Why would someone do this?

[_Morbo_]

Was just about to to move from the Adder to Cobra tonight. Rushed home from work to play excited that if i hurried i could maybe make the 100k i needed before bedtime and purchase the Cobra. I was carrying 100k (of my 200K credits) in cargo and got jumped by "CMDR <redacted - please do not name and shame>" who pulled me out of supercruise. He opens fire immediatly. I think he may have targeted my thrusters on purpose with the intent to leave me stranded but alive as he did. Either way he takes me down to 5% with disabled thrusters and flies away leaving me stranded but alive, forcing me to have to self destruct and costing me hours of lost play time i had in the value of my cargo.

That leaves me with a couple of questions.

1.) Why not finish me off? Was this to avoid a bounty or some penalty?

2.) Was this a child gettting kicks on be a griefer?

3.) If it was not a child, what kind of grown man would get any pleasure out of griefing someone for no gain?



EDIT:

Really shouldn't post when aggravated. I edited out the guy's name. Is what it is. Just a few hours setback and I started a revenge list now.

 

[Dabba]

Some combination of 2, 3, and 4. Pathetic, but amazingly enough there are plenty of them out there.

 

[Derath]

get your cobra, kit it out, and take revenge! I'll look out for this person and if they are seen I shall reap similar justice upon them, with a drive + cargo hold destruction technique passed down in the corborwitz family for 200 years!

 

[Tigga]

Did he take any cargo?

 

[anikaiful]

Was just about to to move from the Adder to Cobra tonight. Rushed home from work to play excited that if i hurried i could maybe make the 100k i needed before bedtime and purchase the Cobra. I was carrying 100k (of my 200K credits) in cargo and got jumped by "CMDR <redacted - please do not name and shame>" who pulled me out of supercruise. He opens fire immediatly. I think he may have targeted my thrusters on purpose with the intent to leave me stranded but alive as he did. Either way he takes me down to 5% with disabled thrusters and flies away leaving me stranded but alive, forcing me to have to self destruct and costing me hours of lost play time i had in the value of my cargo.

That leaves me with a couple of questions.

1.) Why not finish me off? Was this to avoid a bounty or some penalty?

2.) Was this a child gettting kicks on be a griefer?

3.) If it was not a child, what kind of grown man would get any pleasure out of griefing someone for no gain?

4.) Did it make him feel good or tough to cripple a hauler in his fighter?

If you were "Clean", they got a bounty right upon attacking you (unless you were flying in anarchy system and/or you were "Wanted").

But in any case 2+3+4.

 

[Mephane]

In this case I say griefer, meta-gaming the fact that there is currently not yet any way to deal with destroyed engines (e.g. distress call), deliberately causing you a death and loss of ship and cargo without incurring the larger bounty for murder.

 

[kurush]

Some combination of 2, 3, and 4. Pathetic, but amazingly enough there are plenty of them out there.

I have yet to find some /looks at his autohotkey scripts
may be it has something to do with me flying an ASP? What ship would you suggest for trolling this type of people?

 

[Unpleasant]

Cos he's a gonk that's couldn't win at Eve Online.

 

[Darth_Wayner]

Solo mode, my friend...solo mode. Such examples are why I don't play online and won't until wings are implemented so I can fly with friends.

the "guy" is probably a not a guy at all but 12 year old who spent the last 2 weeks off from school doing nothing but playing elite and crying to mommy for another juice box.

 

[anikaiful]

I have yet to find some /looks at his autohotkey scripts
may be it has something to do with me flying an ASP? What ship would you suggest for trolling this type of people?

Something that doesn't look scary in the least (eagle, cobra, viper, etc).

 

[Dabba]

I have yet to find some /looks at his autohotkey scripts
may be it has something to do with me flying an ASP? What ship would you suggest for trolling this type of people?

Something in the Hauler > Cobra range, unarmed, with rare cargo should be excellent bait.

 

[kurush]

Something that doesn't look scary in the least (eagle, cobra, viper, etc).

I think I need to buy a hauler, fill it with bio waste. In case of interdiction drop some then DC Sounds like a plan

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Something in the Hauler > Cobra range, unarmed, with rare cargo should be excellent bait.

ASP full with rares doesn't work and I doubt they do cargo scan anyway.

 

[AtomicHorror]

Was just about to to move from the Adder to Cobra tonight. Rushed home from work to play excited that if i hurried i could maybe make the 100k i needed before bedtime and purchase the Cobra. I was carrying 100k (of my 200K credits) in cargo and got jumped by "CMDR" who pulled me out of supercruise. He opens fire immediatly. I think he may have targeted my thrusters on purpose with the intent to leave me stranded but alive as he did. Either way he takes me down to 5% with disabled thrusters and flies away leaving me stranded but alive, forcing me to have to self destruct and costing me hours of lost play time i had in the value of my cargo.

That leaves me with a couple of questions.

1.) Why not finish me off? Was this to avoid a bounty or some penalty?

2.) Was this a child gettting kicks on be a griefer?

3.) If it was not a child, what kind of grown man would get any pleasure out of griefing someone for no gain?

4.) Did it make him feel good or tough to cripple a hauler in his fighter?

You should probably remove the user name- there's a policy against naming and shaming on the forums?

 

[kurush]

You should probably remove the user name- there's a policy against naming and shaming on the forums?

Meaning there should be other places for naming and shaming, really Where commander name should appear along with his / her IP address.

 

[Riepah]

Meaning there should be other places for naming and shaming, really Where commander name should appear along with his / her IP address.

That person didn't break any of the game's rules. Disabling somebody's thrusters is mean, but it's perfectly allowed. Neither naming and shaming nor doxing them is an appropriate reaction.

 

[Garlus Tylapper]

Put out a bounty! Screenie of him being killed for 5 tons of gold dropped at station of your choice

 

[Astroniomix]

Was just about to to move from the Adder to Cobra tonight. Rushed home from work to play excited that if i hurried i could maybe make the 100k i needed before bedtime and purchase the Cobra. I was carrying 100k (of my 200K credits) in cargo and got jumped by "CMDR <redacted - please do not name and shame>" who pulled me out of supercruise. He opens fire immediatly. I think he may have targeted my thrusters on purpose with the intent to leave me stranded but alive as he did. Either way he takes me down to 5% with disabled thrusters and flies away leaving me stranded but alive, forcing me to have to self destruct and costing me hours of lost play time i had in the value of my cargo.

That leaves me with a couple of questions.

1.) Why not finish me off? Was this to avoid a bounty or some penalty?

2.) Was this a child gettting kicks on be a griefer?

3.) If it was not a child, what kind of grown man would get any pleasure out of griefing someone for no gain?

4.) Did it make him feel good or tough to cripple a hauler in his fighter?

He wanted your cargo, the reason he didn't finish you off is so he didn't get an even bigger bounty for murder.

 

[Red Rascal]

Put out a bounty! Screenie of him being killed for 5 tons of gold dropped at station of your choice

Can you give credits to other players?

 

[Jockey79]

Was just about to to move from the Adder to Cobra tonight. Rushed home from work to play excited that if i hurried i could maybe make the 100k i needed before bedtime and purchase the Cobra. I was carrying 100k (of my 200K credits) in cargo and got jumped by "CMDR <redacted - please do not name and shame>" who pulled me out of supercruise. He opens fire immediatly. I think he may have targeted my thrusters on purpose with the intent to leave me stranded but alive as he did. Either way he takes me down to 5% with disabled thrusters and flies away leaving me stranded but alive, forcing me to have to self destruct and costing me hours of lost play time i had in the value of my cargo.

That leaves me with a couple of questions.

1.) Why not finish me off? Was this to avoid a bounty or some penalty?

2.) Was this a child gettting kicks on be a griefer?

3.) If it was not a child, what kind of grown man would get any pleasure out of griefing someone for no gain?

4.) Did it make him feel good or tough to cripple a hauler in his fighter?

And you were trading in open because...... ????

Thread after thread on here explains why solo and private groups exist, sorry man, but you chose to be in open.

 

[Queebatron]

That person didn't break any of the game's rules. Disabling somebody's thrusters is mean, but it's perfectly allowed. Neither naming and shaming nor doxing them is an appropriate reaction.

Maybe not here because it's against the rules to do so, but providing a "BOLO" (be on the lookout for) list of commander names to scan for when you're in a system so you can be ready to high tail it if necessary, especially if you're a newb, on another forum, seems perfectly reasonable to me. It's not a matter of shaming, it's a matter of self-preservation.