Wild at Heart

Goon Director Miscue Equals IT/-A- Victory

A little bit of preface work here.  I have been a member of the GBC.  I have also fought against the GBC.  I am neither "pro-BoB" or "anti-BoB."

With that being said, karma is a bitch, isn't it Goons?  From a Goon member on the Scrapheap-Challenge forums:

Here’s what happened: all of the systems that were lost were the ones with TCUs that were seeded by CCP. Their sov bills all came in at once – today. So how did we lose our space? The same way xdeathx now confirms that he lost his sov. He, too, set auto bill pay up like we did. However, he fucked up and had the alliance’s money in the wrong wallet division. Since the bills could not be paid, the TCUs all unanchored at the same time…
…So, the bad news: We lost NOL, F-T, I1Y, 1-s, and a few stations in querious. Also our JB system is dead and most of our important jammers are gone. Years of hard work literally ruined by a failure to check a box.

I have to say, I have absolutely no sympathy for the Goons.  None.  Zero.  They won the second Delve War with a single button push, so I have no problem with them losing Delve now due because their directors were too lazy to either pay the bill, or ensure that enough  money was in the correct Wallet Division to cover the automatic payments.  I have confirmed with both Atlas and Morsus Mihi directors that they received notice three days ago that there were insufficient funds to cover the upcoming sov bills.  Both of those alliances managed to hold onto their sov because their alliance-level directors were on the ball with shifting the appropriate funds in a timely manner.

And kudos to IT (and -A-) for taking significant and important chunks of Delve when the opportunity arose.  For all of the hubbub that The Mittani made of BoB's capital ship debacle, it is sweeter still to see it being repeated once again.  During the second Delve War, BoB made the critical mistake of logging the majority of their capital assets off in a station that was then perma-camped for the rest of the war.  Without their capital ships to field en masse, the GBC was unable to repel hostile cap fleets, or reinforce towers planted in their crucial systems.

Now we see that the same situation, to an extent, is happening with the Goons in J-L.  I have been told the following by a friend with an alt in Goonfleet:

[19:53] Mr. Smith: there are a lot of caps trapped in station
[19:53] Mr. Smith: pretty much anyone who didn't have a JC or wasn't docked where their caps were is screwed
[19:54] Mr. Smith: some people got their stuff out ,but the both stations were taken around 11am pst, well before most goons ever log on

The Mittani is reassuring his Swarm, though, that they have enough spies in IT that it is only a matter of time before they are able to recoup all of the capitals and other assets.

All in all, I have to say that this may have been the best day to happen to EVE in a long, long time.  I can say that even though I'm neither positively or negatively impacted by it.  Instead I sit from a distance with a huge smile on my face feeling, for the first time in a long time, the balance of power in EVE is right back to where it is supposed to be.  I never liked BoB on top of the dog pile, but if they were to be taken down I wanted it done through legitimate in-game actions rather than a director in the holding corp pulling the plug and charting their course to inevitable defeat.

As Matthew Geary would say, "The ancestors surely had their hand in the events of today."

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