EVE General Discussion

griefing, i'm not sure that word means what you think it means....

try the knowledge base for CCP own version of it.

here ill post it here for you.

Grief play

What is grief play?


A grief player, or "griefer," is a player who devotes much of his time to making others’ lives miserable, in a large part deriving his enjoyment of the game from these activities while he does not profit from it in any way. Grief tactics are the mechanics a griefer will utilize to antagonize other players. At our discretion, players who are found to be consistently maliciously interfering with the game experience for others may receive a warning, temporary suspension or permanent banning of his account.
This should not be confused with standard conflict that might arise between two (or more) players, such as corporation wars. The EVE universe is a harsh universe largely driven by such conflict and notice must be taken of the fact that nonconsensual combat alone is not considered to be grief play per the above definition.



An example of grief play would be the so called "Can baiting" in starter systems. An experienced player drops a cargo container with some items in front of a station in a starter system and waits for a new player to take from it. The new player is flagged and promptly attacked and killed by the owner of the container. Doing the same in starter tutorial complexes as well as the Arnon solar system (home of the SOE epic arc agent) is also considered grief play and will not be tolerated.

No, what we are saying is that we've all been 1 month old, and didn't come crying on the forums when we got podded. We analyzed the event and adjusted our methods. It's easier to adapt yourself than expect things to change around you.

Anyway, it's starting to look like maybe this game is not for you. We like it this way, however. People have liked it this way for a very long time.

well now its come to light from others that actually the apprantly dangerous parts of this game are not so (citation needed) and that i am actually the one taking all the risk, it becomes even more clear you guys just want to grief newbies. and are defending it so.

thats how it is, and thats fine.

you have it like that and its going to stay like that. why do you think i unsubbed right away.

yeah im sure it was a tough life for you. i guess i realise now that low sec and null isnt really the dangerous place. its being a newbie, without a corp, mining in high sec, thats the ******* hardcore part of this game.

i think, you guys should get over yourselves and surrounded yourself in a huge cushion in null space picking on newbies trying to train some skill ups and make some isk when they havent even found a corp yet.

i've been playing this game for less than a year. during that year i also took a break from the game, i've had a total of 8 maybe 9 active months. i can't take credit for helping to carve out a foothold in null and it'd be arrogant for me to do so.
no, perhaps null isn't a dangerous place. however, that's because this is what happens when people work together and have a drive to make things happen.

get over ourselves? you say that like we went out of our way to ruin your day, which clearly wasn't the case. your inability to find a corp is your own fault, there's a whole goddamn forum dedicated to it. how do you think i got where i am? sure as **** wasn't because i sat on my ass doing nothing.

Please continue OP, I started ganking in highsec because of players like you.

Working as intended?

you clearly haven't been to nullsec, you have no idea how "safe" you are here. perhaps you should try it before you comment on it.

i'm defending the right to pick on any one you want, at any time you want, because that's the intention of the game. the difference is, it's more profitable to pick on miners. if it's profitable. do it. make profit.

just for reference i've spent more time mining in empire space than i have mining in nullsec. i only lost a mining ship AFTER i moved to null. i wasn't spoon fed a thing, i've worked for what i have. my corps haven't given me anything but a chance to show them i'm worth their time. i only got that because i went out and grabbed my chance with both hands.

You clearly are trolling. Since you are just ignoring everyone to spout misinformed drivel.

but youre all pretty safe right, surrounded by people you know, established in a corp all of this yes?

and here i am taking all the risk, in high security space, without corp, without friends, learning the game, trying to make my own isk, paid for my own implants.

while you get all your **** done for you, safety in numbers.

there is definately some hypocrisy in this whole thread.

apparantly you all worked for it yes, flying around null sec alone without a corp mining it up with lots of risk.

yeah right you pampered fairys, maybe you should be in wow?

it seems to me now youre in the safest place you can be, defending the right to cherry pick people who are not safe or established in the game yet.

because its your right to.

pffff you guys are the trolls.