Basing out of stations prevents you from securing safe private isk-farming belts and moons but makes you impossible to attack. It's perfectly possible to base yourself at a NPC station in 0,0 so you can never really be denied access to your stuff except in the very short term. It's not known whether the Goons will collectively decide to hold territory again. Syndicate will become absolutely deadly to smallish corps who are not great at pvp so expect many of them to relocate. It radically changes the picture in Syndicate, described recently by Bozokast as being full of timid players. It puts the Goons in a position where they will probably win any fights and it positions them close to their major 0,0 ally the Northern Coalition. This is without doubt a much better option than hanging on in a bitter unwinnable defensive war. They may not be able to recover 300 billion isk which is in a corporate wallet only available to CEO Karttoon (on holiday, and possibly unaware of this whole fiasco) and CFO Niart Epar (bored of Eve and not playing any more, although there's a conspiracy theory that he was actually a deep undercover spy achieving a masterful piece of destructive meta-gaming). They're planning to get the Alliance assets out with spies later on. Also very creditably they prioritised the extraction of the resources of individual members rather than corporation assets. "It now resembles Haiti, except that it is Haiti busy being invaded by the Chinese and several other great powers". To their credit the Goon leadership reacted decisively: they gave a State of the Goonion address announcing they would pull out of Delve and move back to Syndicate. This allowed the invading forces to trap a large enough proportion of Goonswarm's resources that defence of Delve ceased to be a viable option. This is just what BoB (then called KenZoku) had done a year earlier, docking hundreds of capital ships in PR-8CA, a system Goonswarm were able to cut off, trapping the ships.Īs Manfred says "We had decided that the Primary targets overall had to be J-LP and NOL-M9 the former being Goons capital staging point and the latter being there subcapital staging point and main market hub." Goonswarm docked most of their capitals at a single station, as it turned out in one of the systems made vulnerable when the bills went unpaid. Those ten hours proved crucial because of two factors, both eerily reminiscent of the fall of BoB described by the Mittani on Ten Ton Hammer. On the other hand a lot of Goons would argue that if you have to play, especially a stay up all night call to arms type operation, when you're pretty sure it's all going to get rolled back then you're taking the game far too seriously. Because if you stop playing and the ref doesn't concede the foul it can be disastrous. In sport players are coached to play to the whistle, even if they feel they've been fouled. In their defence a similar bug had recently affected CVA, an Amarr roleplaying alliance, and that did get rolled back. Unfortunately it seems a number of Goons assumed it was a bug that would be rolled back and so didn't contribute to the defence. Over the next ten hours -A-, Sys-K and IT aggressively attacked the TCUs in the vulnerable systems while some Goons tried valiantly to slow them down. at 04:18 it looks like someone went 'oh shit' and dumped a bunch of isk into the wallet but i guess by that time it didn't matter." (Dramaticus, SA forums) Master Wallet had ~282m in it at the time and first bill(but QY6) was paid leaving ~30.5m in the wallet at which point the rest bounced and CCP is a harsh fucking mistress. "at 04:06 eve our batch of Sov bills came due to be paid automatically from the Master Wallet. For the Goons, the largest alliance in Eve at the time, this triggered a failure cascade that led to them abandoning their space empire to their old rivals: Bob, now known as the IT Alliance. Three alliances were too disorganised to pay and sovereignty dropped in some of their systems. Some Alliances had taken care of the bills in advance, some were prompted by the eve-mail three days before, some had enough money in the correct Corporate wallet division to cover the costs. On Tuesday 26.1.10 the rent for Tactical Control Units (TCUs), the structures that determine sovereignty on 0,0 systems, seeded by CCP with the Dominion expansion became due.
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