Within the last 2 days I've met 7 already Hudson (fluff-wise, [the Empire fanatics now will giggle I guess and get some moral or courage back, fluff-wise again]) Combat Loggers in a total of 12 interdictions made/received. And I do wonder..... ?
Why Commanders play in Open if they will Combat Log in the first place? Why don't they go in solo or private groups where they deserve to be? They must have a very unstable phychological profile to do so, because it really does not make any sense to me...or stupid or smthg.
My player group of course, as well as others (Empire/Alliance/Federation-leaning fluff wise) do put their names in KoS or hunt them down ofc. But I do still wonder... ?
I'd like you to put your thoughts in this ongoing plague for ED/H, and please if someone could remind me, what kind of punishment do they receive from FD? I remember it's shadow-ban or smthg, right? Does that take place from very first report?
If we take a look on FDs behavior in general, I guess that it could take some time for implementing punishment, (or maybe warning or smthg). We all know how busy they are with adding content and fixing stuff, and replying to bug reports etc, and it is partly, indeed, understandable. And I do remember FD staff saying that they "take combat logging, very seriously".
As a suggestion though, I'd really hope to see that FD opens up a bit of information concerning this matter. Why not publish names and punishments? Why not, us players reporting, getting some information concerning the "hacker", we have met and reported?
People who combat log don't have an unstable psychological profile, it's actually people who write things like you that tend to be unstable. The reason I say this is because it's obvious from your post that you are allowing combat loggers to have an actual impact on your life, you get angry. Don't. Relax and breath and realize that you are playing a game in an imaginary universe that has absolutely no impact on your real life. I'll explain why people play in open and combat log for you, and maybe you can realize that you're obviously too involved in this imaginary world.
So someone wants to play ED, they like the MMO aspect of it and so they want to play in open, it's nice to see other people in the universe. Why don't they play in Mobius you ask? Well probably because they have never heard of mobius, because for them this is only a game and they don't check the forums and the larger web to find out more about it and never will because they just don't care enough to invest that kind of time. So, they're enjoying their game, doing some trading maybe, when all of the sudden they are ganked by a wing of 4 cmdrs who just start killing them for no reason. If said player loses their ship it will cost upwards of 10-12 million, an amount that takes considerable time to make back. The battle isn't going well, obviously, in fact at this point it's just murder. This is the point that the game goes from being really fun, to really not fun. Now, said player has a choice to make, do the "honorable" thing and allow themselves to be murdered, or just turn off the game. believe it or not, most people won't go for the "honorable" path, because it's just a stupid game and they don't take it nearly as seriously as you do and there's no such thing as honor in a video game. They don't care about what other players think about them, because to them, anyone who actually gets angry about combat logging is obviously a weirdo.
Just imagine for a moment meeting a combat logger in real life, and you get to say to them all the things you really want to say to them, call them all the names you want to call them, and get to make them feel bad about what they do. In response the combat logger stays calm and says "just relax, it's only a game" and proceeds to turn around, walk away, and never talk to you again. Who in this scenario is the unstable one? The combat logger who doesn't allow a game to upset them, or you, the person getting angry and yelling about perceived injustice in an imaginary universe.
Combat loggers aren't a problem, they are a fact of life. Every single online game has loggers of their own kind, and it's not something anyone can stop because there is nothing stopping them from simply cutting their connection. You cannot shame them, because they don't care what you think about them, to them you're just an online troll, you can't hunt them down because this game is ridiculous large, and most likely you'll never see them again. Frontier can't actually do anything to punish them because there's literally no way of telling who's a combat logger, and who's just having connection issues (which there are a lot of in this game).
So as you can see, combat loggers are not unstable people, they're just people who don't take this game as seriously as you do. They can't be stopped by you or anyone else, they are just a fact of life life. It's like being angry at the rain, you can't stop it, so stop being upset about it, the only one you are hurting is yourself.