Infinity Ziona
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Posted - 2005.01.22 00:23:00 -
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Edited by: Infinity Ziona on 22/01/2005 00:27:30
 Originally by: Question2
Piracy is this : Usually a bunch of ships chase a target down and demand everything in the cargo hold.Either the target refuses and a gunfight breaks out or the target accepts the demands and now its the pirate's decision to either let him/her go or shoot the ship up anyway.
Piracy isn't so simple. While what you described is one form of piracy other forms involved burning the ship after looting it, killing all the men or taking them as slaves and if any women were on board, raping and killing them or taking them for use later.
I think in any situation where a human has the ultimate power over another and no disincentive to act harshly, they will act harshly, for the thrill and feeling of power it gives them. EVE players are no different in that respect I think.
Originally by: Question2
Not only that,but there is no DIS-incentive to pod someone.Thats right.After you have destroyed someone's ship,you see his pod.Its purely a matter of choice whether you want to shoot it or not.Theres no reason not to actually.You set someone back and you expand a few rounds of ammo or cap charge.Its a greifer's wet dream.In real life,not even robbers or burglars just kill anyone that they go after.Got your handbag snatched on the street?Or your house burgalrized while on vacation?Well ever wonder why they dont just shoot you while snatching the handbag or setting your house on fire right before making the escape....
Those reasons simply dont apply to eve.You would THINK,that if you just simply went around murdering people in eve,concord or the empire security departments would give a flying ****.
They dont.
Unfortunately the dis-incentives created by CCP don't really work.
The majority of the pirate campers you see don't have the time to remove the -5 or more status they have by killing thousands of NPC's and so don't care about security status at all when they decide to attack and or pod you.
The majority of the alliance pirates will attack, kill and pod you because there is NO dis-incentive at all for them*. Not even a sec status drop.
With the introduction of the alliance system and the new war costs, CCP could have easily implemented a sec status penalty for alliance pirates and created new and realistic political boundarys in EVE but they chose instead to allow the continued abnormal system of mass gankage anywhere and everywhere in 0.0. Go figure.
Infinity Ziona
* Although Stain Empire found out that not all gankage of innocents is 100% safe when Celestial Apocalypse declared war on them due to random aggression and podding of several of its pilots. I was temporarily a member of SE at the time and found it amusing to listen to the cries of the members as they were treated much the same way that they treat others on a daily basis.
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