Play time's over, and now it's time to get to the nitty-gritty. For the last few weeks, The Mittani has been "playing nice" and showing everyone the softer, albeit still warfare-laden, side of EVE Online. No more. For this week's column, The Mittani gives a detailed account on how a simple exchange of threatening emails convinced an invading entity to stop attacking a Goonswarm-friendly alliance. The twist in the story comes at the end, so keep your eyes peeled!
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First, steal everything not nailed down. A long-term GIA agent named Gobblock masterminded a theft of a tremendous amount of assets held by the executor corporation of IRC. A titan's worth of capital components, an entire capital fleet, scads of blueprints and multiple jump freighters were looted, totaling hundreds of billions of isk. Now we had some influence, a card I could play. I sent word through Gobblock, our now-burned spy, to ask the IRC leadership to contact me about working out a deal. If they pulled out of Insmother and withdrew in good faith, I'd arrange to give them their stolen assets back. If not, I'd have to get cranky.
Hahaha awesome story as always. Mittani must be the most hated guy to ever play EVE haha! That really is the best part of the game, the behind the scenes stuff that can make you look really good or really really stupid.
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I giggled at that. So basically two guys prevented a galactic war that would have destroyed Red Alliance? I played EVE for a few weeks when it first came out but did not enjoy it because I actually like to FLY my ship.
Hoping the same sort of diplomatic solutions can be applied in JGE!
I giggled at that. So basically two guys prevented a galactic war that would have destroyed Red Alliance? I played EVE for a few weeks when it first came out but did not enjoy it because I actually like to FLY my ship.
Hoping the same sort of diplomatic solutions can be applied in JGE!
My diplomatic solution to everything is a little pew-pew.
What mittens "forgot" to mention is that his alliance leaders sanctioned and in fact, wanted, the attack to occur against Red Alliance as they had grown weary of dealing with Red Alliance (in name only, as all older RA had already moved on) and only did the above treachery when their leader's close friend used the incident to do a hostile takeover of Red Alliance and promised them support. He also "forgot" the whole initial explanation for Goon involvement, that of Red Alliance supposedly helping them with their faltering attack on BOB and ED/IRC distracting them from that fight only to turn around (still never helping Goons) and attack ED/IRC who had in fact helped Goons more than RA did in the fighting.
In any event, nice story mittens. Perhaps you should try some non fiction next?
What mittens "forgot" to mention is that his alliance leaders sanctioned and in fact, wanted, the attack to occur against Red Alliance as they had grown weary of dealing with Red Alliance (in name only, as all older RA had already moved on) and only did the above treachery when their leader's close friend used the incident to do a hostile takeover of Red Alliance and promised them support. He also "forgot" the whole initial explanation for Goon involvement, that of Red Alliance supposedly helping them with their faltering attack on BOB and ED/IRC distracting them from that fight only to turn around (still never helping Goons) and attack ED/IRC who had in fact helped Goons more than RA did in the fighting.
In any event, nice story mittens. Perhaps you should try some non fiction next?
One question: can you sit down ok or does it still hurt?
What mittens "forgot" to mention is that his alliance leaders sanctioned and in fact, wanted, the attack to occur against Red Alliance as they had grown weary of dealing with Red Alliance (in name only, as all older RA had already moved on) and only did the above treachery when their leader's close friend used the incident to do a hostile takeover of Red Alliance and promised them support. He also "forgot" the whole initial explanation for Goon involvement, that of Red Alliance supposedly helping them with their faltering attack on BOB and ED/IRC distracting them from that fight only to turn around (still never helping Goons) and attack ED/IRC who had in fact helped Goons more than RA did in the fighting.
In any event, nice story mittens. Perhaps you should try some non fiction next?
your leadership are idiots
saying that gs would sanction an attack on ra, our oldest allies, sealed your doom
I thought I would post a reply here as i don't pay my $15 a month anymore for the ability to post on the official eve online forums.
Yes the Mittani made me stop playing EVE, and sir I thank you for it.
The reason why I stopped playing were because of the events that unfolded in march of this year. I was a high ranking officer within the top corp in Ethereal Dawn and I remember the night that we were told, by IRC, that we were going to war.
Here's the thing that isn't really discussed on the EVE forums or anywhere else but it's pretty common knowledge among those who know the drone regions and those that live there. ED is IRC's bitch. IRC says jump, ED says how high. If you believe that IRC leadership are a bunch of idiots with zero skill, ED leader ship is even worse. the thing is with ED is that its leadership does not have a voice. they were afraid to speak up, afraid to stand on their own. the MAJORITY of ED Hated what IRC was doing. When IRC "lost" their stuff your average joe ED pilot was yelling from the rafters that we needed to stop hanging out with IRC because they were going to bring us down kicking and screaming with them, this was in March, ED pilots were VERY vocal about how they wanted nothing more to do with IRC, they didn't want to be in IRC's fight and we all had a good idea we were being lied to. ED leadership ignored us and continued to do whatever IRC told them to do.
You have to understand that 90% of ED does not like IRC. We HATED flying with them. We HATED running ops and CTAs (call to arms) with them. If an IRC FC were leading ED would generally bail out early when the op would get to, and it always did, the point where IRC began fighting with themselves. The only reason we hung out with them and continued to do so was because ED leadership told us to. Czech Lion and Ral were slaves to IRC leadership and no one really knew why. Granted ED didn't have the best PVPers but we had capable FC's and if need be we could have taken out IRC if it got to that point. Essentially we were the meatshields for the eventual russian invasion and we all had a good idea of it.
IRC was jealous of ED. IRC was mad with Goonswarm, IRC didnt' get invited to the parties that ED got invited to and this made IRC jealous. THIS was the real reason behind this conflict. It wasn't the need to expand, ED didn't want to expand we were happy and chipper in our little corner of space. IRC was bitter that they didn't get to help in Delve, that they weren't offered space in Delve. upset that they weren't asked to protect the baby goon titan in Teneferis. it was several things mounting up that IRC wanted to be taken as a "big deal" a "real player". Naturally lies were spread to ensure that the general population of ED and IRC would participate in Oldmas whale hunt. We were told that we needed to expand. We were told that RA wasn't "carrying their weight" among the NAP fest and that the Goons and told us "hey, go ahead and shoot em and take em out, we don't care about them anymore." the MAIN concern among ED and IRC pilots was who's going to punish us for this. ED/IRC pilots were told no one would get mad for what we were about to do and that Goon diplomats gave the thumbs up to it.
obviously that was not the case.
We got all the way to C-J and knocked on the door. we took out a few pos' here and there and heavily defended zz5. IRC had their stuff stolen and that Vent session that night was one to remember. a clearly demoralized and upset Oldma told us we were to pull out of Insmother. ED quit the vent server in disgust. We knew what was going to happen next. We knew that we were going to be hit first and hit hard. My Corp had just put together an egg to deploy an outpost (in XB where it's now in the hands of majesta) and we were discussing on leaving the alliance with our egg to use it as a "bargining chip" to join another alliance. I voted for us to leave but clearly i was in the minority. I knew what was going on and I like to consider myself a well adjusted smart individual. Anyone with half a brain and a good amount of common sense on their shoulders knew what was going on. ED leadership were weak mutes being led by musclebound morons. Ral had RL issues going on so he couldn't focus, Czech is all talk and little brains. the only competent individual in ED was Dain and, understandably, he didn't want to set up and take over. I spoke with him nightly and he was frustrated with what was going on. he was seriously questioning on leaving and quitting the game completely. We dropped that egg reluctantly and on our own. The alliance didn't help us with isk or mining, we got the money and materials to build an outpost in 2 weeks. I left the game shortly before that out of boredom, disgust, and a general "couldn't care less" attitude towards EVE 0.0 alliance gameplay. The Mittani is right. You don't need pilots, or ships, or any of that stuff to take out another alliance. The fighting and pew pew is meaningless in this game. The real game is the messageboards, the eve mails, the guy with a bigger brain and a better vocabulary. The spaceships are just the sidequests to this game. Thus I left, I didn't want to play their EVE. I didn't want to be a part of either the greater Goonswarm or Kenzoku. that's what this game is. It's GS vs KZ, and if you don't play that game you can't play. You can't go back to Empire space after living all your game career in 0.0 because it's boring.
IRC/ED lost because a bruised ego. The "war" should have never happened in the first place.
Wow.. that was a pretty interesting read. Can you not just start over and join a different alliance? It seems sad that it's so either all or nothing. Then again, I guess I see your point. If you've done it you've done it and it's not going to be any different with another bunch of people.
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