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Oct 4, 2008

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Dalael posted:

Theta is the place to go and chill while you mine/krab if you want your poo poo saved. Sometimes it's fun, sometimes its cancer.

Wait wait wait. Goons DO mine? :monocle:

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Oct 4, 2008

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CainFortea posted:

Can't tell if sarcasm or not.

If not.



In the Delekin days mining was considered alien and ungoony.

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Oct 4, 2008

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Ad by Khad posted:

hi anela

i don't play this poo poo game anymore because of theta's racism but i remember you fondly

Aww, thanks. :3:

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Oct 4, 2008

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Getting lost a few times is inevitable.

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Oct 4, 2008

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What happened to the goatee?

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Oct 4, 2008

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I tried Black Desert and wasn't thrilled, but it does have one innovative feature EVE lacks: You could leave your room. :monocle: :aaa: :woop:



If they can ever get Walking In Stations working that would open up a vast vista of cosmetic microtransactions that wouldn't hurt the spaceship game at all. It would also be launching a huge new feature to try to rope in new players. And the RP crowd loves nothing more than sitting in taverns or running shops. And I gotta think at least some of the people who take their space job too seriously would love to be able to have their staff meetings in a space office where everyone sits around the space conference table. It could probably be a money maker even if there was no first person combat feature and it was just a social thing.

Once you have avatars wandering around they can have housing, a lot of MMO fans loving love housing. And once they have space homes they want to decorate them and not just have anonymous identical space hotel rooms like CCP gave us. People will pay tens of dollars for fake furniture and spend hours lovingly arranging it. For example, here's the furniture you can buy in BDO. http://www.bdo-furniture.com/ Some of that you can get in game, but all the nice stuff requires spending actual money. (Oh, and in BDO there is minor benefit to having one of the best decorated houses in town. Best decorated being decided automatically by having the most 'points' of furniture, with cash shop furniture worth more points than the free furniture. So anyone who wants the best decorated prize turns their home into an ugly cash shop warehouse.)

From there it is no big whoop to add in housing based minigames that let you use your house as a grow op for piddly amounts of tabbaco, spirits, or long-limbed roes. Things that would have a terrible isk/effort ratio, but would be catnip to the sort of people who love MMOs but hate PVP. There are a lot of people who love MMOs and hate PVP.


They don't have to gently caress up the parts of the game that work well in order to mine cash from the IP. They will, but they don't have to.

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Oct 4, 2008

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Gwyneth Palpate posted:

Who knows? Maybe Pearl Abyss will share BDO's waifu tech with CCP so we can finally have harems of anime catboys and catgirls in our one-room space lofts.

Definitely. BDO cash shop already sells slave girls maids you can keep captive inside your house.





:stonklol:

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Oct 4, 2008

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1001 Arabian dicks posted:

remember when they banned 80 people because of the bonus room fiasco?

it was only when James 315 pbuh made a 15 page essay that CCP realized "Hey, we can't just ban an entire chat room because 3 people did weird stuff in it" and unbanned the majority of the people they banned, who 90% were literal scam VICTIMS from previous bonus rooms

"If there was crime, there should be punishment. If the specific criminal should be involved in the punishment process then this was a happy accident, but if not then any criminal would do, and since everyone was undoubtedly guilty of something, the net result was that, in general terms, justice was done." -Men at Arms, Terry Pratchett

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Oct 4, 2008

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xyzzyx posted:

Tell ya what, I'll come back on April 10, 2027 and make a brick joke IF you paranoid cunts will let me join your spaceship team.

Go forth and make 3 posts per day. The number of posts is 3. Do this everyday, for 333 days. Posts in this subforum do not count. 3 posts per day. Only then can you unlock the truth about Eve Goons.

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Oct 4, 2008

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Decided to log in for free trash. Haven't logged in since 2014. WTF where is my captain's quarters? Where is my space couch? Where is my space TV?

This is bullshit.

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Oct 4, 2008

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PathAsc posted:

The more important question is have you downloaded and converted porn to play on the space tv

Yeah right. If I did that how would I watch the space news?

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Oct 4, 2008

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The game sure is pretty now. But the question I keep asking myself is DO YOU HAVE A CLEAR VISION?

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Oct 4, 2008

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Oh for gently caress sake, I just went 16 jumps to some hellhole lowsec station to unwrap some asset safety wrap. The amazing prize awaiting me at the end of my journey? A single unit of trit. :suicide:

There's no way to peek inside the wrap remotely, right?

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Oct 4, 2008

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lovely tuna snatch posted:

Search tab in the assets window.

Oh wow, thanks.

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Oct 4, 2008

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According to DOTLAN the asset saving thing has dumped my archon 11 jumps and like 100,000 helium from 1DQ. Should be fun. Wait, no, the opposite of fun. There's jump fatigue now too, right? Maybe I should just ditch the carrier and go back to frigates. Frigates are the best.

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Oct 4, 2008

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Klyith posted:

Remember that capitals can use gates now too, so assuming you're coming from up North you could follow the Eye of Terror route through fountain to save some jumps and a ton of fuel. Still tedious and you probably want to move in low-activity times to take gates.

Jump fatigue exists but has been neutered down from loving you over for a week to a day.


Selling the carrier in lowsec and buying a new one in Delve would probably be a net gain, so that's really not a terrible idea.

Yeah, I'm mostly just musing while I want for auth so I can read the wiki. At the moment I can't even remember how far off a station I should light a cyno to avoid a bounce.

Once I'm in I'll look at the finances of selling and rebuying in Delve, that might save a lot of hassle. Mostly all I used my carrier for was capswarm missions repairing poo poo, and it looks like carriers don't even do that anymore? aaaaa

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Oct 4, 2008

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I'm moving various assets around from lowsec to Jita, and finally one of the little jerks camping a lowsec gate gets a point on me. Oh no! My brain shorts out for a moment then I remember to turn on my tank. I'm flying an old 2014 drakefleet drake, so it's a lot of tank. I remember to turn on my missiles. Oh, hey, his shields are going down a lot faster than mine. Actually I'm not sure if mine are going down at all since I turned on the tank. Finally I remember my webifier and try to get within 10k of him to turn that on too, but he flies away. :(

Why would a lone gatecamper even bother to point a drake? Yeah, it's slow so as hell, but from what I could see still really tanky. If I hadn't been so out of practice (and bad at eve) I might have gotten one of my few solo pvp kills. I totally forgot I had drones until after he flew off.

Oh well, good practice.

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Oct 4, 2008

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causticBeet posted:

I mean you didn’t mention what he was flying, but it’s pretty clear that it was easy for him to moonwalk out, so why not?

I didn't actually notice. :shobon: Mostly I was just giddy about not being instantly dead and wanted to tell someone. In my experience either I'm fast enough to escape or I'm dead within 10 seconds, possibly because I don't usually fly around alone in random poo poo space in anything but a fast frigate or a blockade runner. First time I ever had time to fight back, and I won!*



*For certain values of winning. Not dying is a win.

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Oct 4, 2008

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I gotta say, all the people living in every single system is freaking me out. I was looking for a quiet spot where I could practice the scanning mechanics and no place in Delve has less than like 7 dudes hanging out. It used to be that most systems were deserted most of the time. It's all so busy now.

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Oct 4, 2008

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Got my apostle today and holky gently caress this thing is huge! In the hanger I can't even zoom out far enough to see the whole thing. Wow.

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Oct 4, 2008

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I don't mind not being able to log in, but insulting my handshake is just rude.

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Oct 4, 2008

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Hey are abandoned drones in goonspace still fair game? I'm not having much luck finding relic sites, but there are a lot of T2 drones just floating around on their lonesome. Better than nothing.

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Oct 4, 2008

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Just found some tacklmallers I had to abandon in NOL back in 2011 or whatever. These are still doctrine ships, right?

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Oct 4, 2008

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Pomp posted:

Yeah, if PvP is dead (it extremely is) it's ccps fault. All that's left is blob fights which are boring for everyone who isn't FC or tackle,

I'd add logi. If you enjoy playing logi whack-a-mole the size of the fleet doesn't matter much.

But since they are always begging more people to fly space priests I guess most people don't enjoy it? IDGI, I think logi is a lot more fun than being an F1 monkey.

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Oct 4, 2008

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Klyith posted:


Goonfleet has lost hard several times, and the closest it came to killing us was in 2010 where we were stuck in syndicate and couldn't take space for months. Because our identity is empire builders and being stuck with no empire was bad.

That was depressing as hell, yeah.

But at least it brought us this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdJqBBb4yO4

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Oct 4, 2008

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Wibla posted:

The amount of retardposting on r/eve about us losing idiot ratters/miners is impressive.

It's almost like they forget that this happens every single time we deploy.

I've been away long enough that I still find losing a titan impressive. Losing a titan to torpedo bombers? I didn't even know that was possible.
https://zkillboard.com/kill/76813920/

Sure, it's nothing to do with the war, but I can't blame them for being happy about it.

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Oct 4, 2008

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Someone who has played eve online should no better than to follow a smooth talker into a new job and great new life in a strange place. Dude got recruitment scammed in RL.

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Oct 4, 2008

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Micromancer posted:

I have no problem with this. It will die eventually, but I won't be taking unnecessary risks with it, or being predictable with its use. There is in fact a gang of hunters up near staging that have more patience than I can fathom. I dont mind if it takes weeks to get it home, or months to get the correct fit items and skills. The hard part is already done.

gently caress the haters, spinning ships in station is the best.

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Oct 4, 2008

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ZombieLenin posted:

Except CCP scaled fax models in stations around a re-scaling of all capitals that never happened so that now Faxes, in stations, look bigger than supers and you cannot properly spin them... or see anything put their asses.

Tragic.

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Oct 4, 2008

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OscarDiggs posted:

Many years ago I wanted to get into Eve and I happened to have an SA account way back when. I checked out the Eve thread that was around then and it seemed like the only thing the clan (or corporation, whatever the correct term is for Eve) was mostly about griefing other players and that turned me off.

Now I've been chatting to a few Goons in Discords I'm in and they've been talking about Eve, and I admit it's got me intrigued again. But if the only thing I'm gonna be doing is being mean to pubbies then it's a hard pass. Has Goonswarm moved on from that or is that still it's main goal?

There's room to do what you want. I tried ganking an miner in highsec once during one of our burn things events. Successfully pulled off a solo gank on some miner who was probably AFK. Then I felt bad and sent him 5 mil (less than he lost, but enough to get him back to mining if he was broke). Since I didn't enjoy it, I didn't participate in that sort of thing again and no one cared. No one ever even noticed.

Meanwhile I spent a few years helping with the programs for goon and allied newbies, generally being nice and helpful and having a good time. I saw a guy once wrote I was the only director he didn't want to kick in the teeth. :3: I also flew a space priest ship handing out heals in strategic fights because that's what I like to do. Also puttering around with a bunch of small time industry stuff. Just having a good time with no drama.


The only time being a nice person could put you in conflict with goonfleetwaffesquad is if you burst into the situation and tell everyone they are bad for enjoying mean things. Or you see a goon scaming someone so you take it upon yourself to get in the middle and warn the mark that he's being scammed. But mostly you'll never even know goon rude boys are out there being mean to pubbies unless you go out of your way to join those special interest groups. The stories of that part of the game are well known because they are more interesting than stories about standard MMO activities like how you mined a rock real good or whatever.

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Oct 4, 2008

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That multifit button is cool as gently caress. :swoon: It makes me wish I was assembling hundreds of frigates again just so I could watch it happen.

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Oct 4, 2008

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SugarAddict posted:

On one hand, they're killing highsec people and are probably reffing structures in high sec right now, on the other hand they won't come to nullsec so we can farm them easier.

Imagine if sov dropped because NPCs started destroying structures, lol.

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Oct 4, 2008

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ragedx posted:

So it seems ccp has declared war on the pubbies safe space. Most entertaining to see how many auto pilot ppl get ganked going through invasion space. Glorious war has come to eve on all sides now

Yeah I had my Jita alt flying over to dodixie for market stuff and the path went through like 3 systems that were invaded but I thought whatever it's just rats. I jumped into the first system and in the 11 seconds it took to align they took my bestower to half armor, lol. I didn't die, but I decided to go back to Jita.

I guess I'll use an interceptor next time I go shopping and just pay some pubbie to haul the stuff to Jita for me. :shrug:

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Oct 4, 2008

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Jst0rm posted:

im also thinking about reupping. I have no idea where I will spawn into. Do we own tons of poo poo still or will I be deep behind enemy lines? I have some jump clones all about so its not that big of a deal but yeah. Kinda want to get a month to see whats up.

You will be in lowsec. All the stuff you had in goon stations that have since become hostile stations will also be in lowsec, but you'll have to pay 15% to get it out of hock.

The good news is you don't need to resubscribe to log in and look around. Instead of a 2 week trial people play for free with an Alpha Clone which is limited in many of the same ways the old trial accounts were. So you probably won't be able to fly a bunch of your ships, but you can log in and see if what's going on before you commit to paying a subscription.

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Oct 4, 2008

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Foehammer007 posted:

Who is olmeca

A guy who thinks current sovereignty mechanics have made it too hard to gank miners in nulsec.

Unlike 5 years ago, when there were no miners in nulsec to gank.

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Oct 4, 2008

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Foehammer007 posted:

Can I get eve online classic please

Remote doomsdays sounded fun. Do titans even have doomsdays' anymore?

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Oct 4, 2008

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CainFortea posted:

Except we'll never deal with the revolution because, what, am0k dotte gonna do it?

Karmafleet gonna get tired of our poo poo and boot us from the alliance. They all "come join Karmafleet" or "come join Friends of Karmafleet" "we accept everyone" "we have hookers and blow". Mmmhmm. Gonna hollow us out and take us down. They've already cleverly taken over the newbie programs, the rest is just a matter of time.

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Oct 4, 2008

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CheetoRamen posted:

You should have been contributing to high quality helldump content like 'z0r' threads you absolute cretin. You have really let the team down.

True. I was deeply shaken by our forums participation numbers in the May participation metrics.


Only 20% bothered to log in and make a lovely post last month? We have brought shame on our ancestors.



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Oct 4, 2008

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masteen posted:

What in the actual gently caress? Did something happen where we are no longer the bloated fetid exemplar of what not to do in Internet Spaceships?

The metrics include did you log into the forums, did you make a post on the forums, did you log into mumble, did you log into jabber. Basically did you engage with the "goon community" in any way at all? Dude would have been fine just solo ratting in delve this whole time if he occasionally chatted with other goons on the GSF services.

Failure to post. A shameful goon.

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Oct 4, 2008

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1001 Arabian dicks posted:

classically i thought you were able to be in gsf and do nothing, the only no-nos were don't be a racist idiot or a spy

Atrum is mad with power. Spreadsheet power.

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