Dear CCP,

After over 2 years of play, I will be cancelling my EVE sub at the end of July.

Today, I was ganked in high sec in a freighter - the freighter some people bought a PLEX for and donated that ISK to the corp so we could buy it.

It started when roughly 3 ships started to intercept me at a gate which kept knocking me of course and in turn prevented me from warping.
I was then asked for 300 mil in ISK for a GÇ£passGÇ¥ which I refused and to be frank I would actually call that a ransom.
After that someone else tried to contact me but I refused their chat invite and then 19 ships decided to take out me out.
The freighter was lost and so was our Orca which again was bought for by player donations. Over 2 billion in losses which our corp simply canGÇÖt afford to replace.

If that grief wasnGÇÖt enough one of the gankers then decided to join our open recruitment channel to then inform us (if we didnGÇÖt already know by this point) we had been ganked and then posted our kill reports to us. We were then informed that I should have indeed bought a GÇ£passGÇ¥. All this was in high sec on my way to Jita and to quite frank a little creepy.

EVE is demanding, and at times punishing, itGÇÖs part of the game but it is also very rewarding. We were hoping to set up POSGÇÖs to start moon mining and ice mining - something weGÇÖd been looking forward to for some time and building up towards it but with the loss of our only freighter and Orca it now means that our plan is on indefinite hiatus.
Just as we had started to get somewhere weGÇÖre pushed to the ground and now we just donGÇÖt feel like getting up again.

Concord just isnGÇÖt enough and did absolutely nothing. It doesnGÇÖt protect you against extortion so where were / are the in game mods? Or better yet why not have Honorary Concord Members who are players protecting players against attacks like this?

People will claim itGÇÖs part of GÇ£freedomGÇ¥ within the game but whereGÇÖs my freedom to be able to move from one high sec system to another and not being extorted for ISK?

I enjoy EVE, I bought the Second Decade set, the LE Source book and the LE Art of New Eden books so itGÇÖs like having to leave a club you enjoy going to because there is a large group making your time there unpleasant for you so to be honest itGÇÖs sad to go but unless we start again from the start, we have no way of moving forward.

Sorry for the moan but really, extorting ISK out of players is really a step too far.

Kind regards
Finn McCoul

People will claim itGÇÖs part of GÇ£freedomGÇ¥ within the game but whereGÇÖs my freedom to be able to move from one high sec system to another and not being extorted for ISK?

Just as we had started to get somewhere weGÇÖre pushed to the ground and now we just donGÇÖt feel like getting up again.

Over 2 billion in losses which our corp simply canGÇÖt afford to replace.

Concord just isnGÇÖt enough and did absolutely nothing. It doesnGÇÖt protect you against extortion so where were / are the in game mods? Or better yet why not have Honorary Concord Members who are players protecting players against attacks like this?

People will claim itGÇÖs part of GÇ£freedomGÇ¥ within the game but whereGÇÖs my freedom to be able to move from one high sec system to another and not being extorted for ISK?

Tempted to think this is a CODE alt

People will claim itGÇÖs part of GÇ£freedomGÇ¥ within the game but whereGÇÖs my freedom to be able to move from one high sec system to another and not being extorted for ISK?

Dear CCP,

After over 2 years of play, I will be cancelling my EVE sub at the end of July.

Today, I was ganked in high sec in a freighter - the freighter some people bought a PLEX for and donated that ISK to the corp so we could buy it.

It started when roughly 3 ships started to intercept me at a gate which kept knocking me of course and in turn prevented me from warping.
I was then asked for 300 mil in ISK for a GÇ£passGÇ¥ which I refused and to be frank I would actually call that a ransom.
After that someone else tried to contact me but I refused their chat invite and then 19 ships decided to take out me out.
The freighter was lost and so was our Orca which again was bought for by player donations. Over 2 billion in losses which our corp simply canGÇÖt afford to replace.

If that grief wasnGÇÖt enough one of the gankers then decided to join our open recruitment channel to then inform us (if we didnGÇÖt already know by this point) we had been ganked and then posted our kill reports to us. We were then informed that I should have indeed bought a GÇ£passGÇ¥. All this was in high sec on my way to Jita and to quite frank a little creepy.

EVE is demanding, and at times punishing, itGÇÖs part of the game but it is also very rewarding. We were hoping to set up POSGÇÖs to start moon mining and ice mining - something weGÇÖd been looking forward to for some time and building up towards it but with the loss of our only freighter and Orca it now means that our plan is on indefinite hiatus.
Just as we had started to get somewhere weGÇÖre pushed to the ground and now we just donGÇÖt feel like getting up again.

Concord just isnGÇÖt enough and did absolutely nothing. It doesnGÇÖt protect you against extortion so where were / are the in game mods? Or better yet why not have Honorary Concord Members who are players protecting players against attacks like this?

People will claim itGÇÖs part of GÇ£freedomGÇ¥ within the game but whereGÇÖs my freedom to be able to move from one high sec system to another and not being extorted for ISK?

I enjoy EVE, I bought the Second Decade set, the LE Source book and the LE Art of New Eden books so itGÇÖs like having to leave a club you enjoy going to because there is a large group making your time there unpleasant for you so to be honest itGÇÖs sad to go but unless we start again from the start, we have no way of moving forward.

Sorry for the moan but really, extorting ISK out of players is really a step too far.

Kind regards
Finn McCoul

Both his freighter and Orca probably had zero tank and were fitted with nothing but cargo expanders and/or astronomic mods.

These CODE alts are really going over the top with their "roleplaying"

- scouts
- web alts
- freighter alliances like Red Frog.
- keeping your eggs in more than one basket.
- knowing the ganker corps and alliances in known ganking trade route systems.
- closer trade hub

So many ways to do things better.
How did you take all the time to learn to fly that ship but not know any of these things?

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Thank you guys for some of your words of encouragement, yes I know not to fly what I can't afford to replace and all that stuff and "rage quitting" probably isn't the best way to go about it, nor was ranting over on the forums however I hope you can understand the feelings at the time.

Besides, I never expected kind comments in return and such but Carrie-Anne Moss took it to a whole other level. Thank you for all those words of advice Carrie.