I realize this post may not be welcome in a thread of complaints about being suicide-ganked, but have any of you stopped to look how fantastically profitable it's become? It's displaced corp theft as our preferred method of transferring stuff we want from wealthy strangers into our possession.
And this is basically my main issue.
Did you suicide-gank me for my stuff? Good one, you got me. Now be a good bitch and stick around long enough for me to eventually figure out how to get some revenge, a kill or two, or some inconvenience to you even. If you somehow accepted that there might be reactions and consequences for what you just did (and I'd have a realistic possibility to get 'even') I'd have no issue, absolutely no issue at all.
After all, these days I haul in BR's or via capital jumps, so it's not a problem for me avoiding ganks - my problem are the same kind of problem as the frigate-alt plexers in FW running from any confrontation and plexing while speed-tanking the rats like a road-runner on LSD is; major reward for next to no risk and ignorable chances of failure or retribution.
Gankers who flee for null and hide in their relatively safe space after sendign thier trade alts to Jita. . Gankers who are alts to begin with and log off for weeks at a time when decced. Can't touch the main, no idea who it is. Plexers who run from any danger, as stated, and if they lose their 100k ISK frigates get a new one and keep harvesting the major loyalty-point sources. Deck-avoiders who used deck-shield alliances or dropped corp at the mere mention of a war-deck. Botters who can't even be bothered to do the tedious work for their fucking ISK; These are all examples of what I'm talking about, even if some are less relevant now.
If your going to aim for the rewards in this game, you better be prepared to accept the possible risks of failure or set-back that follows. People who run the game of avoiding any back-lash with a zeal make this game really boring and essentially just boil it down to the fact I can't stand playing with them, at times I can't even stand the idea that I'm somehow playing the same game; It makes me feel like a complete moron at times that I'm accepting the risks that goes with whatever I do while others just skirt the issue entirely and make heap-loads of ISK while they go about their pathetic ways. If I wanted risk-less rewards and a huge heap of funds and nothing to spend it on because I was terrified of the idea of losing anything, I'd go play WoW again, join the Horde and enroll in some 1000 man raiding/battleground guild.
Finally to end the rant I think I can sum this up; EVE is supposedly a risk VS rewards game. Higher risk, higher reward. This does not hold true for the type of players that bore me to tears as mentioned above; they get loads of reward for entirely neglectable risk.
As for the issue with alts, if Alts were removed in total and anyone could have only one toon per character and only one account I'd instantly lose 4 out of 5 toons, 4 out of 5 accounts - CCP are not going to deny themselves 400 crowns worth of monthly subscription to do that, even IF they did there are ways to generate a new IP-adress and thus be a 'different' person ordering that second account. Not to easy by any means, but it can be done by the ones dedicated enough. You can't stop the meta-game, anymore than gank-bears will stop being gank-bears because their targets disagree with them.
