EVE General Discussion

What should be a matter of serious concern to us all, is that the forums are far more entertaining than the actual game play.

Mining Veldsar just cannot compare to the forums for excitement and attempts at personality ganking.

Yeah, I'm fully guilty of this. Been deliberately rationing my forum time now to ensure I get some gametime in too :D

Indeed. It's fairly safe to say that I've grown. Do I agree that people should harass, insult and bully other people? No, I most certainly do not. But CCP have made it 100% clear that people should HTFU. Now they pull a complete 180 on that, not to protect an individual, but to buckle to public pressure. The individual in question, Sohkar, even stated in no uncertain terms his position. To quote him directly:Source

If CCP want to make a ruling outlawing behaviour like this, they have my full support, but they must CLEARLY define where they want their line drawn, and they shouldn't retroactively apply the rules. The should also reassure us that third party sourced information will need to be fully verified through their own sources, not just accepted as is.

Further to all of that, I'd point out to the public that both sides have the ability to end it at any point. The responsibility shouldn't fall on just one side.

So we can get perma-banned now for asking people to do a little song and dance? When the "victim" wasn't punished for racism and death threats? When apparently encouraging someone to commit suicide is worth only a 3 month ban?

Yeah, nice priorities CCP. Successful witch hunt guys.

Read a lot of the thread, you were a trooper. You are the energizer bunny of the E1 scandal.

Question: poopsock it or no?

Due process...more than a year after the offending act began. Well, CCP's judicial system is still swifter than Italy, I suppose.

No you will not get permabanned for that. Unfortunatley you will be required to exercise your adult judgement on when you're on the threshold of taking it too far.

If you feel yourself incapable of reliably doing that, then I suggest you err on the side of caution.

All the "meta" aspects of the game are more entertaining. EVE on its surface is a terribly uninteresting game. But when you have a collision of personas and narratives, and the meta game is being played in forums, news sites, comms what have you. Thats when the real beauty of EVE is on display.

This game is more about cultivating a persona and finding your place in the universe than it will ever be about shooting red crosses, or mining rocks...because frankly limiting yourself to just that you may as well play minecraft alone in your room.

EVEs beauty is the meta, not its gameplay.

Sure, like no one has ever heard of the goon recruitment scam, You must think I'm an idiot don't you. Proof or GTFO

When I read this dev post, my first impression was that it is a denunciation of the bonus room activities. But it isn't. It's a strongly worded but generic condemnation of harassment.

To me it is very clear that Erotica1's shenanigans are harassment. But this is not so clear to other players. My personal opinion doesn't matter that much, but CCP's does. Sadly, the post is silent on that. The dev post therefore provides very little guidance, and does not address the issue at hand.