Fireside Chat Transcript 2025 03 29
Asher Elias:
All right. Hello. Hello, hello. I know many of you are on fleets, so we'll try to make this relatively quick. Excellent fight we just had. Basically what happened is, I think, Diamond Rats actually reffed that Fort and then it ended up being timed with also some other timers, so we were split two ways. Brave initially dropped a bunch of capitals. And they had, there was a big dread escalation. So initially, Brave got hit pretty hard and then we massive formed and came in and just kicked them out. We saved the Fort, which is, I know that Fort has a lot of meaningness to us. So, it was very nice to end up saving that. So great job there. Excellent fight. We ended up taking the objective and holding the field. Well done and a lot of us killed a bunch of dreads. Yeah, saving the Fort is very good.
Zais, I'll get your questions soon. Let me just go through what I wanna talk about and then I'll open the floor to questions. Gimme a second here.
All right. Well, my Discord where I had my agenda is just absolutely locked up, so we're doing it live. All right. So a couple things I wanted to talk about. We have news, really great news. Sons of Bane is an alliance that is joining the Imperium. They will be getting here soon. They are currently located in Geminate. They're moving to the Imperium and, so I asked around when the, we started considering them. I asked around, talked to a lot of people, and basically, you know, everyone I talked to said that these guys put up a good fight. That they are, you know, they're annoying to deal with, they punch up. So, we're happy to have them joining. They're not in here yet, but we will be welcoming them probably within the next week. They will be moving into Querious and joining the Imperium in fighting alongside Brave, they're looking forward to it. They will be leaving Winter Co and joining us, so, looking forward to welcoming them, but that is the news on that front.
Another thing we need to talk about or don't need to talk about, I just wanted to talk about is, CEEK. CEEK is a corporation that is celebrating their one year anniversary in the Imperium. So I just wanted to give them a shout out. Happy one year anniversary, guys. Keep it up.
CAD alts. We need more CAD alts and we need them yesterday. So, also make sure that you guys are getting your clones in E3OI, obviously you just saw why that's important. Zintage formed up a clone fleet, got there fast. He was the second fleet there after we defended our objectives in Curse.
Alright, if any of my directors have something on the agenda that they want me to hit and I'm forgetting, just message me on Jabber. 'cause my discord has absolutely died. Oh yeah, there we go.
Snipereagle1:
I was just gonna throw in real quick for anybody on the Raven Fleet, we're getting the SRP sorted for Ravens, so. If it doesn't let you submit it right now, we fixed soon.
Asher Elias:
There you go. Yeah, so for CAD skill books, make sure that you have a CAD alt. The packs are delivered in E3OI, which is where CAD is located. And once again, jump clones.
https://goonfleet.com/index.php/topic/231809-program-ctrl-alt-delve-skillbook-pack/
And then, incursions. We have triple headshotted, so we are due for a nice farmable one. If you want to join incursions and make money, they run a nightmare fleet now, by the way. So that is a good place to join.
Lemme check what else I got. I think that's a, I think that's about all I wanna talk about. I'll let my directors message me if there's anything else.
Let's see. Dawn says, shout out to all the people helping with Locust weekend. Went very well. Yeah, we had some Locust discussion this week in our director meeting, so that's good.
Heidi says, if you join for an headshot, you can make ISK and get strap paps.
Alterari says, please plug SIGs and Squads. Yeah, so we had a sig show up right there with Alterari and do a good job. So SIGs and squads are a great way to get involved in the Imperium. We always look for new ones. I know there's a new one that's about to become an official one, so we'll probably be announcing that maybe next week that they have put in the effort and have become official. Heidi's linking the SIGs incursions fleet link right there.
https://goonfleet.com/index.php/topic/353630-squad-recruiting-all-timezones-beefl-fuck-it-we-ball/
So we're gonna hit that up and then I'll do a short... I'm glad, you'll enjoy the shout out. And we're glad you're here too. I'll do a short question and answer session. I know FCs wanna get people back and I can't talk while I'm talking too much. So, go ahead and throw your questions in. We're gonna make this about five minutes and then we'll, we'll cut it.
Yeah. Guys, when you dock up in E3OI, please put a jump clone. I think I already mentioned this, but if I did not, it is very important. Get your jump loan in, in E3OI.
Yep. Shout at the Gopnik. There might be more of that coming.
And Nemahs says that the Raven payout has been added, so if you lost Raven, you can submit it now. Mike Flood is indeed trying to get me killed.
Uh, people are shilling the BFL Sig, which is good.
I have a cap in the 0SHT area should stay or go to a new area. I think that's what they're supposed to be. You can ask in the capswarm channel.
Uh, Eric, I am a anti Florida fan. The University of Florida is my enemy, so that should give you all the answer you know.
Lavender, not a cap person. Thank you for asking though. Some goons now gasp, shocked.
Internet Night says you missed the last six weeks of fireside. Well, Internet Night I got some good news for you. Aoife Aldent keeps notes for everyone. You can listen to the previous one or you can read through the notes Aoife does. They're quite funny and quite good, so it's easy to catch up if you miss something brilok linking it. Think you Brilok.
Apple Pear:
If you're on a fleet with Apple Pear, please come back to comms and we're going to move. So if you're in fleet with Apple Pear, please undock and we're going to move.
Asher Elias:
There you go.
Diogenes says the notes are better than the fireside. TBH I agree. Diogenes, I agree.
Casadorr says, thoughts on progress of the Equinox changes since it's been a hot minute. I would say that the changes have been less impactful than imagined. I think, generally from talking to you guys, you seem pretty happy with the mining changes. Yeah, so that's about it.
Someone asked for me to vouch for them. I cannot for you. Sorry. You should get another vouch though.
Yogizh says, can you give me a shout? It is my 41st birthday on Monday. Happy birthday old man.
Burn Jita when. Unlikely. Unlikely. Anytime short I would think.
Edible says, my Onyx held 13 dreads, one after one. Good job.
Guys. This is future plans, but we will be doing the 2025 Imperium survey pretty soon. And believe it or not, the average age of goons is quite young. I think it's because older people tend to fill into leadership positions. It might seem a little older, but I believe from our last survey, the average age, if I remember correctly, was 29. The average goon is 29 years old. It might've been 31, but it's somewhere around there. Yeah, so we'll be doing a new survey pretty soon.
Why is it the old ones who only speak? Yes. I mean it's because we have wisdom. I guess.
A lot of people feeling real old right now. Yes, Thematic, it may have been that old people could not figure out how to submit the survey. That is a possibility. Always a problem with surveying, especially these days. There was a survey and there will be another one this year. We are working to improve some of the problems with last year's one and excited to have it, that we were really happy with it last year.
Once we do, I will be giving you guys all the information that is interesting or interesting or unique about it.
Tariel Anderson says, or Aideron on, sorry, says, did you know that a Hollaback Girl turned 20 years old this year Asher Elias? Huh? That means Diogenes could date it.
Will you be crediting the guy who came up with the surveys?
That's, Sir, that is a good question, Sir.
Snipereagle1:
I don't need your praise. Thanks though.
Asher Elias:
Yes, it is Sonreir. It is being called the SIRvey this year for sure. Yep.
And it seems like we run out of key questions and most of you guys are just having fun. Guys. Thanks for showing up to the Fireside. We'll make it short and quick.
We're done. Good fight and we'll see you all next week.
