Can someone confirm timestamps between the Tweet and the start of this thread? It looks like 7 minutes to me but I could be wrong.

What the ****, man?

We all know lots of players in EVE are jerks in game.
Over the past five years I would find my self asking how much of it do they carry outside the game?
https://twitter.com/The_Real_Gevlon/status/463002069989736448
I think this pretty much sums it up.

vandalizing the monument is way overboard. These are "adults" doing this really pretty sad.
I think if it is found out who the player(s) are they are vandalizing the monument the related EVE accounts should be perma ban.
And as well as punished based on the countries laws of vandalism.

Poor taste.

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?

Why are you so surprised? EvE is above all a deep game. Yet 80% of the players never will know as they are only able to see they can grief and seek victory in 'colecting tears'. Tears are not a value in market, not betters your dps, nor... anything at all in game. It affects the feelings of the other persone who feels grieved, sometimes a lot.

I know so many times this has being discused and even fought. But the point here is not in game but irl, the kind op people is playing EvE and why are they attracted to it.

I started playing in 2008 and I have seen this game getting worse and worse at the player base no matter the tremendous efforts from CCP to create an incredible scy-fi universe for us to inhabit, conquer, warfare or the miriad of activities possible only here.

Nope, I am not surprised at all because of what this subnormals did to the monument.

Any word on how much that real life e-peen monument cost to build?

You clearly have never been to a player gathering if you think this is what the eve fanbase is like.

Lets add another bit
During pub crawl I tried to snag one of the sweet polar beer hats (seriously did you guys tack weld those things to your skulls?)
I ended up gettng my arm jammed out of socket, a submission hold, some one trying to choke me in a restraint, a rather sizable bruise on my arm and a shaved knuckle

I ended up being tracked down and apologized to by the hat defenders the next day.

So here is something that by all rights they acted as they should in defending their leader's hat and they came and managed to find and apologize to me.

And you say its normal to deface property from this?

Incidentally the airplane seats did more damage and I am currently restricted in how my back moves due to that
zero g harnesses when?

Oh and the punch to the head QI got when I started switching peoples hats when they went for the flags

I think I have a thing for hats when I drink
Still beat most of you though with the not having a hangover bit despite drinking more tequila than you

How hard is it to scratch anodized aluminium?

Visited the monument at about 6PM on the 5th to find my name and there's a bunch of scratches around it ( http://media.fyre.co/fTAYkHPlTqk6TfYP2bjL_nyphur.jpg ). It looks accidental though and it'll probably buff out, I'm just annoyed at myself for not getting a photo earlier before it was scratched up. How hard is it to scratch anodized aluminium?

Ha! I love The Mittani's voiced disgust on that Twitter post, because we all know he's a man of such high moral fiber.

Yes, it's vandalism. No, it shouldn't have happened. Yes, it's a **** move.

Any word on how much that real life e-peen monument cost to build? Like someone said before, it's a monument to a bank account dressed up as an homage to players. Personally, I'd rather have WiS and new shiny ships than a monument. I'm sure some people let go after that 20 million euro loss would rather have jobs, too.

The point is that the focus here should be the fact that an Eve player committed an act of vandalism at Fanfest, not that an Eve player committed an act of vandalism on a phallic e-peen video game monument. All these comments like, "Oh, you're such a horrible person" and "You should be beaten severely" are just as ridiculous. Get over yourselves and your bleeding hearts. Someone scratched someone's name out on a chunk of metal, and while it's rude, classless, and petty, people are rude, classless, and petty every single day. Go to any major city and see graffiti ruining facades of historic, MEANINGFUL landmarks and cultural treasures. It's a travesty.

This is not. This is a crime, and should be dealt with as such. People have made other people literally cry in Eve, yet we all love "the tears". Scratch someone's name on a monument, post it on Twitter, and people will actually call you the famous German dictator. Go ahead...check it out...it's in the comment section of the Twitter post.

Let's get this straight: it's fine to torment people in-game to the point of tears or extreme bouts of rage, yet scratch someone's name out on a monument (again, it's a crime...but you're treating it as a crime against humanity) and all of a sudden you're outraged and all take the moral high ground.

Got it.

Let CCP clean it up and charge the guy who did it. Everyone else should save their ever-present outrage and go blow up more spaceships. "It's just the internet" doesn't apply anymore. Being a **** is being a ****, wherever you are.

What defines a MEANINGFUL landmark is relative to how the person feels about it. For example, I may not give two ***** about the Statue of Liberty, but some one else may see it in a more personally meaningful way. It isn't my place or anyone else to say otherwise. We all take different landmarks and monuments differently than others.

Yes it is a crime, but to the people who this monument commemorates its is indeed an insult to their accomplishments. As said, it isn't for you to define if this is indeed meaningful or not, and if it really bothers you that much that others do, then the solution seems quite simple...ignore it.

Can you imagine if someone really did serious damage to it? Not just scratched it, blew it sky high. I can see the headlines:

'Eve Monument Ganked, Greifer tells CCP/Judge 'HTFU'.'

Scratching a monument is *just like* a terrorist attack.

I wrote a lengthy thing about how you were wrong, but realized ISD would freak with that much explosives information on the forums.

In an nutshell, the sort of thing a terrorist would use wouldn't have much effect on it, it would take specialized equipment. Iceland being what it is, there's not a whole lot of explosives and their precursors floating around.

How hard is it to scratch anodized aluminium?

I saw a tacobell, thats enough
Also arent there plenty of fermenting foods?
What if the monument is over a forgotten shark?