Players’ Attempt to Destroy EVE Online Economy Gets Thumbs-Up From Developers

[Lukeo]

Eve, while being too close to playing with Microsoft Excel for my liking, seems really fun in the right hands, especially seeing as you're at risk a lot of the time.
Love how the developers encourage this kind of thing and allow scamming:
[url]http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Scams_in_Eve[/url]

[swebonny]

[QUOTE=dass;35736851]Just a question, what is Gianturco and Goonswarm? A player and a guild respectively?

This sounds like real world confrontations like NK and SK. Fun! I used to love these sorts of fights in MMOs made of guild vs guild and so on.[/QUOTE]

They make grownup people cry.

[Van-man]

[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;35736981]Gianturco is an asshat that got banned fo0r a month because he was an asshole.

Now he's gotten Goonswarm, who are a rather large Null-Sec Alliance(the terminology gets worse from here on in, grab a glossary) that own their own swath of space to back him up in his Crusade. Other null-sec alliances and pretty much everyone for that matter despise them all because the corporations in Goonswarm are composed of mostly trolls and assholes.

Hope that was descriptive enough.[/QUOTE]

Why am I not surprised that it's just a bunch of hardasses who got their panties in a twist because their [I]"oh so glorious leader"[/I] got what was rightfully coming at him for being a douchenozzle.

[NoDachi]

I don't see how they can 'destroy' the economy. I mean, industrial players who don't base in Jita must be laughing all the way to the bank.

Ships got to be made somewhere.

[Lord of Ears]

jesus christ i was there yesterday
it was a clusterfuck

you know you're fucked when the largest player corp in a game is a loose alliance of chaotic neutral SA goons

[Naofa]

[QUOTE=xCladx;35736669]someone should record this[/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.twitch.tv/daopa[/url]

There ya go mentlegen.

[Mr. Khorn]

[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;35737050][media][URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRlrFudaEs8[/URL][/media]
The Swarm. They take ships such as the T1 Cruiser[noob ship] and take down Titans. One of the most expensive/hard produce ships in the game...[/QUOTE]

Wow, never played EVE, but that's just depressing.

For the Titan and the player's killing it.

[TurbisV2]

so if i understand correctly, the goonswarm is a very big group of players who are really really good at organising attacks?

[Lord of Ears]

eve players, imagine the time dilation when they try to pull this off
oh god

[editline]27th April 2012[/editline]

[QUOTE=TurbisV2;35737187]so if i understand correctly, the goonswarm is a very big group of players who are really really good at organising attacks?[/QUOTE]

it's not that they're really good strategists or anything, there's just fucking thousands of them

[DinoJesus]

[QUOTE=usaokay;35737115]they should also destroy tf2's economy[/QUOTE]

I think its already been destroyed.

[Van-man]

[QUOTE=DinoJesus;35737218]I think its already been destroyed.[/QUOTE]

It was pretty much stillborn.

[Strider77]

That Titan takedown video still gives me chills. That was such huge news back then.

[Greenen72]

It's pretty funny how this thing went from "HOLY SHIT, this is awesome!" to "man hes a 10 year old leading dumbshits this is getting old" around the time people got to reading the end of the article

[Fhux]

I would never be able to play EVE, I'm too lazy, but I [i]really[/i] do love reading about it.

[Van-man]

[QUOTE=Greenen72;35737292]It's pretty funny how this thing went from "HOLY SHIT, this is awesome!" to "man hes a 10 year old leading dumbshits this is getting old" around the time people got to reading the end of the article[/QUOTE]

Well both parts are true.
the first bit is what makes EVE Online unique, though the latter part is a result of being a popular game.

[dass]

[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;35736981]Gianturco is an asshat that got banned fo0r a month because he was an asshole.

Now he's gotten Goonswarm, who are a rather large Null-Sec Alliance(the terminology gets worse from here on in, grab a glossary) that own their own swath of space to back him up in his Crusade. Other null-sec alliances and pretty much everyone for that matter despise them all because the corporations in Goonswarm are composed of mostly trolls and assholes.

Hope that was descriptive enough.

[editline]27th April 2012[/editline]

No sense of scale, that station is about a hundred kilometers wide. and your tiny little meters-long starship...? :v:[/QUOTE]

That was a very nice description actualy thank you.

Seen lots of asshats like those. Some are fun to fight, others are just... fuck...

[Doneeh]

[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;35737050][media][URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRlrFudaEs8[/URL][/media]
The Swarm. They take ships such as the T1 Cruiser[noob ship] and take down Titans. One of the most expensive/hard produce ships in the game...[/QUOTE]

For some reason, I was sort of reminded of a bunch of fat nerds hunting a gigantic mammoth with a bunch of sticks and finally rejoicing at food as they somehow managed to overexert the beast and make it die.

[Sgt-NiallR]

I just checked it out and recorded it, uploading the video now.

[dass]

[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;35737050][URL]

The Swarm. They take ships such as the T1 Cruiser[noob ship] and take down Titans. One of the most expensive/hard produce ships in the game...[/QUOTE]

Wow.

They are comparable to 2 guilds and their leaders from this MMO I play every now and then. Theres NoFear and NightmareOfGamers, and back in the days when people kicked the shit out of everyone in Chaos Arenas (matches against monsters, you have to wait a few minutes for the gates to break and then monsters spawn gradually in an arena and you have to kill them)
They just went in, killed everyone that wasn't from their guilds and then would do it alone. Then there was TehNewWizard who will report you and get you banned if you call him something mean and his NoFear guild who loves him (the only people who do so, everyone else really hates him, me included as I have fallen into that ban shit)

This kind of stuff is nice actually.

[Naofa]

[QUOTE=TurbisV2;35737187]so if i understand correctly, the goonswarm is a very big group of players who are really really good at organising attacks?[/QUOTE]

Goons came into the game and completly threw off the metagame at the time, they were the first people to use a swarm of smaller ships to get up close to bigger ships and just chip away at them while speed tanking the turrets (larger turrets have a tracking speed, if you can out-fly that, you won't get hit) Back then the metagame was more "drop bigger ships on them" so goons easilly cut themselves a slice of soverign pie, they made the game accessible to newbies.

[MaxOfS2D]

[QUOTE=Lord of Ears;35737190]eve players, imagine the time dilation when they try to pull this off[/QUOTE]

what's time dilation?

[Sgt-NiallR]

[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;35737498]what's time dilation?[/QUOTE]

Lag reduction measure, rather than have the server do everything at real time, the more strain it's under, the slower it runs "time" meaning it has more time to do each bit.

Slows fights down, but stops them being a slideshow like before.

Edit: it's only for that solar system though

[Crimor]

[QUOTE=TurbisV2;35737187]so if i understand correctly, the goonswarm is a very big group of players who are really really good at organising attacks?[/QUOTE]

Goons are a bunch of uncouth, savage, crass, foul-mouthed, vulgar, immature, racist-epithet-uttering ogres who can't seem to say one sentence or make a single joke without using the worst of the worst profanity (or referring to some body function, bodily fluid, or body part, then giggling like a 10-year-old), originating from SomethingAwful, they use power in numbers and dastardly acts to win battles and wars. And they're the most hilarious fucking people to be around ever.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycMR_n4DHmo[/media]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-m-0RlqMHM[/media]

And this will give you everything you never wanted to know about Goonswarm:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9BjwNmdn6U[/media]

[Revan564]

[video=youtube;2N46pju2O4E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N46pju2O4E&feature=related[/video]

I wish this happened when I played. :(

[SCopE5000]

There's money to be made!

Quick, everyone grab boosted BCs and head to jita, align, grab loot, warp.

[Madman_Andre]

[QUOTE=Doneeh;35737417]For some reason, I was sort of reminded of a bunch of fat nerds hunting a gigantic mammoth with a bunch of sticks and finally rejoicing at food as they somehow managed to overexert the beast and make it die.[/QUOTE]

A titan battle in a nutshell when the other side has nothing larger than a battleship. Titans as it is are giant support vessels and have little in the way of offensive firepower when fitted that way(though they can fit a staggering [I]six[/I] of the extra-large starbase weapons each if you want to go pure combat with them, though it's an utter waste to do so).

If you want a good euphemism for Goonswarm's strategy, the bee motif they sport works well; a swarm of tiny opponents overwhelming a much bigger foe by sheer numbers alone.

[Sgt-NiallR]

Sometimes I like to equate Goonswarm to the dude flying this mothership:

[video=youtube;0M0Iqbz5ZpE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M0Iqbz5ZpE[/video]

[Timebomb575]

[QUOTE=NoDachi;35737148]I don't see how they can 'destroy' the economy. I mean, industrial players who don't base in Jita must be laughing all the way to the bank.

Ships got to be made somewhere.[/QUOTE]

Essentially what they are doing now would be like taking thousands of tanks and blockading the NY stock exchange and most major ports and manufacturing facilities in the US.

[Dysgalt]

Has Jita crashed yet?

[Missing User]

wait

so they are destroying every single person's money except their own? they will become FABULOUSLY wealthy, as they hold all the money in the game

[editline]27th April 2012[/editline]

it's genious