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Goonswarm interdiction on Minmatar space ice mining
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Aud Actori
Ciomach Oibriche
#1 - 2011-10-11 10:19:40 UTC
I received the following mail last night whilst mining in Minmatar space:

Quote:

Press Release - Goonswarm Ice Interdiction Operation
From: Victor Dathar
Sent: 2011.10.10 21:20
To: ....

Dear Capsuleer,

As you may or may not be aware Goonswarm have been running an operation to protect the flow of Ice products in New Eden. at this time our attention is on Gallente Ice Fields. Starting Saturday 15th October 2011 this will be moved to Minimatar Ice Fields. It has been noted that you are mining in this region of space and so are being contacted in advance to join our Certified Miners Scheme.

If you wish to continue to mine ice you must register and pay for a license to do so.

Visit http://goonfleet.net/miners/ for instructions on how to add your self to the roster for your own protection.

All fees must be sent to whom contacted you for our records or it is hihgly likely your application will be rejected. We do not want any innocent blood to be spilt do we?

Regards

The Mittani
CEO Goonwaffe
CSM Chairman


Personally, as a casual capsuleer I don't have the money to pay Goonswarm, but look forward to increasing ice prices.
Feligast
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2011-10-11 10:20:39 UTC
I understand your reluctance, with your struggling finances.. but losing your ship would be far more painful, would it not?
Kitty McKitty
In Praise Of Shadows
#3 - 2011-10-11 10:23:02 UTC
About time I took a trip down to Tearjuana.

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Kehro Urgus
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2011-10-11 10:25:06 UTC
Wow, they are paying bounties as well as selling mining permits. Roll

Yeeee! 
The Apostle
Doomheim
#5 - 2011-10-11 10:26:19 UTC
Aud Actori wrote:
I received the following mail last night whilst mining in Minmatar space:

Quote:

Press Release - Goonswarm Ice Interdiction Operation
From: Victor Dathar
Sent: 2011.10.10 21:20
To: ....

Dear Capsuleer,

As you may or may not be aware Goonswarm have been running an operation to protect the flow of Ice products in New Eden. at this time our attention is on Gallente Ice Fields. Starting Saturday 15th October 2011 this will be moved to Minimatar Ice Fields. It has been noted that you are mining in this region of space and so are being contacted in advance to join our Certified Miners Scheme.

If you wish to continue to mine ice you must register and pay for a license to do so.

Visit http://goonfleet.net/miners/ for instructions on how to add your self to the roster for your own protection.

All fees must be sent to whom contacted you for our records or it is hihgly likely your application will be rejected. We do not want any innocent blood to be spilt do we?

Regards

The Mittani
CEO Goonwaffe
CSM Chairman


Personally, as a casual capsuleer I don't have the money to pay Goonswarm, but look forward to increasing ice prices.

It's a fake email. The Mittani doesn't use capitals and never writes more than one sentence. That only happens when he talks.

Incessantly..... Cool

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Solstice Project
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2011-10-11 10:34:09 UTC

Oh this would be awesome,
i'll pay those reds a visit .......... :D
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#7 - 2011-10-11 10:34:50 UTC
So… buy hydrotopes?
Tian Garsk
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2011-10-11 10:40:30 UTC
Hmn interesting, i have a huge stockpile of all types of ice, my miner been stockpiling them day in day out for the last 6 years. I may just flood the market with cheap ice when the time comes, or maybe someone who doesn't want it to hit the market might make me an offer Twisted
Feligast
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2011-10-11 10:50:17 UTC
Tian Garsk wrote:
Hmn interesting, i have a huge stockpile of all types of ice, my miner been stockpiling them day in day out for the last 6 years. I may just flood the market with cheap ice when the time comes, or maybe someone who doesn't want it to hit the market might make me an offer Twisted


Feel free, dump anytime. Smile
Florestan Bronstein
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#10 - 2011-10-11 10:53:31 UTC
goonfleet.net

that's all
Lexmana
#11 - 2011-10-11 11:13:50 UTC
Kehro Urgus wrote:
Wow, they are paying bounties as well as selling mining permits. Roll


It is self-sustained. The miners are paying for their own bounties.
Adunh Slavy
#12 - 2011-10-11 11:31:28 UTC
LOL, even if this is legit, and even if you do pay the extortion, they'll blow you up anyway.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.  - William Pitt
Miilla
Hulkageddon Orphanage
#13 - 2011-10-11 11:50:01 UTC
I am already a head start on the Goons :)

I ganked Lordlix in Abudban yesterday for not paying 20m Miilla anti-gank insurance.

He hangs out in Lustrevik and Abudaban.

Feel free to gank him endlessly :) And his other alt hulk partner :)
Buruk Utama
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#14 - 2011-10-11 11:58:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Buruk Utama
Since this is posted in General you obviously haven't been to C&P and realize the awesome rep Goons have.

Remember this one simple rule: If the word "goon" is in the communication, corporation, name, description, url, website, or anything else you can imagine....it is a scam.

Though it is nice to see a new variant of the recuritment scam, this time only the fear of possible gank gets the newb to pay up. I'm sure they'll reimburse your fee too when accidently ganked in the excitement of it all and your ship will remain in the icefield when all other miners are destroyed. If you believe that I have a cyno bridge from Jita to Dodixie I want to sell you Roll

But what a great intel gathering service they created. Get the miners to voluntarily list their mining main and all the supporting alts at a one stop shop so they can us locator agents and quickly dispatch their suicide fleets. I think Lady Spank will envy this level of dupery. Goons have definitely trained Pubbie Gullibility Exploitation to V!
Miilla
Hulkageddon Orphanage
#15 - 2011-10-11 12:43:27 UTC
20m or over 200m, it's a no brainer :)


Pity he chose the over 200m :(
David Grogan
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#16 - 2011-10-11 13:25:18 UTC  |  Edited by: David Grogan
lol definitely the russian bots love goons right now.

now they will be on overdrive bot mining thick blue ice in drone regions and smooth glacial mass in insmother / scalding pass / curse / omist / fethabolys / great wildlands

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Weaselior
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#17 - 2011-10-11 13:40:36 UTC
we are currently only interdicting gallente ice, if and when we start interdicting other ice we'll announce it a little more violently

Head of the Goonswarm Economic Warfare Cabal Pubbie Management and Exploitation Division.
Weaselior
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#18 - 2011-10-11 13:44:01 UTC
The Apostle wrote:
It's a fake email. The Mittani doesn't use capitals and never writes more than one sentence. That only happens when he talks.

Incessantly..... Cool


the mittani never uses capitals or more than a sentence when posting on eveo but can hurf a mighty multipage blurf on goonfleet forums

Head of the Goonswarm Economic Warfare Cabal Pubbie Management and Exploitation Division.
Atrum Veneficus
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#19 - 2011-10-11 13:53:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Atrum Veneficus
David Grogan wrote:
lol definitely the russian bots love goons right now.

now they will be on overdrive bot mining thick blue ice in drone regions and smooth glacial mass in insmother / scalding pass / curse / omist / fethabolys / great wildlands


The only flaw with your argument is you can't equip a mackinaw with enough of a tank to withstand drone battleship rats. Meaning you can't bot ice mining in the drone regions.

This leaves you with a few options:

1) Manually mine the ice
2) Bot mine ice with hulks (which can tank)
3) Bot min with manual "guards" clearing the belt.

Either is a suboptimal solution. Ice would have to rise greater in value than the ABC asteroids to justify moving hulks to ice and that won't happen until oxygen isotopes gets in the 2500 range or so.

But keep on theorycrafting things which you have no idea how they work in practice, it's cute. I can't wait until you discover EFT and flood this forum with all the great fits you cooked up!
Xearal
Dead's Prostitutes
The Initiative.
#20 - 2011-10-11 13:53:15 UTC
I would say this is some goon that is trying to scam people into paying him.

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