Internet Spaceship Jihad Online - Join f13 posters in Eve

[Khaldun]

I've done time in Eve a while back. From the perspective of someone who studies these things, it's the most interesting virtual world going. From the perspective of someone who plays them, I found it hard to get rolling. Partly because of my particular gang of eggheads, the ones who play Eve most heavily were not the people I was closest to. Endie is pretty convincing, though. I may have to re-up sometime in mid-December after my current crunch time is over.

[tgr]

I've done time in Eve a while back.

You make it sound like prison time.

Endie: I assume most of the guys wanting to join goonswarm these days is mostly of the same persuasion as those joining the GBC in the olden days of BOB, i.e. "I want to be on the winning side", or am I wrong? I didn't really pay much attention till about 6 months ago when I started reading the war thread.

[Brolan]

I've been playing almost 6 months and have 6.2 m SP.   I've been looking for a way to get out of Empire space and get into 0.0 space.  This sounds like a great way.

[Surlyboi]

Spy. 

[Phildo]

Spy. 

Look at this bitter vet, right here.  Why don't you resub and say that to his face?  Seriously, come play with us again.

[Thump]

  Hmm, so how firm is the need to be an existing poster on F13 forums?  I've been lurking the War thread for, oh, uhm, say 2 years or so.  Two years of drooling over missives from the front and wishing I had the time to play.  It's not like I have the time now, but honest to god, that recruiting post got me right in my soft underbelly.  I passed on the newb recruiting drive that came up a while back, and regretted it.

  I'm a total Eve virgin, and couldn't put much more than a night or two a week into it, but damn, a chance to watch the fight rather than read about it?  Plus I'd get to live out my total man-crush on Endie.   

  So is one post on F13 enough?

[Quinton]

I think we should boot Nerf and make this new guy CEO.

[Pennilenko]

I think we should boot Nerf and make this new guy CEO.

He should send Nerf a PM explaining his lack of posting and express his desire to join.

[Endie]

I had about as much fun watching one of my turds float around in the toilet this morning.

We have a celebrity endorsement.  Is there a poster here who is not encouraged to try a game when Grunk says it is awful?

My fear would have been that he said he'd have had a great time.

Edit: also let's pretend that I quoted Thump's post and then posted the "Don't be a pussy, this guy looks legit" picture with the "Free Candy" van.  What I'm actually going to do is quote this bit:

We don't open-recruit.  But if you're an F13 poster in good standing then you're probably in.  What constitutes "good standing"?  Well, don't sign up now and apply, as such obviousness will just embarass everyone concerned.  You need to have been a member for a while (we don't say how long) and to have a certain type of posting history (which we won't tell you) and not to be one of our obvious enemies in-game.

[Falwell]

Celebrity is a bit of a stretch ain't it ole boy? I'm all about pushing for more internet spaceship folks, but let's not get overzealous.

Also Endie, I love you.

[Endie]

I've done time in Eve a while back. From the perspective of someone who studies these things, it's the most interesting virtual world going. From the perspective of someone who plays them, I found it hard to get rolling. Partly because of my particular gang of eggheads, the ones who play Eve most heavily were not the people I was closest to. Endie is pretty convincing, though. I may have to re-up sometime in mid-December after my current crunch time is over.

Are the Eggheads in question the TN group?  I know that Nathan Combs plays Eve (he was on the other side of the Great Southern War from us), but I always thought that interest was light on TN from others considering Eve's sandbox nature, player content, non-diku gameplay and so on.

Endie: I assume most of the guys wanting to join goonswarm these days is mostly of the same persuasion as those joining the GBC in the olden days of BOB, i.e. "I want to be on the winning side", or am I wrong? I didn't really pay much attention till about 6 months ago when I started reading the war thread.

Yes, that is a problem.  BoB died for several reasons, but one was undoubtedly diluting their numbers with people attracted by success.  You lose a lot of resilience and resistance to shock if you have people who start edging towards the door when things suddenly get bad.

Goonswarm has, on three occasions that I can think of, been in positions that would cause the first stages of failure cascade in many alliances: when camped by Bob in Syndicate, when driven back to the Detorid border in early 2007, and when our JB network was lost after almost the entire South attacked us in late 2008.  There were a few factors involved in why we didn't collapse each time, but I do think that the cultural cohesiveness of our out-of-game, forums-based identity was key.

It's worth noting that, despite having only been in Goonswarm for a couple of months when the AAA reset occurred and the second, intermediary phase of the Great Southern War started*, f13 posters from our last recruitment drive played a big part in that fight, with LoveU taking on half of arch-villains Red Overlord alliance alone for most of the time.

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*You see, Eve is a lot like the Peloponnesian War before and after the peace of Nicias and then the invasion of Syracuse**...
**Except that our Syracusan invasion worked.

[Gets]

You forgot about ZAF coming to lend a hand. We do have some really chill allies.

I don't understand why more people haven't PM'd me with their e-mails for a buddy trial. It's like you hate free stuff. Unlike Nerf my money has come from honest labor doing absolutely non-consensual things to blood raiders with my golden shaft, and I have hundreds of millions to give out. Some of the people I've helped get into the game earn more ISK than I do, which comes in handy when you can remind them who helped them on their feet

Let a bro hook a bro up.

Edit: People with Gmail accounts can use plus operators, e.g. 'evetrial+firstname.lastname@gmail.com', to get a 21-day trial without making a new e-mail account if you've used your existing e-mail to get a trial in the past. See, look at how helpful I can already be.

[Predator Irl]

  So is one post on F13 enough?

Yeah man, don't mind Endie. PM me in-game and we'll get you sorted. I'll give you a discount off the application fee because you came through F13.

[palmer_eldritch]

  So is one post on F13 enough?

Yeah man, don't mind Endie. PM me in-game and we'll get you sorted. I'll give you a discount off the application fee because you came through F13.

Funny funny 

Pred knows a lot about moon mining but if you want to get in the corp you need to contact me in-game. The character name is the same as my username (without the _ in the middle).

[Endie]

  No scamming in the recruitment thread.

Thump, you'll not get in, for the reasons mentioned in the OP and reposted above.  Anyone that asks for money is scamming you.  There is no fee to join for those we accept.

[Thrawn]

No scamming in the recruitment thread.

Thump, you'll not get in, for the reasons mentioned in the OP and reposted above.  Anyone that asks for money is scamming you.  There is no fee to join for those we accept.

But..but...that's the best part of EVE. 

[calapine]

Baaaah! *sulks*  When I started EvE joining LOVEU and all the people I "knew" from the War thread in 0.0 seemed grand. I'd still love to, but now I feel too loyal towards my current corp to jump ship. Oh well...

*greetings and hugs from Umokka*   

Calapine

[Surlyboi]

Spy. 

Look at this bitter vet, right here.  Why don't you resub and say that to his face?  Seriously, come play with us again.

Oh, I'm still in. Quiet, but still in.

[Slayerik]

Baaaah! *sulks*  When I started EvE joining LOVEU and all the people I "knew" from the War thread in 0.0 seemed grand. I'd still love to, but now I feel too loyal towards my current corp to jump ship. Oh well...

*greetings and hugs from Umokka*   

Calapine

Now THIS is a great spy.

[tgr]

Now THIS is a great spy.

It's the avatar, isn't it? Show a bit of shoulder and :bam:

[Draegan]

The one thing that is intimidating about EVE is the history behind it all.  Yeesh, talk about having to research a history book.

[Predator Irl]

No scamming in the recruitment thread.

Thump, you'll not get in, for the reasons mentioned in the OP and reposted above.  Anyone that asks for money is scamming you.  There is no fee to join for those we accept.

I really have to practise my posting... I thought that it was a blatently obvious piss-take 

[Thump]

I really have to practise my posting... I thought that it was a blatently obvious piss-take 

  It probably was, but I was all "they love me, they really love me".   

[Amarr HM]

We still love you thump.

[tazelbain]

I am a bitter malcontent with a raging neckbeard, is ISJO right for me?

[Stabs]

I think the comments that the new player experience is impossible solo overstate the case.

I've been playing about 5 months. Mostly solo. I believe the new player experience is easier now than it was before so that's why our experiences are different.

The game starts out with a pair of very simple missions. Fly somewhere. Win a fight by turning your only gun on and watching it gradually destroy the other guy. Fly to base. Get mission to fly somewhere else and dock.

All of this is with little windows that tell you exactly what to do and give you free stuff.

Then it sends you to another system where you can run through 3 tutorials. Each gives you ten missions, again with windows explaining exactly what to do.

If you do all of those missions you are in great shape to solo pve or go to a station and trade.

For all that it's probably more fun just to hook up with a corp that is basically winning the game and prioritises giving its members a laugh above all else. But Eve is certainly not unplayable if you want to solo, you just have to read the pop-ups.

[Murgos]

No, Eve is not un-possible to solo, it's just really, really boring to solo.

[Endie]

I am a bitter malcontent with a raging neckbeard, is ISJO right for me?

If anything you sound over-qualified.

[Xurtan]

No, Eve is not un-possible to solo, it's just really, really boring to solo.

This. I've tried EVE a few times and while I never had a problem (And never understood the huge cries of ZOMG THE LEARNING CURVE), it was boring as fuck. Usually ended up mining or running missions for a while, then hitting /cancel within a few weeks. Exploring 0.0 was fun, but never found anyone that was interested in killing me. 

Joining a good corp seems to be key. *shrug*

[Vaiti]

I'm dicking around on a trail account to see if I have the taste for this again.
Like the improvements. Lots of tiny GUI changes I'm digging.
Pubbie tears still taste great.
Sounds like the next chapter in EvE is going to change the game abit. Dust-514 and In Station Walking coming out around the same time. Pretty awesome.

[eldaec]

Page 3 spaceship porn from Delve War II.

[Amarr HM]

Page 3 spaceship porn from Delve War II.

That one is awesome, I see a hilarious shop in the making. Or even a best caption competition.

[tgr]

The first picture there just yells "om nom nom". That face... 

[Amarr HM]

Must see shop to be convinced of humour 

[squirrel]

Re-subbed an old low SP character. Applied.


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I hate you people.