EVE General Discussion

So, there's a couple of things going to happen in this thread right now:

• First - People are going to stop pointing fingers and blaming people. CCP will investigate and take any action against game accounts, along with any legal action that we feel necessary. This is already in progress.
• Second - This is damage of public property in the City of Reykjavik. The police have been informed, and investigation is ongoing. This is not a laughing matter, and will be dealt with as a criminal offence. We are currently reviewing security footage from a number of surrounding buildings.
• Third - People will stop attacking the victim of this on our forums. It's not funny, it's not clever. Take your rumor mongering and personal attacks away from our community. If you choose not to, you'll be removed from the community, permanently. It's a simple as that. We will not tolerate victimization.

What's happened is absolutely disgusting. It's an insult to the entire community and is clearly the work a person who believes that behavior in a virtual world is a valid reason to make a real life personal attack on someone, and deface public property.

We will not tolerate this.

Thankfully we've already had a number of players come forward to assist us and provide information. Including, we believe, members of the person's own alliance.

Thankfully the vast majority of the rest of the community are in the same frame of mind as CCP - disgusted at the fact that someone would do this, and we're extremely grateful for your assistance.

With that in mind, I'll make a simple one time offer, that if the person who defaced the monument wants to come forward and contact me relating to this, then they can do so by EVE mailing my Dev character. If this happens, we'll take it as a gesture of good faith after an extremely stupid act that was committed.

With this in mind, be sure to keep this thread on topic, and cut out the personal attacks and finger pointing. People who break the rules will lose their forum posting privileges. Permanently.

Thanks.

I am just astonished that, throughout the entire process of getting this designed and built, that "scratch protective coating" never came up.

The average age of an Eve Online player is, I believe, around the 30 mark.

Perhaps CCP believed that a protective covering for the monument was not necessary.

It is sad that CCP were mistaken in their belief.

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First - People are going to stop pointing fingers and blaming people. CCP will investigate and take any action against game accounts, along with any legal action that we feel necessary. This is already in progress.
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Third - People will stop attacking the victim of this on our forums. It's not funny, it's not clever. Take your rumor mongering and personal attacks away from our community. If you choose not to, you'll be removed from the community, permanently. It's a simple as that. We will not tolerate victimization.

no, it didn't, largely because a normal healthy adult ...

Despicable. So if someone came to vandalise your home, presumably you would be ok with that then.

So you have bullet proof windows yet it's other people who have issues?

I've been subject to actual death threats from felons I've arrested and I don't have bullet proof windows dude. At some point (hopefully) a person should come to the conclusion that it's not the rest of the universe that is cracked.

The last three words are key. Maybe my experiences are different than yours, but I don't know a single eve player that would qualify as a normal (you've obviously never met duckeye, for example). Most of them have some serious mental issues.