Having observed that it is now possible to fly all the way from Jita to Amarr and not encounter a single suspect, us suspect hunters need CCP to introduce more triggers that make people suspect. I propose a few…feel free to add more…
Flying whilst under the influence of German heavy metal.
Having a Twitch display with some annoying animated furry animal in the corner.
Sitting outside Jita in a Monitor pretending to be brave.
Watching Netflix while mining.
Circling a gate in an Osprey for more than 5 minutes.
That should do for the time being and will double the number of suspects I come across…the lack of which ( joking aside ) is a real issue.
I saw on his killboard that @Adrian_Vexier did that with his suspect freighter alts full of loot during the 100% loot drop event killing them several times over just to pad his killboard. I almost kinda felt sad for him how low he has fallen but in the end opted for a laugh instead.
Can’t say I’ve ever felt tempted to cheat. I’d rather have a mediocre killboard that shows gradual improvement. I like the whole, ‘hell yeah…I made a mistake but didn’t make it again’ aspect of killboard as to me it is a display of ‘getting better’ rather than a one-off display of wonderful-ness. I could never feel good with a fake killboard.
That’s sad….though in fact my joking examples 1-5 are actually all real current examples from EVE. No #1 is just a slight humorous dig at AO fleet videos. I forget who the guy with the animated fluffy in the Twitch stream is…might even be one of your guys. The baiter in a Monitor outside Jita is real….and how brave baiting in an all but indestructible ship ! And so on. And the guys circling the gates in Ospreys…they are probably there right now.
Yeah according to the thread I link below he was permabanned with all his accounts. For a reason at that.
Depends. Based on the fact he was permabanned he clearly earned it as even most gankers don’t get such treatment thus easy to see he done something to warrant it, probably many things actually.
So in the end for the sake of the players of EVE and probably his own mental health it is better for everyone involved this way. So if anything it is a cheerful thing instead.
Here’s his thread about it on reddit (not even r/Eve, maybe he was banned from there too I guess, and actually even his reddit account was suspended, I mean really how hard it is to control your emotions and not get banned from everywhere).
Quite a wall of Karen complaint post if you’ve ever seen one, surpassing even most miner rage quit posts.
I am EVE Online player Adrian Vexier. I discovered EVE 6 years ago (2017)
He started the same time as I did.
Reading the comments he didn’t get the response he was hoping for. I guess no sympathy for confirmed toxic people. I bet I am not even aware of half of the things he did as I don’t keep track of his stuff just see some of it occasionally pop up and had some interactions with him personally here and there.
I guess what goes around comes around in the end. As one prominent forum member here used to say: good riddance.
Oh and just to commemorate my most impactful encounter with him:
Ah….I’d never heard of the guy, so I took ‘no longer with us’ to have its more usual meaning. Personally I find that as time has gone by I’ve developed a more light hearted approach to EVE….hence the OP presenting a genuine issue a bit jokingly. Fact is, there are way fewer suspects than ever before. I’m not entirely sure why.
Suspect Flag granted to any player passing through an Empire gate with killboard links in their bio, or copy pasta from Local chats where they’ve pretended to argue a little before the kill.
Yes, as far as I learned, he had several stages to get his permanent ban (including temporary bans) which took years. He could have stopped at every step but the last one, but he was too stubborn to do that and could not restrain himself. And yes threatening and talking down to CCP and support people was also a major factor. I mean really.
(At least based on what I’ve read but I think should be accurate.)
Also wouldn’t hurt to spice up Jita 4-4 thieves immediately docking up after grabbing loot is if after receiving a suspect flag you’d also receive a weapons timer of 5-10 seconds or something, so you actually have to be a skillful thief who can warp away or survive long enough to dock up instead of just doing it in rookie ships without much of a risk.
I hang around for loot at gates, but am less inclined to do so at Jita…especially in a short range ship where I’m right next to the station if the ‘victim’ undocks in something bigger. So I often immediately warp off to a safe spot after a kill. Thus it was a nice surprise when some kindly person looted 230m worth of loot and contracted it to me….unusual for EVE.
With Adrian, there was a typical pattern. For example, one day he once again received a temporary ban, and he came crying to me as always, writing at great length as he does. The long and short of it, is he once again wanted me to expose CCP on my famous celebrity blog, denouncing them for the charlatans and frauds that they are. I hesitated to do this, and honestly questioned whether Adrian was quite sane. He insisted he had done nothing wrong, and the ban was wholly unjustified, and proof that CCP was conspiring against him. I finally got him to show me the relevant chat logs, and I immediately noticed that Adrian suggested the other player find a rope, go into a closet, tie a noose, and then proceed to do something which I don’t feel comfortable describing. I suggested to Adrian that this might be the reason for his ban, and he muttered, “Yes, yes, ok, you might be right, yes, that could be the issue, thank you Aiko.” Then he left the conversation, and I did not speak to Adrian until a few weeks later, when he was yet again facing a similar situation.
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