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cal nereus
Bounty Hunter - Dark Legion
Curse Alliance
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Posted - 2007.08.16 09:26:00 -
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As a word of warning, this is a Goon thread. So it'll probably stop being civilized two sentences ago.
In Eve Online, there are a ton of alliances and bajillions of corporations. (Bajillions isn't a number by the way). However, it seems that the vast majority of corporations and alliances in Eve are created by players in the game. Now, you might think "well, duh, an Eve alliance would be made by Eve players" but I caution you to cast your eyes on one alliance that defies this concept: Goonswarm.
Goonswarm, and its principle member Goonfleet, consists of a majority of people who were allies before they even started playing the game Eve online. Goons were Goons before they even knew what Eve Online was.
Incidentally, they remain Goons even when they join different alliances in game, and when they stop playing, they're still Goons. There are even Goons in several alliances that are deemed "BoB pets." But that's just a tangent.
The point I'm trying to get at is that Goonfleet was formed by people who were comrades before they started playing, and thus the ties that bind the corporation are fairly strong, although as noted there are some Goons that leave for other parts of the game, even joining the "BoB pets." What other alliances in Eve were formed by people outside of the game? Sure, an alliance might have a bbq or some other event to meet IRL, or they might form bonds of friendship, but they only do so in the context of the game. Most alliances consist of players who join the game first, pursue their own interests, join an alliance they think looks good and might or might not stay for a while. A Goon is a Goon right from the start, joins the alliance, then joins the game, is pursuing the group's collective goal, and only leaves if the Goonswarm, alliance, 0.0, or fleet battle aspects of the game don't appeal to them.
Oh, and we can't forget Goonwaffe. Good ol' forgotten Goonwaffe is a lot like Goonswarm, but smaller and less controversile. Any other alliances that are formed by people before they starting playing the game?
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phoenix fireball
Amarr
Ars ex Discordia
GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2007.08.16 09:31:00 -
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I believe Sturmgrenadier Inc is also a multi-game community. I remember them from my planetside days.
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Vasili Z
Beasts of Burden
YouWhat
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Posted - 2007.08.16 09:37:00 -
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THEIR BONDS OF FRIENDSHIP ARE UNMATCHED.
Give me a break, throw this **** out.
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KIATheClash
Caldari
State War Academy
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Posted - 2007.08.16 09:41:00 -
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KIA
originally a HL AG clan fps clan if you will , now after 9 years their not a "clan" anymore but more liek a community , their players represent KIA in games liek EvE , WoW , and ofc FPS games such as BF 2 , ET QW
and ofc our legendary late night ts sessions among teh old skool guys ;)
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Sakura Nihil
Tabula Rasa Systems
The Star Fraction
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Posted - 2007.08.16 09:42:00 -
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If I remember right, wasn't ASCN formed in Earth & Beyond?
I know for a fact a corp called the Arrow Project came from an online browser game called Earth 2025, but other than that nothing really rings a bell.
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Damarkin
Meridian Dynamics
FREGE Alliance
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Posted - 2007.08.16 09:44:00 -
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I know of a few corps that were formed from members of multigame communities, OTG and TOG as examples, but only one alliance, goons. Most multi game communities don't have the following the goons do, and have to join a larger alliance to experience all Eve has to offer. My old corp is part of a multigame group, and I know Roadkill has a few TOG guys in it.
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Colonel Ripper
The Older Gamers
R0ADKILL
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Posted - 2007.08.16 09:44:00 -
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 Originally by: phoenix fireball
I believe Sturmgrenadier Inc is also a multi-game community. I remember them from my planetside days.
Bastards, I think I remember being plasmaed back into base several times by them :?
TOG isnt an alliance, but our greater community has around 10000 members, and we play in many many games. Most of the guys that I have been in corp with over the years are friends from other games. In fact, half our command staff used to play planetside together.
The biggest advantage I always felt it gave us was an element of trust that can be difficult to gain in EVE
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Damarkin
Meridian Dynamics
FREGE Alliance
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Posted - 2007.08.16 09:48:00 -
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Originally by: Colonel Ripper
Originally by: phoenix fireball
I believe Sturmgrenadier Inc is also a multi-game community. I remember them from my planetside days.
Bastards, I think I remember being plasmaed back into base several times by them :?
TOG isnt an alliance, but our greater community has around 10000 members, and we play in many many games. Most of the guys that I have been in corp with over the years are friends from other games. In fact, half our command staff used to play planetside together.
The biggest advantage I always felt it gave us was an element of trust that can be difficult to gain in EVE
Yea i met quite a few TOG guys in my short stay in DDO, all great guys. Even gave us some hints and tips when we were getting the Old Timers Guild up and running. Good people there.
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Karunel
Princeps Corp
YouWhat
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Posted - 2007.08.16 09:52:00 -
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Xanadu and some other corporations from back in the day were gaming groups which had come togheter from other games. I'd say there are many examples, it's just that GoonFleet is, you know, big.
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Iasius
Warp Angels
Free Trade Zone.
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Posted - 2007.08.16 09:53:00 -
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I endorse this thread as by many i am considered a turncoat. I liven the place up  But i have brought many RL mates into the games who would have not done so if i started my own corp of gigolos. Spreading the corruption to everyone on the planet one by one 
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Snarker
Caldari
Dragon's Rage
Intrepid Crossing
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Posted - 2007.08.16 09:53:00 -
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Edited by: Snarker on 16/08/2007 09:53:44
Originally by: Sakura Nihil
If I remember right, wasn't ASCN formed in Earth & Beyond?
I don't know about being formed in EnB, but I know lots of members of ASCN were EnB refugees.
And of course, not really an alliance but, according to Eve-History M0o was a Counter-strike clan.
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ollobrains
Drunken Ratbags Inc
New Eve Order
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Posted - 2007.08.16 10:04:00 -
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itrek irata III my first corp still are involved ingame were pretty big when moo was running around. Plus were members of the early IAC when it was small. most of em came fro ma game i cant remember (SWG) i think and have all since moved onto wow. At their peak 200 members of which probably 100 are still multi game clan
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Tek Scru
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Posted - 2007.08.16 10:13:00 -
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Originally by: Vasili Z
THEIR BONDS OF FRIENDSHIP ARE UNMATCHED.
Give me a break, throw this **** out.
lolipops.
fail of unimagined proportions
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Vegeta
Minmatar
Omniscient Order
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Posted - 2007.08.16 10:22:00 -
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Edited by: Vegeta on 16/08/2007 10:22:25
I think you'll find that many successful corps in Eve consist of players who had ties before coming to the game.
These include Evolution, m0o corp, Xanadu, 4S and Sinister.
Not all of these still exist today, but few can argue against that in their prime, they certainly were successful.
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S3dINSTBE
The JORG Corporation
FATAL Alliance
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Posted - 2007.08.16 10:26:00 -
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Edited by: S3dINSTBE on 16/08/2007 10:27:07
TBE (at the end of my name you might notice) is The British Empire and is a multigame clan playing FPS MMORPG RTS and other game types I'm sure.
I was a member of TBE before I heard about EVE and when one of the guys said he'd been playing for a couple of years I decided to join only to find that there were lots of TBEers in The JORG corporation. Most of the corp members have now become members of TBE.
I don't think there's anything sinster about the Goons having the same deal on a larger scale i.e. an alliance. After all it is just a game.......isn't it???
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Originally by: jarack
I de-synced in my bathroom once, now i have no where to wash my hands
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Desiderata Fabian
GoonFleet
GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2007.08.16 10:56:00 -
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Edited by: Desiderata Fabian on 16/08/2007 10:58:26
Edited by: Desiderata Fabian on 16/08/2007 10:57:52
TAOSP & other parts of BoB developed out of the homeworld community:
http://wiki.reliccommunity.com/TAOSP
http://wiki.reliccommunity.com/Molle
Perhaps you will remember the bit during our first war where they criticised us goons for being a outsider community that won't integrate into the eve community.
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velana
Fallen Angels Inc
INVICTUS.
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Posted - 2007.08.16 10:56:00 -
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Originally by: Sakura Nihil
If I remember right, wasn't ASCN formed in Earth & Beyond?
I know for a fact a corp called the Arrow Project came from an online browser game called Earth 2025, but other than that nothing really rings a bell.
No some of the members corps were formed in E&B CLS springs to mind.
TSYND was formed in the early days of planetside so that where they orignate from
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Astasia Orian
Black Eclipse Corp
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2007.08.16 11:07:00 -
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Edited by: Astasia Orian on 16/08/2007 11:07:59
(congrats, you paid 10bux, you have a 'unique culture', now go kill those other guys)
Can we bring the dark lord into this thread somehow?
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Ambo
2nd Outcasters
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Posted - 2007.08.16 11:22:00 -
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Outcasters was formed in Planetside, there we have around 300 members. Here... about 4 active. 
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Kulat
Black Omega Security
Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2007.08.16 11:22:00 -
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A number of planetarion alliances came over to eve , highest profile probably Xanadu
along with a few others . i believe some of my Fury colleges may have .
Oh Fury > all the rest ( even after all this time :)
Thief's and Pirates Forever
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Jacinta Bracken
Total Mayhem.
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Posted - 2007.08.16 11:28:00 -
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I'm curious why people think giving $$ to the guy who runs SA bonds you more closely than giving $$ to CCP? I would suggest that their shared mentality 'goonyness' is more important than their out of game ties through another internet community. In this way they have no greater advantage than any other in-game group that defines itself by a distinct set of ideals (cf. Red Alliance, BoB, CVA etc etc).
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Devoras2
Amarr
KIA Corp
KIA Alliance
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Posted - 2007.08.16 11:34:00 -
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Originally by: KIATheClash
KIA
originally a HL AG clan fps clan if you will , now after 9 years their not a "clan" anymore but more liek a community , their players represent KIA in games liek EvE , WoW , and ofc FPS games such as BF 2 , ET QW
and ofc our legendary late night ts sessions among teh old skool guys ;)
Oh the terror....
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It's great being Amarr, aint it?
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Brmble
Minmatar
GoonFleet
GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2007.08.16 11:36:00 -
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IIRC AAA is (was?) a very good Q3 and CS clan. When I was watching Q3 demos for fun I always liked theirs the best.
Dunno if any of those players are now playing eve.
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Fendragun
Destructive Influence
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2007.08.16 11:46:00 -
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Its true
xanadu came across from planetarion and other games before that.
In the game of planetarion i played in a group called Critters who all joined eve with xanadu - we were joined later by much of the fury/eclipse team including focht qd and dread.
Xanadu did very well in PA and they did in their day do very well in EvE, very proud to have been a member
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Ezoran DuBlaidd
Rivers Enterprises
Power Corrupts Industry's
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Posted - 2007.08.16 11:51:00 -
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Originally by: Vasili Z
THEIR BONDS OF FRIENDSHIP ARE UNMATCHED.
Give me a break, throw this **** out.
you ma'am, are elfing this thread. now go plant a tree so you can have something to hug.
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Sapphrine
The Littlest Hobos
Betrayal Under Mayhem
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Posted - 2007.08.16 11:59:00 -
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Originally by: Kulat
A number of planetarion alliances came over to eve , highest profile probably Xanadu
along with a few others . i believe some of my Fury colleges may have .
Oh Fury > all the rest ( even after all this time :)
Thief's and Pirates Forever
Vengeance > fury :P
I played alot of PA over the years but the first rounds with the Thief's and pirates were the most amusing :) Holding off 100 odd VtS assaults for two weeks was.... a challenge. Doing it whilst losing roids and gaining fleet every time was just amusing :P
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Hardin
Amarr
Imperial Dreams
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
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Posted - 2007.08.16 12:10:00 -
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Titans pwned all in Planetarion  (with help of LDK).
(I was also in Elysium one round and also Wolfpack - if anyone remembers them)
I was even in #2 gal one round. EVE is like a holiday camp compared to the dedication needed to be a leading planet in PA.
Legion (VTS) are in EVE - I recently created an alliance for them.
Also some Blue Tubas I think...
Oooooomph...
It was Xanadu's announcement they were leaving PA which made me check out EVE for the first time.
Many of the members of Imperial Dreams (the biggest CVA corp) all came from a different game called TDZK which I never played...
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G0rF
Gallente
The Causality
Electus Matari
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Posted - 2007.08.16 12:56:00 -
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I think there may be a lot more of these cross-game communities forming Eve Corps than you might be aware of...
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Fornacis
Gallente
hirr
Morsus Mihi
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Posted - 2007.08.16 13:32:00 -
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Edited by: Fornacis on 16/08/2007 13:32:12
My 4S and hirr brothers/sisters came from Planeterion and some other games...
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Laboratus
Gallente
BGG
League of Abnormal Gentlemen
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Posted - 2007.08.16 13:34:00 -
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Originally by: Karunel
Xanadu and some other corporations from back in the day were gaming groups which had come togheter from other games. I'd say there are many examples, it's just that GoonFleet is, you know, big.
Wasn't Xanadu in Planetarion back in the day? I seem to remember they won a round or smthn...
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