GoonSwarm Federation head honcho and apparent Josef Stalin admirer throws out an awe-inspiring CEO Update aimed towards his brethren.
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~ The%20Mittani
CEO Update: Grind Them Down
Trench warfare doesn’t make for flashy news. We have been at war with Raiden, Init and Ev0ke for more than a month, and besides the odd bleating article on EN24 from a fat incompetent, all we have to show for our efforts are… an almost entirely secured and jammed Branch, most of our ‘lost’ techs back, and a shitload of dead Raidendot Tengus.
That said, it has been a dodgy month. Purging White Noise was a classic ‘strong force, weak enemy’ situation – a SOTG followed by a showpiece invasion and subsequent collapse of resistance. By the time Raidendot began attacking our moons in earnest, we had burned ourselves out on uncontested WN structure shots. Our FCs grew sloppy, our fleet composition was trashy, our logisticians frayed to the breaking point from the inhuman pace of conquest – each new system requiring freighter ops for IHubs, plus countless new towers, sometimes eight in a night. Meanwhile, our allies underwent a similar logistical whiplash, many of them relocating to a new region or radically revising their territorial footprints while under fire. The initial engagements against Raidendot did not go well: towers were mistimed and lost, easy fights in the 23:00 zone were welped. We shed somewhere between 10 and 12 of our new Branch Techs across the coalition.
Yet we have spent since mid-2006 on the back foot against BoB, BoB respawns, ex-BoB and BoB spinoffs. We did what we always have done: stalled for time, died in droves, then slowly got our shit together. The foe stuck repeatedly at our smaller allies such as SMA, expecting us to abandon them – as BoB had always abandoned their friends – but we did not. Our loss rate of towers slowed, then stopped. Our logisticians began to recover and come off suicide watch; some were even allowed to use carefully dulled plastic utensils without supervision. Sov3 began to tick over across Branch, jammers onlined, and hostile activity has begun to dry up.
Meanwhile, we have shaken up our fleets, changing doctrines to be more effective in a classic Goonswarm war of attrition. Perma-MWD Drakes allow us to throw wave after wave of bodies into a fight with impunity and nary a glance at the reimbursement wallet. TEST has finished up their Geminate campaign and come to VFK. Our capital directorate had a turnover, capital participation is seeing a renaissance (what, you mean we can log in every night???) and we have retaken almost all of the tech which we lost in Branch.
Last week, we formed up a massive force and flung it headlong into the assembled blob of anti-blobbing hypocrites. We were outnumbered and outgunned; we died by the hundreds, as did Raiden/Ncdot/Init/Ev0ke/PL etc, who won the fight after a 4.5 hour slugfest. The next day, five hostile techs came out of reinforced, and we expected that after all the foreplay we’d have another meatgrinder. Yet Raidendot wasn’t interested. They ceded their techs to us, exhausted, regardless of their prior victory. Paradoxically, our own participation had soared in the face of the loss.
With Branch secure, our enemies expected a SOTG and an invasion of Tenal this weekend. But this will not be happening. Our foes are strong and their numbers nearly match ours; giving them an opportunity to rally against us in a major engagement is foolhardy. Instead, we will offer them only grinding attrition. Relentless siegework, SBU-spamming, and Drakes, Drakes, Drakes.
Election Season
The CSM election season is here, and Jita Park is full of hand-wringing publords unironically pontificating about space ethics and the sacred ideals of democracy. There’s a lot more interest in the CSM this year because CSM6 was the first Not Completely Horrible CSM, due in large part to Team Nullsec getting its shit together last March.
I’m the only GSF candidate this time; Vile Rat is sick of Iceland. We’re going to need a metric fuckload of votes to secure the Chairmanship and – ideally – an indisputable mandate. I’d like to see us be able to c&p a ridiculous vote total as a one-line reply to every shitbird eve-o poster whining about us for the next year.
We’re not going to fuck with this election cycle by vilifying a particular candidate like we did last year with Trebor; feel free to shit up Jita Park freely and spread it around evenly. Most of the CSM6 vets besides Darius 3 are solid people we and CCP can work with; a lot of the newcomers aiming for a CSM7 seat are borderline retarded.
We’re going to be paying out isk to artists for ~excellent~ campaign posters; each solid poster will net the artist 500m. This does not mean you can poop on a page and get money, we’re talking Stalhregen-level propaganda. If you have something good, post it in this thread.
Directorate Reshuffling
Crias Taylor was promoted to the Logistics directorate because the poor sap was doing good work during the Branch campaign. Digi has been hired to be creepy for us in an official capacity and assist Vio Geraci in fucking you. Bring Stabity has stepped down from capswarm due to RL commitments, with Mynas, Raidek, Innominate and Frabba being the remaining caps team.
Wait, We Have Capitals?
Due to the directorate reshuffle, we’re seeing a surge in capital ops and participation led by Mynas and Raidek, who never seem to sleep and seem to have an inexhaustible desire to shoot structures and/or drop on things. If you’re an unsubbed dread/carrier/super/titan, you might want to check in; we’re doing stuff almost every night, in an ever-larger blob. This absolutely won’t end in tears!
Isboxer and You
While you’re shooting structures in an ever-expanding dread blob, under the tutelage cap-obsessed maniacs who may or may not be Scottish, you might want to check out Isboxer. It lets you do crazy shit like this, and allows you to run 4+ dreads simultaneously on a single box without clogging your monitors. Unlike Synergy, Isboxer actually allows proper cross-client mouse broadcasting that works accurately even across EVE’s tiny command interfaces. This is useful even at the smaller level of 2-3 clients and managing scouts.
Goonmetrics
I have no idea what this is, it involves both whizgigs and beepboops. Pmchem and GARPA are very proud of it though so I smiled and promised the nice men that I would advertise Goonmetrics here. If you make isk through means that don’t involve selling supercaps made of vapor to random pubbies, you should probably use Goonmetrics!
Strategic Supercap Scamming
You should get back to selling pubbies supercaps that don’t exist, or buying supercaps from pubbies with isk that doesn’t exist. We’re up a Nyx and a Wyvern just this week due to one intrepid hero in NED-clan, and supercap scamming is transforming from a silly way to make ludicrous amounts of cash into an actual strategic method of increasing our supercap fleet. Every one of these fucking abominations we take out of the hands of a pubbie is one we won’t see trying to headshot us in VFK.
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Mittani would never condone a third party application such as this now would he? Chairman 2012? I fucking hope not
Goons have always supported multiboxing programs like Synergy, personally I find it as a way of gaining an unjust advantage over non multiboxing-program users, but as far as i know CCP have no objections with it as long as it doesn't automate shit. Of course having the Mitanni as chairman has indeed helped to smooth things over any "unfair" advantage claims.
The program is not free so piracy aside, we also could start talking lengths regarding if using synergy or isboxer is a pay to win/get advantage situation.
I knew as I read this Riv would have a GOONs are BAD comment to throw in there,
Thanks for that could figure it out on my own.
not bad, am all for a vanilla Eve Online experience, third party sites like dotlan, I fully support them, but anything which interacts with the clients towards functionality, i don't endorse.
that's my own personal opinion. the article was posted as it, again so far CCP haven't called it a exploit, so there is nothing illegal about it.
What do you not endorse? That a smaller preview window of a running program is somehow produced? If so then I sure hope you are still running Windows XP, since vista and 7 both have this preview functionality in the task bar and that is bad bad third party software that interacts with Eve Online.
You heard it here first from technical illiterate CSM candidate riverini: Windows 7 is almost cheating in Eve Online!!! It displays a small preview window from the client and when you click on it *gasp* it becomes large to interact with !!! BAN IT!!!
Seeing what that program can do, I gotta say your comparison is just wrong.
A preview window only is no problem at all – the more info you get the better – but that's not what Isboxer is doing. It directly interacts with multiple clients you can remotely control and that is a no-no in my eyes.
TBH I prefer to use CCP's definition of what is OK and what isn't in their game, over what is a no-no in your eyes.
simply because you have multiple minimized clients on one screen instead of alt tabbing every thirty seconds does not constitute anything "remote". I run a 980 extreme, 2 video cards and three monitors. I can have dozens of clients running at once and be looking at and "directly interacting with" three of them simultaneously with no third party software, so should I be considered cheating? By this logic, anyone running Eyefinity and therefore gaining extra screen area also has an unfair advantage. If anything, software like this makes for a more even playing field.
ITT: Buying an additional monitor is unfair
So what is your opinion about using multiple monitors or multiple computers even to multibox characters?
If you are a little bit consequent you should be against this too though because it gives exactly the same advantages as those multibox applications do without spending hundreds of dollars on hardware :s
Did you use IS Boxer to make all those posts?
And a sixth attempt since comments can apparently just dissapear when a genuine question is asked (sensorship ftw?!)
So what is your opinion about using multiple monitors or multiple computers even to multibox accounts?
I'm curious for your answer because if you are a little bit consequent you can not endorse that either, since it will give the same advantage multiboxing software does without spending hundreds of dollars on extra hardware :s
If it's within the rules of the game and available to anybody who stays within the bounds of those rules, then it cannot, by definition, be an "unjust" advantage. There are plenty of legitimate in-game ways of gaining an advantage over other players. This, according to CCP's clarification of the rules on macro use, is simply a legitimate out-of-game way of gaining an advantage.
A second/nth account is also a way to pay to win/get advantage situation. What exactly is the difference?
And a sixth attempt since comments can apparently just dissapear when a genuine question is asked (sensorship ftw?!)
So what is your opinion about using multiple monitors or multiple computers even to multibox accounts?
I'm curious for your answer because if you are a little bit consequent you can not endorse that either, since it will give the same advantage multiboxing software does without spending hundreds of dollars on extra hardware :s
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What exactly do you mean by "such as this"? There is a wide spectrum of third party applications, including EVEMon and EFT, as well as apps that breach the terms of the EULA like botting software. This software, according to CCP, does not breach the EULA – they have explicitly clarified the "macro" use clause to say that if a player is giving the commands it's ok.
So what precisely is your problem with software "such as this"?
"well shit went sideways, but look whats in te other hand kids!!! A yellow bird!"
Vote Mittani, because we need a self-proclaimed sadist who pretends to read Machiavelli as chairman of the CSM. eveprincessbride.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/…
Neat fact: Prince is not an elected position.
Still pwned TM in the face. I think I'm going to like seeing the moment when someone points out that the emperor has no clothes
If you count sperging out :words: is pwning in the face, then sure.
more journalism, less bandstanding.
All propaganda aside, did I just here an advertisement for a program that you have to pay for? Does mitens own rights to this program, or at least getting kickbacks of some kind.
Perhaps every damage control update by mittens will have product placement of something he's found useful. I bet his next one will be viagra…. what? If Bob Dole needs it, there's no shame in mittens needing it too.
No Senior GMs have said over and over again as long as the clicks are not automated then its allowed
CONFRIMIGN I AM SMEL THE FEER FROM THESE POAST.
ALSO IS VIRTUAL BEGGIGN FUR VOTE. ALSO BEGGIGN FUR POASTRE. ALSO FEEL FREE SENDGN ME ISKS IN GAMES I CAN MAK MOR MITANI POASTER EVER DAY.
ALSO I NOT SE ANYWERE IT SAYING IN CSM WHIT PAPRE THET MOAR VOTE = MORE SAY.
KEEP UP GOOD POASTIGN – ICELANDS HEAR WE IST COMEIGN
+1 internets for GOOD POASTING!!!
retard
All propaganda aside, did I just see an advertisement for a program you have to pay for? Does mittens own the rights to this program, or at least get kick backs of some kind?
Perhaps all of mittens' future damage control updates will have product placement of something he's found useful. I bet the next one will be for "Natural Male Enhancement"…. What? If Bob Dole needs it, there's no shame in mittens needing it too
We don't have to pay for Goonmetrics
CONFR'MING, EVRYDHING IS OOOOKEEEEY !!!!
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You're right really. Deklein is being evacuated as we speak. SBUs are up throughout all of CFC space, and there's little that goons can do about it. Mitanni's empire is crumbling around him, and this is the propaganda he feeds his troops.
deklein will burn !
8 days left for being in VFK in February.
confirming that sbus are everywhere
oh no
That's one seriously misguided use of that picture.
Well, goontards gonna hate …still
Vote for mitanni .. scamming eve community like no bitch before!
ISboxer is a completely legit program that allows people who have multiple accounts manage them more efficiently, that is all. As it was said its not free but 10bucks for 3 mos is cheap so give it a shot, you will be surprised.
I gotta be honest, i dont like the prick, i hate his goon scamming ethics but man can he write an article. I love reading mittani's SOTG its clear, precise, funny and all around well written. He's got some vocabulary on him, not like the usual EVE player who doesnt extend past the umadbro and trolol syllables.
Death to goonswarm and thier scamming but keep the SOTG coming
how are you in PL with your e-honoure ethics; they scam too.
This guy has no idea that PL are Goons, too.
SAY WHAT???
Elitist Ops used to be part of the Goons before they went fuck goons and were joined in with Mercenary Coalition to form Pandemic Legion. It's funny they speak to goons of ethics when they scam people as mercs all the time.
fuck gfs propaganda
www.gfs.com/en
Gordon Food Services?
They give you food poisoning or something?
so basicly goons got raped by raiden and they say they won… nice
FYI, this came out before the fight last night – EN24 is just bad at timing.
Still WAY better than ISD
MY NAME IS MITTANI AND I DON'T CARE ABOUT DARIUS AND I DON'T THINK ABOUT HIM AND I THINK HE IS NOT A THREAT. DARIUS III IS INSIGNIFICANT AND TO PROVE IT I WILL MENTION HIS NAME IN EVERY STATE OF THE GOONION AND POST ON HIS THREADS 10 TIMES A DAY AND THIS WILL PROVE THAT I DON"T EVEN THINK ABOUT DARIUS DARIUS DARIUS WHO IS A NONENTITY.
I thought there was a policy against anonymously impersonating any alliance leadership, even if it is an obvious troll.
Yo bro, I think your CAPS LOCK KEY is stuck.
never stop poasting!
This thing is an absolute masterpiece of propaganda, bullshitting, and twisting of everything said and done by goons, to make goons sound good. I applaud you sir for crafting this beautiful turd of inspiring misinformation. The evil man may of just won my vote…
shhh
I love the part where he said they were outnumbered in a fight. I would love to see the day when goons go against anyone with fewer pilots in major engagements
TL;DR: Use ISBoxer so we can use 3 times as many drakes next time. I want to break the 100 billion isk loss mark for fleet drakes. Bodybags are a gooooo.
"We’re not going to fuck with this election cycle by vilifying a particular candidate like we did last year with Trebor."
"Most of the CSM6 vets besides Darius 3 are solid people we and CCP can work with"
That was subtle….. Darius pretty much doesn't have a chance at winning a seat as he has no powerblock to vote him in, unless…… he can get the I hate mittens votes that Trebor got last year.
Is that….chocolate butt pudding I smell in your pants mittens?
Slaughtering goons blob by blob is how we dooooo……..90% of goons are racist, 15 yrs old, dribble when they see a hairy female in a jumper, go to special school for the mentally retarded & are brain washed by mittens drivel. CFC are basically the dalek race.
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HURRR I DONT CARE WHAT GM SAYS GOONIES BE BREAKIN GAMES
"Our stance on programs such as Synergy and hardware/software combination such as the G15 keyboard is that they can be legitimately used as long as gameplay isn't automated. …Lastly, multiboxing is allowed, and programs designed for multiboxing in mind which allow a player to manually issue the same command to multiple game clients at the same time are allowed."
This is the explicit clarification from CCP that I've been referring to, thanks for linking it.
I remained baffled at how this guy has sway and influence. Anyone who can't see through his shit is obviously still wearing a helmet while riding a bus shorter than the norm. Pixel Propaganda = What people do when life has given up on them.
That's exactly what the director of any large alliance is supposed to do. Maybe time for your alliance to find some new leadership.
"Our foes are strong and their numbers nearly match ours"
so just 2-1 now then?
Well known they aren't. But they also do not hide it, so good for them. Less fools on supercaps.
To be honest it's not goons who are retards but those who buy supers off them.
Well you can trust a goon.
you just have to have blue standings. This is not a bad way to comport yourself in eve overall, btw. 'Cept for chribba.