Fireside Chat Transcript 2025 04 26
Ranger Gama:
Yes. Hello everybody. So for those of you who are worried that Asher might be, you know, touching a grass and die 'cause it's too spicy for him, don't worry, we are all concerned about that. But he was okay as of yesterday. Oh, Asher is actually at fan fest right now? Well that would be impressive 'cause fan fest hasn't started yet, but. Schrodinger Asher, I like that. That's pretty good. Is he only touching grass or kissing girls? You know, with Asher you never can really tell. So Papp, if I was to do that, then you wouldn't have any of your jump bridges. So you'd have to be sitting in the same system with all those smelly Goons. So, you know, we need PI. I always need the PI to make the fuel blocks, to run the jump bridges. So.
Lemme see what our numbers look like. They've stabilized pretty well. Okay. PI equals free ISK, yeah, don't forget guys, if you mine the PI, it doesn't cost you anything. Just like minerals you mine are free. I figured I'd trigger at least one person. It was Beyond. That's a little boring. I get to needle him during Illum today.
Okay. Got a couple of things for you all. Gonna start with some fun pew pew news. So if you did not get a chance to see that kill mail from earlier, that was kind of a fun one. If you want to enjoy yourself, you should look at what kind of FSU he had on that fit. Okay? Give everybody a second to look at that.
https://zkillboard.com/kill/126593873/
So, all right, next one actually came to us from Kun'mi, wanting to pimp the not Avatar. So, Bane, I know you're in here because you're always on these, no Avatars for you. You know, you gotta look at the next one for it.
https://goonfleet.com/index.php/topic/368500-avatar-to-not-avatar-upgrade-program/
Heidi, I'm not gonna click on that video because I do not trust you to not pancake cat me. So I don't know what that video is at Heidi linked in there. If any of you don't wanna click on it, that's up to you. But I'm sure it's a pancake cat. 'cause that's what Heidi does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NML4b8k1hqk
Where's the trust? I've known you for like 10 years, man. That's where the trust is. Richi, I don't trust you either. I, he's, Heidi has a whole cartel of you. All people trying to pancake cat me, so I don't trust you either. To people coming to Fan Fest, join the Party Central Discord. I will do that. Tariel did you give me a link for the party central discord. And we will do that piece.
Okay. Next thing is from Sniper. Just a reminder to you all. We do have the move op today, right after the fireside. This is crossing the gate from 49-U, so we did the Irmalin move op last week. Everybody stopped in 49. We're gonna do the 49 move op today, will be immediately following the fireside. There will be pings for that. Do not take the gate until the fleets are up and Sniper, whoever's commanding that fleet tells you so. There will be a cyno chain going from 4-07 to UALX that will be up. I was just informed that it will be operational. So you will get across the gate with the fleet, and then more or less, the cynos are gonna go up and you can move yourself forward from there.
Next thing, we have our E3OI jump clone. So we have CAD being stationed in E3OI, right? Our Alpha Corp ones. I didn't get a link for that. Can one of the directors grab the CAD alt thread for me please? We are doing CAD alts in E3OI. We're also doing a main fleet jump clone in E3OI. Thank you. So get your CAD alt to E3OI and have a main clone in E3OI as well. We have been using those, so CAD alts, use feroxes. Our main fleet there has been using ravens.
https://goonfleet.com/index.php/topic/330166-control-alt-delve-alpha-clones-to-defend-delve/
Next piece for all of you money grubbing people. Shut up Heidi. Next piece for all of you money grubers. We have locust next Friday, so six days from today there will be a locust going on.
And also speaking of money grubbers, we have had an incursion, I'm sure some of you're probably aware, not too far away from UALX. The fleets have been going and the incursion guys have actually been having, not one, but two incursion fleets going simultaneously, bringing in all of that good sweet dank ISKies for that. And yes, I said ISKies, so if you've got that on your bingo card. Thanatos was linking the thread. I didn't get to it yet, but thank you guys and I don't have to.
So we try and do Irmalin move ops just like we do the regular gate move ops right after the fireside. So they're always pretty much done at that point. I will poke the guys about seeing if we can do one a little bit earlier for it. Tariel, I hate you so much now, but, you know, good on you, man.
And the final one that I've got is from Heidi with our classic scouts are recruiting. What do scouts do? Scouts scout things so that we can go shoot them. They will track enemy fleets. They'll sit in staging systems, giving us an idea of who is forming up what and where they are. Scouts are used to make war. It's how we find all those different pieces so that we can go and shoot people.
https://goonfleet.com/index.php/topic/336499-sig-scouts-we-like-to-watch/
And that is all of my list for everybody today. I'm gonna go through it and make sure I didn't forget anything, but any questions, please do put 'em into Elysium there. Again, questions on Elysium on jabber.
Sure. When is Bane getting his avatar? Never. 'cause we don't like Bane.
Snipereagle1:
I could chuck you out an airlock, Ryo,
Ranger Gama:
Very spy thing to ask, I know, but that Hel that was killed is that Black Ops? I honestly don't know who is involved in that kill so, future plans. Opsec. Maybe we'll go with that.
Do I like spicy food? No, I'm not as bad as Asher is because I actually enjoy pepper on things. But no, I think you guys would bury the two of us together probably if we had some of the spice, like what you all have. I've worked with a lot of Indian people and they used to actually make me a onion pagoda, and they would make my pale white version of it and it was super good for it. And they all said it had no flavor and that was the way I like my onion pagodas.
Can we get an Atrum Fireside next week? No, we're actually going to do a different director for next week. I've lined up two guest directors for the fireside, one for next week and one for the week after. But it's not Atrum. Atrum is the Chief SRPologist. I like that, that's actually pretty good. Ceema is not a director, but you know. If, if he wanted to be around, we could probably may, we could probably unmute him for him to say something.
But of course he would probably just talk in memes and you know, that's okay. Goons do memes. So we, Victoria, we're trying to get people who don't talk that are directors and everything to be talking. And if you're ever on the beehive fleet, you've heard Xiopa. I say, you've heard Xiopa talk. Oh, you're killing me there. Those, I had a whole spiel, man. And you fubar it up. All right. That's Sniper in a nutshell.
Snipereagle1:
People are asking about Paps? Yeah, we've restarted that piece of software earlier and we're keeping a look at it to make sure that it's working. It's not like a, oh, it's down infinitely or something. So there's a couple fleets that were missed. We got the list of people so we can recreate them.
Ranger Gama:
Lemme see. Well, you know, right. If you had had combat probes or even core scanner probes, you would not have gotten stuck in a wormhole, man. So, you know, plus, you know, right click self-destruct. There you go.
Is the skill app also down? I do not know. Sniper. Do you know off the top of your head?
Snipereagle1:
First I've heard of issues. I will look at it.
Ranger Gama:
Sniper will go kick it and see if it will work.
Snipereagle1:
Will the next Pope be a Goon?
Ranger Gama:
We're just gonna scroll right past that one. All right. Percussion maintenance. Oh, I like that. All right, Sniper. That I think we should rechristen that as now known as percussion maintenance. I like that.
For those of you who don't know, we did actually have space Pope. He wasn't a goon, but Eve did have space Pope. There any number of pictures. I've met him. He's a interesting guy. He had a fun title that I do not remember now 'cause it was about 10 words long. Space Pope at one point in time was gonna retire, Tariel is he still around? He was gonna win Eve about five or six years ago. Is he still around? Ah, that's it right there. Maximilian Singularity, the sixth first of his name. That's him. That's space pope. To the fives. Thank you for that. It's close enough. Yeah, it's, that is so close that I'm just gonna go with it. Yeah. Snuff did blow up. He had a system of his own and he had a citadel in it and Snuff got together and blew it up 'cause fuck those guys.
Vivian what is winning Eve? It's when you quit and say, screw all you all, thanks for the fishes.
Was it a Keepstar? I couldn't remember if it was or not. Or if it was like a Sotiyo, or something like that. It was a Keepstar? Okay. Right? Yeah.
Your current fit has a probe launcher. Always a good idea. Now here's the other thing, man. Make sure you actually have some combat or core probes for the probe launcher. Don't just fit the probe launcher.
Tariel given the part of the world that I know that Asher is in right now, so, no, he is not doing that. Now, he may have lied, but his pictures do show to me that he is not where that would be a thing.
Is a dread or a carrier better? It depends honestly on what you're doing. If you're gonna go brawl with a fleet, dreads, if you wanna learn esoteric mechanisms and mechanics that are just fucked up. Carrier. Having said that, guys, if you have never controlled fighters in a carrier or a super, they use the exact same mechanic. It's something that you should learn, do it with a carrier. The supers fighter mechanics are the exact same thing.
Esoteric mechanisms and mechanics is a POS. Yeah, you're not wrong on that Beyond, but shut up man. For those of you who have never had to set up a POS and pretty much, you know, only a few people even do that anymore. And I'm gonna flashback a whole bunch of people. How many of y'all remember doing reactions in a POS and forgetting to link your silo? If those of you who are sitting there, what does that mean? Because fuck POSes. Reaction POSes. Reaction pairs are, were a fun, I think you tried to say POSes there, man. Domanark, I think I pronounced your name right there. You need to get out more. Man, POSes were a bitch to run. I think I had four or five or six of 'em. I don't know. They were horrible.
Make sure Asher's okay with a picture of today's newspaper. All right. I will do that. Make sure he's alright.
Now POS bashing when you go out, shoot POSes. That's an awful lot more fun. Absolutely true.
Beyondnoxx_UNP:
Did you just call POS bashing fun?
Ranger Gama:
Yes. I did because we used to have a lot of fun doing that because, so here's what was fun on it, Beyond, is that you would shoot like their guns down to like 99% hull. So you just damaged up just a little bit and that was just the biggest fuck you to people because remote hull reppers were such a nightmare. Nobody ever used to bring them. So they'd rep all the shields up and they'd rep all the armor up and they'd try to turn the gun back on and they couldn't 'cause it had just little sliver of hull damage.
Beyondnoxx_UNP:
Fair enough.
Ranger Gama:
Yeah, it, it was a, it was a nightmare. We actually used to kill POS guns 'cause it was easier than repping up the hull damage as was just mentioned. You know, if you, if you shot 'em 50% Yeah. People would just blow 'em up and anchor a new one. For the guns, not, not the actual POS. Yeah, you could actually run 'em out unless they use stasis webifiers and an actual gunner there to f you up. Yeah, it was actually pretty easy.
All right, we'll go like one or two more minutes for real questions and then Sniper's getting antsy to go and jump a gate. So any other questions before I turn it over to fcs and they do FC stuff.
Best type of bagel. I only eat plain Bagels or like an asiago bagel, so.
We doing the drifter event stuff, not as an organized thing? If you want to go drifter, knock yourself out.
Where do Titans come from? You know, that is, requires pictures and illustrations that are not safe for our younger audience. So you'll have to ask Brodog about that.
Everything bagels. Yeah. I'm not a bagel guy. I like an asiago bagel and just a plain bagel.
Does GSOL l have any corp project people to hand stuff in to? They've got their Alpha Corp, that they do the corp projects, so yes they do. There is an up to, there's a thread on that, that Delta put in. If one of the GSOL directors or sub directors around here can do that.
https://goonfleet.com/index.php/topic/366127-sell-gsol-your-liquid-ozone-minerals-and-pi/
I know it sounds like bingo bait Delta, but it is also possibly a real question, so.
Crawdads are boiled shrimp. We used to actually go hunt crawdads when I was a kid. There's a creek down by my house where I used to do that.
Do I like boiled eggs? Yes. I like hard boiled eggs.
So the SIGs have some of them go inactive. That's a thing, man. So if you look at the SIGs and Squads recruiting thread, you'll find who's active with it.
How many freighters are the right amount to have? Well, it depends. Ross says my number of freighters is too high. He's of course wrong. And so...
Snipereagle1:
If, do, do you have extras since you tend to lose them occasionally.
Ranger Gama:
Hey, shut up Sniper. God dammit. So how many freighters do you need to have? One for every one of your alts in every system usually works pretty well.
Beyondnoxx_UNP:
And one you can forget about.
Ranger Gama:
Quiet you.
All right. On that note of Beyond and Sniper giving me a hard time, I think we'll call it good. Move op fleet is gonna be coming up as soon as pretty much as I stop talking. Sniper will send the pings.
Snipereagle1:
Yep, move op fleets on my main will be in op seven. I'll ping it out shortly. If you don't have anything to move from 49, there'll be a cover fleet ping shortly. Please join that. It won't take long. We just need you to get people across the regional and then you'll be home.
Ranger Gama:
And don't forget, those of you who have the jump drive ships for it, there will be a cyno chain that will be going up at some point, probably at the end of the move op there. So everybody enjoy your weekend. We will see you all back next week. We are gonna have two guest directors who will be chitchatting it up.
So, all right everybody, enjoy your weekend and go cover the gate so we can move some people home. Have a good one, guys.
