Crime & Punishment

Some of you may know Worm as "Worm_Labs" on the EVE subreddit.

Mr. Worm_Labs and his buddy DreadlordTrevor decided to run "ye old corp theft" on The Night Crew [TNC] 2 nights ago. I'm especially disappointed because he was about to do some graphics for me, then robbed us for 45 bil in modules.

I will upload screenshots in a bit, once the person that had the convo with those guys about it logs in. The most disappointing part - they did it not because we were mean to them, or gave them a hard time, or because they were mad at us, but because they had never experienced it before. Here's to hoping they find out why most people use alts for such **** baggery.

Here's a list of his toons :

Yummy Worm
Gummy Worm
Scummy Worm
Little Oral Annie
Chummy Worm

Any toon in Sleeping Giants [SLPGN] is his as well.

Here's his little buddy :

DreadLordTrevor
Han Soleo Chelien

Beside, can you really trust a person that let's his girlfriend **** in his hand?

http://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/25u1cq/i_am_worm_labs_girlfriend_and_i_went_2_in_his/

How much / what got stolen?

Congratulations;

You all dooped abunch of guys in a close-knit group who, over the past ten months or so, thought they had made some long-lasting bonds of friendship with you. Alot of hours of hanging out; talking about family, work and day to day things.

A videogame? It certainly is, just like it was a videogame when Smeg took some stuff from you guys and that tore you up inside for months. Now multiply that by quite abit; and realise that you threw Ganja under the bus when you did it; whom you knew longer than us and still took his stuff aswell. No one's mad, it's just a lot of disappointment; especially from the guys who you tried to bring into the WH to steal their stuff after they logged out for the night.

In the end, you guys didn't do anything special, it took no skill other than striping ships of modules, loading up two orcas and leaving when no one was around. The only thing you achieved was taking advantage of alot of guys who enjoyed hanging out with you and thought they could put the most valuable commodity in; trust.

We've moved on, this thread was just to let the EVE Community know that you're thieves who had no reason to do what you did other than 'because you could'. Congratulations on burning your main toons, I'm sure you took enough to buy some new ones though. =]

Nice to see you are having fun Gummy

You trusted a worm. Good job.

EVE Online is a great game because it allows for endless possibilities. For the sandbox to be as vibrant as can be, there needs to be minimal rules. Because of that, everything from the kindest of acts to the most evil of sins can occur and should not result in any actual action taken against the players.

To use this however as a moral justification for one's actions is quite a stretch. The game affords you the freedom to do almost whatever you want; that doesn't mean you aren't a terrible person for doing it.

I cannot and will not judge any individual without actually knowing what truly happened, so take this as a more general statement brought forth by the contents of the thread: Joining a guild in a game, becoming close, tight and friends with the members for several months or years, only to scam them purely for personal enjoyment is a douchebag move and something only a terrible person would be willing to do.

Again, I am not saying that means the game should change. It shouldn't. People just need to accept that they aren't morally justified when they do such things. Do it, accept you're a bad human being, and move on.

Ms. Worm, I'm very curious. What format was the stolen currency in?

Ships, modules, rigs, books.

We didn't mention this prior, and actually TNC has no idea about this but we actually robbed another corp that night too for about 10 billion. Their loot was mostly blueprints and modules. Selling those is proving tedious and time consuming though. When those guys come back from being inactive they're going to be a bit upset.

Also of note; and what bothers us more than the theft by a large margin; they destroyed the rigs of every ship they jumped in to strip of it's modules. Effectively making our ships unviable until all the rigs are replaced.(And since they stole all the rigs we had in the system...)

Stealing, it happens; even if you did it to people who had alot of respect for you as a person and as friends; but popping everyone's rigs and making their ships not viable until we had a route from WH space to replace them; thats just adding insult to injury.

If we were mean to either of you guys on any level; I could understand the theft and giving individual pilots the grief of destroyed rigs, but wow. Just shows how low you're willing to go against your (former) friends; and with no reason.

There's a lot of creative nasty and sinister things you can do in EVE... but.. establishing friendships just to betray them will never be high on my list of admiration, because it's nothing to do with any gameplay mechanics of EVE as a game at all, it's just you being an idiot in general, it can be done in any game or situation that involves interaction between people and it's really low just the same.

With that said, I'm certain the guilty persons had a very hard time keeping his epeens under control, finding a totally badass thread about themselves like this.
It's alright though, forum threads are archived for many years, so might prove useful to some sooner or later.