So I was sent a link to Gevlon Goblin’s blog recently and to my surprise, Goblin’s gone on a rant, not about Grr Goons, but about me. By all means go ahead and read it yourselves. (you’re welcome for the website hits Goblin)
Alright, gone through all that? Good. So the TLDR of his blog is that I asked for a contract on behalf of Forsaken Asylum to wardec Goonswarm. He replied that Forsaken’s numbers from a past wardec against GSF were not high enough. I tried to meet him “half way” and asked if he would be up for paying us after the wardec would be complete to which he retorted that he required a specific amount of kills for such a deal.
At this point I took the offer up with the leadership in Forsaken and the general attitude was that Goblin was a pretentious and arrogant and that he was a waste of time. This is a fairly common opinion among members of the merc community on top of his already “running joke ” persona in the greater Eve community.
Toward the end of our exchange, I tried to educate Goblin a bit about the economics of the mercenary business. Paying for the wardec fee is no big prize. As with Marmite and Deadly Fingertips, he is under the impression that mercs somehow need his 500 mil per week for us to wardec a large nullsec alliance such as the GSF.
Marmite did the smart thing and cancelled their contract with Goblin. Rumor has it that the issue wasn’t even that Goblin was only paying for the wardec fee, but that he’s extremely difficult to work with. The guy with practically no killboard or pvp experience likes to throw pennies at mercs and nag them to death when they don’t make targets magically jettison out of their stations where they’ve been hiding.
I went on to explain that it’s simply more profitable to simply counterdec whoever Goblin hires to attack the GSF and work for the other side. Goblin took this as some sort of threat rather than simple economics. He’s deluded himself into thinking that simply “providing targets” for mercs is enough. He expects mercenaries to act like starving dogs begging for table scraps.
I’ve tolerated Goblin in the past, even went to bat for him when people wanted to ban him off of EN24. I even wrote a piece in his favor when Noir’s Aleseyev Karrde and former Merc Contracts channel moderator took money for both a contract for and against Goblin. Unfortunately the guy does not know how to make or keep friends, which is probably why he’s so often sorely lacking them.
I’ve written my share of articles criticizing the CFC (as well as N3 and other groups) but Gevlon’s obsession touches on the “extremely special.” He hates them for no other reason that because they are “evil…because they claim they are better than everyone and nothing can be done about it and you can only be their slave.” Goblin’s actually upset because he wanted to join the GSF but was refused and since then this rejection has so bothered Goblin, he’s funneling all his resources and energy into combating them.
Hey I have no problem with that. I pride myself on finding people with goals and selling my services in order to help them. Unfortunately Goblin actually hurts his own cause by being a joke people can rally against. Serious opposition to the CFC is drowned out by the facepalm educing antics of Goblin.
Aside from the embarrassing self incriminating tirades he goes on, he deludes himself into thinking he can claim MoA’s achievements as his own. Let’s get one thing straight: MoA’s quality was established long before Goblin decided to throw money at them. MoA would be killing CFC just as they had been with or without Goblin’s money. MoA’s achievements are no more Goblins than PL’s would be mine if I sent them money. And since Goblin decided to air out his laundry publicly and bring MoA up and insult Forsaken Asylum, let’s put some numbers out there to establish some context.
MoA, 1100+ members, 428 billion in kills for January, 71 percent isk efficiency
ForsA, 200+ members, 305 billion in kills for January, 96 percent isk efficiency
For being so good with numbers you sure do miss some basics. In any case Goblin, if you’re finding yourself having fewer and fewer allies, perhaps its the way you tend to treat people around you. I came to you with a respectful offer. I took no issue with discussing the specific terms. However, your unprofessionalism, arrogance and contempt toward not only myself, but the mercenary community as a whole is disrespectful, which leads me to the following question:
Is it really smart to act so disrespectfully toward a community that makes war their most important priority? Maybe you can blog about that. Wise up Goblin.
– Seraph IX Basarab
