Alts could possibly be avoided…if the target only knew about the bounty after any claimants have expressed their interest. At which point no new claimants could be added.
So, a bounty would be created and be visible to everyone except the target…or one might even extend that to the target’s alliance or corp. There would be a short time period in which anyone wishing to claim the bounty would have to do so. At which point the claiming period ends, and the bounty becomes public and the target is told there is a bounty on them. No-one other than those in the already existing claimants list can claim that bounty.
Probably still issues, but this is one way round alts.
That’s right! And apparently it was a wildly-successful initiative too, considering how quickly you blew your “evidence” load as if you were leaking the Watergate tapes. Anything else you want to pull down from that detective board of yours, and slap onto the table in a neat little “Top Secret” portfolio like you’re the blue team spy dropping sex photos of the scout’s mother? I’m willing to bet good money that you have a folder somewhere on your computer with a whole bunch of forum screenshots of my posts, doubtlessly gratifying yourself on the regular to the thought of how you’ll finally put me away for good as soon as you get that perfect opportunity to release the archives.
As I already explained, it didn’t. The guy was back to mining in an NPC corporation shortly after the corporation disbanded, for a few weeks at least, before quitting out of boredom. When I chatted him up and asked about it, all he said was “lol” and closed the chat.
This isn’t even the only story like that that I have; it’s just the one that stands out more in my mind. During the conversation, they actually tried to extort me by saying that if I stopped the war and paid reparations, they wouldn’t report me to CCP, who’d ban me for sure. So I told them that I didn’t have enough money, and would need a few days to get it. Then every few days (after killing more of them) I’d be like “aw shucks guys, looks like I’m short again because the reparation amount just went up, give me a few more days, okay?”
Less interesting stories are like the time one player told me they “had cancer” and to “leave them alone” or they’d “get the mods to ban me” and that’s as far as the conversation went; not enough content to make any sort of interesting write-up.
This happened on these very forums, within the past year if memory serves right.
A Karmafleet newbie created a thread railing against gankers because a friend of the gank victim in Local claimed the gank victim committed suicide. And since the newbie took such a statement at face value, they started filling up the forum thread with a bunch of anti-ganking stuff and real world harm topics.
Once people here showed that the alleged suicide victim was in fact still flying around a few days later, playing the game, direct contrary evidence to the alleged death, did the newbie tone the posts down, still somewhat in disbelief that “normal civil people” would take such a serious topic and weaponize it in order to make gankers look bad.
Then you will be disappointed, it is the only time I sniped one of your posts. The reason I did so was because it defined you so perfectly, you in all your Dunning-Kruger glory.
Except you did not, the only time you have mentioned him still being alive in your opinion is here in this thread, and not in the thread where you originally off-topic posted. You were attention-whoring that was all it was, which is the point I was making in reply to your rant against other posters. Why did you not tell the full story? We all know why, it is simply because you wanted people to react to you!
Can’t disagree with that at all based on my own experience.
Go and read my snipe of Destiny’s post again, there was no comment there about him being alive or any suggestion it was fake. Destiny is saying that now, but what do you expect from such a pathological liar and attention seeker? Destiny was seeking negative forum attention, that is all there is to say about it, that is all.
Does that really matter? You don’t just believe stuff other people say on the internet to you, especially not in a role play game that explicitly warns you not to trust anyone, because scamming, lying, tricks, treachery and betrayal are valid parts of gameplay. All these stories that someone really “has cancer” or “had a heart attack” or “commited suicide” or “just fly the marauder of his brother who was killed in the recent war to honor his memory” and all that stuff people tell you when they are pointed by 5 combat ships and out of options are 99.9% lies. And the very very very few exceptions are usually rare events promoted on many social media channels of their alliacne and these people then have huge escorts of people honoring their noble reasons.
Or do you send money to the Nigerian Prince who unfortunately sits on 300 million dollars and just need you to send him 499 dollars as a “transaction fee” to deliver your share of 500.000 dollars to your bank account, because your name was given to him by a “trusted person”. Thats all bullcrap and everyone who uses the internet should know that. Same goes for anything strangers say in random chats in any role play game. I don’t care if they tell me that they are disabled war veterans, get beaten by their parents if they lose a ship or are captured by a chinese ISK-farming mafia who will torture them to death if I blow up their retriever. Because thats all lies.
And the horrible community is one that troll bait posts with a fake I might have killed someone post, which he know admits to having seen two weeks later in 2010 by the way, having deliberately not detailed that in his post. That is all…
I wonder if he showed his troll post to his friend? Most probably not…
Well, I don’t judge Destiny’s story, because the same rule applies like for chats: I don’t even know if it’s true or not. And honestly, I don’t even care. But Elizabeth has accused him to “celebrate that someone had a heart attack” and I have found no evidence of that, because it looks to me that Destiny never actually believed that this “person who had a heart attack” even existed, and it probably never did. Thats two absolutely different pair of shoes.
The EVE community is not horrible at all, there are many many helpful people, players who invest hours, days, months or even years to provide content, to maintain third-party websites, spreadsheets, share fits, organize alliances and fleets and whatnot completely for free. Yeah there are a few guys around that simply want to set everything on fire and smile about people running around shocked, but that such a small minority, you could have them all blocked within a day if they really annoy you.
It was sort of boastful in a passive aggressive sort of way, if he had detailed that he came across him two weeks later in that post then it would not have been a troll post to attract negative comment, which is why he did it. That he posted it without the detail that he came across him two weeks later says it all.
Let me be precise, the Eve forum community is largely horrible.
sry, I am to old to get used to this kind of new age stuff. I was raised under the premise that “Offense is taken, not given”. Basically no one can offend me verbally, because I just decide to ignore it if I find it non-constructive. You don’t get anywhere by biting your nails in shock because someone you don’t even know said something you didn’t want to hear.
Yeah it says that he wanted to make an evil joke, making some like-minded people smirk and some snowflakes rage. So what? Really, there are more dirty comedy shows on Netflix. Watch Bill Burr on Women and you hurt your belly from laughing. I can’t understand how that can bring anyone out of balance.
I did, until Destiny did the rant I detailed. So I merely detailed his post as an example of offensive posting.
You are where I am, as I said I ignored this post when he posted it, but it was so over the top that I sniped it because it was just so sad. So when he went on a rant about obnoxious posting I just detailed it back at him. If you think I am offended by it then think again, I already detailed in this thread that if a guy has a heart condition and is getting stressed by a war dec in Eve then he should not be playing the game.
Isn’t this against forum rules to troll, to bait etc.? Is it, or do those rules not apply to Destiny for some reason?
Anyway, it was fun to pop in here and see that the poster child of the Eve forums (Destiny) is still going strong, or actually still going weak which is the reality.
From what I can tell, the moderators only moderate when they get a flag. And DC doesn’t get many flags because most forum people have him blocked and don’t see the offensive posts so don’t flag them.
I have lost count of the number of miners who have ‘died’ in real life, because I ganked their mining barge and declined to reimburse their loss.
Miners frequently claim they are being griefed, and this has supposedly caused real-life emotional trauma. Should other players stop playing, and cater to these individuals? That is precisely what they want, because they are trying to emotionally blackmail us into providing preferential treatment. The appropriate thing to do is to ignore them, and keep playing the game. If someone is having emotional difficulties due to EvE Online, they should stop playing, and try something else. I would suggest therapy.
Wow, that post definitely should have been flagged and removed since names were listed in an obvious attempt to incite a forum flame war. When posts like that are flagged and moderation let’s it remain active, best to just send a direct complaint to CCP with names of both the poster and moderator.
Eh, I doubt any moderator takes much notice of yet another of Destiny’s long, rambling “look I made up a really true story where imaginary people support me which proves my viewpoint is right and all these people who disagree with me are just lamers and whiners”.
I assume any actual friend would have balked a bit at waiting while Destiny cherry-picked 20 posts to read out of context. They’d have to have been cherry-picked pretty hard to classify me as part of “the anti-PvP ‘axis of misery’” crowd.
If any such thing actually happened, the most likely reaction would be for the friend to advise Destiny to cut back on the drinks a bit, maybe go sit under a tree or something to establish a brief connection with reality, and possibly recommend counselling.
You’re pretty delusional to think that referencing other forum members isn’t allowed for any reason, outside of direct personal attacks, which weren’t present in that post no matter how much you cry wolf in a pity act to try to gaslight the management into indulging your desperate attempt at backseat moderation.
You’re even more delusional to think that the management is going to take the words of someone with infractions of out-of-game threats of violence on their record over someone posting game-relevant stories on the forums that just so happen to personally trigger you, bringing energy to and fostering conflict in the community of an infamous open-world PvP game that’s in the process of slowly stagnating into oblivion.
See, that’s all you people do; you come here to complain about your creaky old bones and the youngsters making a ruckus outside your porch again, thinking you’re making some kind of positive difference. Meanwhile, other people are creating in-game content that players can actually experience, even if it’s accomplished by virtue of becoming a villain. Just the Absolute Honor thread for example was responsible for multiple new rivalries and like two decent-sized wars. People can log into the game and actually shoot someone like me or Aiko, or join us in shooting others. What have you added to the game? It’s probably been over a decade since you even got into a fleet with someone.
Here’s a bit of advice: be a little less obsessed with who should be banned, and actually go and do something interesting. You’ll be much happier that way.
Anyway, all of this has inspired me to write up another story of “events that totally never happened because high-sec miners and mission-runners are upstanding individuals who’d never say or do anything very bad.” Stay tuned!
Wasn’t this thread something about player bounties?
I know we are 300 posts in, but just seems like just piling on each other now (not that there’s anything wrong with that. It can be pretty entertaining. But the thread is kind of pointless right now).
Bounties are pretty much a dead topic. We’ve discussed all the arguments and anecdotes at this point, but it’s pretty obvious that CCP will never bring back the bounty system, so it’s kind of pointless.
