Yes, I rage about the bot infestation in this game because I’m a botter. 
Come on Whitehound, you’re better than that.
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You’re upset about the GMs and not the bots.
Perhaps you need a cookie? Or Icecream?
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sigh Ice cream would be good.
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It’s funny… too funny. For this you should have a True evidence for botting.
We don’t even have that many players… unless everyone has made a user for every alt they have and then some.
I have to imagine in a game that prides itself on the areas that it does that burner accounts are a common thing.
That said, I’d have expected more burner accounts than that.
True, but… would people make a reddit forum account for each?
And how old is that reddit section? How many who subscribed while they played then left? How many are people who subscribed to comment on one of the big EvE battles or scandals occasionally splattered across third rate gaming sites but never, ever stepped foot in the game? Or are we just assuming for some reason that it’s only current eve players and thus there must be a bunch of burner accounts?
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This is simply a case of, no matter what you do, you will never satisfy some people. Some people will complain no matter what.
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^ THIS
PS: I want to complain about your forum image, it’s not a very nice one. CCPlease fix this! NOAW! 
Just curious, but what if someone managed to save the ship until a downtime or let it warp out?
The GMs will nuke it. You shouldn’t even have to ask.
Actually… I’m not sure they would.
We all log off when DT hits, it’s likely then that the process of doomheiming things kicks off (before which when they pull the trigger they likely just disable/flag things like extractors).
I guess “nuke” could easily include deletion, but to me it more implies that the GMs will go kill the ship in-game. And I’m not sure they would bother, when the already-scheduled process of disabling the account will accomplish the same thing.
Maybe they forget about it, like they forgot to ban the guy the first time, but I have no doubt they’ll come around and fix it. And in the moments when they don’t will someone always remind them. So I’m sure that they will nuke it.
And if not then we have a Titan in Yulai. Big deal.
That’s the thing… the bots are still stuck in Yulai even if the dude who runs the script forgets to run the script.
And with the account being flagged, you can bet any and all transactions will either be blocked or logged (to be reversed).
Forgetting to ban the guy, yea, human error is a thing. But like you say… they’re stuck in Yulai; big deal. If the bots log back in and give the players another crack at them, what’s the harm?
Maybe we can make Yulai into a prison for botters. They get to keep all their stuff, but get to live in a cell and every new player can go to Yulai and watch what happens to botters.
If they did that (and I agree, I like that) they should start new players in Yulai (well, in a dead-end system 1 jump out of Yulai for the tutorial).
Imagine. You’re a new player, you’ve heard all these things about Eve, and then right off the bat you’re flying your Corvette into Yulai and people are spamming adverts to kill a carrier/supercarrier/titan in local. Right off the bat they’re getting a feel for fleets, pvp, and all the best parts of Eve (subjective opinion ofc).
You’d need to extend rookie-system rules to Yulai, obviously, but I can’t think of a single greater way to give someone a taste for killing ships than to get a taste of that. Even if it’s technically being fed to them, it’d be a fantastic way to set the hook.
They could include it into the new player experience. Some task to take them to Yulai and to take a good look at how the mighty have fallen.
I like that as a concept, but I don’t think even Eve has enough botters for us to ensure that every new player could get in on it all the time.
Can they eject and let someone else board the ship? What will happen then?