In the beginning

There was a word, and the word was "Goons!"

These days Goonswarm appears to be the Marmite on toast of EvE Online. Love em or hate em, you still end up with sticky brown stuff on your fingers and a funny taste in your mouth.

But the Burn Jita event was something special. At least for me. And I sucked at it, I lost a total of 1 tornado, opening up on a Goon wartarget that TNT wasn't decced to. because I'm retarded and also because I didn't get on till late sunday.

It was special because for me, it made me resub. Once again Goonswarm had put the fun into playing back for me. And this element of fun, is what seems to me to be missing from the long winded posting  about market warfare, or carebear hating, or wrecking the lives of miners.

From the beginning of my serious playing in eve a year ago I've heard non stop ranting and diatribe concerning the evil Mittani and his goon henchmen. And maybe looking at it from the outside it would seem that way. From where I'm sitting however Mittani and Goons have given me the most precious gift a gamer can have.

Fun.

Never forget we pay to play. Play being the operative word here. I'm not into gaming to be the best, or be some big rolemodel surrounded by screaming fans with a japanese twin on each knee. (although that last bit I'm open to). I'm here to have fun, in a game. With spaceships.

Allow me to demonstrate.

A year ago, I started Eve on the recommendation of an old old friend from Starwars Galaxies. I spent about a month getting basic skills together and then joined his corp The Cursed Navy. At the time we were a part of Important internet spaceship league (BDEAL). A dedicated PvP corp. I immediately went to null sec and have never looked back. I was introduced to PvP almost immediately taking on Godfathers and Nulli, Sniggwaffe roams in our defence fleets. I couldn't get enough. My PvE skills being barely good enough to take on Forsaken Serpentis hubs all my cash went on PvP ships, I died, I killed, I tackled until I thought I could tackle no more.

We deployed to Delve, my first encounter with real ops. Again Goonswarm and Test showed me how to really have fun in Eve.

And then PL, NC. Raiden and co decided to try and headshot Goonswarm. The battle of VFK, I was one of the first ones to go up, baying for blood and Goonswarm delivered. I'd not had that much fun in years.


After that however things turned sour, I was still pvping, with the MM attempt to take Delve (not that they wanted that sov anyways lol) but BDEAL was in it's death throes. Not that we knew it then. I personally don't do politics, I still don't know all the details. Nor do I care. but increasingly it seemed to me that the industrious pvpers were the minority to the nullsec carebear massive. I knew it was only a matter of time till a reset, and with MM now out of the picture and SWTOR on the horizon I decided I'd had enough and left BDEAL to it's richly deserved fate to go play with glowsticks again.

I had no intention of returning to eve. I thought the funtimes had gone. That might be a tad melodramatic but I really was fed up. And bear in mind this was pre-crucible.

Again Goons changed that. Burn Jita peaked my interest to the point where I was going to resub anyway, then my corpmate gave me a plex and there was no way I wasn't going to go suicide myself for great justice.

So, while I'm not a lackey, nor a pet. And I don't always agree with everything they do and I am most definitely terrible at eve, and a total fucking noob. Goonswarm to me are the saviours of EvE, and I'll be CFC for life or as long as theres a CFC to be a part of.

So from a nobody. Thanks Mittens and Thanks Goons.

Peace Out.