Last night, on my fifth anniversary as a capsuleer, I suffered a horrible nightmare. I dreamed that I was a mercenary in Dust 514. As if that wasn’t bad enough, my comrades and I were pinned down and under heavy fire from Goonswarm mercenaries.
We were out numbered and out gunned. The situation was desperate. Ammunition was running low. My armor began to fail as more Goonswarm assault troops landed.
Then, with hope dying all around me in a withering cross-fire, a Goonswarm orbital bombardment fleet arrived. They opened up on us with everything they had.
That’s when the slaughter really began.
I’d like to say we died with our boots on, but when you are vaporized from orbit, the boots disintegrate first, along with the rest of your armor, as your flesh is seared in the heat equivalent of a thousand stars. Before oblivion takes you, you learn how to really scream. But that wasn’t the worst of it. The nightmare didn’t end there. In the way that dreams are, I did not immediately go to a clone vat. My essence remained on the battlefield and I saw the future result of our failure.
Goonswarm took control of most Faction War planets. They gave them to allies and renter corporations as rewards for Goon sanctioned behavior. They milked the planets under their dominion for all the ISK they could wring from them, and came to dominate the PI markets of New Eden. The images of those Goonswarm dominated worlds…
…they haunt me still…
…filling my waking hours with dread…
…wrenching from my soul the last shreds of hope I had left.
For to my utter dismay, all those planets became…
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| Simcity |
Only then did I wake, drenched in sweat; unsure if it really was a dream – fearing it was a premonition.
Fly Careful
- Mabrick
He’s been around the block a time or five. With over 15 years of MMO playing under his belt and a memory that reaches back to pencils and dice, he offers his insights into the not so virtual reality we call Eve Online.
what-the-fuck
please stop
In short, your points are:
- when are the dustbunnies gonna hit up PI installations?
- a dustbunny needs to win the "gank a spaceship" lottery.
- Digital Rights Management encourages software piracy.
We are all now dumber for having read that.
Haha, genuinely enjoyable piece of propaganda, enjoyed the metaphor. +1
If you're having nightmares about a online spaceship/fps game at night . . . trust me . . . you have more to worry about than Goonswarm my friend.
Try less caffeine before you sleep . . . the dreams are less intense that way . . .
Goonswarm just won EVE. Good job.
Lol i like it
How did this even get agreed on to be posted? And you wonder why everyone reads the Mitanni's site more than this now? Start having good articles again and stop posted useless stuff like this.
cry moar mittani coxhugger
Sounds like a bright future, just to bad that dust has artificial limits on team size. Maybe those of you who can't handle nullsec fights without crying that it's unfair when we bridge in a few hundred on top of your roaming 50 man gangs should go play dust instead. There you can have your fair fights, eve isn't about fair fights – it's about doing what it takes to win.
What you explain in your essay veiled as a dream, is what would have happened if dust was intended to be somewhat realistic and not have silly limits on squads. Now it's just as pointless as counterstrike.
Unfortunately NAPs are still possible regardless of whether or not the game supports them. Point in case all the power blocks stagnating eve currently.
lol
This was really intense!!!! I'm feeling this fear in my spine…
… why CCP…. WHY!!!!!!!!
So much butt hurt tears. Wow.
Why would the CFC give a shit about PI when they have tech moons, i.e, PI on steroids?
Sadly i would have liked to have seen CCP implement wardec functions for Planets. Maybe once a wardec goes up, Active enemy PI would light up 1 jump away from Capsuleers should they be near enough on the Map and allow both Parties involved in the Wardecs to put corporate Mercs on the planet to fight it out and not limit the amount of players involved. Tho that would probably be the ONLY way for Goons to ever really have an advantage in doing anything remotely close to what the Article was just talking bout.
Maybe it's time for some ex-bob member to use some flawed game mechanic and disband goons ?
Maybe get some inside help from ccp also…
Goons 9800
Test 13000
?orly?
What a pathetic piece of garbage this article is. Ow boo-hoo mean old gewns whooped the ass of half of eve's player base and basicaly won eve so now we are going to have nightmares about goons wining over us in other games.
Seriously bro get out more
damn bro.. you dream about games ? when is the last time you got laid ?
pretty messed up bro. Eve is TOTALLY not like that (read:sarcasm)
On a more serious note, it's a good thing PI will not be affected by DUST, only the over-all control of the system. SO, even though your nightmare has poor founding in reality, virtual or otherwise, it is still quite a tragedy.
Seriously, many bears are missing the point. I thought it was an interesting read, and anything that even hints at a larger state of immersion gets all my votes, no matter what the outcome. There were some inconsistencies with the state of actual game play, and a few of these have been pointed out by 14yr olds above me. The unfortunate reality is that DUST emulating null would be terrible, as you would sit there with your gun for weeks on end doing absolutely nothing.