Go back to the way everyone (including some of you guys, going by old petition quotes) thought it worked:

In the starter and carreer agent systems, all forms of aggression games and unprovoked attacks are prohibited. Outside of the starter systems, anything goes. That is the policy. It means the distinction between rookie and vet becomes completely irrelevant, and it removes the ability to use rookie-like characters to hide behind the fear of the banhammer while still giving the rookies a safe zone to play in.

The game-design part is to punch the NPE team in the soul until they give rookie accounts a big stonking GÇ£Here There Be DragonsGÇ¥ popup the first time they try to activate the gate out of those systems and until they create a mission where the theft mechanics are explained. If certain forms of rookie-griefing are rampant (e.g. the SOE arc), then tell the PvE group to adjust those missions to no longer feature the kinds of content that might trick the rookies GÇö e.g. no required lootable items. This is not a policy GÇö it's more along the lines of entertainment (for you, not being on the receiving end of said soul-punching).

The solution isn't arbitrary, opaque, unobtainable, and potentially harsh rules with a gillion different (equally arbitrary, opaque and unknowable) edge cases referring to (occasionally incorrectly named) specific tactics (that the newbies won't know about or understand, and which the griefers will modify to work in a different way). The solution is a education GÇö for everyone GÇö about an easily available and categorically true rule set.

so when I fly into a system, will it inform me that it's a rookie system, or am I just supposed to know?

Is the security of the system I'm currently located in less then 0.5? If yes, I'm golden. Simples.

Since when is ganking miners, industrials and can-baiting noobies ment to be classed as pvp?

Only in hi-sec.

Pathetic as always.

It has always been Eve and is still now, you just play the wrong part of it. Why are you so afraid of moving to low/null?
Are you afraid of loosing ships?

And it is not.

See wardec/Faction warfare stats to figure it out.

No need to search false crappy excuses to use/abuse the lack of distinct rules to support a very false argument.
Now, if you're talking about NPC toons you should always be able to gank them, but you should also have to consider your loss vs profit instead of a simple brainless "high sec not safe, me shoots because defenceless ship not fight back, mwahahah me better at eve"

Hey Tippia.

What is your personal definition of rookie? Can you apply that definition fairly and equally to all situations?

Just curious what someone with better debating skills than I can come up with.