The kind of player who takes the game way too seriously, winds up digging up your personal information, then contacts your mother on Facebook to tell her what a bad person you are so she can call you on the phone in tears about the awful comments she just got about you from some random on the internet. Meanwhile, you also get a personal email from them naming your mother and sister by name, along with their address, warning you that if you continue to blow up their ships in this game about blowing up ships, they'll be paying your mother and little sister a visit.

While intimidating, it doesn't make me want to quit EVE or even stop shooting them. It makes me want to shoot them more, as a matter of fact, knowing that the cybercrimes division of my local CIB is all over it once I file a report and provide the evidence, along with IP addresses of the emails and the messages sent to my mother.

Otherwise, I'm not intimidate by gameplay. No one should be. It's a game, not a job. You're only going to be intimidated if you do take it too seriously.

Carnies. Circus folk. Nomads, you know. Smell like cabbage. Small hands.

wat.

The only way any other player can have access to that kind of data (including your e-mail address) is if you give it to them, or make easy to google search down.

So, explain to us: how did the big bad mean player get your personal e-mail address?

You'd have to ask them. And if you think those are the only means one can go about acquiring personal information, you are missing some much needed education on the resolve of an internet stalker. You needn't worry about it though, the police had a nice little chat with the folk who did it, and so did a judge.

The point of my post was to call out the kind of person that would do this, over a few pixels, regardless of how they got the information.

The really pathetic thing is people with that kind of resolve & skill could be earning mega-bucks in Private Investigative work, instead of using it to harass & intimidate people & their families over stupid computer game stuff.

Is this now the Remiel-Pollard-thread?
Some people never change, I guess.

What kind of player do you find to be the most intimidating and puts you on edge? When you see this type of player in local, what makes you say "Wow this guy is hard core, I am docking up / leaving system. Is it the 0.0 alliance FC alt scout, the low-sec pirate backed by a heavy super cap presence, the 0.0 NPC PvP dweller. Which is it and why?