Crime & Punishment

Evidence suggest that an awful lot of them are stupid, after all it's not exactly hard to fit a tank, be at the keyboard or to purchase a permt.

...and it is all Propaganda, yes the Forista noticed, that codies spread alot of spam.

You are still a sorry bunch of irrelevant griefers, that invents their success stories themself.

Its ok, you can go back to you own blog.

This is a subject I feel very strongly about. Not only do we create emergent content and in many cases represent the first time high-sec dwellers even interact with another player in a meaningful way, we tend to cause the general caliber of the high-sec player to increase. I've lost count of the number of miners that I have exploded multiple times while they were AFK in fits with zero tank, and sighed when they would come back to keyboard ten mins later and rage in local chat or via private message. But during this process, I noticed a trend - after a week or two (sometimes only a day or two!) of taking losses and raging, somehow they would learn to watch local, watch d-scan, stay at the keyboard, and fit a tank. These are *basic* skills required for any EVE online player, and CODE has a great trend of educating players on this topic.



James 315 is the savior of high-sec. He does not only own the high-sec belts in the forge, he owns all of high-sec. As to *how* he owns all of high-sec - he owns it the same way anyone owns anything in EVE online and pretty much the same way governments in the real world "own" a county - firepower.

In reference to avoiding attacks from CODE agents, there are plenty of ways to do that - watching local for specific people, using location agents, watching directional scan... but all of these require the player to actually be at the keyboard in the first place. Due to the sheer number of CODE agents and the varying nature of their personal methods to enforce the CODE, the safe bet is to combine a permit with the above tips.



We tend to attract the truly elite, who tend to be handsome, clever, and literally unable to be defeated in combat - but any player pledging himself to the CODE should expect to see improvements in their sex lives, energy level, combat ability, and overall sense of wellness. This is just basic game mechanics.



I'm glad you asked this, as it troubles me greatly also. As it stands, the CODE. alliance gives nearly all of it's focus on mining and hauling operations, as well as lazy bot-aspirant auto-piloting - without paying too much attention to incursions or mission runners. However, this very well may change in the future. My advice? "Be the change you wish to see." In other words, join the minerbumping channel, make some friends, and start running a campaign to shut these people down. As long as it's good fun, you'll find that we are up for it. Also, you may wish to reach out to the "MiniLuv" branch of the GSF, they do a fair amount of work in this regard.

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Thanks for the great questions, everyone! Original posters, if I did not answer your question fully or you have additional questions, please feel free to comment! Others - please keep the questions coming, I am happy to take the time to answer them for you.

Fly fun, everyone!

DJ,

I know the CODE members don't like to talk about their contribution to charity, and certainly not in this sort of open forum, but could you please confirm or deny the following question raised by one of my readers, A Mr Vader from Hek.


" Is it true that all tears harvested thus far, by Code members, have been donated to the Minmatar orphan program, to ensure no more orphans go to bed thirsty?"


Loving the work guys, please for the love of thirsty slaves, keep it up !

If the mission runners / incursion bears were simply selling their goods, I would totally agree with you. The problem, in fact, lies with the bounty earned upon killing each rat. Its pure ISK. Its ISK that is earned without the need to loot, salvage, and transport back to a hub to sell. (Thus exposing themselves to risk in the transport of such goods.)

Thats what we call "inflation". If you are not familiar with it, thats what happens when you do things like print more money. The more ISK that is "printed", the less the current ISK in circulation is worth.

So, you see, mission runners and incursion bears are actually making themselves, and YOU, less wealthy with each mission they run!!

This is a topic for future discussion for sure, but just to sum up the CODE. feeling about it:

You never know what we'll get up to next :)

Welcome, Kristall!

We've already had some great questions - and I am hoping to see some more!

I freaking love code - have had great fun flying with them since they started working together with the Ministry of Love. I am somewhat jealous about the tears they are creating though- puts us to shame really.

I'll tell you... AT XII

Aaaaaaand, I wanna touch your no no spot.