Crime & Punishment

Oh dear and there's more now Iv'e read further through, roflmao at these HUGE! Pew Pew Griefing type Tears, any time I feel a bit down I am gonna click on the link back to this lot and the laughter it generates will keep me going for days, Ho Ho, Haw Haw wot a lot of babies these so called Pew Pew'ers realy are, when you get right down to it and the tables get turned on them for a change; The, the, the, the tears are awsome oh! god do keep it up guys it's a cracker :D so refreshing.
mamma mamma! the world isn't so dull after all.

Always entertaining to read griefer tears.

Were there even goons in this thread? I didn't notice.

Why does everyone think everyone that engages in behaviour they don't like are goons?

I'm wondering if I didn't provoke them, honestly.

Re: the definition of an exploit, the only useful one in EVE is that something is an exploit if and only if CCP says so.

First off, I don´t care for High-Sec. I´m living entirely in Low-Sec and Zero-Space, and, due to constant War-Decs, I´m handling High-Sec like Low-Sec.

...but let me add my two cent:

Ganking exists since the Start of this Game. Done, for the Lolz of a tiny Group of Players...and everything was fine.
Then, it became a sport, and the tiny Group evolve into a small community of players...and everything was fine.
Then, it became a profession, and the small community evolves even more, but compared to the growth of High-Sec Inhabitants...everything was fine.

Then, GSF started their "High-Sec Activities" ...and, in a very short amount of Time, the Ganking community reached a rather critical Mass(and Kills)...and the first activity from CCP came up:"Insurance removed"

GSF answer to this was: "Goonsurance", and they laughed out loud...not viewing to the dark clouds coming up the horizon, and the Fact, that this very community now have the full attention of CCP.

Now, I´m coming to the Theme of this Thread, and allow me, to view this maneuver thru the Eyes of a GM:

"Oh my Gosh ! If all Gankers will follow this, then living in High-Sec will be unbearable, because one hundred Ganker will now kill one hundred Freighters for the price of a single Ship per Freighter !"

or:

"Oh my Gosh ! If all Gankers will follow this, then living in High-Sec will be unbearable, because one hundred Ganker will now kill thousands of Miners, losing only a single Ship per Rush !"

...tbc

Guess what, they change the Rules...and not for the last Time.

Let me have a look in my Crystal Ball for the not so far away future:

...the critical Mass of Gankers growth, and CCP, to protect High-Sec Players and High-Sec Economy, made the final Change:

"From now on, it isn´t possible to target another Player within High-Sec Borders. You are only able to target PVE-Content. Smart Bombs are banned from High-Sec."

Then we have a (controlled) Sandbox within an (un-controlled) Sandbox...Well done Gankers, you´ve won the Game!

I´m leaving you now, going back to Low-Sec and Zero Space...cu there.

BECAUSE THIS IS THE ONLY THREAD THIS HAS BEEN DISCUSSED IN AND PILOTS DON'T HAVE THEIR CORPORATION LISTED UNDER THEIR FORUM AVATAR.......

Greetings

BLUF: You should always be able to run from the Law. If the law can not catch someone then is that not the laws fault? How can simply behaving like a criminal, such as NOT waiting around to get caught be an exploit. CONCORD should just lock down the system and make the criminal bounce safes until GCC is up. You have a mechanism already in place to handle this, in the kill rights.

vr
East

Even though it was never an exploit before; you have always been able to warp with a ship while having GCC as long as you did not evade long enough for GCC to run out, it has now been deemed an exploit because it was brought up and detailed here on the forums.

I think it's a reasonable assumption that CCP will soon add "you cannot target another player in Empire space" exploit fix. Because targeting another player in high security space is clearly an exploit....I can see their thinking has morphed from 'Eve is not just meant to look like a harsh and dangerous place, it is a harsh and dangerous place' to 'players are supposed to be completely safe in high security space.'

As an industrialist/carebear who lives in hisec, I'd say CCP took an arrow to the knee on this one (or to the head). This doesn't really affect me at all but I'll just say I think a completely safe hisec is a bad idea. Removing risk (and the criminal element) from hisec will have far reaching effects on the economy and the player base that I don't believe has been thought out very well at all. Even I can see that the changes regarding hisec over the last several iterations have been aimed at the hisec criminal element.

IMHO, this game was unique from other MMOG's in that there always was a risk of playing in the 'sandbox' (overused term, but still appropriate). Now, I'd venture a guess that high security space will be the 'butterfly room' at Kindercare; low security space will be the empty hallway; and zero security space will still be the sandbox outside. So, this won't affect the low/null players at all, other than the possible economic effects and of course the staleness factor for the overall game that I think will set in even worse than it exists today.

Oh well, I hear that CVA is back in Providence...perhaps I need to take a look down there again. Do they still have a NRDS policy?

Jepp, still NRDS