Crime & Punishment

Nonsense. From now on I want you to pay attention to who starts the personal attacks. Anytime a "carebear" posts they are immediately threatened with wardeccs, kill it forward queues, bounty threads, insults, etc.... Monitor the threads and let us know. I would love if we could stop with the personal attacks and the Grrr Veers garbage and stay on topic. And no more troll bounty threads. Thanks.

Veers you need help, that sort of thing is not normal. Maybe it's from you accusing people who are keeping things in game of being RL sociopaths, notice how many pve players call out pvp players for being sociopaths vs the number of pvp players that seriously call out pve players for being sociopaths and compare the two.

Excellent, and please also monitor any responses to my comments and keep track of who is engaging in personal attacks and trolls. This should be good.

Well, hopefully from now on we can have reasoned discourse without personal attacks and trolling. I think it would be a tremendous improvement for these forums.

The work of The SwordMaster is not yet finished.

I was wondering on where you got "2", then I took a closer look at the last poster before you... that is a classic troll, no doubt about it!

Noted.

You mis-spelled Tears Belvar.

There is no maximum difference in age to engage in combat or any other pvp that are cited in the rules.



Sure.



The obvious point is within the 14-day trial period. That character is without a doubt NEW. Whether or not the player is new, would be determined in part by ccp, who can see the age of the account and other characters.

2 of his 5 kills were clearly NEW characters, another 18-days old, and the remaining two older than 30 days.

I take issue with targeting and killing of NEW players. Further information revealed by him is that he has in part wrapped himself in RL religious reasoning, which is beyond the ability for any player to address in game without violating the code of conduct. If you are going to RP, then pick something in-game that can be dealt within the rules. Shooting someone, in and of itself, doesn't deal with the meta-game that is Eve.

You literally never read anything you type, do you?

As was said, if he sent you an inappropriate evemail, please petition it and let CCP know.

As to your problem with new players being blown up, you shouldn't worry about it. Unless someone is persistently targeting the same new player so their gaming experience is completely miserable, getting blown up once or twice during the trial is an excellent introduction to Eve gameplay. Ventures can be replaced by even a new player in one or two loads of ore, so losing one is no real loss at all. Much better they loose an easily-replaced Venture, than a Retriever or worse, untanked Hulk a few weeks/months later. Ideally, the ganker would take the time to educate the new player to techniques to avoid a gank (paying attention, d-scan, orbiting the asteroid etc...) and perhaps even replace the ship as I have often done before for new players with a good attitude to the game. But even without this, the lesson that mining is not without risk even in highsec is a good one to teach early when there is not much to lose.

But from his target selection, it seems more likely that he is/was targeting Ventures, not new players. This is because, despite what you might take away from the continual calls for nerfing suicide ganking in the forums, successfully ganking miners does require some practice and sufficient skills. A brand-new solo ganker will be limited to Ventures and untanked retrievers/covetors in 0.5 space for quite some time so it is expected that an eager new ganker will have to go after softer targets, including newer players, at the beginning of his or her career.