EVE General Discussion

Amarr theology is part of EVE canon. It's accepted when someone clicks on the EULA.

I guarantee you that as players we can't invent any role-play theme we want. You can't, for example, be a group of role-players with the same exact name as a RL group that persecutes race or religion XYZ.

The rhetoric in the log, especially the line I've quoted, appears to be poorly conceived parody of an RL religion. I think it crosses the line. I think special care should be taken not to cross that line.

(I don't think that's a lot to ask).

Cursing at another player is harassment? Explain to me why that is. I think you don't understand the word "abusive".

Code players target whoever, true, but they are much less likely to come back and do a repeat gank if the victim, is silent, or just says gf and leaves it at that. Tears are entertainment. Any sort of interaction is entertainment. The moment you go all rage on them, that's when they add you as a contact and put you on the special list. Because you are a fun victim.

lol, you really think CODE is about stopping bot aspirant behavior? HAHAHAHAAHAH. No. It's about extorting money from "mining permits". You pay them isk, they give you a permit that's good for a month or some crap, and you can bot/mine however you want. It's not about bots, it's about money.

This reminds me so much of the E1 thing, with Sohkar throwing racial abuse, and who got banned in that situation? Here, I'll paraphrase:

CCP was manipulated by a meta-gamer. Ripard was the biggest scammer of us all.

This event took place in hisec. The 'victim' was not the subject of a suicide gank, as their mighty killer whale was harpooned by a single T1 frigate. They were not under wardec.

What does this mean? They picked up the gun. They pointed it at Faylee. They pulled the trigger. Faylee then had the right to self-defense. Provoked? Perhaps, but ultimately the alleged victim is the one who first escalated to violence here.

Anyone who actually reads the threads on the forums knows full well that actions and words on here can have a wide range of in-game consequences ranging from simple mockery to suicide ganks to full blown wardecs. This is nothing new, this is nothing outrageous. Hell, avoiding consequences like this are a major reason why so many folks use npc forum alts when they wish to say something that might not be taken well by the more hardline members of the community.

Y'all need to chill out a bit. Yes, someone's butt got hurt to the point where reconstructive surgery will be required to keep them from crapping pancakes for the rest of their life... but they themselves could have prevented it from happening by NOT escalating matters to violence.

I think we may have our lines crossed here. The harassment isn't the aggressor talking about "the lord", it's that he saw that a guy was very upset about being ganked then specifically hunted him down to make him more upset. Supposedly what Erotica 1 did to get banned was upsetting a player who was already upset. According to CCP you are not allowed to purposely upset a player who you already know is upset as that is harassment.

Many of us argued that the person yelling RL threats at E1 should have been the real target of the ban. This was drowned out by screams for a witchhunt, however.

You want to get real technical, it's about generating funny stories to post online, providing content that people feel is worth donating ISK for. Mining permits are a tiny, tiny, tiny portion of CODE income. The vast majority of the time, the agent selling the permit themselves just keeps the ISK, in trust that they'll use it to fund more ganks. It doesn't even go to "CODE Central" to be figured into the income streams.

As for the topic, I think it's crossing the line a little ways. People like to forget about the RL/ EVE divide. Calling your target a cheap Gallente hooker, or swearing a bloody jihad on all Sibestor scum=OK. Calling your target a disgusting ******* ******** ***** and wishing death on them RL=Not OK.

that toon is from 2007.11.02
One could safely assume they were aware of the aggression mechanics.