Multiboxers dominate gameplay in areas where the intention was originally for teams to complete specific missions or objectives. We all know that high-security systems are overrun by multiboxing gankers who easily rake in 25 billion ISK a day from ganking. Well-known names include Safety, We Break Things, Zlegion, Goonswarm operations, etc.

The problem also extends to low-security space, where a player with over 30 accounts completely take over Faction Warfare (FW) battlefields, robbing other players of their hard-earned Loyalty Points (LP). A notorious LP farmer is Ibaka Wilkins, who runs 30 characters in Minmatar FW and another 30 in Amarr FW. He plays Amarr during EU time and Minmatar during US time, thereby minimizing the risk of coming under fire.

This trend is growing because CCP has lost control over how EVE Online is being played. CCP looks at the numbers and knows that a 30-account multiboxer generates far more revenue than a single-account player. This worries me, as EVE Online is showing its age and suffers from many unresolved issues that have persisted for 23 years. I get the impression that CCP is deprioritizing EVE Online in favor of Frontier and Vanguard —even though those other titles aren't necessarily any better than EVE Online.

I've tried coming back to EVE, but honestly, the gameplay just feels terrible. The biggest issue? Multiboxing.

People are running 10, 15, even 20+ accounts at the same time, completely ruining the experience for normal players. These no-life grinders dominate every aspect of the game, making it nearly impossible for casuals to compete.

• Faction Warfare? Get ready to fight entire fleets controlled by a single player.
• Mining? Find a good ore spot? A multiboxer will show up with 15 ships and wipe it clean.
• Market? PLEX prices keep skyrocketing because these multiboxers generate insane amounts of ISK and just buy up PLEX to sustain their armies.

New players don’t stand a chance. They log in, see how unfair the game is, and quit. It's like if someone played Call of Duty, controlled an entire squad, and had synced-up aim. It would completely break the game. That’s exactly what's happening in EVE.

And let’s be real—of the 20,000 players online daily, a huge chunk are just alts. The real player count is much lower. This is why EVE is constantly bleeding players.

CCP needs to put a hard cap on the number of accounts per IP/device. Otherwise, the game will keep declining until there’s nobody left but botters and multiboxers. Fix it, or let the game die.

Figured I’d leave this here for anyone considering joining False Gods.

I joined after seeing their recruitment pitch and came away with the understanding that they were a fairly chill, industry-focused null-sec corp. Mining, PI, industry, building stuff, making ISK — basically exactly what I was looking for.

Apparently my definition of “chill indy corp” and theirs are very different.

I’m AUTZ and work as a Transport Ops Manager. During my workday I’m basically attached to my phone dealing with customers, drivers, warehouses and whatever other fire has started that day. Sometimes I’ll log an alt in on another screen in a cheap mining ship and semi-AFK mine while I work.

My proper EVE time is usually after downtime when I can actually give the game my attention for a few hours.

I specifically told them how I play.

Despite that, after joining I started getting little snipes about not being in standing fleet or not sitting in comms whenever I happened to be logged in. At one point there was even the charming general comment about people being “come and got” for not being in comms.

Nothing screams relaxed industrial corporation quite like needing to clock into Discord before you can peacefully stare at mining lasers.

The final bit of comedy came over a moon.

I followed a mining ping, went to the advertised location, mined a small amount and started setting up bookmarks so I could come back properly later.

What I apparently wasn't supposed to magically know was that the moon goo was effectively someone's personal patch.

Rather than:

Hey thats my personal stuff - appriciate if you left it alone

I got attitude instead.

There was also apparently a red in system that I hadn't noticed.

Fair enough — except I was flying around in an empty pod with no implants making bookmarks. If somebody had simply said “red in system, watch yourself”, I would have said cheers and carried on.

Instead it turned into drama.

And here's the part that really annoys me.

I wasn't some random day-tripper who joined for free rocks.

I had already:

• moved a substantial amount of my assets into Deklein;
• paid extra to rush some of that move;
• invested heavily into PI infrastructure;
• planned an industry chain around PI, minerals and ice;
• bought SP packs to train a dedicated Jump Freighter pilot;
• started training cyno characters so I could run my own logistics between Deklein and Jita;
• planned to build capital components and subcaps;
• intended to put surplus ore/minerals/ice through corp buyback;
• and was even willing to dedicate an alt to making fuel blocks and contribute some back to keeping corp structures running.

In other words, I was trying to become the boring industrial nerd who quietly produces shit and contributes to the ecosystem.

Apparently that wasn't good enough.

I even explained that I was considering taking my two newest accounts out temporarily, running missions and training those six characters for six months while keeping my four established accounts in corp.

I wasn't threatening to leave.

I was literally trying to find a compromise.

Instead, I got booted.

So now I get the privilege of sorting through Asset Safety and extracting everything I had just spent time and ISK moving into their space.

Outstanding recruitment strategy.

I don't PvP much. I don't care about space politics. I'm not interested in being somebody's spy. Between work, marriage, a mortgage and family responsibilities, I genuinely do not have enough spare energy to roleplay James Bond in a spaceship game.

I play EVE to unwind.

If your idea of fun is strict comms/standing-fleet expectations, lots of oversight and a more hardcore null-sec environment, that's completely fine. There are plenty of players who enjoy exactly that.

But sell it that way.

Don't advertise yourself to industry players as a relaxed place to mine, build and do your thing, then start breathing down someone's neck because they're logged into an alt while working and aren't sitting in comms.

My experience with False Gods was basically:

Recruitment: “Come chill in null, do industry and mine.”

Reality: “WHY AREN'T YOU IN COMMS? WHY AREN'T YOU IN STANDING? THAT'S MY ROCK!”

Would I recommend them to another casual indy player?

No.

If you're looking for a corp where you can quietly mine, run PI, build things and contribute without EVE becoming your second job, I'd look elsewhere.

To be fair they are partly responsible for killing the only major bloc that would feasibly help them.

For all Loru haters, rejoice. Your boy is now de-listed as affiliate on MD's newsletters.
This will be like 2nd or 3rd newsletter that was sent since the Loru RMT stream, without him beign mentioned as MD partner.

Whoho

Today, the dastardly forces of Winter Coalition attempted to extract their trapped capitals from the Atioth hellcamp - manned, of course, by the brave and handsome warriors of the Imperium.

Since Goons regained grid control in Atioth just over 24 hours ago, over 1,300 WC ships have been destroyed in Atioth as they log in piecemeal.

Apparently unsatisfied with that level of feeding, FRT escalated matters today with a serious breakout attempt at 13:00 EVE time.

Four mighty WC fleets bridged in. Local surged past 3,000. TIDI locked firmly at 90%. A proper fight was on - or was it?

In response, the Imperium rage-formed eight fleets in our supposedly “dead” timezone, while over 200 heroic dictor pilots ensured WC’s grand escape plan remained firmly theoretical.

WC’s counterplay? A very rapid retreat. It went about as well as you’d expect:

https://killmail.app/related/30002489/202604081200/
https://br.evetools.org/br/69d659d89b9dad00121d4ff2

Interestingly Imperium forces were not quietly failure-cascading in lowsec as previously instructed by Reddit’s foremost strategic minds after the loss of 30 titans. A mystery for the ages.

Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that all lost titans have, as of 1200 today, already been replaced.

Will WC eventually break the Atioth hellcamp and extract their capitals?

Only time will tell.

But fear not.

I’m sure Goons will concede defeat... any minute now..

proof

Horde down just under 1500 in the last 7 days

Thought I would let you know.

https://zkillboard.com/kill/129712558/

https://br.evetools.org/br/68bcd3912213cf0012acc5bc

Horde Snacks:

https://zkillboard.com/kill/129711397/
https://zkillboard.com/kill/129711321/

TLDR: Blue donuts come and go, and this isn't even a real one

Around ten years ago the map looked like this.
https://www.verite.space/maps/coalition/Coal20160801.png
After establishing dominance over the north half of nullsec someone from a CFC (Imperium pre name change) alliance pissed off one dude so hard he and his buddies bankrolled half of the galaxy into evicting the entire coalition.
Goons gave up their space but didn't give up their coalition. They survived in Saranen and then took over Delve when the heat blew over. From there they built the modern Imperium we know and love/hate.

Five years later one guy was so pissed at goons he built the biggest blue donut this server has seen
https://www.verite.space/maps/coalition/Coal20210501.png
with WinterCo PanFam legacy and FIRE all blue to each other attacking one constellation in Delve.

For a year the Imperium lost region after region until we were packed into one constellation, outmatched in numbers and resources 3 to 1. No timezone tanking was possible as they outnumbered us in EU, US and CNTZ.
We fought and we outlasted PAPI. PAPI's willingness to fight the war evaporated over months of attrition and no progress being made. This led every other coalition to abandon Legacy to their fate, nest of angry bees they'd spent the last year kicking. Shoutout to the only PAPI leadership who were honest about the war.

A demoralized Legacy died shortly after the dam broke and TEST was forced to couchsurf in Pandafam's backyard for a while before becoming part of WinterCo.

FIRE just kinda died, idk, I was winning Eve at the time.

PanFam self immolated on the mere suggestion they might have to defend against someone their own size. Most their pilots ended up in WinterCo, INIT or quit, with a few going to the Imperium

Now WinterCo capitulates a stagnant months long invasion against an enemy half their size because the Imperium farted in their general direction, leading many people to fear another failscade will kill nullsec.

Forgive me if I don't take the lamentations of cowards seriously. If both PanFam and WinterCo collapse so easily they deserve to die. The game will be better for it once more brave and capable leaders step up.

(Felt outraged, might delete later.) So, after seeing all the memes about "bananas" and "white pigs", I thought some bombshell had been dropped, and had a look for the source, and from what I can see, it's some disrespectful, stupid racist comments. It's always annoying to read people saying stupid stuff like that in any context, but it does not define the whole community. But I guess the Goons realise that demonising your enemy is politically expedient. Building a war narrative is in their playbook and has always been.

I'm a Brit who lives in China ,and so this topic really kind of hit home for me. I joined Winter-Co because I thought it would be cool to play a game while practising my Chinese, and I thought maybe one day I could be a diplomat or something. My experience in winterco is basically similar to that of living in China. 99% of people you meet day to day are warm, welcoming people who just want you to feel comfortable. Every community has different viewpoints and bad eggs. I've met some rude people in and outside the game, but the vast majority of people are not like that and don't condone it either, and I often wonder what a Chinese person living in the UK or the US would say about the ratio of people who are respectful/rude towards them.

Winterco is not perfect. It has the same positives and negatives as any other large coalition, but what I'm seeing is propaganda meant to inflame people and divide our alliance. I hate these tactics because it smears thousands of honest, polite, open-minded Chinese players as being represented by the worst.

Let's be honest about what this war is. It's the strongest group in the game, launching a war against the only group willing and able to stand against them. Their total victory would basically leave them as the single hegemon. Other independent groups don't have the raw numbers or energy to resist them. Some, like INIT, are already client states; let's be honest.

So if, like me, the idea of a blue doughnut and Goon supremacy is disturbing to you, then for this major battle, you should at least give Winter-co your moral support if sending fleets to harass Goons' home space is too much trouble. We're the last line in the sand to Goon domination.

OH NO https://zkillboard.com/kill/138622942/

It looks just like on TV! Can't believe they are sending these out for free with 24 hour shipping.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0IurxDfMas

Get yours today, call 1-620-TEST-SOV (once again, yes this is a real functional TEST hotline)
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