If my brother did that I'd rip on him every day for the rest of my life.

And vice versa.

And neither of us would do it because we have an atom of self respect.

So, if you think that the "perpetrator" of this "scam" needs to be punished, or if you are in the "something has to be done!" category of people? Congratulations, you are what is wrong with civilized society.

While I am here, do we have any internet doctors, and maybe any internet quantum physicists

I wouldn't do it, neither. But I can think of many ways in which a human being can't avoid doing that kind of thing because of pre-existing conditions beyond his control.

Regardless of where this case goes, and whether or not the game actually is full of sociopaths (and I'm more worried about the ones who get elected to office), it's only a matter of time before "some kid kill himself". Sure the game will be involved, and there will never be enough evidence to fully blame it, and the kid him or herself will not be operating on all cylinders to begin with.

But the facts won't be enough to stop first the impression of the "half paying attention" public ( keeping the news on while they do other stuff and are not really paying attention) to go away with the impression "Eve makes kids kill themselves" and there will be politicians - the real sociopaths - doing what sociopaths do best, which is to legislate in such manner that they appear to care about the public so they can get reelected.

Whatever the case, it won't be friendly to the game, the player base, and CCP.

Here's a little story I found on miner bumping.

In the seemingly endless and bizarre search for tears in this game, a complete noob at Eve was humiliated and scammed for everything he had by Erotica1 and friends, including members of New Order / Code. This noob was invited to Erotica's 'Bonus Room' on teamspeak with promises of receiving 7bil+ if he handed over all his noob assets, with further conditions of:

- gathering all assets, including as many corp assets as he could lay his hands on and handing them over
- demanding on Teamspeak he sang (in front of his wife and kids that you could hear next to him) either '*****' by Garbage, some brony theme song as well as other idiotic ideas. The noob pleaded with them not to humiliate him by making him sing this in front of his kids.

The eager noob then agreed to read a random page out of wikipedia, with plans to spend his 7 billion winnings on gametime. After 5 minutes of reading out the page he was then scammed out of all his assets.

You need to hear this to for yourself. 45.28 is where it properly starts. https://soundcloud.com/fancy-space-tourist/happy-miner-payout

It's not just the fact he was a noob; it's the way the guy was completely humiliated with attempts by the scammers to humiliate him even more in front of his small children. Never heard anything so sickening in any game. You guys are F'ing idiots and sociopaths.

Yeah when some miner goes on a kill crazy rampage, CCP will probably have to remove mining for the game.

Or maybe make people take a test to prove they can handle it or something I guess?

I wouldn't do it, neither. But I can think of many ways in which a human being can't avoid doing that kind of thing because of pre-existing conditions beyond his control.

I can think of only one, and luckily, being a greedy fool isn't yet a protected class.