EVE General Discussion

Grrr Goons

read this thread, still found nothing to hate goonswarms

or maybe im just too friendly and innocent

honestly they'd evac even before tallpos.jpg is posted

We've long since rotted our brains with subpar alcoholic slop. Have you ever heard DBRB scream on a video? We're all that drunk ALL THE TIME.

Goons... where to start.
Goons were to be feared when I first started playing, they'd just dismantled BoB and were busy rampaging across nullsec. If they ever came up in conversation with corpies the general consensus was Goons are evil, avoid at all costs.

Over the time I've been playing I came to realise that while Goons are seen as pure evil by the majority of people, they are in fact good for the game, they bring newbies into Eve, they produce all sorts of amusing and satirical propaganda and stage massive ingame events, some of which make the headlines of the real world mainstream press, by mainstream I mean outside of the gaming press.

Up until late last year I'd never personally dealt with GSF members, I've spent the last 6 or 7 months chatting with some of their members who frequent a chat channel for people with a shared interest. On the whole the guys I have spoken to are playing Eve to have fun, their definition of fun may be different from other peoples, but fun is why we game. They're knowledgeable about Eve, and devious in the way that they play it, and they're prepared to share their "expertise" with a random highsec pubbie like myself so that I can enhance the way that I play.

We're all Goons now.

Andski isn't exactly a "line grunt".....

Also, shouldn't there be some Provi-bloc RP going on? Like... "Corey Fumishitposter roars, 'Ye foul goons are all naught but a bunch of besotted nerfherders! Begone from EVE or thou shalt feel the wrath of my double-pronged Tormentor in your backsides!' "

.... or something?

You pay a subscription fee to post here. *Snip* Please refrain from personal attacks. ISD Ezwal

*Snip* Please refrain from personal attacks. ISD Ezwal
To the rest of Nulsec, Providence and CVA are something of a running joke, ignored largely because Providence is literally the worst region in the game, outstripping even Syndicate for lack of good moons, good PVPers, *Snip* Please refrain from personal attacks. ISD Ezwal
Indeed, Providence truly is the only place in the game aside from high sec where I can follow around a fleet with a neutral alt and not get blown up.

As someone who has had no dealings with Goonswarm beyond flying through their space a couple of times with RvB and on my own, and someone within the alliance (not the actual Goon corp) attempting to recruitment scam me (that was a lot of fun seeing how they do it), I like the swarm.

They all seem to have fun playing the game. They play the game their way and don't let what anyone else says get in the way of that. I did a flight from north to south in 0.0 and the only people who had a conversation with me were Goons, and despite the fact they were hunting me trying to kill me, they still wished me luck. Like any large organisation I'm sure there are some bad guys in there who genuinely act like assholes in real life, but most them seem realise this is just a game and don't take it *overly* seriously.

The people who think there is some sort of ~GOON CONSPIRACY~ are either trolling or really need to take off the tinfoil. No there is no plot to take over the entire game with someone from Goonswarm inside CCP - Where would the fun go if there was no targets to fight, scam or rob? The people who hate Goons simply because the others around them hate Goons, who in turn hate them because they were taught to hate them really need to take a step back and make decisions for themselves.

As far as I am concerned they also bring more to the game than they take away. They provide content, conflict and an almost never ending source of good Eve stories. They bring new players from the SA forums and it wouldn't surprise me if most of those new players stay in the game for a good long while.



And to the people who are still bringing up TheMittani's mistake at FF... think to yourself: if that was the leader of any other major alliance, would I care as much? Or is it because it was Mittens who said it that I continue to hold onto it? If the answer to the first question is yes, then continue holding on it, if not then just let the damn thing go already. The guy has apologised, The Wis has accepted and holds no grudge, its over.

Asking for proof of an opinion. You win the thread.