EVE General Discussion

(Goons'll love this, so ignore their puffed up whining.) The Caldari either exercise sovereignty over their most major system, or they don't. At present they don't and the words "Sovereignty Caldari" should be removed. UNLESS...just like it really should happen:

Piracy is universally a crime. In the days of the pirates these gankers wish they were, you pirate, you get the noose. There is NO safe harbor, except in the wilderness. You put your butt in the sea lanes looking for targets, the NAVY is out there looking for you. They know YOU. They know your SHIP. They SEE you, they attack you.

Any port, or docking facility which allows a pirate safe haven is a pirate, too. Be a pirate. Get the noose. Once an act of piracy is committed by someone, ALL stations are closed to that person, or persons. ALL gates exiting the area are on alert, and shoot on sight. NO time limit, unless the matter is settled legally. The pirate is hung.

The most preposterous thing about Jita is a criminally-flagged player sheltering in a Caldari Naval Facility. That has to be the most ridiculous thing I've seen in any computer game I've played in lo these past 25 years. Every time I see it, I have to laugh at the stupidity of it. The rationale to allow it is as thin as any excuse a five-year-old gives for how the lamp was broken.

Until this happens the game mechanics are tilted perpendicularly toward the criminal. Civil activity within a sovereign state is a JOKE. Ha Ha Ha. Very funny. You look good with that lampshade on your head at parties, too. Buffoonery.

I don't even want to go into the absurd notion that a sovereign state would contract out its law enforcement to a disinterested commercial interest with a half-a$$ed, lackluster response such is CONCORD. Give me a HUGE break...my little gray cells are laughing at ME for enduring it.

EDIT: (Afterthought) The hefty fines to empire would pull hefty amounts of ISK out of circulation, thus easing the inflation that's afflicting the economy!

I always thought it was a bit silly I could dock at a CONCORD station as a -10 pirate.

Docking restrictions based on security status are an interesting idea but shouldn't apply outside of highsec, for the simple reason that CONCORD doesn't exist outside of highsec and it's perfectly possible to have good faction standing and bad security status, and your security status is nothing more than your unmodified standing to CONCORD (check your character sheet). Thus a system based on standings makes more sense.

Also, if you to NPC 0.0 the stations shouldn't let you dock unless you have at least less than 0 sec. status, by this line of reasoning. Which I think would irritate all the nullbears out there.

In real life, pirates were able to form fleets and capture ports too. So I'm all for your suggestion, as long as pirates can also take over systems and drive the navy/CONCORD out too.

Guess how quickly nullsec wars will grind to a halt as everyone bands together to do that?

You either missed the point of, or intentionally misconstrued, the entirety of my post.

Also, lol at anyone who thinks that it's anything but in the empires' financial interests for pod pilots to kill each other like animals.

balance trumps realism

you're suggesting ideas to make high-sec a carebear haven based on realism or lore or whatever

i'm stating that balance trumps those things

Amount of innocents hurt when one capsuleer kills another: 0
Amount of money paid in taxes related to capsuleer transactions: a lot

Your ignorance does not form a sound basis for the claim that my logic is contorted.

Uh....you said "empire's interests"....still waiting, though you throw some mighty text.

Transaction Tax
Manufacturing Slot Tax
Invention Tax
Broker's Fees
Clone Costs

How does it hurt empires in any way?

It just doesn't make any sense to have docking restrictions based on security status rather than standings outside of highsec.

You can be a privateer with good faction standing and bad security status - makes sense to be able to dock at Navy stations.
NPC corps don't give a crap about anything other than their own agenda - makes sense to be able to dock at NPC stations.
Pirate corps should actually like you more if you have bad sec. status - makes sense to be able to dock in NPC null (and possibly a positive modifier to derived standings based on poor security status :D)
CONCORD has no authority outside of highsec - makes sense that lowsec stations wouldn't care about your sec. status at all.