No, it just says something about the mentality of the players. Throwing that responsibility on to CCP's shoulders is akin to a rapist blaming their actions on the woman for the way she dresses.

so i kill hulks because of their low cut blouses?

No, it just says something about the mentality of the players. Throwing that responsibility on to CCP's shoulders is akin to a rapist blaming their actions on the woman for the way she dresses.

huh?

People gank rookies because they are sad little bastards. It is their mindset to automatically go for the weakest and the youngest targets, mostly because rookies are almost entirely incapable of knowing how or when to fight back.

How about this... Don't harass the noobs doing the sister's of eve epic, grow a set, and fight people who can and will fight back?

How about this... Don't harass the noobs doing the sister's of eve epic, grow a set, and fight people who can and will fight back?

Another sad carebear projecting his own thought process on other players.

This game, ultimately, is about one player blowing up* (teehee) another PERIOD, DOT, End of Sentence.

All those rookie poppers are doing is introducing them to the cold hard truth of EVE. They're trying right from the start to filter out the whiney little anti-pvp kids from those that can understand what this game is about right from day one.

Aura tells rookies what to expect from this game, if they ignore that lovely voice, they do so at their own peril.

There's a rookie channel for those newbies, there's Aura, there's the forums, there's thousands of newbie articles. Countless resources for those new guys to go to, to figure out what's happened and how to stop it.


You, sir, are a doodyhead. Poopbreath.

First up, what has me being a carebear got to do with anything? Secondly, all those rookie poppers are doing is proving how well the mentally disturbed/low IQ community are doing at finding something to do on the internet, that does not mean it is a good thing.

As for your assertion that there are plenty of resources for noobs, you are absolutely correct, what you seem to have forgotten, or were maybe too poorly educated to understand, is that people need time to assimilate all that information. That's why rookies are given more protection than everyone else.

If all of this is too difficult for you to follow, I would be happy to arrange for the cast of sesame street to perform this post for you, with the aid of crayon pictures and smaller words.

socratic...is that you? XD

Well it looks like we may be coming to the end of thread with the personal attacks and mudslinging now so I just wanted to say Thank you, 5 stars, was a great read and will read again.

Hey, it took 15 pages to get to that point. For a moronic thread posted on GD, I would say it did well to get this far. Here is your cookie for visiting, have a nice day!

*gives cookie*

As I pointed out to some other rather misinformed poster yesterday, what you see as me being "mad" is just your poorly judged assumption. I also use capslock as a form of emphasis on certain words in place of bold or italics, and because of the fact that you can't increase the font size so that the terminally stupid, illiterate and partially sighted people can read it.

Having strict lists of things you can and cannot do just invites griefers to find ways of violating the spirit of the rules while not technically breaking them.

For example:
Strict rule: You may not shoot players in newbie systems. If you do this you will be banned, if you don't do this you will not be banned.

Griefer: *endlessly bumps a newbie preventing them from warping anywhere at all or doing anything else* "Hey! I'm not shooting at them! You can't report me. I'm not technically breaking any rules"

Keeping things general allows GMs to enforce the spirit of the rule "Don't harass brand new players".
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My post very clearly mentions rookies. We want everyone to let new players acclimate to the game before they are thrown in with the sharks. By all means, gank, steal from, scam and whatever else you want to experienced players. They should know the crack of the whip.

Don't push the line and we will not have to draw it.

Two week old player in a badger hauling stuff like moon reagents or capital component blueprints or something that a rookie would /not/ generally have a reason to haul (i.e. a veteran using "younger" alts with an idea that he might shield himself that way)

Fair target?

You meant Demonic, as this thread clearly labelled me His Infernal Majesty. Also, as terrible/great as this thread is, the answer I was seeking was in fact given. I will be slightly concerned about my 1v1 cans (labelled as such) now causing impairors to die (repeatedly) and causing blatant personal labeling and assumptions, but otherwise my usual activities aren't affected.

I go after the fat fish, not the minnows.

1. Not everyone running the SOE arc is a noob. I ran it on my main after 2 yrs. old.
2. Not all X day old characters are new players, many are alts.
3. Since when did crashing any mission space become prohibited? If the issue is noobness, does that mean I can't invade level 1 mission space? Level 2? Is this limited only to the SOE arc? If so, why?
4. Not specifying rules is an excellent way to do whatever the **** you want. It also makes it impossible to verify that the rules are being enforced equitably. That's a problem.

It sure does sound like, if this actually happened with a GM, you should escalate it. I can't think of what rule/policy could be used against you.

hi, perhaps you should skim the 15 pages before posting