Player Features and Ideas Discussion

People have been trying to draw analogies to real life, but continue to talk in terms of killing people. However, in real life if you kill one person illegally, you are a murderer and no amount or time, military service or charity work will lesson that crime. This is NOT analogous to the way killing people in Eve works, in Eve you can kill a certain quota before you become noticed and hunted by the police and can negate a series of murders altogether even after you have come to the attention of the police, simply by the community service of ratting.

The best analogy that I can think of is a minor traffic violation. If you get caught speeding (in UK) you will get a fine and 3 points on your license. The fine is the equivalent of the Concorde response/Suspect/Criminal flag functionality. The 3 points is similar to a standing hit. If you commit four traffic violations and gain 12 points you get your license taken away for a year. However, you can reduce the number of points simply by time, after 3 years the points expire. Which effectively means you can commit a minor traffic violation once a year on average without any long term consequences beyond the actual fines.

Now lets try and shoe horn this into FW. A brave upstanding patriot steps up to fight for his country and goes off to war. In the middle of that war he is speeding to help colleagues caught in an ambush and gets a speeding ticket by the local police, unsympathetic to his country or his service. International law dictates that any traffic offence committed in any country has to be recognised world wide. Meanwhile half the world sympathetic to his country's enemy declare. "We don't care how clean your license is, we are going to make it as difficult as possible for you if you ever come to our country. As long as you are a soldier you are banned from driving in our country".

Now back in his own country is it really unreasonable to think that his own police might be a little sympathetic to this 'hero'. General SoAndSo, brave, honourable, upstanding pillar of the Militia... the analogy kind of breaks down there, because I don't expect them to turn a blind eye to any new offence, just discount old offences in the count up to whether he should be banned, which is really in the jurisdiction of a judge, but whatever... So they are going to discount points awarded that are over 2 years old, rather than 3. However, if he has committed four offences in the last 2 years, he still gets toasted.

Would offenders, who habitable speed, join the military just to get this benefit, maybe, but it would be less effort to just do the community service of ratting and actually gain access to all of high sec.

The trolls are going to love this one aren't they? LOL. If you are going to blast this post, at least go to the effort of putting it into the context of the OP please.

Not really a speeding violation so much as vandalism. Though podding someone ha got to at least be battery.