Crime & Punishment

More nonsense from you, as usual.

I sat in a battleship within a few weeks of playing, and ran L4s with friends. I was in a Mach before 2 months were out - and still a newbie yes. I'm sure you would have loved for your scammer friends to get me like they get other new players, luckily I was sharp enough to see through the lies and bs. I'm not planning on leaving the game, despite your best efforts to get me to. I'd rather stay in it and advocate for positive change on the forums, the kind that would end these scams and leave you miserable.

The scams really on the appearance of law and order in highsec and in the highsec market, and it is far past time that there was some effective policing involved so that new players don't get ripped off and quit the game.

No new player can afford to buy into that scam. It's as simple as that.

Stop using new players as a smokescreen to hide your disgusting risk aversion.

I feel that with the semi-recent boosts to mining ship's EHP and lows on freighters that there should be a global reduction on the GCC to 5min.

You do realize I've never been scammed right? I'm far too cynical and financially literate to ever get snookered by these jokers. I do feel for other players, many of them relatively new (and yes, month old players can comfortably make 25 mil an hour running SOE L4s with friends, and make 500 mil in 20 hours of mission running), who fall for these scams, lose all their stuff, and ragequit the game. I don't see any redeeming value in this garbage, and am especially concerned by the margin trading scam which uses the eve market to look credible (as opposed to isk doubling which is just an obvious scam, and should not garner much victim sympathy).

Since when is autopiloting anything, anywhere supposed to be safe?

Personally I think that there should be enough negative consequences for ganking that it is safe to autopilot a 200k+ ehp empty freighter in highsec. Might it get killed once in a blue moon for lolz? Sure. Should it be a virtual death sentence when going through Uedama? No way.

If it is, it's because people have come together as a group to make it so. Never flown freighter but been told a webber friend get you around most often before any bumper gets you dead in the waters.

Do you think a dedicated effort from a group should easily be countered by a single player?

As a player, this would be your role. Concord only exists to shoot you if you do certain things.

You're certainly something, those 2 things aren't it though.
Once again, this is not the average newbie experience, and the average newbie has nothing worth scamming. Your "think of the children newbies" spiel is both old, and wrong.
Stop posting it then
All that is required to avoid the margin trading scam is to not be greedy and to do a little research. I've been guilty of being greedy and not doing the research in the past, as a result I have a container that is marked "you're a fool" containing some very expensive and worthless crap I bought in the hope of a massive profit; and it's entirely my own fault.
That's akin to arguing that black is in fact white, despite all the evidence to the contrary.

You keep bleating, we'll keep laughing at your ignorance and pathetic attempts to change a formula that has worked well for the last 11 years.

Okay then CONCORD should kill all miners that deplete a belt, kill all mission runners that shoot one of the four empires NPCs in their missions, kill anyone that does not clean up their space trash after a mission, and kill frieghters that have not paid the proper tax for hauling those goods. They're taking real action against repeat offenders.

Also you have brain problems if you reject the dystopian society idea, that's literally in the advertising material for the game.

You highsec pubbies are so busy squabbling over the tiniest of things, like being aware while hauling, that there is no society. No one works together and instead lives in their own little bubble until someone comes along to invade it. Then they whinge endlessly on the forums about how they are right and this needs to change now and how no you other people with differing opinions are never right because I can't possibly ever be wrong.

Contrast that with nullsec where we do work together to create some semblance of safety, yet are rewarded far less than you in highsec are when you are given safety. We even work with people we don't like *cough*SMA*cough* in order to maintain this. If anything its time for highsec to get rebalanced and put back where it belongs.