Requiel
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For those of you who are interested in Eve politics here's a quick rundown on the current drama.
Goons held two regions of space Delve and Querious. These are generally considered to be the best space in the game due to some developer shenanigans back from when they were held by the Band of Brothers alliance.
Band of Brothers (BoB) were humanely euthanised by Goons as part of the invasion that took the regions from them, they then scuttled off to Empire to do faction warfare for a bit under the name Reikoku. Recently they reformed again as IT alliance and invaded Fountain which neighbours Delve to the north, displacing on/off Goon allies Pandemic Legion. They made it pretty clear though that their ultimate ambition was to retake Delve and Querious.
Meanwhile to the East, the mostly Russian alliance Against All Authorities (-A-) had previously been paid by a Russian aluminium tycoon to wardec Goons and had been shooting at us without really putting us under pressure.
A few weeks ago, as Pandemic Legion were losing their space to IT, -A- invaded the key gateway system of 49-. This system is kind of Eve's Afghanistan, it's a route to a lot of places and empires go there to die. It was the last IT bastion when we took the regions from them and saw some exceptionally fierce fighting throughout that war. The Russian invasion, even with help from IT wasn't going well. We were able to easily fend off their attempts to take the system and it looked as though Delve was pretty secure. The new sov system strongly favours the defender and especially so if the defender is in a different timezone to the attackers. IT are a mostly European alliance while Goons are mostly US based so all we had to do was to make sure that anything vital was timed to come out in US prime and there was little that -A- or IT could do about it.
Then someone forgot to press a button. Goonswarm, being a very large alliance with a lot of overhead is pretty compartmentalised. Responsibilities and permissions are locked down to limit the damage a rogue director could do. Also the corporation management and wallet UIs aren't hugely clear. Directors get spammed by hundreds of notifications every day for everything - membership applications, sovereignty updates, wardecs, tower fuel notifications and a whole lot more. It turns out that if there isn't enough money to pay for your sov, the system sends one message to inform you of this rather than one message per system. That message got lost amidst a sea of other notifications and we found out the hard way that someone had forgotten to move money into the correct wallet division to pay our sov bills.
Boom! Headshot!
30 systems dropped sov immediately late at night. 15 of those were critical station systems. We subsequently saved a few stations but IT were able to capitalise on the fact that most Goons were in bed or at work to anchor their own TCUs and claim sov in vital systems. These included our main market hub, our main capital staging station and a few other staging systems. It also left our jump bridge network that allowed us to quickly and safely redeploy around our space in tatters. What used to be a four jump trip going via fully armed POSs became a 15 jump trip using dangerous stargates.
Now we're pulling out and moving to Syndicate to help our beleaguered allies in the North.
Goons held two regions of space Delve and Querious. These are generally considered to be the best space in the game due to some developer shenanigans back from when they were held by the Band of Brothers alliance.
Band of Brothers (BoB) were humanely euthanised by Goons as part of the invasion that took the regions from them, they then scuttled off to Empire to do faction warfare for a bit under the name Reikoku. Recently they reformed again as IT alliance and invaded Fountain which neighbours Delve to the north, displacing on/off Goon allies Pandemic Legion. They made it pretty clear though that their ultimate ambition was to retake Delve and Querious.
Meanwhile to the East, the mostly Russian alliance Against All Authorities (-A-) had previously been paid by a Russian aluminium tycoon to wardec Goons and had been shooting at us without really putting us under pressure.
A few weeks ago, as Pandemic Legion were losing their space to IT, -A- invaded the key gateway system of 49-. This system is kind of Eve's Afghanistan, it's a route to a lot of places and empires go there to die. It was the last IT bastion when we took the regions from them and saw some exceptionally fierce fighting throughout that war. The Russian invasion, even with help from IT wasn't going well. We were able to easily fend off their attempts to take the system and it looked as though Delve was pretty secure. The new sov system strongly favours the defender and especially so if the defender is in a different timezone to the attackers. IT are a mostly European alliance while Goons are mostly US based so all we had to do was to make sure that anything vital was timed to come out in US prime and there was little that -A- or IT could do about it.
Then someone forgot to press a button. Goonswarm, being a very large alliance with a lot of overhead is pretty compartmentalised. Responsibilities and permissions are locked down to limit the damage a rogue director could do. Also the corporation management and wallet UIs aren't hugely clear. Directors get spammed by hundreds of notifications every day for everything - membership applications, sovereignty updates, wardecs, tower fuel notifications and a whole lot more. It turns out that if there isn't enough money to pay for your sov, the system sends one message to inform you of this rather than one message per system. That message got lost amidst a sea of other notifications and we found out the hard way that someone had forgotten to move money into the correct wallet division to pay our sov bills.
Boom! Headshot!
30 systems dropped sov immediately late at night. 15 of those were critical station systems. We subsequently saved a few stations but IT were able to capitalise on the fact that most Goons were in bed or at work to anchor their own TCUs and claim sov in vital systems. These included our main market hub, our main capital staging station and a few other staging systems. It also left our jump bridge network that allowed us to quickly and safely redeploy around our space in tatters. What used to be a four jump trip going via fully armed POSs became a 15 jump trip using dangerous stargates.
Now we're pulling out and moving to Syndicate to help our beleaguered allies in the North.
