Crime & Punishment

I am putting my tinfoil hat on now, so I know this sounds less than sane...but I have a theory.

I think the guys behind the Code are trying to limit ore production in certain markets so the prices rise. If they have another end to the business funneling that harder-to-find ore into the market, they could make a lot of money through ganking (ie, reducing the supply of ore).

I only say this because I work in financial services IRL and have seen this tried more than a few times in the real world.

Tinfoil hat off.

Just understand CODE's "concern" over AFK gameplay is just politicking for their own playstyle. You will never see them actually advocate for specific improvements to the game that would eliminate or reduce afk mining. That would destroy them. It's the same thing with all the "bot aspirant" behavior; you can't "aspire" to bot; you wither use botting software or don't. It's just a way of implying that their targets are borderline rule-breakers to gain advantage in the forum wars.

If you see actual bots, report them to CCP yourself, directly. CODE has no need, no responsibility, and no authority to get involved in the process, and don't actually care. All they're doing is trying to protect their playstyle from imagined potential nerfs, because they, like most highsec criminals, love correlation/causation fallacy and *** hoc ergo propter hoc errors, and imagine that "carebear whining" is what causes nerfs. It has never once occurred to these people that CCP might actually care about the long-term health of the game, despite the fact that it pays CCP's bills.

That's because nobody is paying attention to them and they are running out of ways to pretend they are relevant. It's cute to watch them beg for attention though...I am certain the 12 people who actually pay for mining permits think they are just oh so scary.

Actually I would like to see gameplay improvements to discourage AFK mining, as long as those improvements don't make miners safer (other than forcing them to be at their computers).

I've recently been in contact with the CODE diplomats, asking where I can report actual bot miners (you across them in belts quite often) in groups of alts with the same name, but nothing ever comes back other than the CODE faq channel, which is a vacuum. It's suggested 'people are listening' there. If the RP and Content side of CODE where the least bit sincere, one would be wise to take such things seriously: that way one would actually feel useful scouting out botters for you guys and genuinely make eve better.

Yeah, that's not gonna happen. The whole quasi religious holier than though thing, even though tongue in cheek and a good laugh to read, is a little too much for me. The shark was jumped with the atrocious soundcloud postings. I'll stick to poking nullbears.

I look forward to the implementation of the mini-game for mining. Some variation on the hacking tool would work.

Guess that would kinda make watching DSCAN hard though, eh?

You don't have to do the "quasi religious" meta-stuff. It's not required. You can just get down to business and bump or gank the ones you're complaining about.

If you're not willing to even *consider* being *some* part of the solution, your sincerity about your "problem" is seriously in doubt.

So you honestly disagree with the fact that ganking AFKers and newbies is by far the easiest playstyle out there? It is about as carebear as it gets

Why doesn't someone just find a list of people that purchased permits and start ganking them?

It would put an end to all this code and permit nonsense lol.

My question was.. do CODE pilots get reimbursed for sec status tags or do you have to finance your climb back to 0.0? This is assuming a pilot does not want to stay -10.0.