Breaking: EVE Online Goonfleet Espionage Leads to Largest Corporation Takeover in History

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• You're an idiot: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19136207#itemanchor_19136207 : MisterPhoton

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  I agree with both points. I like the fact that players determine the structure of most things, but it al... : hillemania
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    sounds like real life... : jackomack
    • yeah, I don't play video games to mimic real life. Shopping in a supermarket would make a crappy game, b... : hillemania
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  EVE would be incredible if it wasn't so tedious and boring to play. Sitting there waiting forever half t... : kingdepork
  • If they could make solo minute to minute gameplay as fun and approachable as say, Freelancer, I think a l... : Finchypoo
  • Get out of high sec. : comiekazie

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• ^^^Awesome read!! : Dimmona

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• What you may not realise though, is that BoB have been using out of game activities to get an edge over o... : Eostre75
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  I know, it's terrible having actual consequences in a pvp game! I like to have my precious virtual stuff... : pleasedpig
  • If your virtual stuff protected in an infinite cocoon, then everyone else's virtual stuff protected in an... : Ostr0mir

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  I can't wait til the Russians get taken out. They are seriously annoying. : loboca
  • You can't imagine how many Russian PvP pilots are there ;) My rough estimation is 10 000, and we are ... : Ostr0mir

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  While there is no Jail I'm sure that quite a few people will be tracking this guy and pod killing him ove... : Taiyetos
  • Yeah. Right. : brian
• You're right, it's free market, with absolutely NO government intervention. : loboca
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  actually, this fits within the bounds of capitalism, or at least "Laissez-faire" capitalism. where gover... : senor135
  • Abrogation of executive responsibilities, leading to theft of assets, would probably be something the gov... : TheMongbat

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• Fuck ill say.. =| : SigENeaT
• So you can get screwed over like that? :P : Derringer
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  I've never played, but have always been interested. Reading this and Nick's last story from 2007 about... : Goblin au
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    I tried the demo out after that article and holy hell is EVE a confusing game. I gave it a couple of day... : Horn
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      http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3088/2335016192_6003c39c4c.jpg : project13
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        haha, excellent. My main problem is: I don't have enough time to play games anymore. Full time work in... : Goblin au
        • This is my life completely. I buy games on Steam and never play them. Who has time? :( : Waverider
• Yeah I've been idle for six months (still training...) and this really makes me want to play again, but I... : michaelkvance

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  I think I just failed. I meant "The Mittani". mittense would be good, too, though. : MercFox1
  • Mittenese are The Mittani's offspring. : Goblin au
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  what : mittense
  • haha : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat

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  Jumpgate should be interesting. I have no idea how it will play, but it's the next space MMO in the pipe ... : loboca
  • Jumpgate is much more twitch gameplay and doesn't sound like the economy is going to have as much focus. ... : r_picmip 5
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  The next MMO I plan on trying to play when it first comes out(so as to get in on the ground floor), will ... : SusanTD
  • CCP owns WhiteWolf : Reptile

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• haha : jonin
• i wish i could get a few trillion dollars in my wallet IRL. : xpaladin
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  Uh, isnt that only 13bil? : loboca
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    Yeah, I expect there to be more loot. : Ride-My-Rocket
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      heh, reptile has more than that in his petty cash. : loboca
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        Not atm, got 12bil tied up in projects... But those dreads...yeah, that's a nice chunk of change. Roug... : Reptile
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          Can i buy some of your 26 mil dreads? : deveus1
          • Yeah, I need to proofread more often 26bil for the dreads in the pic using roughly standard fits. Kno... : Reptile
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          Sounds like you know something about the EVE economy. Is there any idea how much this is all worth in rea... : Finchypoo
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            OK Here's whats up: There's a CCP-sanctioned way to buy isk, basically - buy Eve Time Codes then sell ... : MisterPhoton
            • nevermind, move the decimal place over one on that, its more like "over $2,000 of goods and ISK". I misre... : MisterPhoton
    • Well, each of those ships is probably around 2B isk or so and that's not counting the cache of corporate ... : deveus1

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  Can somebody who plays break this down in non-eve terms for me? : socksta
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    Big group of ships smash slightly smaller group of ships : Durajim
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      Nope, a BoB guy defected and completely fucked them. Utterly. : h0cake
      • Explanation: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19128937#itemanchor_19128937 : LoioshDwaggie
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    I don't play it but it made sense to me. The goon guild/clan/etc got a high-ranking member of the #1 gui... : DinK
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      To understand how epic this was you have to know a little about the game. First the chain of people: you... : geefnugget
      • Wow, your explanation was pretty horrible, and almost completely wrong. POS = Player-Owned Station ... : MisterPhoton

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• No...it's very easy to get into a corporation. : geefnugget
• if you're interested in becoming a prospector of sorts, I'll invite you immediately to my little corp off... : MisterPhoton

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• It reminds me of the good old wild west days of Ultima Online. :D : Vantage
• ^^ ditto ^^ : senor135
• Same here. The game itself is boring as shit to me, but I love reading stories like this. : DOOManiac

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• Gamefly is not amused. This post is marked for deletion. : TheMongbat
• ouch, damn. : senor135

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• Mostly Brits from what I can remember. Their CEO is from Sweden. : ckozlowski

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• It's really not that simple. Because they are no classes, and no "I WIN" items in the game, a player's sk... : ckozlowski

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  What about all the things people get upset about that DON'T involve months of their own personal time and... : DinK
  • People shouldn't get upset about those things either. If this happened to me, and I would be more upse... : holinka

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• Please tell us what IS drama in an MMO if something like this isn't. And I completely don't get the co... : DinK
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  I can still relate to how much time and effort was spent (and lost), even if I don't play anymore. I was... : The_Archon
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    This is a HUGE deal and is totally awesome. : CapnBiggles
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      Yeah, I mean it completely revolutionizes the game industry - in fact, I'd call it life-changing for ever... : wytefang
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        I'm sorry, did you not realize this is a video game site? Or what's the deal? : ejectorpod
        • Maybe he thought the link said www.cnn.com? : utgaardsloke
      • Of course its news. Maybe not the news you want to hear. I know i tune out some news when i listen to it ... : TheGamer11
      • What exactly is "news" for a site that has a lot to do with gaming if this isn't? Personally I found it i... : malus72
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  Do you think sandbox based games are bad games? Eve provides the tools for the player to make their own e... : esad
  • yeah making your own fun is just a synonym for no fun at all!!! loser. gg nerds : derelict515
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  wytefang, you have no clue how this will affect eve because you're talking out of your ass. BoB and Goons... : pauleeb
  • I doubt he plays, hes just whining pointlessly about one article he didn't find interesting. : yAak
• wytefang post. : anhero

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  Okay.....so a guy in a clan was able to kick other people out of the clan in-game. He made another charac... : socksta
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    More awful than that. You're thinking in terms of WoW. This is EvE. Detailed Reply coming -> : LoioshDwaggie
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      As I understand it EvE has a system where people can own different sectors in space (Sovereign status). O... : LoioshDwaggie
      • Heh.. ouch. : stonedonkey
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        inf. I tried numerous sites and this was the only explanation I understood. From what I gather all of the... : socksta
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          That's not a flaw of the game, it's kinda the point. It's basically one huge experiment in capitalism. : ArcKnight
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            I don't see how that has anything to do with capitalism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism Capit... : socksta
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              There are ways to insulate yourself from this sort of thing by setting up certain types of command struct... : deveus1
              • It is quite an effective reminder. : LoioshDwaggie
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          Welcome to real PvP, not nansy-pansy WoW shit. : loboca
          • Exactly. No care bears here. : Edges
        • It should be mentioned that situations like this have happened before (although never on this scale) and ... : deveus1
• Here's some further information on Sovereignty: http://wiki.eveonline.com/wiki/Sovereignty_(Mechanics) : LoioshDwaggie
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  What does the term "spy" mean in EVE... did this guy assimilate himself into the BoB ranks or did he just... : etherboy
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    Spy usually means someone in your Corporation structure who reports on your activities to another Corp or... : LoioshDwaggie
    • The one dude was a turncoat, and he got in touch with Goonfleet's master spy to coordinate doing the abso... : Liquid

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• Haha, I didn't know that. Very cool how he barely plays in-game, just controlling his spys etc. : node
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  Updated GS: The Mittani's Big Announcement: "i am become death, destroyer of bob" http://www.kugutsumen.... : kugutsumen
  • awww, i miss you too kugutsumen : deveus1

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  I'm staying in high-sec for a while longer :( : ejectorpod
  • We're about as safe as could be right now. BoB space is nowhere near us, and everyone will be occupied th... : loboca

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• I'm sure they aren't happy about it. : jonin
• I've only been able to find a handful of posts in the main thread on the EVE forums by non-Swarm posters.... : Ride-My-Rocket

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• yea everytime I read something like that about Eve it makes me want to give it a shot again : mnok
• Yea, I tried to play very early on (maybe even in the beta) but I couldn't get past the boring mining, bu... : MilkDud

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• Fun-level of EVE played alone/carebear = Watching paint dry Fun-Level of EVE played pvp = OMGWFTBBQ : utgaardsloke

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  That's what this game is all about though. Much like when you lose one of those Titans in combat. Much ha... : SilverSnake
  • they weren't blown up tho (and expcting objective coverage from The Mittani is kinda naive) : yuried
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  Yea, I hope this doesn't spell the beginning of the end for EVE. The russians managed to pick themselves ... : utgaardsloke
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    Maybe safeguards will be put in place now so that one person never has access to everything. Like you sh... : DinK
    • There should be some way of distributing responsibility on that level. An option to have decisions of a c... : utgaardsloke
  • They had so many smaller corps under their alliance that they can all go out and join other alliances and... : melkore

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• You are correct, sir. : The_Archon

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  This game has consequences and persistence, and your actions can actually matter. I'd say that you're rea... : utgaardsloke
  • That's the real problem with Eve in my eyes... there are no true consequences... Identity in Eve is liq... : sadjack
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    I guess I don't actually want my games to have that level of permanence or consequence. At that point it... : qsylvr
    • True. Eve lets you play with a much higher stake than many other games, if you want to. If you kill someo... : utgaardsloke
    • That's why games like WoW exist, because some people don't want to deal with the open worlds for various ... : xpaladin