EVE General Discussion

One time I was leaving a mall and I forgot where I had parked my car. Digi sent me a text message telling me where my car was parked relative to where I was standing, and that he topped off my brake fluid. He also told me that my tire tread depth was too low to safely make the weekend trip I had just planned.

Unlikely. The only people who will likely know who you really are is the NSA and they won't tell anyone because then they have to admit that they were snooping on you. ;)

Challenge accepted.

There have been quite a few cases where people have been murdered over game items. Off the top of my head, there was a stabbing in China for example, where the guy DIDN'T live. There was a murder suicide in South Korea where a woman got Blizzard to ban her ex's WoW account. There have been a lot of fun things like that.

That's not even getting into stuff like Goonswarms SL branch WTC reenactment or any of the other stuff that their many branches have done that people OUTSIDE the game would find deeply offensive, but get away with due to Internet Anonymity.

People are people so why should it be you and I should get along so awfully? So we're different colors And we're different creeds
And different people have different needs.

It's obvious you hate me though I've done nothing wrong I've never even met you so what could I have done? I can't understand what makes a man hate another man help me understand.

Whatever would I do without my Ak? Hmmm, tough question. I'd probably get primaried less, though.

Trackable identity in real life is one of the main reasons why the real world isn't more like EVE, and certainly if identity was trackable in the game, EVE would be a much kinder, gentler place. Conversely, if identity were as un-trackable in real life as it is in EVE, the world would be a dozen times worse of a hellhole than it is. Fundamentally, trackable identity means you can be held accountable for your actions.

Lack of trackable identity in the game is also the main reason why it isn't a very good simulator of real life - i.e. it doesn't actually reveal some dark, Lord of the Flies side to human character when people are free, it only reveals what happens when you don't have trackable identity in a game.

Basically, in real life, the cost of hiding your tracks is usually greater than the benefit you get from trolling, so from a standing start most people don't bother, the benefit of being nice and toeing the line is much greater; however, once a few have started, ways and means of getting round these things get passed on, and that's why there's always a criminal "class", but it's always fairly restricted sociologically (on the whole, usually to familiies, actually).

Internet anonymity is also one of the main reasons why we can't have nice things in MMOs - i.e., there are all sorts of possible MMOs out there that from a design point of view would be intricate and wonderful to play, if everyone played by the rules, but because of internet anonymity, game developers have to waste their time building in safeguards against griefing, exploitation, etc., so MMOs tend to fall to a lowest common denominator of gameplay design.

And even with trackable identity in the real world, because some people will take the choice to try and evade consequences, that's also partly the reason why we can't have better societies - so many safeguards have to be built in against "free riding" of one kind or another, i.e. societies have to be robust against all kinds of exploitative moves, that they tend to end up bland and progress is very slow.

Honestly? A lot of these sick twisted internet bad asses wouldn't play anymore. They'd be too scared that they'd be tracked down in real life by real legit real life bad asses.

These idiots who gank miners and mobile depots / tractor units and tell you mm delicious tears, htfu and call you carebear and ect wouldn't do that anymore because you could very well show up at their door and go Jay & Silent Bob on their asses.

*knock knock knock*

*door opens*

You: Excuse me sir, are you James 315 in the EVE Universe?

Him: Um, yes...why?

*ass whipping proceeds*

Case and point.

I've long since adopted a policy of pretending I have no idea what's going on if I am asked who I am.

Unless they have a badge, I'm Steve from Hoboken New Jersey.

[edit: Oh, and for several reasons including having lived in Fabulous Las Vegas and having been doxxed by a sick freak social justice warrior just like Miichael Epic, I always have a loaded gun handy, too.

Do you have any idea how much body armor costs? If they want me that bad then they've earned it.