I'm loving the goon tears in this thread. Keep telling everyone you're the best, you might have to shout over the gunfire though. Time will tell how things turn out but I'd not underestimate how much people would like to see goons wrecked. Think of the pride people are going to feel being a major part in the downfall of eves biggest single coalition.

by The Mittani 2011-05-24 19:00

Vale of the Silent has fallen, Geminate is long-lost, Majesta Empire and RAGE (for their sake, I have helpfully eliminated no less than four periods in their alliance name) are in retreat, evacuating to Tribute, the bastion of Morsus Mihi and the core territory of the Northern Coalition bloc. Tribute itself is now at risk, and the eyes of EVE are watching, wondering if the largest bloc in the game (with some 50k members, depending on how you do the math) is about to shatter in the face of an assault spearheaded by the Drone Russian Federation. Six months ago, the commentariat was espousing the consensus that the NC was almost embarrassingly invincible, that particular flavor of power which causes its enemies to beg for CCP to intervene on their behalf; now that same group heralds the NC's imminent doom. What the hell happened?

Any chance someone could do a Downfall meme video of this?

Are you honestly using the "I...if you weren't b...blue with that big alliance we'd crush y...you!" argument while being in the clusterfuck coalition?

From a glance TVP had about 40 people in dps (sniper+dps?) wlist and WTM had around twenty. Still 2-3h wait time if you didn't get in right after downtime.

And this is why MBC fights (as the saying goes).

Salt indeed.... Seeing goons deploy SJW-like tactics lends a certain sperging element to all this that makes me wonder if this is a going to become a meta-demographic war. What "kind of people" are these goons? We'll find out. I don't expect the results to be the kind that raises faith in humanity.

Known as The Mittani within the virtual world of GÇ£Eve Online,GÇ¥ Gianturco commands an army of 40,000 space pilots loyal to his Imperium coalition. He has a trusted band of lieutenants and uses propaganda, espionage and deception to retain his position as the gameGÇÖs most powerful player, describing himself as the Vladimir Putin of the GÇ£EveGÇ¥ universe. He has even leveraged his position to earn a living from GÇ£Eve Online,GÇ¥ setting up his own website and renting out his army of mercenaries to other video games.

Rank and file goons are not the problem.

The problem is mittens and his ego.

Marginally more players. MBC fleet numbers peaked at ~3000. The Imperium was 40k strong at the start so for matching numbers of 3000 would require of 7.5% participation across the coalition. That's it. An entirely achievable number considering it was a fight in your home space for the survival of that space.

So for years goons et al sit around telling everybody they are not in EVE for small gang and skirmishes but for the huge narrative driven wars, and here one is, on their doorstep, and.....they can't be bothered to log in for it.

Supers have negligible use in Fozziesov and as for warchests, where has 6-7 years of ratting taxes, rental income, r64, technetium bubble, FW exploit and market manipulations ISK gone?

BRAVE knew they weren't going to win the war but they still killed Hurley's titan, won a station with a t1 cruiser having final shot against a super fleet, and formed 1000 to defend their home station on the eve of defeat. TEST drove fleet after fleet of battleships into dreadnoughts in 6VDT, reshipping three, four, five times in the night and made gaming history. WALLTREIPERS held out in a one single system while massively outnumbered, dropping supers on SBUs right under everyone's nose. All those stories they can take away and will last forever because they realised it was only a game they were playing.

The only thing Imperium will be remembered for is being basic bitches who gave up and ran away, or were too scurred over their imaginary pixels to even take part in the first place.