Crime & Punishment

Dude your nuts. Now you are going to have some crazed comrade who's pimp-vindicator you popped, show up at your home in a panda suit with a stun gun and try and insert a model Ishkur up your azz, while the stale smell of cigarettes and Stolichnaya vodka wafts across the back of your neck....

Props to ISD Dorrim Barstorlode ... shocked it wasn't ISD Ezwal though, that guy is everywhere. +1 for the ISD and CCP Dev community as a whole though; they make this level of manipulation, treachery, non-consensual PvP possible and I swear I'll make it to a Fan Fest one of these years to buy them a nice cold round of brew in exchange for the chance to redefine, rediscover and recoil in horror at the things my electronic self has done. Sadly, 2014 is not that year.

I'm not sure that all of us will have the same opportunity for introspection or basking in the glory of YC114 from their deathbeds ... a bit late for existential musings such as "If only I'd had the cajones to stand up for myself," or "You know, those nasty piwates were on to something: fun." Those of us lucky and brave enough to have cut the cord that binds real life morality to virtual choices, so to speak, those of us brave enough to embrace the darker sides of ourselves and push the limits of what one can accomplish, solo or in a group, are the ones who will not wonder when Death comes knocking. They will rest assured knowing that they shat upon the windshield of that poorly flown Kronos with wreckless abandon.

Redefining the current meta at the expense of those around us ... purely for the lulz ... should be celebrated by everyone, not condemned. This is Eve Online, not Tetris.

While it is completely true that we play a merry band of blood-thirsty pirates in Eve it doesn't [necessarily] mean that we aren't semi-normal well adjusted contributors to society. This, after all, is only a game. Quite an epic game and the one I would choose over all other choices... but a game nonetheless. Treat it like one.

Everything is fair game. [except for posting personal information, even if it's your own]

Never not shoot noobs is my motto. The noob you shoot today is tomorrows newbro in the life. The noob you let go is one that will unsub out of boredom in a few months.

Personally I'd like to see more C&P residents posting in NCQA, there's always questions about the more nefarious side of Eve and PvP in general.

Get 'em young, before the NPC "lowsec is teh evil, gankers are teh sociopath" brigade get their claws in.

Came expecting some tale of retribution, intrigue, or theft, only to find someone bragging about winning the Special Olympics.

Congrats

People who gank miners are good at their particular niche, which is a form of combat, one sided perhaps, but still combat.

Personally I don't gank miners, or anybody else, I haven't done so in over a year. It's fun, but I do other things that I find more rewarding.

My concern is that CCP might, in a moment of madness, listen to the likes of you. You and your ilk will be the death of this game, all of the stuff you hate, is what gives Eve some of its flavour.

Way to ignore the pertinent part of the post BTW, which was to encourage people skilled in the darker side of Eve to help newbies by informing them of how they work, and how to either get involved with them or avoid being caught by them. The same people also tend to know a fair bit about ship fitting and PvP in general, knowledge that newbies generally lack.

A well informed newbie is far more likely to become a long term player, than one who is completely confused as to the how and why of his ship exploding.

The recent MTU change exemplifies that perfectly, actually. That, and the barge EHP buff. Both were motived exclusively by forum whining.

MTU's would never have been...? What?

Do you even know what change I'm talking about?

If all the stuff myself and people who think like me hated was the only 'flavor' unique to EVE, the gankers would have no targets. There is a helluva lot more uniqueness to EVE besides being able to shoot unarmed ships.

So no, neither side is going to 'ruin' EVE. You can stop bitching about forums changing the game too, because if CCP did actually listen to the forums the goons would own all of empire space, probably run a newbie slave trade, there would be no highsecurity space, and Concord would be the name of a salvaging service for pirates!

As someone who has essentially been a 'new' player multiple times... and as someone who has walked away from eve in frustration, I can garundamntee that No newbie walks away from the game because of afk mining... if anything its what kept them IN the ******* game (not AFK mining, but mining in general) .... because mining is a pretty damn good fall back income if you lose your ship that you where noobish enough to not be prepared to lose.

My primary frustration with the game has also been my primary attraction to the game... real time character skill gain. and I ******* garuntee thats what walks most newbies out the door, the frustration of having to wait 90 days or more to fly that marauder... and then not knowing how in the hell its possible to earn that much isk. But once you come around to it, or have a life that won't let you play the game to advance your character... it becomes really attractive.

Nobody quits out of boredom with in game activities (at least no one that would skill for mining in the first place)... they quit out of boredom waiting to do the next thing.