I'm giving you ideas on how to get rid of him. How is that not constructive? And me not pointing out that you made the mistake of not having a plan in case he gets through your API check is an attack?

If he is afk he can't harm you now can he? The problem is that you can't tell if he is truly afk, so you need to have a plan when he comes back.


Here's what you can do:

1. Give in to his demands
He obviously wants something from you. Otherwise he wouldn't have a reason to stick around. If you cant get him to accept a convo then you will just have to mail him. Swallow your pride and strike up a deal for the terms of his departure.

2. Don't give in
If you or whomever accepted him can't swallow their pride and own up to making the mistake of accepting him and face the consequences then you could always bore him out. If he can't get what he wants he might grow bored and leave. Just ignore him and don't have anyone acknowledge him in corp.

3. Fight back
If giving in to his demands aren't acceptable and you want him out now, then the only other option is to kill him. Get something that he might attack and tank it out. Then get 3-4 other people in the following ships: a blackbird (to jam him out), 1 or 2 beefy cruisers (with the same type of tank), and a Exequror or a Scythe (depending on the beefy cruisers' tank), and face stomp him.


Your proposal is a major nerf to awoxxing. He took the time to scout out your corp for targets, get through a hopefully thorough recruitment process, get accepted, warp to the oblivious target, kill him, and survive any sort of a corp defensive response. He has gotten to this point and will probably now ask for a ransom to leave, but with your changes the people who have best case (failed at defending their corp and have learned their mistakes), or worst case (done nothing and complain about it) can just wait him out and with game mechanics kick him.

This is horrible idea because it rewards corps to lazy/incompetent to defend themselves from an easily avoided/dealt with threat.

Awoxxing is good for the game. It destroys bad corps. Bad corps are one of the biggest threats to player retention. New players look up to their CEO's and older members for guidance and protection. OP's corp didn't provide the latter and is now asking for changes so he doesn't have to deal with getting rid of him.

There are already effective ways of dealing with awoxxers. This proposed idea would harm the game more than it would help it by making awoxxing less meaningful, and give the victims less of a reason to adapt.

HTFU

How is my post trolling or so "simple" in your mind. Is it too unreasonable for corps to defend themselves? Too much to realize they made a mistake and can't handle the consequences of that mistake?

This idea is bad since it gives less of a reason for corps to do background checks since if they mess up the awoxxer will only be around for a few days before he is kicked.

Instead the OP could try out any of the ideas I've listed or beat him to after downtime. The person who awoxxed OP is putting in more effort than the OP is.

Why should his game play be nerfed?

I presume the reason is so you cannot boot someone who is in the process of attacking you.

Or, you could just bother screening your potential recruits.

Telling you all that you're wrong is not griefing. Especially not when I'm told such things like: "you people are a cancer on the game!"

So i take it he doesn't want to negotiate a ransom?

Also if you don't trust him to honor the ransom, find a third party (that you both can trust) to hold the ransom until he leaves. He leaves, then he gets his ransom. You both get what you want.

If he doesn't want a ransom just block him and ignore him. Have a corp wide order to act is if he isn't even in chat.

If he is using racist language CCP might give him a temp ban and you could kick him then. Not sure what is the line for CCP on racist comments.

Then there's what Kaarous suggested. Disband and reform. If your corp isn't that big it would be a quick and easy process. If it's too big to disband I'm going to guess you have directors that you can trust. Maybe one of them can get up early/lives in a different timezone and can kick him for you.

Don't know your situation, but if you keep on feeding him tears he's going to keep on doing what he's doing. You could have a special situation, and CCP might intervene on that, but just because your situation is special doesn't mean that the mechanic has to be changed. There are already plenty of tools to fight him. What your asking for is one tool that would make all the others obsolete. Having to deal with an awoxxer isn't fun, but making so you don't have to deal with him at all is broken.