I was just doing the sister's of eve quest and someone came and stole a guy I needed from a can. What are my options? I offered to buy the guy off him for a couple million, but as usual pirates always want the big score which is why they are always broke, and he asked for 20 mil. Not paying 20 mil for one part of a 50 part quest.

Can I petition it to get a replacement, or will it reset after downtime?

There is nothing to petition here - its part of the game mechanics in the same way that can-flipping is.

The mission won't reset as it has been properly completed i.e. the item has been scooped. As already suggested you can either pay his ransom, buy a replacement off the market, use an alt to get the mission again or fail the mission.

What is this "1 item" you needed. Many players have extras and usually to kill the mission quick, have them on hand.

Declare war on the person and make the lives of his corpmates a misery for a week.

Sometimes brakes on cars are bad when they leave the factory. Thats part of the mechanics too. But they recall them and fix them.

Sometimes brakes on cars are bad when they leave the factory. Thats part of the mechanics too. But they recall them and fix them. Stuff life this costs CCP more money then I think they will ever truly be able to fathom. Leaves a bad taste in a person's mouth to pay to be annoyed. Honestly it would be better to just remove concord so the guy could have attacked me and taken my stuff. At least something productive would have taken place then for someone. As it stands now this was nothing but a complete waste of time for everyone involved.

Its not on the market, and there is only 1 on contract for 40 million. Just gunna get on an alt and do the quest up until that point and trade the item to my other character. Luckily its early in the quest.

if they don't, they're probably hiding a knife behind their backs.

Yes, but we both know that this is Eve and it's working as intended.

D: whyyy

Hey OP, by any chance was the person who stole your item Grinder2210?

Which is why subscriber growth for this game has been anemic at best over the years and the player base is miniscule in comparison to almost all other mildly successful MMOs. Additionally CCP just laid off a large portion of their staff and lost a large percentage of their subscribers because they actually paid money to hire "thought experts" that told them to charge 80 dollars or whatever absurd amount they charge for a monocle.

There is a saying in school that 5% of your students cause 95% of your problems, and the same holds true in eve, but in eve for some reason they cater to the 5%. The only explanation I have ever been able to come to is that CCP truly wants no mass appeal whatsoever. They explicitly want to be a niche market.

I am all for pvp, and conflict, and fighting, and strategy, and interesting game play. However, when I am just relaxing and looking for something low key to do, and I decide to log in to eve and do a nice slow pace quest to pick up a little faction, and some guy roles up and steals my quest item and then tries to get me to pay a ridiculous amount for it, thats just annoying. It doesn't add to game play in any way. I can't see it being particularly entertaining for the guy that did it, unless he has some real issues, and its just pointless in every way. I guess I just have a problem with pointless things.

If he was attacking my POS, hey I get it. We are fighting over resources. If he attacks me in low sec I get it, he wants my stuff. If he is undercutting me on the market I get it, he wants to outsell me. If he infiltrates my corp and steals our stuff great, he is personally enriching himself.

Rolling in and stealing my janitor, then me offering 2 million, and him asking for 20 mil, and him not even making a counter offer, just a total waste of time for everyone involved. This also leads me to wonder, why the hell won't people of the pirate ideology ever negotiate? The guy probably could have gotten me up to 4 mil or so, I could have moved on with my quest, he would be 4 mil richer, but I offer 2, he asks for 20, and then nothing. Just a complete waste. Waste of an evening, waste of a game, waste of 15 bucks. Just a waste.

Which is why subscriber growth for this game has been anemic at best over the years and the player base is miniscule in comparison to almost all other mildly successful MMOs. Additionally CCP just laid off a large portion of their staff and lost a large percentage of their subscribers because they actually paid money to hire "thought experts" that told them to charge 80 dollars or whatever absurd amount they charge for a monocle.

However, when I am just relaxing and looking for something low key to do, and I decide to log in to eve and do a nice slow pace quest to pick up a little faction, and some guy roles up and steals my quest item and then tries to get me to pay a ridiculous amount for it, thats just annoying. It doesn't add to game play in any way.

Rolling in and stealing my janitor, then me offering 2 million, and him asking for 20 mil, and him not even making a counter offer, just a total waste of time for everyone involved.

No

Then you clearly don't belong in EVE.

CCP had to lay off 20% of it's workforce because they decided to go the route of cashop+captin's cubicle.

Since crucible the PCU has been steadily climbing like it has every year since the game launched. If they went carebear like you apparently want, then they'd drive off their core base and wind up closing the servers within 3 months; just like SWG with their NGE.

The first two aren't really true and the last item on your list has nothing to do with this. In fact, unlike pretty much every other MMO, EVE has had constant growth for nearly a decade straight (until CCP simply forgot about the game for a year). The reason it managed to do that is because it has constantly offered something no other game offers and since it constantly generates these big splashy stories about the big heists where some dastardly person screwed over some poor hapless victim. This is just an extension of that.

It is also entirely in keeping with the overall theme of EVE and adds an element of PvP to your missions.

Nah. Some people will simply pay the price, and if not, they can auction it off later. ISK in the wallet either way.