There is no way to "protect" against a guy in a thrasher undocking every 15 minutes to shoot autopiloting shuttles and pods. There is no way to "protect" against 40 man gank fleets in Uedama. There is no way to arrest people, put them on trial, and sentence them to 15 years in jail. The maximum punishment you can administer is destruction of ship and pod, which for gankers is laughably cheap.

Well, I don't get targeted because I am very good at what I do. The problem is that the new/casual players do get targeted and driven out of the game.

such as?
i spend a lot of my time in game suspect flagged so .
currently the 15 minuet timer is extended if i steal anything els or if i shoot at anyone's assets in space.
and fyi i get shot at by players at gates all the time if i travel with that timer (bears might be cowards but you run into all sorts at gates)

You shouldn't need "teeth" to operate in high security space. The police force should punish with enough force to deter the conduct. This means progressively more painful punishments for repeat criminals, and especially for those whose sole in game play is to commit crimes in highsec. Players in Eve are not law enforcement, they have no power to punish beyond destroying ship and pod, and since gankers can accomplish their goals with laughably cheap versions of those, it follows that player punishments have no tangible impact.

True, you might call them, oh...I don't know.... nullsec?

Why should highsec resemble those places? Why not have a range of police presence throughout space, and let people CHOOSE where they want to live? Kinda like now, but with much more severe consequences for committing crimes in highsec.

which should create some nice conflicts and power changes in nullsec at last.

Too many pages to back track to what this thread was about, I'm sure it was on about getting better ways to execute gankers.

Yes, the brilliant new analogy is now that mining in highsec is the same thing as walking in the middle of the street without looking.

I mean this is just crazy talk.

Mining AFK is like sitting in the park not paying attention.

Precisely, there are thugs in the park, and I still don't pay attention. The expectation is that the police handle these matters and protect the public.

Appearantly this thread needed another 130+ pages of squabbeling fishwives...

Good job folks

I wonder what his opinion of Grand Theft Auto multiplayer is?

I don't understand your point. If CCP removes awoxing, that is the legal ability to shoot corp mates in highsec, by adding a CONCORD response (although the exact change is probably still under discussion), then shooting a corp mate is exactly the same as suicide ganking. This will severely limit the types of ships that can be destroyed by an awoxer before CONCORD arrives, and makes the whole endeavour (sneaking into a corp to damage it) moot as the attacker will loose their ship exactly the same way as if they did not join the corp in the first place.

I don't like the time-based skill system. Instead I wish we all got X number of skill points, and we could drop 1-5 points into any skills we wanted.

Maybe it's an idea for EVE 2? I just hate waiting weeks or months for a skill to train. I love everything else about EVE.

YOU are what's wrong with Eve. Goodbye.