F13 in EvE: Band of Brothers headshotted! Come help us in Delve!

[Sir T]

And thats just since I joined up... 

[shvmoz]

I have the canonically low post count, so I suspect I'm not eligible, but I'm reading this stuff with great interest.  I have a friend in GoonFleet, have an old and low-post-count SA account, and know an old (ex-?) LOVEU guy, Carino Cantati from Ropetown in WoW, so I might find another way to get into F13's good graces.

Just re-subbed my old EVE account (Metella in game), now to see if I remember what any of my ships do!

[Quinton]

If you have a > 3 month old SA account, another possibility is to join GoonFleet proper via their nifty all-online signup system on http://goonfleet.com/

[shvmoz]

Yeah, I'm from '06 on SA, so I did that and it's waiting for manual inspection of my credentials and an interview of my neighbours.  I'd like to hang with F13, I think, but I imagine that's quite possible once I am welcomed into the GF family?

[Sir T]

Some fraps of what I have been up to since joining up (I would have had some tackler action by my computer could not handle running fraps and eve during those battles)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRGaqqdIHBg

Enjoy

Remember from day one you could be in the middle of the red blob making sure that some poor bastard goes nowhere.

[Quinton]

Yeah, I'm from '06 on SA, so I did that and it's waiting for manual inspection of my credentials and an interview of my neighbours.  I'd like to hang with F13, I think, but I imagine that's quite possible once I am welcomed into the GF family?

Yup.  We're all part of a big Goontastic family.  Get down to Goon Central and start participating in ops and you'll likely run into a number of F13 folks.  I believe a number of us also hang out on the F13 chat channel in-game (it's public, anyone can join) still.  A bunch of us are members of Rho Squad too.

[eldaec]

With the pew pew continuing to heat up, thought it worth linking to here:

http://f13.7mph.com/?a=corp_detail&crp_id=118

This is the specific kill board page that shows what we've been blowing up since joining GS.

At 1147 GMT today, the count stands at:

456 Ships killed worth 64.22B ISK
142 Ships lost worth 4.35B ISK

I suspect our kill rate is going up partly because we are all new, and so don't get targeted in fleet fights nearly so often as veterans in their gold plated super ships.

In short. We are awesome. You can be too.

[FatuousTwat]

Bleh, I try to keep away but you KEEP PULLING ME BACK!

[Endie]

At 1147 GMT today, the count stands at:

456 Ships killed worth 64.22B ISK
142 Ships lost worth 4.35B ISK

In fact, the damage would be a lot higher, but a couple of us fly in Goonfleet rather than LOVEU, for historical reasons.  Thus, I've done another 22 billion (and lost 0.57bn, to be fair), and Bhodii has probably done the same again (if not more, since I have very few capital kills, due to the sort of fights and the timezones I fly in).  Unfortunately, the killboard counts those separately since we are special snowflakes.

[gimpyone]

Makes me want to come back.

[Falwell]

Oh you assholes...

I tried EVE previously. I really, really liked what I saw but I found it a bit daunting to get into simply for the fact that I knew absolutely nobody. Now, I find you guys are part of GF?

You guys do take fresh off the boat newbies right? I think I got as far as making my toon, buying a couple time cards and selling them for ISK, and starting very very basic mining. So....yeah.

[FatuousTwat]

So there is a free 5 day re-up for anyone who canceled before 11-30-08.

I'm gonna wait till the holidays chill out, then use it.

(Didn't want to make a new thread)

[Quinton]

Oh you assholes...

I tried EVE previously. I really, really liked what I saw but I found it a bit daunting to get into simply for the fact that I knew absolutely nobody. Now, I find you guys are part of GF?

You guys do take fresh off the boat newbies right? I think I got as far as making my toon, buying a couple time cards and selling them for ISK, and starting very very basic mining. So....yeah.

Goonfleet *loves* their newbees and so do we.

One 60day GTC sells for 550-600M, which goes for quite a while until you start losing expensive T2 ships or lots of battleships regularly.

The general advice is: create an account, join the corp, podjump down to GoonSpace, and only visit empire when you need to do some shopping (though there are some decent services for getting goods shipped down from empire).

[Falwell]

Ok I'm in-game finally as Falwell and joined the F13 channel. Doesn't look like anyone is awake though.

[Phildo]

Someone's usually awake, you just need to yell at us loud enough.

[Triforcer]

Ok I'm in-game finally as Falwell and joined the F13 channel. Doesn't look like anyone is awake though.

I will be on tonight (i.e., early in the American morning) as well- and try to find someone to join me up. 

[palmer_eldritch]

Palmer also wants to join, if I may. My character is Palmer Eldritch.

I have played briefly before, but I'm still pretty clueless. It sounds like that's not seen as a problem (to put it another way, I am young and easily led when it comes to Eve).

I'll find someone to hassle in F13 - I've been reading threads but still haven't worked out exactly what i need to do. At the moment, I'm flying around hauling a load of minerals I left in various hangars last time I played.

[WayAbvPar]

Good plan- best idea is to consolidate/sell all your Empire goodies before you join so as not to get caught up in war decs.

[FatuousTwat]

Yeah, I'm not looking forward to consolidating my crap. A lot of it is in some pretty pirate infested areas in lowsec.

[Roentgen]

Yes Eve is fun!  I played for a while in '07, resubbed and joined f-13 a few months ago.  Pity I couldn't play for a month or so shortly after that.

Anyway, being in a system with 70+ blues in local is quite comforting for someone who likes to mine. :)

[palmer_eldritch]

Well I have applied by submitting an app at the LOLVEU headquarters. Now comes the nailbiting wait for a response.

[MahrinSkel]

The best way to not take PvP losses personally is to write off the cost as soon as you buy the ship.  When you buy and fit a ship for PvP, it's born to die, and you should think of it as already lost, you just haven't gotten the killmail yet.  If you can't afford the loss when you buy it, you'll feel it too much when it actually goes down.

I usually bought mine in sets of at least 6, but I never flew fleet BS, either, just dictors, BC's, and coverts (although for a while, coverts represented as much of an isk loss as a fleet BS).  Dictors especially I thought of as disposable munitions, if they lived to get a single bubble on the enemy, they had done their job and I called it a good deal (but my fleet dictors were Eris' when those were considered a bucket of suck and were cheap as hell).

I wasn't quite as casual with my carriers, but I had a couple of spares for those as well.

--Dave

[Endie]

I usually bought mine in sets of at least 6, but I never flew fleet BS, either

Fleet BS are a bigger investment (to buy, rig, fit and insure six would take me over a billion), but by contrast if I had bought six rokhs when I started flying them back in early 2007 against Bob, I'd still have 2 of them left.  If you're not low in the alphabet, if you've got your client set up to avoid lag (the reason I lost my last rokh, thanks to using a different PC without my overview set up), and if the first thing you do on warping in is find your align point and choose a speed at which to return along it then they last ages.  Especially if you watch out for titans and doomsday-tank your ship.

[Phildo]

If you're not low in the alphabet, if you've got your client set up to avoid lag (the reason I lost my last rokh, thanks to using a different PC without my overview set up), and if the first thing you do on warping in is find your align point and choose a speed at which to return along it then they last ages.  Especially if you watch out for titans and doomsday-tank your ship.

Things that a newbie won't have to worry about for months.  They get the fun job of running right up close to the enemy gang and making sure they stay put long enough for Endie in his 200 million isk battleship to blow up.

[Endie]

If you're not low in the alphabet, if you've got your client set up to avoid lag (the reason I lost my last rokh, thanks to using a different PC without my overview set up), and if the first thing you do on warping in is find your align point and choose a speed at which to return along it then they last ages.  Especially if you watch out for titans and doomsday-tank your ship.

Things that a newbie won't have to worry about for months.  They get the fun job of running right up close to the enemy gang and making sure they stay put long enough for Endie in his 200 million isk battleship to blow up.

Too right: the great thing about the last few weeks has been the punctuation of the FC's commands with the latest tranche of newbies calling out "point on so-and-so", which is the cue to lock up the unlucky victim straight away.

There hasn't been a better time to be a newbee for two years, either.  These are great days we're livin' bros. We're jolly, goon giants, walkin' the galaxy. With guns.  These people we're wasting here today are the biggest faggots we'll ever know.  When we rotate back to ratting, we're going to miss having someone around who's worth shooting.

[rask]

This thread makes me twitch. I'm so close to reactivating my Eve account already. Dunno if you'd have any use for a bloodthirsty ex-fractionite free-spacer, however ;p

[eldaec]

We have a use for any fucker capable of filling out the subscription form.

[Reg]

Unless he's someones real life friend I suspect that fact that rask has only been around for a few days could be a problem if he's hoping to join you guys in your goonfleet corp right?

[Goumindong]

This thread makes me twitch. I'm so close to reactivating my Eve account already. Dunno if you'd have any use for a bloodthirsty ex-fractionite free-spacer, however ;p

If that means what I think it means, Probably not.

[rask]

This thread makes me twitch. I'm so close to reactivating my Eve account already. Dunno if you'd have any use for a bloodthirsty ex-fractionite free-spacer, however ;p

If that means what I think it means, Probably not.

It means what you think it means. However, I did that the last go 'round, not looking in any fashion to continue it. It was fun, but ultimately temporary. The only issue there would be having it in my corp history. I suppose it would generate a fair bit of hazing.

It's a moot point if I don't re-up. I ended up quitting last time due to RL time issues, just wasn't able to scrape any spare time together to do anything meaningful. And if it's any issue that I've only been on f13 for a few days, that's fine. I was originally just commenting on how this thread made me feel like playing Eve again.

And damn Goum, your name is familiar, but I'm at a loss.

[Goumindong]

It means what you think it means. However, I did that the last go 'round, not looking in any fashion to continue it. It was fun, but ultimately temporary. The only issue there would be having it in my corp history. I suppose it would generate a fair bit of hazing.

Its more than likely to generate some suspicion in goonfleet proper and Goonfleet wins inter-corporation disputes.. I don't know LoveU's hiring practices, but i am pretty sure that it would disqualify you from MrchI.

My name is probably familiar for being a big forum whore on Eve-O, Scrapheap-Challenge, Penny Arcade, et all. I use this name quite a bit, so there are likely other instances you might have seen it come up.

That or you're confusing me with the Kuomintang(formerly Guomindang)

[Phildo]

How did you come to F13 in the first place, Rask?  And if you were referring to Star Fraction, that does tend to be a negative for a few of the people here.  Among other things, Jade Constantine came here around the time  of the first CSM election and shit up our forums something fierce.  Still, glad to see we were able to rekindle your interest in the game.

[rask]

I believe I remember you from Scrapheap Goum. I did post there for a short while, but mainly lurked obsessively in ships and mods.

How did you come to F13 in the first place, Rask?

Pretty funny actually, I got linked here by a friend that sent me the Mark Jacobs shitstorm of a post concerning Warhammer Online. I liked the reviews and overall attitude on the site and decided to stay. Just got around to creating an account yesterday? Or the day before. Found it odd I'd never even heard of f13 before.

I was actually in Tabula Rasa Systems, not JF, and after TRS broke up with most of the active members going to...beh, can't even remember the corp name--I was absorbed into JF. At that point and before I was really pretty inactive (might have left with the people I usually flew with had I been more active), got on board for the Tourney when we beat BoB and that was pretty much it. Decided to quit then and move on, maybe come back when I had time, as I really enjoyed Eve. Since I've got more time and kitted out a new computer I was thinking about it.

As for being in Goonfleet, even a member corp, you probably wouldn't have me (and that's just fine). Pretty much was red to you the entire time I played. Started out in YANKS when I was a noob, became a part of RIOT, flew with Celtic Anarchy and CoW before joining TRS. Some of my most memorable times in Eve have been shooting-and getting shot by-Goons. It's fun to look at the Sov map every few months and see Goon space still there years later.

Someone can probably figure out my character from all that mess.

[Endie]

I'm afraid that there is a vanishingly small chance of getting into LOVEU with your posting and corp histories.  You'd find it easier to get into Goonfleet proper, to be honest (:10bux:).

[Sir T]

I thought I'd post a couple of other videos I've made since joining up

Just me trying to make up a story of what was happening, let down by my spelling. and iv you are wondering why I keep blowing up one ship its because the rest of their gang ran. I was stuck shooting POSes for a few weeks...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTbluOwmwX4

download : http://dl.eve-files.com/media/corp/Himo/Southern_War_Part_II.wmv

Oh, you know the "biggest faggots we will ever know" Endie mentioned? Here's a selection

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzJUwzzvgqM

Download http://dl.eve-files.com/media/corp/Himo/Southern_War_Part_3.wmv