CommonShore posted:

My instincts tell me that you're basing this on your impression of GSF during the time that you were in TopGoon, and therefore you're working from your experiences with Trephination, Guuldaan, and Sothrasil. Those guys have a habit of trying to put themselves on a pedestal as FCs because they have aspirations of space important, so for them to be An FC (or a "TopGoon FC") means that they're super special and important and better than the regular plebes because they've been vetted and proven and all of this poo poo, and so if you're not An FC, you need to shut up and listen to them until you're An FC (which you never will be because you're, of course, not as good and important as them).

Jesus, if I had the insurance payouts from every time that those guys went and did something that I told them to not do on the grounds that they were Official FCs and they know better than me and they're going to do it anyway, I'd be Querns.

CommonShore posted:

In fact, now that I think about it, if anything he was too chill. He was so desperate to be putting up paplinks with big "impressive" numbers that he'd let any kind of drooling idiot into fleet, no matter how bad they were at EVE or at being a human being. That's how we ended up with people like Johnny Rah and Futility spewing diarrhea over comms all day and getting other people's ships killed and forcing all of the good people quit because they didn't want to be around them anymore, and Soth was too "chill" to kick anyone. And then TopGoon died.

That's what happened.

CommonShore posted:

What's your eve name. It's possible that you weren't there for this bullshit.

CommonShore posted:

You're cool.

(e. I'm Don Gately :skink:)

Rhymenoserous posted:

Actually he has been ratting in it all day. He was too easy to spook so we nabbed a thanatos instead. Then he warped the aeon in to save the thanatos, and well.

Note this is all second hand. But so far in the last week we've killed about five carriers, one dread, now a super, and a crapload of rattlesnakes.

EDIT: I'm going to go ahead and say these paisti syndicate guys stupid as gently caress and are going to get murdered by the bakers dozen and Horde has a better chance of keeping Fade than these jackasses do dek.

Unfunny Poster posted:

He'll only post in threads that aren't made by Eonwe because he apparently is still butthurt over being mocked by Eonwe over the ArcheAge stuff.

Zephyrine posted:

That was stolen?

Zephyrine posted:

Link your pilots name.

Zephyrine posted:

A majority of people who read this thread are regular goons thinking "This game sounds interesting. Let's see what's going on in thi OH DEAR GOD WHAT IS WRONG WITH EVE GOONS!?"

Then they flee and never return.


It's recovering.

Rhymenoserous posted:

It's a good post, but when most of us talk about the "Big College" atmosphere of GSF we're talking about it in the past tense. Unironically however with GSF strategic tempo basically being "Wulfpax" now would be a great time for the old combat squads to come back to life and do things, because those old combat squads basically operated in said "Wulfpax".

I'd try to get Topgoon back on it's feet but I really, really, really don't want to be the guy in charge of it again.

ChickenWing posted:

this unironically




not that I play or anything










luv2overwatch

Rhymenoserous posted:

So after making a few jokes about it I've been getting a lot of jabber PM's and other PMs and a few steam convos.

So I'll ask the eve thread: Anyone interested in a covert hotdrop squad with a hilarious 80's gimmick... if you know what I'm saying? I'm already talking to a few key people to help me get things rolling again.

frozenpussy posted:

ullerrm posted:

Citadels are a mix of good and bad.

Good:
* Can build infrastructure in null and not risk getting all your possessions hellcamped/deadzoned due to the joys of asset stasis
* Godsend for J-space
* Pretty good at killing caps if properly configured and manned
* Allows you to move caps risk-free (and supers with minimal risk)

Bad:
* Everyone's spamming Astrahuses everywhere and making GBS threads up overviews
* Doesn't automatically kill poo poo like a POS would
* Still can't insure ships
* Still can't repair items without fitting them to a ship undocking, which means you can't trivially repackage and contract items with 1% damage on them

Dumb:
* Keepstars can be anchored in J-systems and are basically indestructible once refitted (and Fortizars are close-to-indestructible)
* You can anchor them 1000km off a POS, and the POS will auto-attack targets -- and yes, faction XL arty batteries can hit a moving T3 from 1000km away

Overall, game's not in bad shape. There's still some dumb balancing odds-and-ends that need to be done (tiericided turrets, rebalancing blops and AFs, panic rorqual tackler being OP garbage, machariel still top-tier PvP BS with no real competition, etc), and sov mechanics are pure stupid garbage. OTOH, citadels ended up okay, the Svipul finally got nerfed (altho it's still a very good ship), ganglinks rebalance turned out okay, and poo poo is reasonably fun.

Politics wise: PLNCH have continued to murder or absorb nearly every single alliance they were blue to this year, and Horde now has to roam multiple regions away to get content, which has produced lots of drama. Goons have rebuilt in Delve and are pretty much back to 2012 levels. CO2 and TEST have decided that it's a good idea to invade Stain Russians in the middle of winter, because PGL promises it'll totally work this time.

iospace posted:

Alright, thanks. Do you know why they left or no?


This is one of the things about Eve I love that other MMOs don't have: you get back in and immediately make a difference after a long break. No leveling to from 85 to 110 or some poo poo.

Also, if you were subbed but didn't have a queue, petition CCP to get your skillpoints back!

Rhymenoserous posted:

Or Daggoth Ur.