The irony though is that the people that elect the CSM and continually manipulate you developers are the same people who don't spend any money on the game, because they are advanced enough to earn their PLEX, while hard working newbros such as myself, who have put thousands of dollars into the game get the shaft, and it's not cool. you should start listening more to the people who feed your family and keep a roof over your head.

One of the great things about EVE is the "hook". Also why DUST is failing.

EVE is the only game around where there is a sandbox where you can play sociopaths in space, scammer extraordinaire, megalomaniac that commits war crimes, super spy that takes down empires, robber who specializes in thefts, cruel pirate, economy shaping market warlord, etc.

These are the things that make EVE better than any other game out there for those that enjoy interacting in a world with those archtypes. Ships in space while a niche, is not truly the niche that makes EVE excel. It is the broad and deep and endless possibilities of the sandbox itself.

In general the Goon position is for an expansive sandbox as possible. Scamming is not my playstyle of choice and I have never participated in it, but I do love the new stories and drama it generates. Impersonation is a cornerstone of many scams and I would not like to see that leave EVE.

Do you understand that your little translation runs counter to the themes, mechanics, and rules that this game was designed around and spent ten years enjoying? Do you understand that CCP have explicitly made it a selling point of this game that in the quest for your own personal gain and entertainment you can kick over someone elses sandcastle?

I hope you do, otherwise you might be playing the wrong game to begin with.

Those scams should be stopped , other scamms already bad enough , lots of new bros who got scammed the first week are going and never return.

I like the servers go online a decade more, eve always had a nice position in the mmo sc-fi genre , that wouldnt be long tho

really good change

Or maybe, impersonation became so pervasive that CCP got tired of dealing with the problems that it creates.

The new rule does more to mirror RL than anything else .

Translation: It's like one player can't fck over the other no more!

I think it's hilarious! The amount of tears coming from people who play the game in the vilest manner and are the lowest form of scum in the game are crying because they're going to have to move up one rung up the ladder descending directly into the poop chute of Eve, it's plain simple hilarity!

With that said, I'm also not one for lots of rules and especially those that are so vague that simply having a name similar to another toon might get me banned for no other reason than being here. *shakes head*

CCP uses this image to market the game. The ability to be bad is literally a selling point.

To some, be the villain means "Only engage in piracy in low/null, where combat is expected and consented to. All ransoms must be honored. Targets will be verified if newb or not, and if newb, they'll be left alone.

Scamming, awoxing, ganking, bumping, and nonconsensual wardecs are not things that an isolated from humanity, immortal, hypercompetitive posthuman being with no effective limits on their behaviour (as according to lore) would do.

Star Trek is the future, man.



On that note, some of you guys need to go pick up The Empyrean Age, a book written about the EVE universe. The Broker is a capsuleer (sorta), and he pulls crap that make some of these complaints look tame. THAT'S the vision CCP has for the EVE universe.

me...only to see them leave fairly quickly for a combination of two influences; the complexity of the game coupled with what they felt was a needless level of paranoia caused by the constant worry that someone, anyone, everyone, is trying to steal your stuff.

I know you didn't seriously recommend someone pay for those books. I did and I feel eternal shame for it. They are that bad.

The game is about space ships, asteroids, pew pew, stations, fighting.........but don't some of you get the impression that the game is becoming defined by how ****** you can treat other players?

I've tried to bring several people into the game...only to see them leave fairly quickly for a combination of two influences; the complexity of the game coupled with what they felt was a needless level of paranoia caused by the constant worry that someone, anyone, everyone, is trying to steal your stuff.

Which is why we survive and why they didn't. We are stronger than them and can deal with it.

in my own defense, I've read C.S. Groto and Matt Ward books.

The game is about space ships, asteroids, pew pew, stations, fighting.........but don't some of you get the impression that the game is becoming defined by how ****** you can treat other players?

So much forgetting that CCP owns all aspects of EVE, including every single thing that happens on the server.

None of it, not even your accomplishments in-game, are technically yours at all.

THAT is the way it's always been. They have the right to declare whatever they want to declare.

You agree to this idea when you accept the EULA.

If you like it not, there are plenty of other elaborate time wasters out there.

Now, complain when they truly act like EA, like trying to turn the ultimate solo game ever, SimCity, into an MMO.

THEN complain all you want.