When it comes to mistakes made in EVE Online, few have been as costly as the ones that led to the implosion of Goonswarm. This week The Mittani explores a topic closer to home as he examines the events that led to Goonswarm's downfall and offers a bit more insight into the costly peace treaty between Atlas and the Drone Russian alliances in Sins of a Solar Spymaster #51: Painful Lessons - Goonswarm Implodes.

The next topic in our ‘Painful Lessons’ series hits a little closer to home; if I’m going to be writing about the catastrophic and stupid screw-up’s that have rocked nullsec politics over the past few years, I can’t escape the lurching, derelict implosion of my own alliance, Goonswarm. In these articles we’re taking a deeper look at things which went hellishly wrong in EVE in hopes of learning from the mistakes of others and improving the quality of alliance gameplay.