Crime & Punishment

No CCP post has never made me happier than this one. The Falcon Punch should be the standard reply to all hisec/suicide gank whine threads from now on.

Now we just need an equally good quote from another CCP staffer and we'd have a one-two punch that we could turn into our very own Scissors Technique.

If that was all there was too it then yes, it would be as simple as mining. That isn't all there is too it though. I'm not saying that ganking a venture is hard mind you, it's just needs about 100 times more effort and knowledge of game mechanics than mining....



We've heard that story before, many times... The reality is that EVE is still here and has been for over a decade, it has coexisted with WoW for a long, long time. Many supposedly "EVE-killers" have been released in that decade, most of them were utter crap, I doubt any of them are still relevant at any level. Star Citizen might very well be the next one to fail and isn't scheduled for full release for over 2 years...

We all pay the bills, not just the carebears. Furthermore, I don't hate carebears, they make lovely targets and I still do my fair share of 'bearing' too. I just don't whine when I get shot out of space by other players in a PvP game...

Don't let the door hit you mate ;)

Haha nope. If all the highseccers moved to nullsec all that would happen is that Eve would hit the news again for another massive battle wholesale slaughter.

Most highsec players can't find their own backsides with both hands, detailed instructions and a map. I'm a highseccer myself, and watching some of my fellow highsec players trying to organise anything at all is like watching someone try to herd cats. Prime example: the anti ganking brigade, there's very few of them that can do anything other than lose terribly fitted ships, claim credit for Concord kills and talk crap.

The only really organised groups in highsec are the ones who understand the game mechanics, who're usually the ones the carebears spend all their time complaining about.

Did you somehow miss the entire last sentence? The one, highlighted in the above quote for your convenience, that says that the really organised groups in highsec are the ones that understand the game mechanics?

Those organised groups that I mention ARE the highsec PvPers, the AWOXers, the gankers etc
They are a minority of the total highsec population. They'd also be the ones shooting at absolutely everybody if all the highseccers moved to nullsec, carebears and nullbears alike.

I'll put it plainly because right now theres a pretty big misconception about HighSec Gankers and the people who do PVP in highsec compared to low or null.

I have more than a few alts, like many people who have played this game for longer than a year. What i do with my alts is my choice and does not reflect on me as a person. Each alt does something for a reason, I joined CODE. because i believe with all my heart that what We are doing is right. And it is changing the face of highsec slowly but surely. Not to mention its a lot of fun to hit a timer everytime you go to gank and see if you can beat the clock and get your kill and we provide content for people in high sec everywhere from the miners and haulers to the white knights themselves.

To the people who think we are just a bunch of griefers out to get people to inflict bodily harm outside of the game, YOU are the sick and depraved ones. When we gank if someone threatens that kind of action a part of the RP Shroud comes off and we talk the person down from that spot, anything else would be the same as being guilty for the crime. We aren't just out to get people to do those kinds of things, though on more than a few occasions people quit over what we do which is just the reaping of the crop field only the good crop makes the cut the rest gets dumped and ground up ( hehehe Empire biomass pun ).

If you are in that kind of position I have heard of the "Broadcast For Reps" Foundation which helps players in those kinds of spots, if you need help there are always people who can give it, after-all we are people too, Regardless of what the propoganda would paint us as.

Perhaps I am wrong about the New Order? No. Still a bunch of... slightly disturbed individuals.
The New Orders support for Erotica1 and the encouraging out of game harrassment of players is incompatible with the 'the RP Shroud comes off and we talk the person down from that spot'.
Why keep up the lie? Nobody would think any less of the New Order because of it.

Edit : I just realised what the 'Broadcast For Reps' Foundation probably is. V. Good :)

I don't think this is true at all. I've played with and against some nasty lowsec and highsec PVP'ers in Eve and they're awesome people in RL.

Eve is just a game... It is not real life. You're not in a real ship flying through space. It's a program on a computer.

If you're having trouble separating real life from a video game stop and get help immediately! Please don't harm yourself or someone else! No pixel in any game is worth someone getting hurt in real life.

^ Confirming this as a "white knight" myself. I clearly see your contribution to Highsec and it's great because you create content for me, and at the same time, our presence creates content for you, too:

There were times when, while protecting miners at a belt in a Falcon, I clearly realized that those miners didn't even deserve such protection, because they were AFK and protecting them seemed more and more like 'rewarding AFK laziness'.

But then I remembered, it's not about protecting them only, but also creating fun content for myself and for gankers too. I mean, I remember waiting for hours (yes, that's how anti-ganking is), refreshing D-Scan approx. every 5 seconds, and then suddenly noticing a local spike followed by this. Imagine the sensation a patient and bored anti-ganker can get at that moment. It's even better if he manages to completely shut down about 7-8 of those Catalysts with Hypnos Ion Field ECM I and prevent the gank. I experienced those unforgettable moments many times and enjoyed every second of it.
So yes, keep it up. You are making Highsec more interesting and 'alive'.

It's hard to tolerate all that mass of drama balancing between real-life threats and role-play (including the "New Order"s creepy RP exaggeration, sorry), which is sometimes enough reason take a break from highsec (). We should play this great game to have fun, not to send insults and humiliations in local and online blogs or real life threats in EVE mails.

I couldn't agree more. I love it that people are providing protection for miners. I love all kinds of PVP so adding more makes me happy.

As to RP I get into some of it and it also adds content. I think it's very important to keep it in game. It's fine to say "Pay me___ISK or I will destroy your ship and pod you" but not okay to say "You're a fat couch potato that needs to stop playing Eve". One is directed at the pilot and the other at the player.

Wow this says it all.. Please please please read that blog if you haul, mine or whatever. Make yourself a "hard target".