EVE General Discussion

I can understand those who gank to get isk and for fun just to kill, but why is the community so against players who auto pilot around because they want play on the main will flying from point A to point B automatically? One of my alts was killed today in a shuttle and I got a mail saying I shouldn't autopilot and how butt hurt I should be because he killed my shuttle not my pod or anything else but my shuttle in a thrasher. So what is the problem with it? It is a feature the game allows so why are players so butt hurt when they see other players using it to fly around?

I think it's simple. Autopiloting provides:
1. A long period of time where your ship is slowboating from a warp-in point to a gate
2. At the same time, the player is likely not completely attentive

1 and 2 provide a circumstance where massive damage can be dealt uncontested in a short amount of time.

Now, can you tell me why this is relevant for hisec?

So why not kill my pod then? Like I stated in my post they only killed my shuttle in a thrasher, but not my pod? Then told me that I shouldn't Auto pilot around and I'm bad, because of?

I think the word you are looking for is

excuse.

I personally dont hate people that auto pilot. I just hate the "make ap goto zero" threads that pop up every two months or so.

See I have no problem with dieing because I auto piloted. None doesn't hurt me at all, just so confused as to why I'm the bad one due to auto piloting and is this a thing now that everyone hates auto pilots?

I auto pilot around Hi-sec if i need to pee or do something
But with the expectation that i may die and it's my own fault

I like.

First of all, the guy who killed you did teach you a valuable lesson: don't autopilot. On the other hand, he was a bit of a knob if he thinks a dead shuttle is butthurt-worthy. Ganking a shuttle is easy, and even easier in a Thrasher.

I don't think anyone hates you for autopiloting, unless they do in which case they have bigger problems than anything that happens in EVE. The reasons I kill things on autopilot, and why you shouldn't autopilot are twofold: 1. it makes you easy to kill, and 2. it's a bad habit to get into, especially in a single-shard game like EVE when there are players everywhere, to not take full, 100% manual control of anything you're flying when you're undocked, and I do like to teach people not to by virtue of showing them the direct consequences.

Autopiloting/AFKing, while it gives you certain benefits (ie you don't have to do anything) is also the riskiest behaviour to take in this game. As long as you understand this risk, then you understand that you choose to take this risk at your own peril. If you die while AKF or on autopilot, and If you DO get butthurt over it, then you must understand that you brought it on yourself.

Here's an idea... AP turns off if scrambled. Another hobby for griefers to just aggro and scram AP freighters to make them stop...