EVE General Discussion

Let's up the ante a little.

I can envision someone creating a pool with bitcoin. Bitcoin transactions are quite hard to trace. Now how about this - someone (myself or another) publicized a Bitcoin address, and a website in a location not accessible by common law. This hypothetical person then proceeds to create a RL vengeance pool, where the pool pays out anyone who produces the following:

1 - evidence linking RL address of a person and this individual's Goonswarm avatar association.
2 - a specific act of RL retributive violence against this person, his or her RL property, health et al.

This pool could dole out RL: rewards for this kind of "escalated retribution", and I can envision a market where supply would meet demand; if a few hundred "grievously hurt" participants in the game Eve Online would bitcoin a few ten dollar equivalents, then Bitcoin would allow an effective retalliatory vengeance pool to reward acts of tangible (and specific) consequences for specific people in the real world - as long a fairly robust evidence would be involves. Donors would then register on this vengeance site and link their donation to specific acts of real world violence, pose a requirement for plausible evidence, and who in particular they'd like targeted.

Of course organizations such as Goonswarm are perfectly capable of counter-proposing similar initiatives. In fact with this post, and with their proven dehumanized track record I anticipate being on such a list in a week. :)

This is purely a speculation clearly, but one CCP needs to keep a close eye on. Purely as an intellectual experiment in how these bully conflicts escalate I'd love seeing someone start up such a website. Just for the sake of boundaries I'd suggest the following -

* no physical violence or intimidation against the children of the targeted individual
* no physical violence against pets of the targeted individual

But, in the words of a widely respected politicians - "all options are on the table", so to speak. I can not make any statements whether or not I'd get involved in such potentially very criminal activity, but I regard the experiment as an actual exercise in self-regulating moral vengeance, especially since it will be a crowd-sourced effort. I am keenly interested when the pervasive ambiance of PVP ruthlessness maturates in to the first RL crowd-sourced gangland style torture-murder in the real world.

I am thinking hmmmm,... "soldering irons".

Also, since CCP has regarded things such as physical/RL sabotage, burglary and stalking as "perfectly acceptable aspects of meta-gaming" I am keenly interest in how they'd react to speculations on such initiatives. Whatever the case I have now clearly shined my light on how the current situation has clearly escalated far outside the bounds of sanity. Maybe this post is what it takes to make CCP realize just how far.

Then why are you still subscribed and continuing to bore everyone ?

Couldn't he have said that in one sentence or less? :( OP: TL;DR, Title was enough.

Thanks OP for your insightful post. I would contend several of your points, however, starting with

I was under the impression that Goons wanted EVE gone. Isn't this just another step to try and achieve this end goal? Or am I entirely wrong?