EVE Online, BoB Betrayed.

[Colonel Mitch]

i must say thats pretty damn stoopid on a battleship

It was fine I was about to quite anyway, and i only had hideously cheap modules eqquipped.

[Vicious Horizon]

Still downloading.

Heh, I heard a story about this guy I know's brother, spent about 2 months grinding for this new ship, 2 SOLID months, and he eventually got it, he bought it, and as soon as he undocked some guy Nuked him and he lost it all XD

I think he cried x3

[Stahlregen]

Sup, registered to post this.

I've been playing with goonswarm for about 3 years now. I enjoyed the article immensely, however they got a few details wrong.

Mittani is not actually the CEO or 'Leader' of Goonswarm, That position recently belonged to Darius Johnson but he has just now passed the leadership to ex-diplomat Zapawork. Mittani always works behind the CEO, acting as one of his primary 'right-hand men' He assumes the role of 'spymaster' and manages a vast network of spy agents. We like to think of him as our very own Dr. Strangelove. That is a man with an answer and solution to even the most hilarious of doomsday scenarios we constantly seem to find ourselves in.

The actual disbanding of the bob alliance by the hands of Haargoth was in reality done slightly differently than how it happened in the article, The alliance fees simply turned out to be one of the many rumors flying about. In actuality, Haargoth had a character in Tinfoil which is the executor corp for BoB. This is essentially the highest level of control for the whole alliance, as characters with the clearance required in this particular corp have the ability to eject member corps from the alliance. Which is what really happened, Haargoth simply went down the list of corps, clicking each one and selecting 'kick'. When there were no corps remaining in the alliance the whole thing goes poof, alliance gone, name, sov, everything.

It's still not over though. Delve (BoB's former fortress home) is considered firmly in the hands of goons, however there is still fierce fighting in surrounding regions as the predominantly russian Against all Authorities bloc who aligned themselves with BoB just prior to their disbanding now counter-attacks. They are afraid that with bob out of the picture will pick them apart at our leisure, They're probably right too.

Oh yeah and as for bob, well they reformed as kenzoku then a while later they got their name changed back to BoB by the developers. Everyone cried bullshit, because apparently you're not allowed to get special favors like that so the developers set their name back to kenzoku. They aren't really considered a potential threat in the big scheme of things nowdays.

[Calneon]

Welcome to ATK Stahlregen.

Thanks for taking the time to post this, the way you explained it was actually a lot more understandable to me (who doesn't play EVE) than the original article, and it makes a lot more sense now. I think the publishers of the article are trying to make it more entertaining by messing with the truth, which i'm not blaming them for, however sometimes things can be misleading or exaggerated.

In any way, the only MMOs i've played are WoW and WAR, and some other Korean MMOs, and i'm always astounded when I hear stories like this, where whole guilds are fighting and you can literally have the whole guild (whatever a guild is called in EVE) wiped out because you let an undercover agent in from an opposing guild. When I first saw an article in PCG about a similar story, I just thought it was fiction made up based on the game .

Anyway, hope you'll stick around at ATK.

[Vicious Horizon]

Wow, thanks Stahl for clearing that up, and welcome to ATK ^^

Hope you stick around for a while =D

(Update, trial is almost finished installing LOL)

[Stahlregen]

If you're just starting eve, even if you are only on a trial, i can only suggest immediately applying to a corp by the name of eve university. They exist solely to educate new players in how the game is played, tactics, money-making, pitfalls and all that jazz and they appear to be one of the only completely neutral groups around. That is, you're not going to find yourself getting wiped out by one of the 'big boys' in some massive interstellar war (although, you should probably not be too concerned about this as it happenes to pretty much everyone). Coupled with their infrastructure and top-notch mentors, and support they provide to their new recruits makes eve university a player's best bet for getting a headstart over everyone else and being able to plunge into the real meat of the game.

And then when you think you've had enough hand-holding, you can apply to one of the many corporations or alliances out there- Due to E-uni's reputation, having them listed in your corp history will most likely help you in being accepted into other groups.

http://www.eve-ivy.com/

edit: Oh yeah, and these are some pretty handy video tutorials for very mundane yet massively important things.


Setting up your overview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-wL8bGCWCQ

How to hide from guys trying to kill you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtAgtrp4Uj0

Tackling, The ultimate skill required for pvp:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PayTWKxtn6I

How to use on-board scanner:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99kRIbp4FBQ

How not to look like a retard in front of the rest of your fleet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt-nXHCuw2A

(Not totally applicable, different corps/alliances have different fleet procedures.)

How not to look like a retard in front of the rest of your fleet (continued):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7m3A...eature=related

[Vicious Horizon]

Thanks alot Stahl ^^ If I feel I can afford to pay the subscription I may consider it, and I'll have a look at EVE University, thanks for the head up =)