Honestly, I'm shocked by the response in this thread. I thought we tried to have a welcoming community here.

yeah thats what i thought, guy is only a trial account, could have potential to be a good pvp pilot but instead of advice he gets flamed from post #1 not really a good impression

Yeah, I realized something was wrong when Sabriz had the most welcoming post on the front page of a "GRR CODE" thread.

Yeah, I realized something was wrong when Sabriz had the most welcoming post on the front page of a "GRR CODE" thread.

Sadly I think that's actually more common than we think here in NQ&A.

But people will always do what they're allowed to get away with.

I used to enjoy posting help in this subsection a bit, but would often find myself too distracted by the flamey or arrogant responses from some vets and ultimately just end up in arguments with them myself more than actually making helpful posts. That's not fun or helpful so I just gave up posting in the end, unless I see a question that's directly related to what I enjoy in EVE so I can contribute something useful.

Not that I've contributed anything useful at all in this one ... but I've just been in a spammy mood today.

It just happens.

Internet detectives FTW? :D

Have to give the OP credit though, for a troll, they did fairly well at concealing their trollyness.

to promote your change-Eve-to-be-what-I-want-it-to-be agenda

I've spent years coming to this forum offering advice and encouragement to players with a genuine desire to get better at Eve. This is not one of those cases. This is just another rant about how after a couple days of playing Eve, someone with an over-inflated sense of entitlement has decided that he knows how to 'fix' Eve....fix rules that have existed the entire time Eve has been in existence.

Nonsense like 'open PvP is okay....but' should be called out and mocked. Basically saying- 'the rules everyone has played by for 12 years are fine...as long as they don't apply to me'. I have no tolerance for that. We all came to the same game, with the same rules. If you don't like those rules then don't play the game.

It's not an insult to suggest this isn't the game for some people. If you can't survive a trial account without taking to the forums soaking in tears, then clearly Eve is the wrong choice of games. Thats why they offer a trial account. It's only going to get worse once you have something valuable to lose. It's not my fault if that honest appraisal hurts some gamer's ego too much to admit that maybe another game is more your style than Eve is. Nor is it the responsibility of the devs to alter a game from it's very core mechanics simply because some people cannot go a couple days without crying like a school girl with a skinned knee over the same mechanics that tens of thousands of other players managed to survive for over a decade. Eve is easier now than it ever has been...and still it's not enough dumbing down and hand holding for some.

Being extorted, scammed, or blown up is not unique to any one player- yet tens of thousands of us manage to play Eve without having to cry to the devs when someone actually engages in multiplayer online gaming..in a multiplayer online game. Don't cry when someone role plays, in a role playing game. Even if the role they choose is 'bad guy'.

What is insulting is the notion that difficulty and adversity is a 'problem' with Eve. For many players it is exactly this concept that attracted us to Eve in the first place. For many of the longest term and most dedicated players- Eve is a destination. It's where we came to when we got tired of swimming in the shallow end of gaming with kiddie games like WoW. If that's the type of game you want- there are lots out there to choose from. But there is only one game like Eve Online. If you don't like the game that Eve is...fine... but don't assume that your inability to handle the rules and mechanics is universal. Way too many of us managed to survive and prosper under those same (or harsher) rules for over a decade.
It's not the game...it's YOU.

he said he was in a rookie system and if he is being extorted in rookie systems then its against the rules. im all for eve but punching puppies is a bit a d!ck move, doesnt matter how you paint it, the most self-entitled people in eve are code.

he said he was in a rookie system and if he is being extorted in rookie systems then its against the rules. im all for eve but punching puppies is a bit a d!ck move, doesnt matter how you paint it, the most self-entitled people in eve are code.

Doesn't sound like he was in a rookie system to me, he says he was in an 0.8 system.

Its still not allowed as its a career system

Also is it bad that I've a funny feeling this thread is a troll?

Possibly, or it could just be someone that came here with their only gaming experience being in games where setbacks are relatively minor ('restart this level, kiddo') and only inflicted by poor AI high stat opponents.

I am in .8 space, academy, Clellinon

i dunno probably just another propaganda post from a code alt, i just like creating conflict

List of systems CODE. should avoid

I dont think it matters what they are doing in the system, they are not allowed to do it at all

I gotta agree, player has only been in EVE three days. If he's gone, he's gone, his loss. But I'm not going to push him out the door so quickly, certainly not from NCQA.

EVE is unlike anything on the market right now for the most part. There were some like EVE but they're gone, mostly (mixed pvp/pve openworld). Most mmo players now a days only know games like WoW, which is sad since that's all they know. Most of those I doubt can adapt, or even want to, or would not even try a game like EVE. Been playing graphical muds... er mmo's for 20 years, and I know three days to adapt is just not possible in any game, especially in EVE.

Even years of playing EVE, from my first login in 2004, to today where I'm committed (there were other games like EVE back then), I still have difficulty adapting to certain changes. In fact I'm still pretty angry with the mini-game junk added to exploration, and I refuse to adapt, but just do something else.

Should I ragequit? Nope. Everyone here has likely been through something that made them pretty friggen angry, even if for a little while, if having been here any time at all. You said all kinds of crap whatever, to whoever, no one cares. Thing is eventually you picked up your weapon and got even, and that's what counts. Someone screwed with you and you screwed them back, that's EVE, maybe they think twice next time at least with you. In other games players hide behind the system and grief you, you can't do much of anything back. Here, you can put your time in and then hunt CODE. until you are good and satisfied if that's your prerogative. Ain't no BS here.

entitled carebear and waaaah etc etc? Did I just step into GD?


Get to know the game a little before uninstalling. Lucks.

Shifted on my lazy butt and did some checking. It's not CODE. (as some implied originally based on "code bandit") It's just a player named Codebandit with another corp/alliance. This didn't happen in the system the OP said here, happened in Luse (twice 30m apart) to a character named Cuzin Boneless not Cusin Boneless. OP, this isn't your character that got ganked, you dudn't even know how to spell it's name ...nor know the correct system? erm...

edit: and I'm not saying he's a troll or not, just that his story doesn't fully check out. Easy mistake by a newbie, or intended oversight by a troll. But where it happens is important in this game, regardless if the person attacked was a newbie or not. It's also to note in case anyone got the impression, this did not happen to the OP. Nor was CODE involved. Nor happened in a protected system.

Also note, OP, the player got right back up and went out again, to the same place. You can search his name on google to zkillboard. To go right back again, seems the player really didn't have any serious issue with it.

Didn't know there were any 0.8 career systems.

Seems to me nothing actually happened to the op other than that message which obviously when the op thought about it and its implications he decided he didn't like the game as it was or at least the dark side of the game. Or did I miss something?


Edit:

So I did miss something.

Clellinon 0.8 system
Akiainavas 0.7 system
Both with career agents.

That surprises me if they originally started out that way.

Those instincts.