So we have a person (OP) working through their emotional issues in a video game. This is great! What better way to do it, so that this sort of thing doesn’t have to happen IRL where there are serious consequences?
Also on this thread, like any thread with Code in the title, we have a bunch of anti-Code people that just cannot fathom that this is a video game, not real life. You can tell which ones they are because they call the high-sec gankers all sorts of mean names.
Most gank recipients say nothing; another group acts a bit peeved, but says very little. Most of the talkative ones are courteous and seem to appreciate the “event” - or they think it is funny/silly/stupid. Everybody mining in highsec knows that miner ganking happens (ok, ok, almost all).
It is a small sub-group that rages on endlessly - like somebody losing a tennis match and smashing their racket on the ground and tearing out their own hair. Of course we gankers watch the spectacle - but we are not the cause of it. It also is not the reason we do highsec ganking - it is relatively rare. If we just wanted tears then we would scam people in Jita.
CODE. has a blog about our exploits and even with all of the damage we do, we barely have enough crazed-victim rants to do a once-a-week spotlight on them.
I do ganks because I enjoy setting up the kill and I enjoy the 30 second adrenaline rush when I warp in and wonder if Concord will arrive 2 seconds too early for me to finish off my prize. It is fun for me and I have not seen anything to make me believe that what I am doing is “bad for Eve.” The Code haters would be amazed at the number of failed ganks. Just imagine how exciting it is for the exhumer pilot when 5 catalysts warp in and he survives on 5% structure. That is, if he is at his computer to see it.
Also, Code is pretty chill group of guys that don’t try to make me do anything. This political drama is a sideshow.
I would say that blowing up people’s internet spaceships, then sending them polite mails so that you might post the ridiculous things they say on your blog, is a pretty healthy outlet for your -perhaps less than healthy tendencies. Idk. Shrug. Who cares.
I knew whatever came after this would be something I’ve never heard any agent ever say.
there were miners in the alliance but we made good use of Command destroyers to mess with them. FYI the command dessy was my faverate addition in the last 10 years. so much fun to be had
You give it away so cheaply? I guess just you isn’t worth that much, but what if this then allows him to get a rare, complete set of frozen corpses of everyone in CODE.? Come to think of it, that would make a great stocking-stuffer come the holidays.
