Crime & Punishment

You just so need The Last Word™

Well you can't have it!!!

Whoa, I never thought I'll ever see so much content in a single post from miss Tucker. You guys must be inspiring.

By the way, I think miss Koto is kinda' sexy. I dig that look.

Storytime!

You must be referring to Yogmiester Bashore. Yes, there is a great lesson to be learned from his case. He is one of those pilots who is too impatient to train, spending RL$ to inject his characters into whatever ship his calculations determine will be optimal, without taking the time to learn the political situation.

Kill: Yogmiester Bashore (Hulk) -- The first time I met Yogmiester he had purchased a permit the day before but failed to display it in his biography. He also chose to fly the weakest of mining ship and further weaken it by his choice of rigging. In post-gank debrief he claimed to have read The Code but was flabbergasted to learn that "Gallant tanks his ships to improve their EHP." His permit was revoked, but he purchased a new one and was given another chance.

Kill: Yogmiester Bashore (Charon) -- The next day his corpmates trusted him to haul their Azbel through Niarja. By this time he was displaying the permit in his bio. He decided against using bulkheads in favor of expanders (so he could carry more station containers) and was intercepted and relieved of his cargo. He was flabbergasted to learn that The Code doesn't apply to just miners. His permit was once again revoked for failure to tank, and he was placed on the Red Pen List for egregious offenders where he remains. He was also booted from his player corp.

For some reason he continues to display his revoked permit but his choice of ship gives him away as a violator every time:
Kill: Yogmiester Bashore (Hulk)
Kill: Yogmiester Bashore (Hulk)

Yogmiester is an example of what we call a bot-aspirant. He mindlessly aims for max yield at the expense of everything and fails to adapt to player-generated circumstances. He also serves as an excellent reminder that a permit is not a guarantee of safety; a permit is a promise to follow The Code.

That is what I was implying, dear Lawrence.

must be pretty bad when even the losers wont pay attention to you.

Might as well just tell them to follow The Code.
1) No AFK mining allowed.
2) Gallant tanks his ships to improve their EHP.
3) New Order territory is a safe space for suicide gankers.

I started playing Eve a number of years ago, I stopped 2-3 years ago due to the Code, i'm now back and maybe for just a short time as nothing has changed.

Let me start by saying that I have not had a problem yet but its just time, I have read a lot in the past few days and it saddens me as to the extent that the Code now goes to push people to the brink of in some cases the end. I know how I felt after spending 6 months playing the game to have it taken from me in the space og 1 hour by some keyboard warrior doing the bidding of the Code.

I have read the Code rules and at the start I thought that I might join, should people face having a ship destroyed if they start mining and they go do other stuff, yes why not. Many of the things Code say are good BUT its the callus, belittling attacks that take part in local or however they do it after that is straight out harassment and that is unacceptable.
What the Code are saying is that they don't like you game play and for 10m isk they might let you away with it and that's not right in a game. Its ok to do that if you pay me is what they are saying.

I find it interesting that the leader of the code has a name sighting a piece of the bible.

None of this is by accident, a very intelligent person has researched and controlled the GM's and rules so that there actions are accepted, they even celebrate pushing a person that has issues just spending some time playing a game for release (IMO) into the point of saying i'll kill myself, they then say well we are nice people because we put in a report telling of there possible harm, They again, the keyboard warriors, don't say that they helped push the person to that point.

But to guide this rant to an endhere are some things that are wrong with the game IMO.

1. I have to monitor chat in case one of these people decide that i'm next, I know that as soon as I get picked my game is over.
I'm no good at PvP (i would like to be but i'm **** at it. I like mining and doing missions, making things and to sell them to people that do like PvP. This is what happened when I gave up before, I was NOT AFK and had just started to mine Ice, I was told the day I started that 10m Isk or else, no rule violations just give me the money.

2. Within 5 min. my game and the fun I have had to build my stuff up is gone, just posting this post will no doubt bring my end within days. We will see.

Last, I don't blame the players as much as I blame the GM's, it has to be said they and they alone give the Code the power to do the crap they do, its easy GM's just have a PvP setting, if I want to battle other players I can and if not I don't have to.
I can already hear you saying that's the game if you don't like it go play WoW, WoW does not allow this action that's why these people are playing this game because the GM's allow it.

I could go on for hours but as bad as my PvP skills are so is my spelling and grammar. I like this game, Im happy to pay to play this game but for the love of god or in this case James315 or whatever his name please hear the players that just like to get on with there own bad selves.

Just 1 person but I pay just as much as you do.

JT

Wow...
First up if you or anybody are feeling RL negative emotions over eve that are leading you down a path of thinking life is pointless stop playing now. Go speak to any number of RL organizations that help people deal with this and do it promptly.

Second. You described the game perfectly. You can spend countless hours putting all your eggs into one basket and anybody else can come smash those eggs through any number of means not limited to Highsec ganking, Wardecs, camping/destroying anything that moves in target systems, blowing up/conquering stations/structures, market manipulation, scamming and many more. The trick is multiple baskets with multiple eggs and vigilance against losing it all. If you do lose it all pick yourself back up and build up again a little wiser and a little more experienced.

Finally Posts like this where you bring RL into this game are the problem. I honestly don't care about 99.9% of the player base irl problems/emotions. That may seem callous but I have family, friends, colleagues and the immediate group of online acquaintances whose lives I take an interest in. I do not have the time/energy to run around and check on every person I kill in an online game to make sure they are ok. Assume every single member of CODE. (and everybody else in the game you don't associate with) are in the same basket as me and also don't have the time or energy to check on your well being and assume you also have family, friends, colleagues and acquaintances who check on you. If you play the game with that in mind and assume everybody is out to have their fun and don't actually consider you one way or the other you are set. If this doesn't appeal to you a compeditive MMO is not for you as they are all like this to some degree.

Hope this helps

code is dead...butt nugget!

It seems EVE is not for you.



Star Trek Online is free to play and has zero PVP. You can even be a miner in it. You can walk in stations. You can beam down to planets. You get to wear nifty costumes.

Now GTFO, punk.