Mal Nina
The Red Circle Inc.
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Posted - 2011.10.23 03:30:00 -
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Actually I have to applaud Goons for the current campaign. It is brilliant in its inception, only latter will we truly know if it is effective in its execution for such a campaign will have to be long.
The griefing of hisec ice miners by Goons is actually an audacious tactic that fits in nicely with the concept of total war. It is an implementation of the embodiment of economic warfare in total war. If you can ruin your enemyGÇÖs economics and sustain your own while pressing them militarily, informationally, and diplomatically you should prevail. One might ask if this was by design, but it works brilliantly.
The constant presence of Goons in the forums where this comes up is a part of the information campaign. You use psyops to get your enemies to fear you and prevent them from any sort of cohesive counteraction. The answers thus far are exactly in line with that sort of campaign, again perhaps by design, perhaps not, but somewhat effective all the same if it gets miners out of the belts.
As a miner your success will be measured by the bottom line. Can you outlast the goons and still make a profit doing what you have always done. The goons are betting you wonGÇÖt or you will get tired of this constant alert status you have to have to go do something else. In the end the success of the goons campaign will be measured by the price of Oxygen isotopes and their own ability to gain territory and get you to bow to them. Of course economic warfare where you do not control a vast number of the resources is doomed to failure. I have no doubt that even now large number of ice miners are having a field day in nullsec outside of goon space. If goons use military warfare to attempt to control these belts then they have a chance of winning, if not this was just an exercise in messing with hisec ice miners.
At the end of the day it may just be a few goons at the top of the heap that actually benefit from this attempted blockade of ice. You know, the ones that bought lots of Oxygen isotopes before the announcement of the campaign and are now profiting. Of course it is the goon soldier in the field that is potentially loosing Isk as they suicide gank. If that is the case then who really scammed who in this fight? Each of you will have your own answer to that question. Granted some of those soldiers will have gladly done the griefing just to do it regardless the cost. Everyone has their own way of playing the game.
Bottom line, I applaud goonswarm for upping the ante and trying to implement ecomomic warefare. But I still have to root for the little guys out there just trying to make a living GǪ it sort of a David and Golith type of thing.
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