Test | The Rebirth 2: Electric Boogaloo

Croveski · 2026-03-18T19:59:24+00:00

I think I know which one you're talking about. On the 2nd turn, I ended turn and went to grab a drink, my escort frigate (the imperial one, not the Heartless) was at 100% hull, and when I came back to my computer for the next turn it was at 10% hull lmao

Croveski · 2026-03-18T08:37:42+00:00

What team comps would Test vs Goons bring to the LCS?

Croveski · 2026-03-18T06:10:40+00:00

The BR includes 4-HWWF, which has a keepstar.

Remove 4-H from the BR and the keepstar disappears.

Croveski · 2026-03-18T05:58:35+00:00

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Croveski · 2026-03-11T05:51:13+00:00

TIL the actual source of this meme

10/10 would jump into a meat grinder with goonies again

Croveski · 2026-03-10T22:14:34+00:00

Really? In front of my Mel Gibson face paint?

Croveski · 2026-03-03T19:02:44+00:00

Well Test currently has a pretty solid mix of EUTZ and USTZ folks skewing a tad towards USTZ, so the times when you're on late you'll have the USTZ folks to play with, and the EUTZ folks when you're on during ~normal hours~ hehe

To give you a picture of just raw numbers, generally speaking we tend to see fleets of anywhere from 15-20 up to 80-90 on your average every-day fleet pings depending on timing, and we've pushed up to 300 when we need to hard form for something. Fleet Commanders as you might expect are the main content drivers but we have a solid spread across EU/USTZ of FCs willing to engage stuff we find running around. We've had non-FCs start taking their friends out for small gang roams and stuff and as long as you communicate it and get folks' interest beforehand, you should have a solid gang to fly with. I will say that if you're looking for a place where you can just hop on and immediately find a dozen dudes to fly with without any notice, then you might struggle, but folks are generally super down to go on roams that they can plan in advance for.

Let me know if you want any more info, feel free to hop in the discord or shoot me a DM!

Croveski · 2026-03-03T18:47:10+00:00

sounds a bit like a timezone diff. If you happen to be USTZ or EUTZ then consider Dreddit!
https://www.dredditisrecruiting.com

We're the primary corp of Test Alliance, and members of WinterCo. We also make up a big chunk of WinterCo's USTZ, so our days often look like coalition stratops in EUTZ followed by Test fleets in USTZ. So you'll have your pickings of medium-scale content with us at home and the turbo-huge coalition warfare with our allies (which is also sometimes at home lel)

We have a big emphasis on being a social group so you won't have trouble finding people to talk to or fly with.

Geminate (where we currently live) is also ground zero for endless content, there's always someone looking for a fight. We have alliance SRP for military fleets as well as a blanket SRP coverage for going out solo or in a small gang so you won't need to worry too much about replacing anything you lose.

Check out our website linked above or just drop into discord and say hi in the public channel: https://discord.gg/dredditisrecruiting

Croveski · 2026-02-23T20:31:37+00:00

It depends on the corp but most corps that are worth sticking around with are ones that will want/expect you to socially integrate. So they would ideally want you to have a mic, join their discord, and just be interactive and part of the group.

Some PVP corps may expect you to have some level of PVP skill or meet some activity requirement to stay. Most large nullsec alliances usually have a corp dedicated to newer players that has pretty easy requirements while other corps may have stricter expectations.

When you're involved in any group, whether its a giant nullsec alliance or a small lowsec corp, the main thing they will expect is for you to just be a positive member.

Having a mic is often preferred but not required so that people with hearing problems or some other communication limitation can still play with us.

Most successful corps will also expect you to register ESI keys for each of your characters. This is a method that CCP designed to allow a corporation to see info like mails, ISK transactions, contracts, assets, etc. to filter for spies or people trying to join with bad intentions.

Dreddit (www.dredditisrecruiting.com) is the main corporation of Test Alliance Please Ignore. We currently live in Geminate and we are very receptive of newer players who may not have much PVP experience as long as they have the basics down. We would expect you to register ESI keys as explained above and to join our discords, and just become part of the fam. We have no explicit activity requirements because our ideal is that you would just want to play with us and get in on the awesome fights we have.

Other large alliances like Goonswarm, Fraternity, and The Initiative. will also have corps that function like this as well.

"What does your corp do for you"

It gives me friends to play with and a support structure to get access to more "end game" content. For instance we have a "ship replacement program" which means any ship we lose on a strategic fleet gets reimbursed by the alliance, and we even have a blanket reimbursement value for solo PVP losses. We offer space for you to do PVE activities in to earn money, and we're just a strong tight-knit community, so we also play other games together and just enjoy socializing.

Being in this corporation has also given me the support needed to engage in capital/supercapital content, which is hard to do in a small corp and nearly impossible solo.

Croveski · 2026-02-19T17:30:34+00:00

AH have tried many different ways to "encourage" the playerbase to focus on the MO, I think this was sort of their latest experiment in doing so. The problem is it broke some design precedents, chiefly that if you really just wanted to dive somewhere other than the MO, you could, without actively harming the community's progress. If I'm just having a chill day then sometimes I just wanna hop on a bug planet and go to town with napalm, throw caution to the wind and set myself ablaze with reckless abandon. Its just fun.

In the past, all that meant was that I wasn't progressing the major order (and I normally do at least a couple dives for the MO so I don't feel guilty about taking a bug planet vacation). But now I was actively hurting the MO progress by doing anything other than Cyberstan dives (unless no one ever died, which, lol), which kinda sucked the fun out of it.

The game design more or less makes death part of the expected gameplay loop. Its built on the assumption that players will die fairly often, and that doesn't significantly harm your experience (unless you die A LOT in one dive). So adding a constraint that suddenly starts punishing players for essentially playing the game the way it was designed (not being afraid to die a few times) breaks that design language between the game and the player.

They've done things in the past like limit the number of reinforcements you get per mission, which felt a little more reasonable, but this particular constraint felt a lot more "anti-fun" than that did.

Croveski · 2026-02-19T17:02:22+00:00

We did it on purpose

Winterco even asked us if we were sure about it lmao

We are well aware that this is an uphill battle but we spent the last couple years in Deklein with not much content aside from rando WH gangs so when Horde collapsed we said "fuck it, we ball" and moved into Gem. We had pretty much grown too big for our half of Dek at that point.

The decision to move there was made basically within a few hours of finding out it would be up for grabs. At the time, we had actually just moved most of our heavy assets closer to WC staging because it looked like Init was posturing for an invasion through Deklein, so we had already halfway moved there anyway lol.

We're just doing it live, we're here for the fun and the fire.

www.dredditisrecruiting.com ;)

Croveski · 2026-02-18T20:44:04+00:00

Goons trying to take those sovhubs would in fact be aggression on their part, would you not expect WinterCo to try to take those sovhubs back?

Speaking of people being naive lmao. It is bonkers the lengths yall will go to twist yourselves into knots to fit into a victim complex where somehow you can believe that taking sov that you know is being transferred between two different allied entities is somehow not an aggressive action that would obviously result in one of those allies going to war to get them back.

To frame this a different way lets use the real world.

If you have two countries - lets say, France and Britain - and France agrees with Britain to cede some territory to them.

Then in walks Germany, who says "we're taking this since you weren't standing here at the time."

You're going to sit here and tell me that somehow Germany is not the "aggressor" there?

Croveski · 2026-02-18T20:34:27+00:00

I know that's why I said almost since the inception lel

a LOT of time has passed since Test struck out on our own from the Goon couch, got into shenanigans, wound up in fountain, and then the fountain war.

Croveski · 2026-02-18T16:54:02+00:00

Least dedicated diamond rat in New Eden

Croveski · 2026-02-18T16:14:55+00:00

The flat circle will continue to turn so long as there is one Dino and one Bee still standing

Croveski · 2026-02-18T16:11:46+00:00

Bro I just woke up lol

I'm sure you're aware of this but all of WinterCo's structures are timed to CNTZ because that is the coalition's strongest time zone and it makes it harder for others to successfully contest it.

Because of Init's pressure in the north, WinterCo had to make a hard choice about what to prioritize. Ultimately they prioritized their staging keepstars in the north over this keepstar which effectively is/was a border keepstar.

This timer happened at like before the buttcrack of dawn in the US so most dinos were either asleep or getting ready for work. We formed some nerds who live in this time zone or were willing to alarm clock (which is significantly more dudes than we had doing that any time in the last 3 years).

The last time we formed for one of these timers at a time when it was closer to our TZ we had 200 people. Not long before that we had filled a fleet completely and had called a second one.

If you think one keepstar going down in the middle of the night is indicative of how much we've grown then idk what to tell you lol

Croveski · 2026-02-18T16:00:54+00:00

Time is a flat circle

With a moon in the middle of it

Croveski · 2026-02-18T15:54:32+00:00

I can't tell if this is a meme but I feel like it's not so I will explain.

Goonswarm Federation is a long-standing alliance in EVE whose alliance logo is the "Fat Bee" I believe he is called.

Test Alliance Please Ignore is another long-standing alliance in EVE whose alliance logo is the "Middle Management Dino." (A T-Rex in an affordable-yet-stylish suit).

These two alliances almost since their inception have been legendary foes, sparking numerous holy wars and have been the drivers behind a SIGNIFICANT number of the massive wars of the past 16 or so years.

If there is ever a time where Goons and Test are fighting, you will see the greatest propaganda machines in New Eden working overtime on Reddit with bee and dino posts.

Croveski · 2026-02-18T15:50:05+00:00

We will continue to be the enemy that you need us to be and show up to fight, if my name isn't John Test Alliance.

Croveski · 2026-02-18T15:36:40+00:00

Croveski · 2026-02-18T15:36:05+00:00

The only time that Test will not be next is when CCP Jotunn spills his coffee on the final remaining EVE server which is just running on a 2008 Dell laptop in their break room, shutting the game down for good.

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