Histrionic fascist overdone rhetoric, check.

Hitting people who can't hit back, check.

Spontaneity and new ideas.....uh.

Remember kids, extremes are where you go when you run out of ideas!

Lurking the HAG4 channel was a guilty pleasure, sometimes mouthy, thick, ignorant people allow me to feel like some sort of superior being. Will be mining every day of this new (old) event.

I'm still waiting for some hopeful to come in and tell me I am a Real Life psychopath for running this in-game event. Can't be long now!

I *love* the botters in the drone regions for providing a steady supply of cheap ships that I can use against the real enemies of Eve: high sec pubbies who think they are completely safe

Note the lack of any attempt at an official website. Tweets are the medium of viral rumors.

So all you silly people, under the new GOON management, its no surprise that a false Hulkageddon frenzy was started by a rumor. That is no accident. Its GOON humor. As in typical GOON joke there is the official straight man that they can later point you back at and say "see you fooled yourself, he never made that promise -- you assumed". Then there are all the rumor stirrers by which they trick you into doing what they want at YOUR expense -- supplying the assumptions without any concrete source.

I highly suspect that there will be no official contest with prizes. But there will be numerous false starts via rumor. The joke is as much on eager gankers as on miners. CLASSIC Goon humor. Expect the rumors of Hulkageddon starts to keep kicking off minor frenzies until no one pays attention.

Official GOON policy is that Hulkageddon is year around at modest levels -- i.e. as opportunity and the itch presents itself. Duping prize seekers makes them laugh. GOONs just weave that "volunteer" effort into their latest market schemes.

If Hulkageddon really was to be in February there would be a website by now. The website would show early donors and current expectations as to prizes and categories (which in the past was expanded when unexpected donations came in late) and official ideas as to possible start dates.

Look at this as a process by which GOONs convert a burdensome contest into an EVE holiday where annually people look to the GOON leadership for suggestions on what chaos would be fun and most benefit the GOONs - for no material benefit at all.