Crime & Punishment

Hello all, first off yes this an alt as id like to keep my main nice and quiet lol.

IM a carebear, I like mining and mission running. Its just how I like to play. I also love the tingle I get when I undock.

You see I like the gankers and code. It adds a great tension to the game that I don't get anywhere else. Yes ive been caught and blown up a few times and yes its a pain, but the rush from trying to get away is intense. Im not much of a shooter, I always run and im now quite good at getting away and am seldom caught. I even make my fits a little harder for missions by keeping in mind other players coming after me. I hope that by doing everything I can to make you gankers work for my corpse im helping give a little back by engaging in my own way and making a little content back lol.

I say welcome the gankers and code members. They make high sec a really fun place to be. Perhaps we should be a little gentler to new players and help them understand the dangers in the game first then blow the hell out o them later.

What im trying to say is that pvp and ganking in high sec is perfect, eve is not meant to be totally safe anywhere. I think we all should make more of an effort to explain this to new players to lessen the shock when it happens.

Im going to give it a go, ive just made sure I can get away when I want to first lol. I take it shooting at a flashy yellow has no sec status reduction? I see a lot of flashing yellow round where I am

Ok sorry, I had the impression that as I was pretty much all high sec pve I was a carebear. Ty for clarity

Flashy yellow tends to be "suspect baiting". If you engage a yellow, you too will be yellow and subject to attack.

I watched one suspect bating group farm battleships in a major mission hub for months. I would shoot at them with an alt in a cheapie frigate and they would not even bother to shoot me. No true suspect just sits there at a gate or station (but they will stick around at that station to go to station gaming if things don't go well).

Eventually that one suspect baiter pee'd off some Russian group and that resulted in the baiter losing a pimped faction BS to the tune of 31 billion ISK and I haven't seen that person log on since that day.

So I would say if you want to go after suspects, don't do it in anything that's expensive enough for them to care about their killboards. They whole idea of suspect baiting is killboards and loot. Shoot at them on the cheap to cut your teeth on PVP and it's wasting their time.

With flashy reds and -10s, you can engage them even with the safety on green and not be flagged yourself. Chasing them is half the fun.

lol, when you start posting like this and demanding CCP do something about somebody you don't like while refusing to do anything for yourself then you are a carebear.

You might find the replies to this post, from a newbie, in another thread will clarify things.

PM me in game. On your MAIN. I think you would be a great asset to my new program. If you'd like to experience the other side, that is.

First time I saw the term "carebear" in use for an MMO was in DAoC.

Carebear goes back to the days of the Atari 2600. You see we loved those Ataris because the cartridges were useful in those almost daily incidents of dinosaur attacks. We would drop cartridges as we ran from them and the fat kid in the back would trip on them and get eaten while the rest of us got away. But I digress.

Atari games that had a "kiddie mode" had a teddy bear face symbol on the packagin - there were several symbols regarding the kind of game it was and what modes it had. The bear symbol was one of them. I forget the other symbols (my brain froze during the ice age that followed -or maybe too much ice in too many Cuba Libres I don't know)

To clarify the bit above about flashy yellow
If you attack someone who is suspect flagged (flashy yellow) it will create a limited engagement between the two of you.
This means the two of you can duke it out without fear of CONCORD for the duration of the engagement. They generally last five minutes past the last point of aggressive action taken by either player.

You will NOT be flagged suspect by engaging a suspect in this manner. Other players may not attack you without fear of CONCORD during your engagement, however, they may rep the suspect which will cause them to go suspect as well. This doesn't mean they can attack you, but they still get to meddle with your fight.

nope, the only lines here are drawn in the eula, just about everything els falls under "lol, its eve htfu"

Standings can be repaired, the SoE arc can be repeated every 3 months and the standings boost for the faction of your choice is quite good, you can also mission for Caldari agents that aren't in Caldari space to get the story line missions that increase your standings. If they get really bad then there's the faction standings repair plan.