Crime & Punishment

Your ship has a cargo hold. It can haul things. Your argument is invalid.

Oh, hey, a CODE thread. What's going on in here?



You're asking the wrong question. The real question you should be asking is, why is the rum gone?

But seriously, the actual real question is, in a game where the players write the story, what would you rail against without a real villain?

OP you lost a indy to a gank and whine about the CODE.

Yet your happy to blow up miners in null?.

Code are just doing what you do but in high sec.


Get over it ffs

Not that we don't have the best space lawyers and most impartial Judges anywhere in New Eden (seriously one persons bribe is as good as the next)

An anthropologic study in the Uedama area of space on the 'Behavioural Practices of Repetitive Tasks and Measurement of Pilot At Keyboard Presence', has published its controversial findings.

The shocking conclusion of the report is that CODE pilots have begun to exhibit the exact same behaviour of miners that their leadership of James314 issued a rallying cry against. James314 no longer a corporeal presence in New Eden, perhaps fortunate, as the ideological practice of the CODE, has become functionally the same as mining.

Uedama has been classified in the report as a 'Freighter Belt' that is occupied by 'Freighter Miners' who largely operate semi-AFK on gates, waiting for 'Freighters to Spawn', before mining them for their ISK value. There is no real attributed risk in the ISK generation through 'Freighter Mining', as the costs for losses of ships during the process have been factored, using a simple mathematical rule of thumb: 3m ISK per 1K EHP. With the cost of a mining operation as a known constant, the notion of risk has been removed. The risk-free and semi-AFK nature of traditional mining being one of the complaints originally made by the CODE, is now an integral element of their modus operandi.

Freighters, large and slow moving objects, extremely resemblant of asteroids, are scanned and evaluated for their ISK potential, before being mined and then salvaged into a cargo hold. A practice that originates in the mining community.

Ultimately, it appears that CODE have become what they have fought against, miners of another name.

You forgot to mention shitposting on the forums, and in the case of one of their members, being consistently wrong about pretty much everything.

The CODE for the CODE should be CODE. Perhaps an indent or some such, maybe DECODE. To ensure that the will of James315 is interpreted and modernized to stay relevant to the ages and for generations of capsuleers to come to keep the vastness of space bot-aspirant free of Freighter Miners.

I think you pretty much nailed it, freighter mining indeed, that is what I will be calling it from now on because that is what it is.

As for the OP I understood your point, I had a similar such discussion with Liek in Osmon local where I pointed out that the CODE was poor law as it could be widely interpreted by their agents on the spot, I could tell that my finely made points won the day because he gave up by ending the conversation with some bounty which of course made me giggle.

It has become evident to a number of us who watch things in hisec that CODE is running out of steam, apart from the bot like freighter mining around Uedama and the ganking of noob miners CODE is a busted flush or irrelevance. When miners come into the AG channel and show a loss they are educated in the way of the Procurer and the Skiff, those subject to freighter mining are educated in the way of DST's, that is all that one needs to do.

A few intrepid souls have decided to mess around in Uedama to impede the bot aspirant activity shown by CODE and their impact can be seen by a reduction in freighter mining.

Soon James315 will be crying over the low impact of CODE as well as the loss of can flipping to consequences, such is the way of Eve.

I did get a real serious chuckle when some gankers resorted to flagrant, pre-ISBox-ban, multi-boxing to secure freighter kills. And in instances like those, I think your observations are pretty accurate.

As for the rest...nah. While ganking can, indeed, devolve into a single, repetitive activity, that activity generally requires the participants to be awake and at keyboard (examples like the one I listed above nonwithstanding). This is what separates bot-aspirants from repetitive players.

Calm down miner.