Crime & Punishment

Last night, while waiting about 10 minutes for a few jobs to finish at my tower, I decided to take a Retty into a belt and grab a cycle of Veldspar (to slightly alleviate manufacturing costs to myself while having nothing else I could do in such a short amount of time), during which a "fellow miner" contacted me, "warning" me about an alleged enforcer who offered permits at the rate of 10m ISK a month (which, he went on to say, was much lower than the 10m ISK a week he claimed CODE demanded -- a statement I immediately confirmed he had intended to say).

This "fellow miner" (a phrase he called himself, which I must laugh at, as I dislike mining: I do it when I have not enough time to do anything else, or while on a late-night call for work that I don't want to pay 100% attention to [which goes straight back to that first part]) was a single individual in a personal corp who apparently didn't realize that it was possible to view employment history, as his history showed a fair bit of connection with the very alleged enforcer he was "warning" about. That isn't even taking into account a quick peek at both pilots' info on various killboards: information which showed av even stronger connection with each other (as well as several of the other pilots currently in the system, including an Orca and Obelisk pilot, all of whom were individual pilots in personal corps, all of which followed similar naming and ticker patterns).

This person spent about 15 minutes attempting to convince me that this alleged enforcer's permit was legitimate, referencing them as an "enforcer" and an "agent" on multiple occasions (once even dropping CODE's name, though never explicitly stating him as a member of CODE).

When I expressed my doubts to this "fellow miner" regarding their claims, and pointed out that they seemed to have a fair bit of connection with them, they began to back-pedal slightly, until, near the end of the conversation, he eked out a final threat, once more dropping the name of CODE, stating that "CODE patrol these systems on the weekend." Once I pointed out that this was, to myself, an empty threat, they (and the 8 others they were with) decided to simply block me, preventing me from further communication with them.

At this time, yet another corp (once again, an individual pilot in a personal corp, still following the same style of naming and ticker conventions that all previous had to this point) war-dec'ed me.

The pilot in this war-dec'ing corp must have immediately gone to sleep, exhausted from the day's efforts, as when I added him as a contact and attempted to inquire further as to his affiliations, I found he was no longer available. As I had been blocked by all other involved parties, I was unable to determine the source for their anger against CODE, and why they would attempt to tarnish your good name with their lies and actions. In an attempt to reopen the lines of communication with them, I've declared my own war against the Obelisk pilot's corp, but this has only caused the pilots (all of whom were, other than the Orca and Obelisk pilot, in Skiffs) to dock and log off.

Though I, myself, am not a member of CODE, I hope they will approve of my continued attempts at both communication and investigation with this sycophant, who would not only attempt to attach himself to the name of CODE, but openly lie of their permits and (quite affordable) fees at the same time.










(I am The Terribles at making verbose posts in the same manner as The Savior... )

Yeah, I'm a terrible story-teller, especially when attempting to write in a stylization of someone who tends to be very verbose (James, in this case).

Basically, I was short on Trit to finish a job, and there wasn't enough available nearby, so I was going to do a cycle on some Veldspar and just get it myself. Near the end of the cycle, someone convos me and was insinuating that a local ganker was a member of CODE, but completely bastardizing the information about CODE in order to make themselves appear cheaper and better.

I let them talk for a bit, and when I finally bothered to call them out on both the pricing and their affiliation with the ganker, another one of the person's alts declared war on me, so I returned the favor by declaring on their Obelisk's corp.

Sorry for the terrible post. I really am a bad story-teller, especially in an event where it was more humorous in-person than being retold after.

Just post it on the Minerbumping forums.....Black Skull and the boys will do the rest.

Also.....you might just want to get a permit.
Permit insurance best insurance!!

So you confess to being a bot-aspirant! You should be worried with becoming code compliant b4 you worry about other stuff. The first and most important step would be buying a mining permit, I can offer you those for the cheap price of 10 million isk for an entire year.

Contact me via EVE mail so we can get this sorted out asap!

Are you swindlers still on about that permit thing? One would think you'd move on and actually do something productive.

well their being productive in creating tears

they do when you don't buy a permit

no, living in 1NK is an invitation to death, and you should consider moving

This is ... to me ... the equivalent of seeing a noob with their first destroyer fitted with a mix of blasters, rails, autocannons and lasers. Only without the "Awww" factor.
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...ghetto...