Okay first and foremost, I'm not sure if this is the right place for this kind of a post.

Got it in one Mr Garibaldi...

You should always use a support ticket to report suspected exploits.

Read further down. I have put in support tickets etc. I still think it's time to try getting support from the community is all.

Meta gaming is the way of the real world, where people use the broken system, always ready to arrest, confiscate, and kill, as their personal tool.

Neighbors dog crapped in the yard? Make an anonymous tip to the cops about drug usage. See someone legally openly carrying a gun? Report it to the cops as something worse and sit back and watch the SWAT team do your bidding.

Speaking of SWAT, there's such a thing as "SWATting" - just an example.

Entire organizations exist to get money or "one up" on their political, racial, or ideological opponents just by "being offended".

So...

why should an MMO be any different?


My recommendations:

If you are going to gank the crap out of people, you can do more damage by NOT saying one damned thing. Let them spew and fester. Let them still die, for, like in RL, words means nothing when getting shot in the face.

Follow my advice and the logs will show nothing.

The only thing worth petitioning for is a rule change: filing false charges should result in a permanent ban.

Very true. But that's where it also makes no sense... You can rob the **** out of alliances for billions of isk which is awesome I wont complain about that because like you said... it's a sandbox MMO it makes the game. So banning someone for cussing when people can lose billions within seconds isn't bannable despite hostile actions as infiltration/spying etc. Idk... It just seems funny to me.

I happen to be one of those pirate scum that goes around killing pretty much anything that moves unless it's blue of course :3. I dont like to say this either that much but most of the people who live in Low Sec any more unless they are actual pirates are pretty much carebears (sorry derogatory word plz dont report me). FW and the amount of these carebears moving into low sec will start crying and carrying on in local about how you just ripped a ship out of their little fingers which usually results in a few cuss words and posting links in local.

Read further down. I have put in support tickets etc. I still think it's time to try getting support from the community is all.

How goes the saying, "Pirates-¦ tears best tears", is that correct?

But anyway, I once heard that the pirate that is truly to be feared is the one that does not need to smacktalk and generally spam faecal matter in local but remains silent... before AND after he gets his job done. I guess that was just a dirty lie.
Or perhaps this kind of pirate has just silently gone the way of the Dodo....

The word EXPLOIT is entirely overused.

I think the EULA exploit is the fact that people who cuss themselves or post dirty links themselves report people who kill them on a regular basis just so they get banned.

I only petition death threats, because profanity laced tears of impotent rage are what helps fuel the New Order. But I also never cuss or even blasphem anyone's religious icon, nor post links to ****. Not because they are against the EULA, but because they are not befitting a gentleman. That said, you don't want to be the nail the ban hammer pounds, don't violate the EULA. Don't bot, don't macro, don't post ****, don't threaten to kill people IRL over some blown up pixels.

Eve chat is so perverse that I would not allow my children to play until they're old enough that they don't have to do what I say any more. Why just a couple of days ago I got to learn about forced copulation of an opening normally excretory in nature in an Eve mail. Even if the average age of an Eve player is over 18, they aren't all adults and I'm glad there is at least some check on totally obscene behavior that could constitute a threatening environment for some players.

So carry on EULA, continue to keep Eve chat/mail's head just above the cesspool instead of in it.

You don't really have a leg to stand on here. If you break the rules by posting **** in local, you deserve what ever ban you get. I mean, do you honestly expect people whom you just ganked too fight fair?


Now, the null sec fad of using spies too report people in the enemy fleet for posting fleet ****...

That's just WRONG :(.

Links are a whole other story... Should probably keep those out of local. I will agree with that. People cuss everywhere. Whether it be in public when you're walking in a store or what have you. What are you gonna do to them? Report them to the police for having a potty mouth?

I highly support this thread and believe OP will succeed in removing all forms of trashtalk from online media with his well laid out thoughts.

All problems and issues related to the use of profanity can be totally and completely eliminated by not using it.

Its the people that dont cuss or link dirty pics in local that scare me.

I'm gonna take a stab here that the OP has no understanding what crude language is acceptable and what crude language is not. AKA we're not getting the whole story of posting goatsie links in local or using racist/homophobic language in local.

I'm an adult and quite capable of choosing which games I play and what links I click and what I chose to read and listen to, thank you OP.

I don't need CCP or anyone else to help me out with that.

You should also be quite capable of understanding this: Their game, their rules.

Complaining about it isn't going to change it. Especially complaining about it here.

So here's the solution. Or what I think a solution to this problem is. Most MMOs out there have a language filter. Maybe CCP should finally invest in putting this into the game that can be turned on and off depending on the players preference.

I will vote for this if I can tailor it to turn off all talk in local from alliances with verbal Diarrhea

That's exactly what I'm talking about. Have it as an option in General Options to have a chat filter on or not. Which will mean that people can't report you for cussing in local because you messed up etc.

At first I was very confused what this thread was all about. But now I see that it is a request for more protection of us by CCP in this great game.

As I understand it, the op is requesting the following enhancements to the game:

1. Removal of local and all other chats until proof is submitted that the player is of the age of majority in his local area. The easiest proof is the monthly demand for the manual entry of a credit card number to pay for this game. A faxed drivers'license should also be required to setup an account.

2. Automatic filtering of in-game chat.

3. Automatic warnings for anyone who attempts to link or post hate, anti-gay, religious, political, etc content.

Because such sweeping changes need to be tested first, the first group of beta testers should be the TEST alliance.

Sorry, but even with a chat filter there would be some language off-limits. This is true of every game that implements a chat filter. You still get banned for racism, homophobia and other such-like verbal diarrhea.

How about this brilliant million-dollar idea? If you tend to say things that are ban-worthy, practice keeping your fat mouth shut.

Mumble is voice, so perhaps some people don't know how to read.

Whatever this is about I don't care and I didn't read it. I just like to post.