One weekend while I was out of town, GoonFleet declared war on me, waited the requisite time, destroyed my station, and dropped the declaration before I returned home. They claimed they were "protecting their precious asteroids, by eliminating the demand for minerals". I kid you not.
I didn't lose my most valuable assets: the original blueprints. Those were still in my hangar at a nearby NPC station, and I'd still have them if I logged in to Eve again. But, I wasn't interested in monitoring my station every day.
I read a few articles about this latest battle, and noticed that GoonFleet declared war on the trading hub in Jita last year, and effectively blockaded the system for awhile. So, I think I made the right choice for me.
The Goons seem to be intent only on causing chaos for their entertainment. When I was a pre-teen, I enjoyed doing that, but I've outgrown it.
I finally called it quits when carrying several billion ISK of station parts, got griefed by some gate-campers, and the more senior guys in the corp couldn’t be bothered to help or escort. . . I was, after all, carrying parts for their under-construction POS. . .
The GOONS are anarchists and nihilists who destroy just about every online game they infest just for kicks and giggles. Whenever I see a GOON, I try to swat it.
I use to play off and on a fair bit. Did dual account high sec mining and a lot of complexes.
I bailed when I could so the math and realized one good screw up where I lose a BS and by out days of my life. That was immersion breaking. I don’t want to put myself in a place where an infantile moron is able to retroactively invalidate hours of my life. I am not an adrenalin addict so when my corp moved to low sec I eventually bailed.