EVE General Discussion

Fortunes turn and tides rise and fall.

In Eve, someone will always rise to the top only to be knocked back down. The only real challenge is to try to be the last one on top before they shut the servers down lol.

Goons use to be on the other side of this scenario (granted before my time in-game). I started playing before B-R and did not even notice it or how big it was at the time.

I did not really start paying attention to the politics of the game till a month or two after B-R, so I have only really seen the times where there were basically 4 big groups; Goons, NC. (N3), PL, and a bunch of Russians whose political alignment I still do not understand. Those groups still are around today just in a different form.

I was not around for BOB, but in talking with others who have been around longer than I have, it seems like the biggest difference between now and then is that META itself has changed.

Today, we have reddit, Twitch, Youtube, the forums (official and unofficial). We have websites that cover just this game (some are more independent that others). We have gambling websites.

So much of the game has been taken out of the client and much closer to the real world, that in some cases the lines have started to get blurred. Combine this with the general attitude that the goons and other groups have shown or even promoted as well as accusations of real life threats, and things have really changed.

At a certain point, Eve stopped being a game to some and became personal.

I know this may sound ironic coming from a guy in CO2, but honestly I could not give two ***** about whether goons live or die. I am here because of the people in my corp. A kill mail is a kill mail. We just hope we are on the right side of it lol.

Who cares about the right side? I'll just stick with my side.

In any case, there are interesting times ahead.

As you all know by now; there was a huge, running battle in Tribute yesterday between "The Good Guys" / Moneybadger Coalition and CFC that turned into a full route for CFC after CO2 defected to the other side. I won't get into the reasons why CO2 may have done this as there is so much spin, separating fact from fiction is not possible.

Listening to the various interviews afterwards...I noticed this common theme from anyone within the Imperium/CFC as far as what they were saying goes.

"We will outlast this."
"They do not have the energy to spend even a week at this."
"They do not have any inspirational leader to keep them going."

I sat back and I pondered this for a minute...and I realized something.

The Imperium thinks it is beyond the power of Times ravages. Of the cycles that govern the rise and falls of empires, real and digital. They think they are still invincible and too powerful to fall.

The pilots in New Eden can prove this wrong.

I; as a newer pilot coming up on 3 months in the game, ask you to keep this fight going. To prove The Mittani and his cohorts wrong. That the Imperium can be brought to kneel before the greater might of the whole. The greater might of us players; newbro and veteran; industrial, explorer, and fighter alike. We bring them to heel and we show them they are like the Spanish Armada in 1588 before facing England on the seas. We strip them of their power and destroy the foundations of their Ivory Towers.

We make even The Mittani realize he is not beyond reproach. That to have everything destroyed is to give a space for a new creation to happen. That the old must give way to the new.

And should the Imperium survive this? We make sure they no longer hold the power they used too. To decide what alliances live and which ones they destroy for even daring to exist without their say so.

New Eden rise up and show this young pilot; who believes the impossible can be done by sheer Force of Will and the fortitude to carry on; how wrong the Imperium is about it's place of power being untouchable.

Go beyond the impossible everyone and good fights to all!

Are you as high AF yet? Because we can't really "deal" with things unless you are, sir

I just need to know one thing: who is Hitler here?

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there we go.

Nein!

Hey at least I am blond and have blue eyes, unlike that Austrian comedian who everyone took a little bit too serious.

I just need to know one thing: who is Hitler here?

Not to put too fine a point on it: Had Mittani not been handed this organization, he'd have no organization of his own. Because someone threw a scimitar at a watery bint, a leader is not made. Appealing to the base titillations of a mostly just-into-adolescence crowd of gankers can only last so long, and now we see the actual depth of the leadership involved.

There's no point in making Mitt see anything. He, like the countless others like him, will be overcome by events. Any tale to be told will be all fairy tales invented by the witless who wish to become cool by standing next to a myth of their own invention.

This day was inevitable. Now we know how long it took to get here. Move along. There is no there there.

Oh, and grats to you boss hog combat pilots who took it to the windbags. Well done, indeed.