Crime & Punishment

Joke's are not an effective way to cover up incompetence. When are you going to stop ganking AFK haulers and come looking for real targets? How is the CODE campaign against mission runners and incursion runners going?

Last I heard the brilliant suggestion was to use massed smartbombing Rokh fleets, Rooks and Kings style . Might I suggest beam zealots?

Yep, multiple front page mentions on their website, a 2 hour TS session, a 32 page bounty thread, 1 bil in bounty.....it wasn't personal at all....just the standard sales pitch

I guess part of the problem is that the folks I dealt with the most never seem to log on anymore. It's hard to keep track with all the new faces. It would be nice to have a stable leadership team.

rag week Tears?. you are coming across quite tetchy

Regardless of who started the insults, you're failing to stick to the standards to which you hold others, which makes you a hypocrite.

ROFL, the only thing you're an expert is flattering your own ego. Virtually every post you make makes your claim to be an expert at Eve laughable and ridiculous.

You made up that particular demographic, since when did newbies fly mining barges and freighters? How do you define casual?

Not likely to happen. Gankers mainly prey on those that can't be bothered to be at the keyboard or educate themselves about the nature of the game, neither of which can be fixed by nerfing ganking. CCP can't fix laziness or stupidity, not even your deity of choice can do that.

Nope, the criminal element will adapt to the proposed changes, as they have to every other change. People who can't be arsed to protect themselves will still explode, and then cry on the forums about how unfair it is that others can make their spaceships explode in a game where spaceships explode.

Every nerf to highsec criminals has invariably backfired on those that called for it. If the proposed changes come to fruition I fully expect to see highsec criminals up their game and make those who are trying to get them nerfed pay the price for doing so.

Allow me to whip this out...
All of the wrong in one neat little bundle.
Freighters do not go afk at belts, but sometimes their pilots go afk and turn on autopilot... or plot crappy routes through known chokepoints and not bother to use scouts or webbers to fast warp them through.

Alpha damage can be tanked, there's these things called resistances... you jack them up vs the popular alpha damage types and suddenly that's not so very much. even a 75% reduction vs whatever reduces your alpha vs whatever by oh, 75%. Couple that with a healthy buffer and omg you just crafted a viable tank.

Wholesale destruction is AWESOME for business, in game and out. In game it keeps the market flowing with increased demand for derpfitted barges and haulers. Out of game it helps enhance EVE's 'dirty girl who will cut you' reputation in the MMO market.

If this really bugs you, and I mean this with no animosity, perhaps EVE isn't the game for you. STO, the various other space sims, or hell, even an Earth and Beyond emulator might be more your speed.

Edit: I concede my own wrongness on freighters afk'ing in belts. I had no idea. I am simply gobsmacked at the sheer stupidity of this kind of act, I had simply assumed nobody was dumb enough to do that.

Citation needed, you also need to define the new/casual player demographic, as it's a term you made up and that nobody else uses.

I think that your moral crusade is fundamentally bad for Eve, which is why I am happy to be a voice of reason opposing the incredible amount of dumb you and your ilk display.

FTFY

The first step would be you stepping up to the mark and actually doing something ingame, it is not up to CCP to provide, it is up to the players. Welcome to the sandbox.

TL;DR Put up or shut up.

Agree, remove mining and the market controlling freaks. And just so we are clear. CODE does not target new people, they target any miner that is un aware period. If you afk anything in this game you deserve what you get.

You seem to be overly proud of the many pages on the thread about yer bounty. Now, if we were to subtract the anslo/counter anslo poasts from that, we'd be looking about oh about maybe 8 pages.

Buff autopilot? Surely you troll. It already got a buff, warp to 0. Way back in the day we all had to warp to 15km and pray to Yog Sothoth that we wouldn't get popped before we hit the gate. Take a moment to contemplate your bad.

So you admit to being easily distracted by shiny objects? Killing haulers is not bringing highsec into code compliance, you have been doing it for months and the trends are staying the same. Until you engage the elite PvE targets you have no hope of success.

Confirming that "playing" Eve is fundamentally built around right clicking and pressing "jump" every 45 seconds. Doesn't sound like elite PvP or elite PvE, maybe we should call it elite Navigation?