[EvE Online] Band of Brothers dissolved!?!??!

[Dragon45]

http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/eve-online/951668p1.html



Are you fucking kidding me?!

Anyone have links to the details of what the hell exactly went down?

[TheBigPK]

Holy nutfucks, I just deactivated my account a few weeks ago but I know some former bob members; asking them immediately

That article linked to another with more elaboration
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/57098
....sooo goonfleet stands to take the universe, this wont end well, lol.

[imbaczek]

this found its way onto slashdot, i imagine there are details in comments there. apparently an inside job.

and i had lots of lulz that people actually get involved in such games. learn c++ and submit patches to spring, a better way to waste time

[Dragon45]

Haha, i dont play any MMORPGs myself, but i know people who do, and the politics of EVE are absolutely legendary ;D

[Boirunner]

fofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofo

[Dragon45]

naturally people are spouting theories about how this "takeover" was really just a powerplay or some merger at the highest levels of both corps to try and take over EVE entirely

IRL marriage, et al


god i love the stories this game spawns.

singularity jr is already here, and has been for some time

[Sleksa]

what the hell exactly went down?

Details are still a bit scarce, but apparently The Mittani, leader of the Goonfleet Intelligence Agency, managed to convince a very high-ranking director in Band of Brothers to turn traitor and join GoonSwarm. Which in itself is bad enough, but according to a Shacknews reports, he brought trillions of Band of Brother's ISK, the in-game currency, with him.

And that's not all. GoonSwarm has a long and not-entirely-pleasant history with the (previously) larger and more powerful BoB, it seems, and once the alliance recognized the full extent of the opportunity before it, it went to work. First came the entire capital fleet of Black Nova Corporation, a central player in the BoB alliance, amounting to roughly 15 fully-equipped dreadnoughts, along with "hundreds and hundreds" of other ships and several stacks of fuel, all stolen and transferred to GoonSwarm by the defector.

(source = http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/vi ... f-Brothers)

Not only this, but all their capital ship production has halted, their stations are defenceless and goons are raiding their space :d

[imbaczek]

i did the maths. goons, uh, were given 13.8 trillion ISK. one site i found trades 1000 Mio ISK for $30 - which amounts to, uh, how many zeros are in a trillion... $460,000. that's a lot of $ (unless Mio isn't Millions.)

[hunterw]

eve sounds really awesome but at the same time u know that the ppl that are running the whole game are the most fatt nerds ever that play like 18 hrs a day

[hunterw]

eve sounds really awesome but at the same time u know that the ppl that are running the whole game are the most fatt nerds ever that play like 18 hrs a day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbfBjo-Mw6U