in null.

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Andski
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#199 - 2012-02-26 17:33:13 UTC
Little Brat wrote:
I was playing this game six years before you were even born...so...it hasn't been "since ever"


if you think scamming is by any means a recent phenomenon you are wrong

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Scien Inkunen
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#200 - 2012-02-26 18:09:41 UTC
Dear OP, I understand your sorrow and desire. When you want something badly, you should stick with it and be persistent.

So, if you transfer them all you have, maybe some mercifull soul will grant you entry in Goons.

Please, post future development.

Be well all of you.

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