I have been experiencing some rather harassment from a young man who seems to think I "stole" his corporation. About a year ago, shortly after I started playing EVE, I joined a corporation (I mean that is what they tell you to do in the tutorial). I was moseying through my first months of "life" and there was some trouble stirring in the corporation. The CEO was using corp funds for personal expenses. The corporation wa small and there was only one director (a very experienced and older toon); he gave each one of the members 1 share of corp stock and called a vote of no confidence. The young CEO was removed from power and the director took over. The director then had some real life issues and had to leave the game for a bit. I woke up and logged on one morning to find my UI was different. I checked my mail and there was a mail explaining the situation aand telling me I was the new CEO.
I took about a year off EVE (I have cancer and needed to recover from chemo/radiation). I came back about a month ago started receiving a number of harassing emails. I blocked the characters and went about my business. Everything was fine until a few days ago when my son logged on and he was upset by one of the emails that said this young man was "hunting me down" in two other video games and I should "stop corp hopping so I can F***ING KILL YOU".
I filed a petition with CCP as (in my opinion) someone going to the extent of going to other video games to seek retribution over negative consequences to his actions is disturbing and harassment. CCP then told me that there were no "real life threats" and they could do nothing. I then cancelled my accounts, uninstalled the client, changed the passwords, and asked CCP to cancel my accounts immediately. CCP then told me that they would not cancel my accounts immediately and that the actions I have taken should be sufficient to keep my son offline.
I did this for the protection of my son who is a high functioning teenage autistic. My son (as many autistic children are) is a technological genius; if he wants to get on EVE he can easily "hack" his way in. Keeping my son "in his box" per se is important to maintaining status quo.
When CCP would not cancel my acounts immediately or even give the young man who is harassing me and my family (in and out of EVE) a warning of some sort; I sent them a number of harassing messages through the petition in hopes of getting them to cancel the accounts immediately (I am simply trying to protect my son; I do not want to harass them, but sometimes "the squeaky wheel gets the oil"). I find it disheartening that CCP cares so little about this situation. I get that EVE is "hard and cold", and one of the reasons I play is the real risk you take in playing; I enjoy it. I however will not risk the well being of my son because a young man is holding a grudge and CCP will do nothing about it.
It is my hope through this post that either CCP will cancel my accounts or they will give this young man some kind of warning to the inappropriateness of his actions (in and out of EVE). If he wants to shoot me or my son in game; go for it. That is part of the game. Harassing me and my family is uncalled for though.
CCP, PLEASE DO SOMETHING! I do offer my sincere apology to GM Arcade for my inappropriate words yesterday; I am simply trying to protect my family. I would hope if you were in my shoes ou would do something similar.

"Train troll resistance to level V" -Montolio

So let me see here. In order to get rid of your accounts, which you've done perfectly well already, you became the type of person you are trying to "protect your son" from? Do I have that about right?

What I'm gathering out of this is "CCP, I can't even control my austistic son, change your policies just for me in case he 'hax' his way into the accounts I've shut down! Do my parenting NOW, CCP!" Close?

Oh, and one more thing.. if you cancelled, unsubbed, and shut down all your accounts.. how exactly are you posting? AIDS/10 on the troll attempt.

Fel, that is not what I am saying. Also, until you have dealt with an autistic child you have no idea what it is like. IF he wants to so do something he is going to do it.
As far as blocking the site from the router... that is a good idea and I may do that. I am concerned that he will just grab another wireless signal from his laptop and access one of the accounts.
Thank you all for the ideas. The help is much appreciated.

127.0.0.1 localhost

127.0.0.1 login.eveonline.com

Deryk, I have. IF my son wants to get on EVE he has written software to hack my passwords in the past... I would not be surprised if he did it again.

I don't know the level of knowledge that your son has about computers, but on windows machines there is a "hosts" file located at:

Fel, that is not what I am saying. Also, until you have dealt with an autistic child you have no idea what it is like. IF he wants to so do something he is going to do it.
As far as blocking the site from the router... that is a good idea and I may do that. I am concerned that he will just grab another wireless signal from his laptop and access one of the accounts.
Thank you all for the ideas. The help is much appreciated.

Not sure about the son but the "parent" seems to be very knowledgable on computers

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=38338#post38338

You done got trolled

okay see now that one would have deserved a dislike...

@ OP I say what you do is poke at the guy threatening you and goad him into making worse and worse threats with which CCP can get behind getting rid of him over.

And of course make sure to take note where the logs are (default saved to Documents/EVE/logs/chatlogs) and keep the mails and maybe even take screenshots of him making said threats in a channel and etc

Give CCP more ammo to work with

Well crafted troll or attempt to apply pressure to get a refund.

You be the judge.

I don't want a refund; they can keep my money. I just want my son protected.

I am not just acknowledging the advice I am putting it to use. I set the feedback loop, blocked eve from his IP and did nearly everything that anyone has suggested.
I have not yet gone out of the house to make sure that the password change is not key logged.
I am not attempting to troll anything.

Delete your characters. The guy who is harassing you will not be able to find you in Eve. Simply delete them. As a matter of fact, if you do that, you will not be posting any further in thread after the biomass timer ends. That is the easiest solution.

What about the other games you said he was harassing you in???

Dex was here.

I think your going a bit overboard here, your trying to block your son from playing Eve, because of 1 person?

A) Block the character from all your accounts, and your sons
B) Start new characters, so the person doesn't know who you are
C) Make a post in Crime and Punishment forum, and get someone to annoy his corp for a bit.

Really mate, you are uber paranoid over some e-nerds rage tears.

^^^this^^^

This is a game of people who like delivering a little "frontier justice" as it were.
People who get butthurt to the point of making RL threats of chasing people from game to game are particularly juicy targets since their rage tends to be of epic proportions.

If the OP ain't trollin'

I did petition it.

Ask to escalate to senior GM, mail ccp directly, send letter. Forums will NOT help you, forums are for players.

Also, you smell of troll.

I am sitting here with my finger over "biomass" for the last character, but this is something that he and I worked together on ... that doesn't happen often (that he is willing to be participative in a "shared" anything).
I think what I am probably most upset about is that CCP won't even give the guy a warning.

The OP isn't trolling. I did not think of offering some annoyance for him in C&P.
I am going to put myself way out here on this reply...
I am gay, and because of how things are in the US in regard to homosexuals with children; I tend to be overprotective of him.
Am I overreacting a bit?... probably. It is seriously creepy when someone is willing to jump from game to game to "hunt you down" and your son reads a threatening email about someone wanting to kill you.
One of the reason's I let him play when I came back is because of the intensity of the game and it has actually helped him learn there are real consequences for choices; both positive and negative. I am sitting here with my finger over "biomass" for the last character, but this is something that he and I worked together on ... that doesn't happen often (that he is willing to be participative in a "shared" anything).
I think what I am probably most upset about is that CCP won't even give the guy a warning.

yeah and Im a ******* blind, deaf, albino lesbian eskimo with bad skin and 5 crack babies.

Pure BS

Priorities. Get some.

I sense someone is not in control of their kid.

Fel, that is not what I am saying. Also, until you have dealt with an autistic child you have no idea what it is like. IF he wants to so do something he is going to do it.
As far as blocking the site from the router... that is a good idea and I may do that. I am concerned that he will just grab another wireless signal from his laptop and access one of the accounts.
Thank you all for the ideas. The help is much appreciated.

I will bite...

1. Set email to an email your son has no access to from a computer he has no access to (and is not related to any other email). Recover password will not help him.
2. Change password online from that other computer.
3.a. Control your son, dammit. Seriously, if he pursues this after being told explicitly not to, some form of discipline should occur. Though at this point, I cannot see how his "amazing wizardlike computer skillz" would help him access.
3.b. (Alternative to 3.a.) Let him deal with it, regardless of his condition, coddling will hurt him in the long run.

Note: Do not expect sympathy from us on how you, your son, or anyone is treated ingame as long as RL threats stay out it. This is EVE.

EDIT: Supervised environment? That sounds like keeping him off of EVE would be rather easy (seriously, see EVE up, flip switch on computer)

Thank you, I have done most of that. Its the real life issue of this guy hopping from game to game to "hunt me down" and the way my son perceives (these were the exact words in the eve mail he read) "so I can F***ING KILL YOU".
My "knee jerk" reaction was to get pissed and freak out. (Typical parental reaction when their child is affected negatively) One of the reasons I let him play EVE is the "real" factor. He actually started to understand the gravity of choices through the consequences (both positive and negative) of them.
I added to the petition and asked CCP about some options that would not destroy months of work that he and I had together (something that very rarely happens with an autistic kid).
I could have handled this much differently. I owe many of you a great deal of gratitude for giving me perspective.

If someone ever tells me they will come from game to game, I say let them try. If I was worried, though, I would use a different username (Well, ingame name) and they would never find me unless I said,"Wait, I remember you, you were planning on making my gaming experience a living hell, so here I am." Also, the games in which you can repeatedly mess with people and hound them other than EVE are few and far between, so that part is kinda a non-issue.

Also, RL and "in another game" are separate in most of our minds. In other words, it may have been a "non-EVE" threat, but it was not a "RL" threat.

Personally, I would have rather had this angry guy be angry at Paul Clavet or any other proper "greifer". Hell, even I, along with what may very well be a majority of the players in the game, would enjoy the attention this other player is sending your son's way. I would certainly engage in some light smacktalk and throw out a few "internet spaceships is srs bsns" comments, but the time when that would have worked is past for you.

so, wait he's autistic and he wrote a keylogging program? I'm not out here to try and bash you or your kid, but honestly i find that a little strange.

Now somewhere out there is a kid who does what he wants, whenever he wants, however he wants and how dangerous is he going to be to someone else someday?

Autism isn't an intelligence disorder. In most cases autistic children are INCREDIBLY talented and intelligent. Autism is more of a social skills disorder... they live in their own unique world. So no, its not strange at all.

Autism is just a excuse for someone who can't control their kid.

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What I am going to say.

Just say NO.

EVERY kid, regardless of dysfunction knows this word if it's used often enough and with intent.

This is an extremely simple solution to an extremely complex problem.

You clearly have no children Vekk. Maybe you should be around some human beings with Autism before you say something that incredibly stupid.

I am around children. And one is Austisic, but the parent is still able to control them.
Maybe you shouldn't sit here in forums asking stupid questions. Try making it so he can't use the computer, hack or not. Duh.

Vekk, I already have made sure he con not log into EVE.

I am around children. And one is Austisic, but the parent is still able to control them.

Now what you are saying makes sense. You did say they autism is "an excuse" for not controlling your kid. I think you meant poor parenting is a result of having a naughty autistic kid. (or any kid for that matter)

Now what you are saying makes sense. You did say they autism is "an excuse" for not controlling your kid. I think you meant poor parenting is a result of having a naughty autistic kid. (or any kid for that matter)

I am not saying my child has done anything "wrong" in this situation. I am saying he has done things in the past that would cause me alarm about what he *MIGHT* do should he want to log into EVE. I do not sit ans stare at him 24/7. He has to eat and things like that often require me to go into a different room than he is (cooking and all that,,, LOL).
What I am trying to say in this post is that that I was upset and that my child should not have to deal with a disgruntled nerdrage.
I am waiting on a reply from CCP, as well as I have taken numerous steps to prevent him from logging on until I have an answer to some questions I asked of CCP.