Please explain what you mean by "Cheating the player is tolerable, cheating the game is intolerable.", I do not understand who you are accusing of cheating or why?
WHO:
I'm not accusing anyone of cheating here. I'm saying people are accusing them of cheating the game against players, which they aren't.
It probably wasn't mentioned here, but it was definitely mentioned somewhere else, a lot of times.
When you cheat someone, it obviously isn't nice, especially in real life. It's worthy of arrest or worse.
But, when you cheat someone in a game, like fooling them into following you, or stealing their resources during a trade deal, it's only a game, so it would be the victim's fault for not being careful.
I don't mean the kind of cheats like, "
Wanna share accounts? Give me your info and I give you mine," or "
double-u-double-u-double-u dot free-points-illegal-fake-website-will-steal-your-account-information dot com" sorts of bull.
WHY:
A lot of people are discriminating the CODE as griefers or as some EVE group that I have no idea about, I mean look at MOBIUS. A player that's part of the CODE and MOBIUS got kicked out of MOBIUS, because he is part of the CODE. He followed their rules without making any trouble while he was in their territory, around them, whenever he's not doing what CODE does.
Now MOBIUS comes in here, with some cheapshot advertisement against the CODE, saying, "
Heyyyyy.... I don't wanna intrude in here on anyone or anything, but check out our group! We don't like the CODE, join us!"
OTHER THING:
FD encourages all sorts of allowed roles in this game, as it SHOULD BE.
So, hate the CODE all you want!
But.... making some crusade for the sole purpose of eliminating the CODE as a group, you being an anti-group? It is very ignorant, short-sighted, and a waste of time. No real cause there.
Though, no one should stop you from trying, try if you want. You have the freedom, you'll just be worse than what they are. You're not trying to ruin them, you're trying to destroy them for what they are allowed to be.
You wish there was some harsher way to punish the the law-breakers? You really need to look at the bounty board. Wanted players already have enough trouble by just being wanted, they have tons of credits on their head. So, if you kill them, whoopee for you, boohoo for them!