EVE General Discussion

Since most of us agree that its the victim fault in this scenario. Can we also all agree that women with mini skirts are responsible for their R*pe?

What a ridiculous position to take. Why use your position in the community to stick up for an obvious piece of filth? This person is not creating "content" he is creating pain for his own amusement, has been for some time and you know it. Ripard was just brave enough to use his e-fame to bring some attention to this aberration. Shame on you for not having the courage to do so yourself.

There doesn't need to be a policy change on CCP's part, this is obviously wrong and it should be dealt with as a "one off". This guy went over the line. There has been a bit of "scumbag creep" going on for a while, with people trying to top the last bit of "scumbaggery" that was committed and now it needs to be reined in, simple as that.

When gay people routinely engage in cruelty for cruelty's sake then your lame argument would make sense. They don't and never will, as such your argument is without merit.

When you had to bring gays (who have nothing to do with this) and Hitler into it to try and make a point you should know better then to press "post"

Which sounds good but in actuality is a slippery slope against the rule of law towards the arbitrary rule of men.

IRL I have to play by a certain definite set of rules (the United States Constitution). Sure, cop shows make "bending the rules" look all cool, but the reality is nothing like that at all. And I think reality should apply to almost all situations, like this.

In other words, if CCP doesn't have a specific rule against it, they should not act against it. They are and should be allowed to outlaw such behavior in the future after they add it to the TOS and EULA. But making it up as they go along (as i feel they did with Mittani) is imo wrong, even if it is just good business.

You misunderstand. I can't speak for others, but for myself I'm not trying to protect Erotica1 from CCP, I'm saying that Adults should be responsible for and to themselves and if they can't be, the choice to play EVE online (or download teamspeak) is a bad one.

So wait, if I post on a 40K forum that Space Marines are a BS army, and someone feels emotionally distressed, I get EVE banned?

Hell, part of my job involves causing "emotional distress for my own gain". Kids get upset as all get out when the needle comes out, and I am getting paid for it...

Or Canadians!

Morals are relative. I don't find Erotica1 morally reprehensible. I find mining to be morally reprehenisible though.

CCP ban all miners. Think about your cash flow! Think about the press reporting how boring and mindless mining is. Noone will want to play Eve. This is a business after all. Ban all players who own a hulk now or I will cancel my sub!!!1!!1

It should speak volumes about the community's state when a CSM candidate is defending these kind of actions.

Gotta be careful about those national laws too, Malc. The way some folks talk, CCP is responsible for knowing and adhering to every nation's laws out there.

I wonder if that applies to nations who have rules regulating women's behaviour in public, or requirements to hold a certain religion. In some nations, it's illegal to express an opinion against the government.

Is CCP on the hook for holding up those laws too, or only the "good" ones?

Ripard Teg, foremost apologist and advocate for the...


Boy aren't we lucky he's on our CSM!

The blog didn't even mention skillpoint loss, it must have been an unusually tame bonus round. Erotica1 does some pretty mean stuff, but I'm not exactly seeing where he crossed the line into something bannable, especially considering all this interaction is taking place between consenting adults outside of the Eve environment. Teg is saying that a line was crossed somewhere (an easy argument to make), but he only proposes crucifixion, rather than an actual policy change. As a CSM member he needs to do better than that.

Many years ago I was dragged into teamspeak at 3am by someone I didn't know and interrogated for over an hour. Me, a clueless noobie, was threatened with the expulsion of my entire alliance from sov space and extorted for the majority of my wallet. When I complained about this to my corp, I was booted, because they preferred to appease the person who had targeted me in the first place. I did end up quitting the game for awhile, but the whole incident became one of those little chance encounters right out of the Butterfly Effect trailer, and led to me making friendships that I've maintained for years and have carried over into RL and other games. Several years later I unknowingly ended up flying alongside that same guy (he is not one of the aforementioned friends), but by the time I realized who he was it didn't matter, it was water under the bridge (what was I going to do? stop pvping? he was our main FC).

I think the New Order are scum, and I flatter myself to think I wouldn't have the heart to torture a poor guy over his speech impediment, but I also have very little sympathy for him.