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Gliche
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tyr
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If we want to create a corp or something we have to be more than that. | ||
TheMango
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Bill307
Canada9103 Posts
 Edit: to me, EVE is like a TV show. Fun to watch, but not something I'd actually want to be a part of IRL.  | ||
KwarK
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CDRdude
United States5625 Posts
Last night Minor Threat demonstrated that they are indeed just in Delve for the mayhem and are not taking a side in the conflict...by jumping a KenZoku Cruiser group near Period Basis. Other than a few smaller squads acting independantly in light ships, KenZoku is still inactive, still camped into PR-8CA, and still losing ground every hour. To keep themselves from going stir crazy and boost morale, GoonSwarm members have begun to read slash fan-fiction over the Coalition teamspeak during Dreadnought seiges. Said homoerotic stories apparently involve player-characters from the game and power tools. The Northern members of the Coalition are reconsidering their political relations and reviewing their communications options. Supposedly, GoonSwarm have fanfictoin competitions, and it's mandatory for them to be erotic slashfiction. Sourced from a goonfleet presentation from some kind of eve fan meet (Youtube link). At about 3:35 in. Even though things are going their way, GoonSwarm and company are not being triumphalist or losing focus. A meme they keep quoting in their posts is "2/21". They know that if KenZoku tries anything at all, it needs to be on Saturday. They are racing to accomplish as much as possible while they are still relatively assured of a free hand. KenZoku seem to be implying some sort of last-ditch effort on 2/21. I'm thinking it was a bluff, because no major fleet actions have been reported, and 2/21 is almost over with in Europe, which is where most of the Kenny members are located. Quoth The Mittani:... tldr version: * j-l hellpurge will flip it tomorrow * y5c, 5-6 and 7utb are all safely in pl hands though y5c will need a hellpurge soon with 23 finfleet towers to 35 PL * BNC const is under assault, PS-94 fell today, 1 hostile tower on 10 moons left, 39P was sieged and it and 8RQ both have been spammed * EVOL's const is entirely secure with 5BTK and MO-G hellpurged, TCf has superiority in 8WA and will flip it, Y-O has 21H to 15 F RZR towers but all 21 are in RF and will die tomorrow * RKK's constellation W-4 is all done, though many hostile towers under the 51% mark remain for cleanup, thanks for the six stations kakashi-sempai~~~ * DICE is busy taking down towers and evaccing their const in Period Basis. You're next. * NOL is hellpurged, C6Y and C3N are ours, and T-M is being spammed by ZAF and had hostile towers RF'd today. * and that's your delve weather update * kenny capfleet status: still trapped in PR- rololol~ The above information can be quoted because...the regular Goon Fleet forums have crashed and GoonSwarm brazenly moved their "war room" communications and operations-updates to the official EVE forums. Even if they've got the information minute to minute on where and what the Goons are up to, there's nothing KenZoku can do about it. It seems the other residents can do nothing about hundreds of Goons suddenly posting in multiple threads either; no one else is even trying to break into the spam. The EVE forums were apparently slowing down the the point of un-useability during this period. However, the goonfleet forums are apparently back online. This is a truncated update-post (not that there's much more to talk about) but I'm afraid it is likely to be the last regular update for some time. As of today I have another committment for my time and writing abilities (such as they are). I'll likely peek in on the situation tomorrow to see if KenZoku tries anything, but won't be able to follow it closely. I've done the majority of the reportage up to this point, but that doesn't at all mean the thread has to stop. It's an open forum and anyone can speak up with what they know. In fact I'd be pleased if they would. If you want to follow it along on your own: The official EVE forums contain the psychological attacks and reactions to events from the participants. Scrapheap Challenge has better information about what actually took place in the various battles. The Goon Fleet, Band of Brothers, Pandemic Legion, and other killboards will let you see who downed what and how battles turned out for each side (PL's is the easiest to read). And of course, there's the daily-updated Influence Map. Thank you to everyone who gave compliments to my posts in this thread. Farewell Human_Being, we'll miss your correspondence. I'll update this into the main post sooner or later. Although he updates again not too much later  This morning, AAA invaded the battle zone through Period Basis. They attacked one of the scattered Dreadnought groups consisting of KIA Alliance and Goon Fleet. As per the previous days, the Tower team was organized for speed and had little in the way of support ships. The Against ALL Authorities, Stain Empire, and Red.Overlord fleet consisted mostly of Battleships with some lighter support; over a hundred strong. The result: five Dreadnoughts and two Carriers down. AAA prevented the destruction of the KenZoku Tower under assault and blasted the one KIA had brought to emplace. With surprise still on their side and holding a superior force in the immediate area, they then......left the battle zone . The attack was one of opportunity and not further pursued. It's now after midnight in Moscow. I don't think the Russians are coming to help ... Meanwhile, KenZoku spokesperson Dianabolic had earlier promised a "surprise" for the Alliance and Pets on today, the 21st. There has been increased activity in PR-8CA. By which I mean there are more Cruiser and Frigate ships acting independently and getting blown up by the Station Camp. No major announcement. No change in strategy. No maneuvers. As the Goons said: "No Leaders! No Fleets! No Hope!". It's now after 9 pm in London on a Saturday. I don't think KenZoku is doing anything today either. I'll say it again, Failure of Leadership. And here's your Daily Irony: The first Titan in the game was an Avatar piloted by Cyvok, head of the Ascendant Frontier industrial Alliance. He was also the first to lose a Titan in the game. During a battle with Band of Brothers, Cyvok had used his Doomsday Device and then retreated at warp speed to a random "safe spot" on the map. When he arrived at the location, his client crashed and disconnected him. BoB scanned for the Titan, warped to its location, and tore it to pieces with no one at the helm. BoB later went on to wipe out the Ascendant Frontier Alliance. Many people pointed to Shrike's ignominious defeat last week as justice for Cyvok. After being away for quite some time, Cyvok returned to EVE today. He was greeted by CEO Pyrex of GoonSwarm with: hey dude told you we would get them eventully also titan waiting - apply to ds1 | ||
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jodogohoo
Canada2533 Posts
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x89titan
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kazokun
United States163 Posts
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Kuja900
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VorcePA
United States1102 Posts
On February 22 2009 10:58 Kuja900 wrote: Ok im signing up when the expansion is released i would love to be part of a TL corp, im a total newb though Newbs are great. You can fly cheap, worthless ships and still be immensely valuable to a PvP group. Or you could mine minerals and help start an infrastructure for the corp. Or you could quickly train some hauler skills and move stuff around. Or you could quickly get yourself in a cruiser with PvE skills and help other people do difficult missions (of which you would share rewards). People argue that because the way skill training works you'll never be able to catch up to the people who have been playing longer than you. While this is true, you'll never have the same skill points as them, that's not what it's about. EvE Online is about specialization. You pick one thing to be really good at, and in a year's time, you'll probably have all the skills trained to a proficient enough level to use that ship or do that task almost as well as a veteran. If you stay focused just on that, you -will- be just as good as a veteran in two years. As long as you specialize in a specific task, you will always be valuable to someone. | ||
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VorcePA
United States1102 Posts
I re-activated my account. I can go somewhere and start a corporation. Should it just be called "Team Liquid"? Should I give it funny characters? Should we call it something completely different? In-game name is SonOTassadar (Shut it... I created this account when I was like 16) | ||
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kazokun
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Jayme
United States5866 Posts
On February 22 2009 07:24 CDRdude wrote: He was greeted by CEO Pyrex of GoonSwarm with: hey dude told you we would get them eventully also titan waiting - apply to ds1 Hahah, oh wow. Oh wow oh wow. Welcome back Cyvok, it's a shame really the way he lost that titan. | ||
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Kuja900
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VorcePA
United States1102 Posts
On February 22 2009 16:29 Kuja900 wrote: I been reading some forums i been thinking about making my main guy a PVPer with an alt trader buys/resells ect for profit. Any thoughts/suggestions from people who have played this game? That's a good idea if you have the time and the patience. Being a really good trader is quite an investment of time (both in training skills and time you have to spend playing the game). This is what most players do who want to specialize in PvP, because it's really expensive to do so if you're flying around in expensive ships. | ||
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Kuja900
United States3564 Posts
On February 22 2009 16:35 VorcePA wrote: That's a good idea if you have the time and the patience. Being a really good trader is quite an investment of time (both in training skills and time you have to spend playing the game). This is what most players do who want to specialize in PvP, because it's really expensive to do so if you're flying around in expensive ships. I was under the impression that with trading its more like buy and wait along time, so cant i just like leave it overnight or something or do i actually need to be there playing im really total newb sry to sound retarded. | ||
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Oedi
Canada265 Posts
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Llamaz
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