Gorn Arming
Merch Industrial Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2012.09.30 02:31:00 -
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Andski wrote:Frostys Virpio wrote:You know, the "too good to be true" expression is actualy true sometime.
They offer somethinga long the line of free isk, crazy ship reimbursement plan, showing you the ropes of pretty much anything, logistical support for most activity, ratting/mining in thier relatively safe space and more. The first time I talked to a recruiter, it really sounded way too good to be true after researchign what soem stuff actually meant. (english not being a 1st alnguage is funny sometime)
Basicly, anyone losing isk to a goon recruitement is not putting any effort at all into it. You want to know what's funny? We do have a crazy ship reimbursement plan, we have members experienced in basically every aspect of the game, we have cheap-as-dirt private logistics services, and while our space isn't "safe" by any stretch of the word, avoiding getting blown is simple if you're not dumb. As far as "free ISK" - well, we paid dudes 500M ISK for every 'decent' propaganda poster (glorified image macros) and horrible video tutorials for newbies. A lot of our doctrine ships are over-reimbursed, so there's that too. Funny story--when I was a wee newbie I came up with what I thought was a totally awesome Merlin fit. I had a shield extender, a damage control, an MWD, and an afterburner, plus a warp disruptor. I couldn't fit any guns but figured it didn't matter. No one was going to kill my ******* Merlin this time.
I joined a strat op under Laz and managed--for once--to not get lost. At some point he heard of some dreads mucking around in a nearby system and called for a frigate volunteer to head a few jumps out and see what's up. Naturally I volunteered. Upon getting there Laz walked me through using the d-scan for the first time and asked me whether I had any capitals on scan. "How can I tell if they're capitals?" I replied. Anyway, I started naming off what I would later learn were different racial carriers and dreads while the fleet burned to my location. When they reached the gate I was told to warp to a particular moon and tackle the biggest ship I can find. I warped in, noting on Mumble that I "won't last long against those Star Destroyers" as at the time I had no concept of the relative ability of caps to engage subcaps. I just knew that they were big ships and I only had a little one. I got on grid and burned toward the capitals as they started jumping out, while a single Revelation was still in siege mode and stayed. The fleet landed minutes later and blew him up.
I ended up having several hundred million isk dumped on me and was given a faction heatsink from the dread. I think Laz told me to sell it, but in fact I've still got it in VFK, awaiting the day when I'm finally dumb enough to faction fit a Punisher or something and lose it in a blaze of incompetence.
So yeah, free money for newbies! Truly Goonswarm has everything.
The best part is that since the dread was sieged the entire time and I had no weapons, I didn't actually end up on the killmail at all. |