Crime & Punishment

It's not about the ISK. It's about sending a message. High-sec is dangerous. It is as safe as players make it. It is as dangerous as players make it to be. Concord and other NPCs are just part of the terrain.

Yesterday I created a permanent gank alt to join the New Order. With 7 hours to train up to a destroyer, I shipped to Kamio in a velator. And I saw bots. All bots. They were unresponsive when you talked to them, they don't respond when you bump them. They just mine, warp, unload, repeat. They are not really people, just kill mails waiting to happen.

Then there are the carebears. They graze on ice all day, confident that their isk will protect them. They mock the CODE and openly show their defiance of it. They make bat-phone calls to their "pvp-friends", and epic high-sec defense fleets start to form. They come with scorpions, they come with machariels, they ship in griffins and basilisks en-masse, and style themselves as the brave rebel front against the new-order.

When I shipped into my catalyst, and began my baptism of fire, I finally understood why the rebels never stood a chance. The New Order flies in tight formation, its doctrines perfect, its maneuvers synchronized. We have scouts, probes, warp-ins, bookmarks, and every trick in the book. All executed to perfection to deliver 6 seconds of wrath.

I killed 3 people so far. One of whom never logged on again. Maybe EVE wasn't the game for him.

I track down all my ganks and do my best to rehabilitate them.

The new order is the most remarkable and social high-sec ganking operation one can find in EVE. Volunteers from every major coalition have gathered and put aside their differences to exterminate the carebear. The carebear playstyle is a damnable crime worthy of violent in-game death. But unlike the carebear, we do not petition GMs to nerf certain playstyles. We make use of the game mechanics given to us. We enforce our rules and our beliefs with anti-matter.

Game-balance wise, the situation is hilarious. A high-sec suicide ganker has a combat life of 6 seconds in 0.7 space. If suicide ganking is nerfed any further, we would have to resort to alpha-striking the miners. Suicide ganking can no-longer be done in solo catalysts. Instead it is now a highly sophisticated team game that requires good organization to set up. Which in my opinion, does wonders to strengthen the suicide ganking community.

High-Sec is dangerous. If not through war-decs, then through the suicide ganker. The casual player must find his niche in this - the game will not change for him. No-one is entitled to an intact ship in EVE. If new players come in with false expectations, they must be educated to know otherwise, or be blown up.

The New-Order is a trans-alliance effort to provide both the educating and the blowing up. For players who prefer a more gentle approach of getting acquainted with the game... I still recommend EVE-Uni!

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I will admit even I do it. But I just pop afk PODS on gates and the occasional miner.

However as with everything else the only reason I hate the entire minerbumping thing and James and i have said it a lot before. Is they sugar coat what they do.

Don't do that, your not helping anybody your just extorting isk and killing ships who in reality has no hope of defending themselves. I scoff at people saying tank your ship we all know that is bull, no tanked indy ship will survive a gank if they really want to kill you.

And I am done.

I just led my first gank.

The pilot was unable to purchase a new retriever.

If he had repented and gave a gf and embraced the violence that is part of eve, we'd have bought him one.

Easy kills will be easy kills...

It's more fun when they play at fighting back, like mining in 0.7 with heavily tank exhumers and having defence fleets guarding them.

Join us, Hedonism!

You're quite mistaken. Most knights of the new order have neg ten sec status. Everything tries to kill them if they stay in place for more than a few seconds.

That, and they prey gets spooked sometimes. And they also like to tank their ships with blinged out modules.

The new order are professionals, they do not use throw away alts to rep their sec status. Everyone can shoot them. And everyone is welcome to try. And if what we do wakes carebears from the monotony of their existence, I say its a job well done.

So you thought "I know, I'll report them".



And so began a slow and considered approach to identifying the patterns of systematic behaviour.



...oh, I see, you wanted to keep them in the game instead. I don’t think I can give you any marks here.




Whilst it seems more likely they just used an alt to carry on as normal your statement makes clear that you failed to achieve your goal. I'll give you a hint - you are not trying to rid Eve of players, it is silly to boast that you are. Again I can’t award any marks here.




Slightly different message to the normal one, I guess one mark for daring to be different.

In fact, everybody in Eve is entitled to an intact ship, something you could have learned during your seven hours of training. It’s such a fundamental mistake that I will have to subtract a mark.

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Overall a poorly constructed effort containing obvious errors and omissions. Points made are not supported with evidence and do not stand up to basic scrutiny. Elements of the piece suggest that it was rushed and as I hinted at before research has not been carried out. An almost conscious effort has been made to contradict elements of the document the author is attempting to show support for.

An unusually disappointing effort, they usually put more into these things.

10/10

This is actually what I call an undisguised piece of blatant propaganda.

As for ganking itself:

We're not really here to measure bot activity, or even decide who is a bot and who isn't.
We eradicate carebears. Hopefully some can be cured.
We also humor a few who pay our ransoms mining permits.

It's that simple.
Unless you want to get into the James-cult drama... Which is a barrel of fun in itself.

Drop me an eve-mail, and 10 million for a complimentary mining permit, and I'll spoon-feed it to you.

Carebear extermination has been going on for years. - From times dating to even before the Hulkageddon.
What James is doing is nothing new. But his charisma and the drama he attracts is a good rallying point to meet new people and go out ganking with them.
If killing carebears could get stale, then James has found fresh and more entertaining ways to kill them.