Crime & Punishment

I am a CODE supporter since they bring excitement and a sense of paranoia to these poor industrialist who would otherwise be asleep at their desk while their Mackinaws lazily pewpew asteroids. There is nothing wrong with that, sir.

But I can assure you, AG has done nothing to me since they are still considered unorganized in my book. The game mechanics have always leaned towards the ganker but has been slowly pushed towards the carebears. Have I ganked freighters? Oh yes I have.

One day while in Gallente FW, loyalnon asked my corp if we wanted to go gank freighters. Never done it before, I wanted to see what it was like so I went with another pilot. It was an awesome experience and loyalnon knew what he was doing as he directed us from target to target. While waiting out the timer, some people started trashtalking in local on how they were repping one of the freighters that was being bumped. Loyalnon was not wanting to actually target that particular freighter but decided to go after it anyways.

The bumper told us that three scythes were repping it as they were trying to counter bump his Machariel away. We land on grid and completely facemelted the freighter, even with 9 reppers on it. So yes, I was there when AG was born because I believe that day was the day they decided to form up and actually fight the gankers back. Yes, they have had some success against freighter gankers but completely fail when it comes to the 'little guys' like the OP who are out there mining afk. They don't even need one of the CODE permits, all they need is awareness and they will be fine.

But if they want to afk mine in peace, highsec is not the place to do it.

P.S. In regards to that KM, it was a battle Venture fleet we threw together. You could have asked first before posting a KM that doesn't support your point.

You're citing... Wikipedia... as a source...?
Hang on - let me find that Onion article I read the other day. It's probably right up your street.

Why does this sound so familiar....

You are starting to sound like Pedro. (TLDNR), Too long Did Not Read. Ironic how I wasted long hand on its acronym in brackets

Only joking, I did read it. By your standard, you sound extremely salty.

And this response is how you got your status as a forum troll. 2/10.

Try harder, Nitshe. I know you can do it. I believe in you.

You're talking about a game which is actively encouraged to affect real life money, health, personal property and emotional wellbeing. And this somehow surprises you...?

I like the golf analogies :-)

Sure I get what you're saying there, but I'm referring to the many documented cases where this game has affected people in their real lives and not only that, has been seemingly encouraged in the process. It is a shame to see a game have this effect on the real world in the way it does, but I suppose it is what it is.

And I think that in itself ties in with the very concept of griefing as an action. You invest real world time and money into this gane, so essentially you place a real world value on everythibg you do, whether consciously or not. And thats any sort of seemingly pointless loss can be upsetting to the one who loses it.

And therein lies the inefficacy. You are powerless to effect change to your circumstance.
Its a conundrum, for sure.

A mining permit you say?
Intriguing.
I'm in...!

I always wonder what happens when somebody from The Loser Generation goes to Reno or Vegas and happens to lose all their money. I wonder if they actually try and have the casino's shut down for 'theft' and 'harassment'.

That would make a truly hilarious TV show, I think.