EVE Online

For at least two years, the dominant conflict in the game has been between two alliances known as Band of Brothers and Goonswarm. Band of Brothers, known as BOB, is a wealthy, elite (some would say elitist) group that many players simultaneously admire, fear and despise. Goonswarm is a proudly profane group that conducts highly effective psychological warfare alongside its military campaigns. Like the members of BOB, Goons are also simultaneously admired, feared and despised by many Eve players.

Perhaps the most famous, powerful player in Eve is a character called SirMolle, leader of BOB. In real life he is Par Molen, a 41-year-old manager for a heating-and-cooling systems company in Sweden. Shortly after CCP, the company that makes Eve, convened its player council in Iceland, Mr. Molen welcomed more than 150 players from more than 15 countries to the annual weeklong BOB barbecue near Copenhagen.

At the barbecue Mr. Molen unveiled a new strategy called Max, for Maximum Damage. While most Eve campaigns center on taking and controlling regions of space, BOB’s new Maximum Damage doctrine focuses on simply pillaging and destroying the territories of others.

“Our goal is to control all of Eve,” Mr. Molen said in an interview over an Internet voice chat program. “It’s totally impossible to claim all of Eve physically. But it’s possible to control the people. It’s possible to control the alliances, be it by economic means or fighting means or political means. That was the goal and that is the goal.”

Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company

www.nytimes.com/2008/06/28/arts/television/28beve.html

omg.  I read this and just started smiling.  EvE has finally made the papers.  That is quite an accomplishment, and on top of that, one of the best alliances in existance featured.  Good for you BoB.  You deserve it.

This is old news, SirMolle has never hidden his aspirations, on the contrary hes always made them quite public.

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Originally posted by godpuppet
This is old news

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Pretty much.

But now it has changed from "let's control all of eve" (which bob couldn't do) to "let's MAX!!!11oneeleven".

Let's see what comes next, our people are already complaining about a lack of targets.

Originally posted by godpuppet

This is old news, SirMolle has never hidden his aspirations, on the contrary hes always made them quite public.

It never made it on the NYT i bet..

Originally posted by batolemaeus

 

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Originally posted by godpuppet
This is old news

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Pretty much.

But now it has changed from "let's control all of eve" (which bob couldn't do) to "let's MAX!!!11oneeleven".

Let's see what comes next, our people are already complaining about a lack of targets.

setup an altcorp and sign it up for faction warfare. much lulz.

 I dont think BoB willl ever control all of EvE because even if they could ccp wont let them. The reason why i think this is that BoB got help by gm's long time ago and  they got caut and if ccp actualy lets BoB succeed they will have to live with a curse.

As the years go by you will see more and more of Eve in the news. Have you seen the commercials on the sci fi channel yet?

I think the devs would not interfere with the domination of the game.  I can't wait for ambulation and teraforming(one day)~

i wouldnt say that sirmolle is the most powerful person, rather i would say that istvaan is

Originally posted by Precusor

For at least two years, the dominant conflict in the game has been between two alliances known as Band of Brothers and Goonswarm. Band of Brothers, known as BOB, is a wealthy, elite (some would say elitist) group that many players simultaneously admire, fear and despise. Goonswarm is a proudly profane group that conducts highly effective psychological warfare alongside its military campaigns. Like the members of BOB, Goons are also simultaneously admired, feared and despised by many Eve players.

Perhaps the most famous, powerful player in Eve is a character called SirMolle, leader of BOB. In real life he is Par Molen, a 41-year-old manager for a heating-and-cooling systems company in Sweden. Shortly after CCP, the company that makes Eve, convened its player council in Iceland, Mr. Molen welcomed more than 150 players from more than 15 countries to the annual weeklong BOB barbecue near Copenhagen.

At the barbecue Mr. Molen unveiled a new strategy called Max, for Maximum Damage. While most Eve campaigns center on taking and controlling regions of space, BOB’s new Maximum Damage doctrine focuses on simply pillaging and destroying the territories of others.

“Our goal is to control all of Eve,” Mr. Molen said in an interview over an Internet voice chat program. “It’s totally impossible to claim all of Eve physically. But it’s possible to control the people. It’s possible to control the alliances, be it by economic means or fighting means or political means. That was the goal and that is the goal.”

Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company

www.nytimes.com/2008/06/28/arts/television/28beve.html

 

i dont think its possible to control all of eve lol unless its 0.0 or low sec i mean eve is to huge to control it all :)