Assembly Hall

Two things I'd like to points out:

CCP has a policy of NOT commenting or sharing GM communications. There are probably details we are unaware of, and won't become aware of.

If a guy was perma banned for simply bumping a titan ship out of the POS, without forewarning and/or a chance to toe the line of CCP's fairly ambiguous precedent, I'd support getting that permabanned removed. It seems pretty severe. However, I really wonder if there is much more to this story than is being made public!

CCP appears to have backpedaled on an initial statement from Senior GM Arcade regarding a POS bumping tactic. At the time, Arcade indicated that the tactic was not considered an exploit, but CCP's attitude seems to have changed since that statement, as evidenced by the apparent reimbursement of the STFU titan lost on September 8 and the recent permaban of a pilot for bumping a Nulli titan.

The only good answer here is to state categorically that an unlockable ship is considered inside the POS. This new definition of "part of the ship was out therefore it's fair game" is not supported by any other mechanic and only works as a usable definition with the addition of new functions to support verifying the status of the ships inside the POS.

We have a pile of nullsec pilots, lead by a well known personality who began doing this knowing full well that it was in violation of public statements by CCP about POS bowling. They did so anyways, apparently intending to argue on the technicality of the victim not actually being 100% inside the POS, that unlockable was not actually the definition of "inside the pos". After the kill of Mister Vee's titan, the GMs declared that it was not an exploit.

Assuming this is what the banned pilot did(If the ban is false or for something else, then none of this applies obviously), it was done under the environment of CCP saying it's not an exploit and banning him for it is absurd. It's even worse that he faces a ban for bumping during a period when it was publicly considered "not an exploit", while the people who began this in direct contravention of CCPs public statements.

At this point, the whole thing has been so horribly mishandled by CCP that bans for anyone are only going to make things worse. The whole situation has been so poorly handled all the way up the chain that right now nobody(including CCP) seems to know where this whole thing stands. This is one of those moments where CCP needs to unban and compensate and fix their GM department.

The exploit notification doesn't say anything about entering the force field, or anything of that sort.
It says -

"Bumping ships, that are located within password protected starbase force-fields, out of the force-field from outside without having the correct password or corporation/alliance permissions as configured in the tower settings, is considered an exploit. "

and now a word from the other side of this debate.

*camera pans over to the empty seats across the table as a tumbleweed rolls by*

there you have it folks, not even your own elected representatives have stepped up to say anything about this. Something to remember come election day I am sure, unless there is a scandal involving a rubber duck, a bag of strange white powder and your favorite politician. We now take you live to Jita where another scammer has promised double ISK back.. over to our live commentator.. in JITA!