I’m not entirely sure that can actually be done. My friend knows more about this than I do, I’ll ask him later if that’s a practical solution.
Servers with proxy settings are easily viewable to the public unless they’re paid for, private proxy servers (which most botters / trolls don’t bother with, private proxy services are for serious criminals not jokes) are few and far between.
downloads a random proxy app omg look at all the servers! downloads another oh wait it’s mostly the same servers…
When I was researching botting a long time ago, it seemed that most botters did indeed use serious, paid proxy servers. The ones that bot for the sake of RMT income, at least. The expense was very low compared to the profits.
And so connections from the serious, paid proxy server should be ended.
And that’s the bit that I don’t think is possible to achieve. The whole point of those services is that they’re random, anonymous, and not traceable, unless maybe you’re a serious governmental agency, which CCP definitely isn’t.
Except they are. If a service is random, anonymous, and non-traceable, that service can no longer connect to eve. Eve can only acknowledge connections from public, open information trunks.
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An expert can chime in on that. I’m not going to make claims I can’t substantiate.
It’s hard to explain to someone who didn’t watch the internet grow up but, yes, there are sure ways to prevent unverified connections to your server.
BTW can you provide evidence that enforcement of rookie griefing is taking place? You claimed you saw a GM warn someone, got some screenshots or something?
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That was many years ago. It was around Gallente space, maybe in Duripant or Couster. We were doing wars in the area at the time.
Interestingly, a few times I’ve had targets run to those systems and claim safe haven, which I ignored, because they were legitimate targets (in player corporations, old, engaging in non-rookie behaviors). They threatened to report me, and probably did, but I never once got in trouble, because I wasn’t breaking any actual rules.
Also, I’ve recently seen GMs type in local in rookie systems, so they are physically patrolling them at least to some extent.
Actually, now that I think about it, I remember spotting someone baiting rookies in a starter system a few years ago in an unrelated case. I’m pretty sure I reported them. I don’t think I saw that player again after a few days. Memory is hazy.
So, veterans are aware of the rule, try to abuse it, ignoring it by preying on n00bs, then are only cracked down on if a GM is actively logged in to the n00b system they’re in, and pays attention to local, that’s rule enforcement to you? Instead of CCP using server side information to automatically ban griefers?
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Like I said before, anyone actually breaking the rule should be punished. And like I also said before, an instance comes to mind when a GM appeared in a system to warn a person directly. Maybe someone filed a report, I don’t know.
If CCP’s enforcement protocols are lacking in this regard, then it’s an issue that should be addressed. I have not argued against that. But I think that neither of us knows exactly what’s going on behind the scenes. They might indeed have automated systems to address this.
We don’t know who got punished, how many offenses they committed, et cetera. It could be the case that anyone you find on kill boards committing actual instances of rookie grief was warned, temporarily banned, etc. An in-depth analysis would need to be performed on kill board statistics in order to be sure. Just pulling a single instance of a week-old player getting killed in a starter system doesn’t provide a clear picture of what happened. It could’ve been an act of self defense, for example.
And until they make that information public, we can never know.
Freedom means not only freedom to act, but freedom of information. This is what I want for Eve, true freedom.
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The CSM don’t close threads…
Why is it always about him?
He now even has two threads with his name on …
… and even his own ■■■■■■■ anti-fanboy!!!
What about ME?
I’M A REAL PERSON DAMMIT! 
Is what?
It’s a term used by beta males who want to make others believe they’re alpha males.
I use these terms deliberately.
Oh a linguistic and conceptual corruption created to make the user feel they are on some sort of higher platform when all it does is show what a lackwit they are.
I shouldve guessed.
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That’s an awfully longwinded way to say talking shite.
+1 for the use of lackwit.
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Many MANY years ago I used to bait baiters in rookie systems with a pvp fit Osprey (back when it was a mining cruiser), catching many a faction frigate that way.
I’ve reported people breaking the “don’t mess with newbies in newbie systems” rule quite often and many times there’d be proof those people stopped doing it (Zkill).
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