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Originally Posted by Damaged (Post 893642)

I once played EVE, as one of BoB's haters. Its good to see that the Goons have gone and done it again. They always impressed me by playing the game like chess, by risking the expensive Capital class ships like any pawn-like fighter. Now, I get to smile even as I miss out on the game due to not have the bandwidth to support it. The thought of some one being a thorn in BoB's side while I'm away encourages me to find an excuse to log back in and go back to high piracy on the outskirts of BoB space as (Character Name Undisclosed).

It's good to hear someone else was a pain in the ass for these guys; the short amount of time I played EVE (around 6 months) was pretty well spent pirating as far into their space as I could get without getting caught. Smuggling and doing what I could to annoy them was what made me keep playing for 6 months.

I hope the Goons don't go and become the new BoB though, it might give me an excuse to start playing again.

I think the goons take too much pleasure in disorder to become the new BoB.

But maybe I'm just projecting. The destabilization of the established power structure in these present events, I'm noticing, is a big turn-on for me. Is that wrong? ^_^

I think I might start playing again. . .

This is the EVE Online forums thread about this event if anyone is interested. Most of the thread is people going "holy shit" and the like though. Having sort of followed EVE drama, this is funny to me because from what I gather BoB contained staff members who played with normal accounts and openly hated Goonfleet along with a lot of the player base. The one thing that will save BoB now is a server rollback.

I also enjoy reading about Goonfleet's trolling of BoB and other corps, such as what happened to that poor player in a rival alliance whose son died. Another thing worth noting is that almost all EVE discussion was banned from Something Awful, despite Goonfleet being SA members.

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I apologize if my implication was that it meant you were useless. My point was more that this game depends on time played = wealth moreso than other games, ergo you're at a larger disadvantage for starting late in terms of wealth. Just because you lack wealth doesn't make you useless, however. As I said, it's a tool that you will lack, and some people might not like starting out with the odds stacked against them.

Ah, yes, that sounds about right then. Carry on~

If I had controlling interest in one of these major guild/companies I'd be having an auction on E-bay. It is already crazy what people will pay for characters imagine what a guild would get you.

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Originally Posted by Lumenskir (Post 893636)

From everything I've ever read about this game, the best way to have a real presence is to start playing about a week before it went beta.

In my experience, I've heard this almost exclusively from people who haven't played the game. It doesn't really work out like that in practice at all.

Man, perhaps there's a more appropriate title for this thread, though. I've been off EVE for about two years now, but my first thought on seeing it was quite a bit of disappointment. I was expecting news about the game being shut down. :sweatdrop

Wait, why would you aim to "be a presence" in a game world with a population of I think 250 000? That's about as realistic as trying to get the key to the city in Hull. It's not something that most people can do, particularly if the time you've spent there amounts to almost 1% of that of a member of the old guard. (Which it would after a two week trial.)

Also, BoB got as close as anyone to winning the game, and see how well that worked out for them. Being popular is pretty risky.

EVE Online in my experience of playing it god-only-knows-how-long-ago, evil is generally rewarded more than the forces of good.

I'm glad to see that, years and years after I quit, this one thing is still true about EVE.