GoonSwarm Breaking news Update!!

I'll try to keep this short since I've never been one for long boring stories.

I was originally planning to do this about a month ago. I prepped everything one evening with a post at hand, and moved my characters into our major cache locations. I noticed that NOL had a large logistics ship cache worth of 10's of billions in T2 ships, so I spent about two hours moving them to lowsec. By the time I was finished it was getting late, so I decided to get some sleep and mash buttons the following night. The next day I received intel that SirMolle was going to move IT alliance to work with AAA/Sys-K invade our space, and decided to let things continue since the idea of them alarm clocking until 5AM for weeks at a time made me gitty inside. The work moving the ship cache and other important assets could be easily explained that I didn’t want them locked in NOL if it was lost. This is the draft of the post I had prepared:

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So I’ve been looking a lot over the past month at GoonSwarm, and the Goons and pubbies that reside in the alliance. The majority of Goons for the most part are either disinterested in eve online at this point (with good reason), while the rest are either sponsored in, or simply joined SA and managed to meet the minimum requirements to get into Goonfleet (There are definitely some exceptions to this, but the percentage is very low). The pubbie corps on the other hand are mainly filled with jews who only are in GoonSwarm for easy ISK, protection, and PVP that we mostly pay for. I’ve been looking at our post dominion strategy, and strategically speaking things are easily winnable. The problem is, we’ll have to pack GoonSwarm with exponentially more pubbies, and negotiate standings with people I would rather never have to deal with to in order to achieve this. I have spent the majority of my time in eve killing these faggots, and continuing to do this and defend these actions is absolutely unacceptable, and I’m not going to do it anymore . Kicking all of our pubbie corps, and obvious join 4 guilds with 4 year old eve accounts and 8 month old SA accounts would also be a death sentence, as so few real Goons actually play this game anymore in comparison to the number required to hold space. In that, I’m doing what I feel is the best thing I can do right now before leaving this game. Euthanasia.

I’ve already kicked every single corp out of GoonSwarm. I’ve also removed all of our standings with everybody. Feel free to spend the next few days blowing everyone up, or whatever. Additionally I’ve set Goonfleet into self destruct mode. I’ve left limited ISK in the corp wallet to pay for the sovereignty we currently have. You’re free to rat up the ISK to extend this timer (I’ve raised the taxes to 100%), but doing this for a long period of time is kind of pointless as all of our logistical routes will offline as soon as they run out of fuel.

Tl;dr: Fuck pubbies, fuck eve, and :fuckgoons:.


Amusingly enough when I returned from a 1.5 vacation to discover that most of what I was going to do was already done... by accident. I don't think I have ever laughed so hard and long in my entire life.

At this point finishing the job was obvious, but I wanted a day or two to get a few things prepared, such as unlocking all of the Titan and Mothership BPO's and letting the logistics crew ninja some of the stuff out for me first. To buy some time I made a half assed post and semi-troll on Goonfleet.com essentially blaming CCP and regurgitated some previous terrible orders the directorate made. The response from Goons was more amusing than I anticipated. I removed all roles from in game titles rendering them useless, and then purged all of the directors of titles. Conveniently the jabber bot in illuminate wasn't online at the time, so it didn't scream in the channel about the role changes (Solo is awesome BTW, and you really should use your talent on something that will make you rich). I systematically removed all of the member corps from Goonswarm except for Tolon (supercap corp) and GHSC (The alliance wallet corp), to which I had control over with alts. I voted GHSC as executor, and booted Goonfleet from the alliance. Shortly after I submitted Goonfleet's application to Band of Brothers, which should take affect between 1-2AM EST tonight where it will remain indefinitely.

I am leaving enough isk in the wallets of both executor corps to ensure the alliance bills can be paid for at least a few years, and I am riding into the sunset (quitting eve) leaving all the isk and assets locked in game. I'll probably check back in a year or so and donate it all to some random goon of my choice, assuming the game still exists.

Great update Murr; since I have mostly been away since Friday when I announced ATLAS' withdrawl before going away... let me clarify some things.

Last Monday we had informed INIT, ROL, TRI that we would be departing the campaign by the end of the week, this was not for any other reason than everything we expected to get out of our road trip had been had and fights were all but dried up. We had no desire to grind through more stations and pos's in vale and the income we garnered from vale/geminate techs was sufficient for us to come out well above board on costs for our campaign. The shit posts by sacul are just that, shit posts - Nync, Sister Bliss and Twinkey all knew that ATLAS was not up here for some grandiose campaign against the NC - we simply had nothing better to do with ourselves and as such came to geminate. It was natural to coordinate with the tribloc but at the end of the day it was well understood that we had no larger goals in mind nor did we care to fight someone elses war for them with a declining tribloc participation and fractured command channel they had which was more preoccupied with in fighting than getting shit done.

ATLAS & friends came into our campaign with few expectations and we came out of it more than satisfied with the results, we blew up allot of shit - had fun doing it and watched WI fracture under laughable circumstances. They can spin shit all they want that they lost there space due to bugs when in reality they lost a single station to a mechanics change that was poorly understood by them, which we took advantage of and even petitioned CCP before hand to make sure what we were doing was legitimate.

When we came to geminate and RZR announced there deployment to the area, I have to admit it made us take a new look at things but then after the first couple of weeks fighting RZR+WI it was totally a big fuckin joke. ATLAS had never really went toe to toe with RZR before and we frankly expected much more out of them but they were more preoccupied with empire war decs and trying to gank shit under wardec (which they did pretty horribly) than they were about actually defending WI's assets. The minute the going got tough, phreeze got going and was seen flying in querious and fountain instead of with WI while they were losing highends and fights all over the place.

With regards to our dealings with Solar & RA - there role in the campaign can be summed up as space fillers, there actual involvement in engagements can be counted on one hand and though we have a new found respect for solar fleets abilities, RA are still pretty fuckin useless and getting them to do anything is like pulling teeth. At this time, SOLAR & RA are neutral to ATLAS & friends, this is realistically where our standings will remain long term but I do not think anyone would write us off joining forces with them again temporarily when NC shows up in geminate.