Stealing the idea from my local graveyard maint. guys, in fact. They've started sealing text on grave markers with plexi, coz dimbulbs have been defacing headstone test for lulz.

So, there's a couple of things going to happen in this thread right now:

• First - People are going to stop pointing fingers and blaming people. CCP will investigate and take any action against game accounts, along with any legal action that we feel necessary. This is already in progress.
• Second - This is damage of public property in the City of Reykjavik. The police have been informed, and investigation is ongoing. This is not a laughing matter, and will be dealt with as a criminal offence. We are currently reviewing security footage from a number of surrounding buildings.
• Third - People will stop attacking the victim of this on our forums. It's not funny, it's not clever. Take your rumor mongering and personal attacks away from our community. If you choose not to, you'll be removed from the community, permanently. It's a simple as that. We will not tolerate victimization.

What's happened is absolutely disgusting. It's an insult to the entire community and is clearly the work a person who believes that behavior in a virtual world is a valid reason to make a real life personal attack on someone, and deface public property.

We will not tolerate this.

Thankfully we've already had a number of players come forward to assist us and provide information. Including, we believe, members of the person's own alliance.

Thankfully the vast majority of the rest of the community are in the same frame of mind as CCP - disgusted at the fact that someone would do this, and we're extremely grateful for your assistance.

With that in mind, I'll make a simple one time offer, that if the person who defaced the monument wants to come forward and contact me relating to this, then they can do so by EVE mailing my Dev character. If this happens, we'll take it as a gesture of good faith after an extremely stupid act that was committed.

With this in mind, be sure to keep this thread on topic, and cut out the personal attacks and finger pointing. People who break the rules will lose their forum posting privileges. Permanently.

Thanks.

Sooo...this is all about the whole scracth thing right?

What happened to the Goon-sticker that somebody put on the monument? Was it removed?

Ninjaedit: Also great response CCP, please make sure this idiot gets caught.

All I can say is look at your fellow players, and tell me with a straight face you are surprised one of them did this?

All I can say is look at your fellow players, and tell me with a straight face you are surprised one of them did this?

All I can say is look at your fellow players, and tell me with a straight face you are surprised one of them did this?

Andski wrote:

Yeah so everyone saying that this stuff happens because CCP allows scamming or suicide ganking or whatever is just completely and utterly wrong.

There is an Eve character by the name of 'everyone'

Do you mean he said it was all to do with scamming and suicide ganking?

Or did you mean everyone in a more general sense, apart from all those who said no such thing?

Please explain your weird comment.

All I can say is look at your fellow players, and tell me with a straight face you are surprised one of them did this?

He'd have to have pretty long arms considering he's from the US, and isn't in Iceland.

tell me with a straight face

Let's break it down for you

Some people in this thread have been saying that these incidents are the result of CCP's permissive attitude towards "sociopathic behavior" in their game.

I assume that "sociopathic behavior" refers to suicide ganking and scamming.

Those people are wrong because the waitstaff, bartenders, bouncers, maitres d' and others who have hosted EVE fans in their bars, restaurants and hotels tend to only ever have good things to say about the Fanfest attendees who patronize their businesses. They're wrong because these incidents aren't the norm at Fanfest.

That isn't to say that these people would complain to CCP about Fanfest attendees doing bad things in their restaurants, but the people of Reykjavik are quite closely-knit and word of EVE fans tearing **** up in bars and restaurants or checking out of hotels with their rooms torn to shreds and their credit cards cancelled would get around quickly.

Jeffrey Dahmer

I have removed some rule breaking posts and those quoting them. As always I let some edge cases stay.
Please people, keep it on topic and above all civil!

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Scratching a monument is *just like* being a serial killer.

His argument was that Eve does not breed sociopathic behavior because no one trashed the bar and hotel.

Even the most extreme example, like a serial killer, can function like every day people until something sets them off. His argument is invalid.

Where did you get your psychology degree?

My guess is a Claw Machine.

His argument was that Eve does not breed sociopathic behavior because no one trashed the bar and hotel.

Even the most extreme example, like a serial killer, can function like every day people until something sets them off, and even then don't usually just go berserk and start a killing spree.

His argument was that Eve does not breed sociopathic behavior because no one trashed the bar and hotel.

Even the most extreme example, like a serial killer, can function like every day people until something sets them off, and even then don't usually just go berserk and start a killing spree.

Erm, you do realise making statements like this make you look like you are completely off your ****, right?