It's called "bot aspirancy".

Which seems to have quite the nebulous definition.

The definition is not nebulous, the subject it covers is broad.

Which seems to have quite the nebulous definition.

I can understand those who gank to get isk and for fun just to kill, but why is the community so against players who auto pilot around because they want play on the main will flying from point A to point B automatically? One of my alts was killed today in a shuttle and I got a mail saying I shouldn't autopilot and how butt hurt I should be because he killed my shuttle not my pod or anything else but my shuttle in a thrasher. So what is the problem with it? It is a feature the game allows so why are players so butt hurt when they see other players using it to fly around?

The Thrasher can be fit for fast lock and will one-volley a shuttle. It is therefore more than possible to pop the pod as well before CONCORD arrives on scene. There are pilots who pipe-stalk between Incursion focuses with the express intent of popping high value pods.

Not that I used to treat shuttles as abalative armour for my pod in that manner... and now use a Jag.

I dont think gankers HATE auto-piloters. it is a game feature after all.
it is just that auto-piloters make extremely easy gank targets, but since most gankers are lowlife scum with no sense of selfworth, they come up with excuses why they gank autopiloters to make them feel better about themselves. ridding EVE of bots blah blah blah. go scout out mining belts and take out isboxers. sure CCP condones it because each box is one more PLEX, but most other mmorgs ban for such activities.

Far from it, if you take the time to consider it.

Here's an idea... AP turns off if scrambled. Another hobby for griefers to just aggro and scram AP freighters to make them stop...

I would hardly consider allowing a bot to do the work of a bot should be "bot aspirancy", if anything manually jumping 20 systems is bot aspirant.

but why is the community so against players who auto pilot around

See I have no problem with dieing because I auto piloted. None doesn't hurt me at all, just so confused as to why I'm the bad one due to auto piloting and is this a thing now that everyone hates auto pilots?

1. Don't mistake a few loudmouths on the forum with 'the community'. Certain people also post with several alts to give the impression that a certain general opinion exists.

2. Don't mistake the relatively few people that post here with the playerbase. Only a tiny fraction posts on the forum and doesn't represent the opinion of the the whole playerbase.

So why not kill my pod then? Like I stated in my post they only killed my shuttle in a thrasher, but not my pod? Then told me that I shouldn't Auto pilot around and I'm bad, because of?

Um, what?

I think you might have missed the whole concept. Because manually jumping 20 systems is absolutely not bot aspirancy. I honestly don't know where you got that from.

You don't go 100% tunnel vision when jumping gates? Given how impossible it is to catch a shuttle warping to 0 in high sec and how the destination is all that is of concern. If you actually pay attention to the universe around you, well, you are a far better pilot then me.

Any trash talk you're getting about autopiloting is coming from one of two groups:

Either the group of folks that don't like ANYONE that plays EVE differently than they do and feel a need to try to get everyone to play their way, or the group that feels some sort of need to justify ganking your shuttle.

Neither group really knows wtf they're actually on about, so pay them no mind.

Always fun to see how simple minded people reduce everything to two possibilities,
because actual reality is too hard for them to grasp.

Always fun to see how simple minded people reduce everything to two possibilities,
because actual reality is too hard for them to grasp.

There're always exceptions. Thanks for calling me simple minded.

So why not kill my pod then? Like I stated in my post they only killed my shuttle in a thrasher, but not my pod? Then told me that I shouldn't Auto pilot around and I'm bad, because of?