Crime & Punishment

Well you know, the difference between you and me is, that I write about alternatives. It´s not about me cause most of the years I played in Eve I did live in a WH. So I could care less about Highsec.

But HIGHSEC is highsec and except rats or missions nothing kills you. Gankers in highsec just not have the balls to survive and make a living somewhere else. Easy pray for them in highsec, weak targets and here and there we abuse some game mechanics to gank more isk out of basicaly pilots who just started the game. And miners and freighters - ah well, they can not shoot back very well. How proud must I be to kill one.

Not fair. Sorry.

Then declare everything to 0.0, lowsec or a giant WH and everybody can do everything- and get guns on a freighter then. I am fine with that too and we could close the discussion.

And you are right Pedro. Boting and underwear is just silly. There is none in game. No "code" needed.

Why you dudes always get so personal?

Ships come and go, corps and alliances, Hullk Events, Goons, Miningbots, and Codes will come and go. Basically you can sit it out.

However, I hope for CCP they also do "very careful scientfic studies" WHY so many players also unsubscribed and left Eve since 2008. To take your words then: Who cares and we will let them take their tears too and I even can hand out tissues to you guys then :)

It all adds to a s.h.i.t list people may have on the desk. There is of course also a little list with positiv things. Not all is bad and I hope they get it but how long did we talk and argue about sov space, structures caps...and other stuff? How fast did it change? Weeks, month, years?

A harsh game play is always good. A unfair one just because all must be big, big, big always and smaller groups or solo players have no chance? Thats the reason we lost so many subscribers.

I love the game still but my payed membership dropped drasticaly since and always when I come back after some month I consider right away how long I will stay again. Does not look good each time.

Wrong again I'm afraid, Fred.

The CODE. Alliance is relatively small (but sharply focused in its activities). I am currently in an NPC corp. I play solo/duo, in Highsec, and I'm having great fun!

So, having disregarded Black Pedro's well-considered counter to your arguments, you desperately unleash yet another wildly inaccurate proposal purporting to support your claim that the situation in Highsec is 'unfair'.

Of course, you have every right to call it as you see it, but I do wish your ability to 'see it' accorded more closely with the facts.

You should think about what you write; any statement about Highsec mechanics including the word 'unfair' is likely to be roundly trounced.

As you seem to have discovered...

Yet you said:

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The code is nonsense.

There is no "boting" anymore since multiboxing is not allowed anymore. What a crap.

I make up a code now:
From now on everyone has to change their underwear on a every day base. Because we want to check up on that everyone has to wear their underwear outside. Obay or get bumped! Changing underwear permit is 10 mill isk btw. because we want clean pants.

Ever heard about dictatorship? I want to play and not obay a dictator.

If multiboxer would still be in the icefields I would consider supporting these guys. Other that that: Lame![/quote]

The simple fact is nobody was referring to multiboxing when they refer to bot aspirancy or why its bad for the game. And please don't be under any doubts: it IS bad for the game and for the players who are seduced to engage in afk play. They inevitably end up leaving the game quoting "bored" as their reason. Ofc they are bored! they aren't playing the game they are letting their pcs play it for them while they are afk!

What is botting? Botting is having your PC play for you. Its bad for everybody, doing untold damage to the in game economy and robbing legitimate players of the rewards of their hard earned grind. It doesn't matter if you are using an illegal piece of software or just hitting the auto pilot button on that charon then going to walk your dog: YOUR allowing your PC to play for you and your effortless isk/effort is making my isk/effort uncompetitive while I try to actually play the game.

You sir and people like you are ruining the game with bot aspirancy for all the true "carebears" who are trying to play this game the way it was supposed to be played.

We should all be thanking the paladins of the code: they educate the ignorant like you as to the benefits of playing the game properly and they benefit me by keeping my competition honest.

All hail the new order of high sec!

if you can fly a Jump Freighter, why didn't you?



open your Galaxy map. Go to the Statistics section, click on 'Ships Killed In Last Hour'. If there's a BIG RED CIRCLE in a hisec system (like, say, Uedama. A known ganking hotspot) on your route, don't go that way.

note: due to wardeccers, Jita almost always has such a big red splodge on it.

Do you still get that adrenaline rush when you post, sweating and breathlessly excited, hiding behind your NPC no-consequence alt?

Prepare to be amazed, Mephiztopheleze!

The New Order Treasury currently stands at 225.5 Billion Isk. You can actually watch as it periodically dips, reflecting payouts to New Order Agents and Knights (not just members of the CODE. Alliance) in respect of their martyred assets.

Please do reply to this post, quoting our respective remarks and indicating your amazement. I've subscribed to the thread, in anticipation...

You do realize that for every gank CONCORD inevitably destroys the attacking ship and that is recorded on the killboards? In the case of freighters, that can be dozens that are sacrificed to CONCORD for a single hauler.

The CODE. alliance has the highest ISK efficiency of any top alliance, kills more ships per month (and ISK worth of ships) than any but the largest alliances in the game, and that with only a few percent of their members.

You can quibble over the morality of ganking, or its place in the game, but trying to use the killboard numbers to paint the CODE. alliance as bad is just daft. Those numbers are an order of magnitude or more better than anyone else when normalized per pilot, precisely because of the targets they choose to attack.

I linked the numbers in my post. The kills and losses of the CODE. alliance are on zKillboard for the world to see. It is a simple matter to see that almost all of the losses of CODE. are to CONCORD and are ships that were already written off when they undocked.

I am confused. Are you arguing that ganking is too hard and not profitable? Because most people crying here usually argue the opposite: that is too easy and profitable.

It does not matter. Concord or not. Loss is lost. ISK burned. Compared to loss and destroyed a very bad ratio, almost 3:1