Blog Banter 32: Non-Consensual Combat Restrictions

This month’s Blog Banter comes from Drackarn of Sand, Cider and Spaceships. He has foolishly chosen to poke the hornets’ nest that is the non-consensual PvP debate. Whilst you read his question, I’ll be finding a safe place to hide.

“A quick view of the Eve Online forums can always find someone complaining about being suicide ganked, whining about some scam they fell for or other such tears. With the Goons’ Ice Interdiction claiming a vast amount of mining ships there were calls for an “opt out of PvP” option. 

Should this happen? Should people be able to opt-out of PvP in Eve Online? Should CONCORD prevent crime rather than just handing out justice after the event? Or do the hi-sec population already have too much protection from the scum and villainy that inhabits the game?”

Banter on my friends.

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Links to community responses will magically appear in a tasty list below.

Community Tubthumps, Tears and Titters

• Blog Banter 32 by Corelin @ Haberdashers Run Amok
• EVE Online is Harsh – Live With It by Drackarn @ Sand, Cider and Spaceships
• Blog Banter 32 by Cle Demaari @ A Citizen in EVE
• Safe? by blastradius1 @ Blastrad Tales
• Consensual PvP? by Ned “CCP Manifest” Coker @ A Gaming Manifest
• Blog Banter 32 by evehermit @ Evehermit’s Blog
• EVE is all about risk by TG3 @ Through Newb Eyes
• Blog Banter 32 by Harrigan Vonstudly @ Gun Turret Diplomacy
• Blog Banter 32 by Lukas Rox @ Torchwood Archives
• Blog Banter something or other and an update by TetraEtc @ Tetra’s EVE Blog
• Life’s not consensual by Logan Fyreite @ Eve Opportunist
• Without PvP, EVE will be nothing by Keyanu @ Muppetninjas
• Blog Banter 32 by A Scientist’s Life in EVE
• Say Yes To Reasonable Protection by Kirith Kodachi @ Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah
• Your Ship is Out of Control by Rixx Javix @ EVEOGANDA
• Blog Banter 32 by Kaeda Maxwell
• What Makes EvE Real? by Kuan Yida @ Random Posts From Auga
• See No Evil by Azual Skoll @ The Altruist
• The Sandbox Argument by Seismic Stan @ Freebooted
• Blog Banter 32 by Marc Scaurus @ Malefactor
• Non-Consensual Combat Restrictions – Pass by Mabrick @ Mabrick’s Mumblings
• A Load of Crap by GamerChick42
• For the Children by Sered @ Sered’s Lives
• Against Your Will by Truen1ght @ …Shall we not Revenge
• BB: Option 3 by Mike Azariah @ A Missioneer in EVE
• Who Are You.. Really? by Orakkus @ 2nd Anomaly From the Left
• Get Your Tears Out of My Beer by Kat Robspierre @ Chasing ISK
• I heart carebears by Shalee Lianne @ Living a Lie
• PvP needs consequences for both sides by Urziel99 @ Urziel’s EVE Chronicle
• Not one of those sarcastic ones by Cobalt Snake @ Year of the Snake
• Blog Banter 32 by Anabaric @ Inside My Skull So Many Demons
• Opt out of PvP? More like opt out of subscribing by Xero Shifter @ Gathering Space Dust
• Ganking Without Consent by Mandrill @ keithneilson.co.uk
• Blog Banter 32 by Crash @ Obfuscated Reality
• Blog Banter 32 by splatus @ A Journey Through the Mind
• The problem is in the middle by Myrhial Arkenath @ Diary of a Pod Pilot
• “The Sandbox Argument” by TurAmarth ElRandir @ A CARBON Based Life
• Why No One Likes Anyone by Adainy Gwanwyn @ Hot Lead Space Bomb
• Vigilantes! by Aurelie Thalys @ Emergent Patroller
• Putting the “Sensual” in “Non-consensual” by Aiden Mourn @ Finders & Keepers