<story><title>Eve Online&apos;s most notorious player has quit the game</title><url>https://www.pcgamer.com/eve-onlines-most-notorious-player-has-quit-the-game/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JRKrause</author><text>While I haven&amp;#x27;t played EvE in many years, I still hold many fond memories of it back from my middle&amp;#x2F;high school years.
Particularly when I chose to abandon the peaceful in-game lifestyle of building and selling ship to other players in favor of the pirate life.&lt;p&gt;I did this by fitting a small and fast ship with close-range weaponry that allowed me to take engagements versus much larger ships whose weapons couldn&amp;#x27;t reliably hit a target with so much transverse velocity. In addition I would run a special module that allowed you to deactivate your opponents warp drive, preventing them from escaping.&lt;p&gt;In game life was then just patrolling law-less star systems waiting for another player to arrive, typically they&amp;#x27;d come to my star-systems in search of NPC pirates to destroy, netting in-game currency.&lt;p&gt;Once the prey was busy fighting the ai-pirates, I&amp;#x27;d warp into their local space and begin shooting them to pieces. Once their ship was on the brink of destruction, I&amp;#x27;d open a comm channel and demand an in-game currency transfer in exchange for letting them go.&lt;p&gt;This was a mutually beneficial arrangement as the ransom was lower than their ship value but also higher than what I could salvage from their wreckage.&lt;p&gt;As you&amp;#x27;d imagine, responses were varied. More often than not however I&amp;#x27;d get the payment and they&amp;#x27;d return to safe space intact.&lt;p&gt;Ironically, I received more in-game love-mail than hate-mail for my exploits.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve grown into a much nicer person since then but I can&amp;#x27;t help but look back on those times fondly.</text></comment>
<story><title>Eve Online&apos;s most notorious player has quit the game</title><url>https://www.pcgamer.com/eve-onlines-most-notorious-player-has-quit-the-game/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>Hard to tell from the article whether the real person is stepping down, or his in-universe avatar is. Like, is he gone for good? Or will he just reappear as a new lvl 1 player in two weeks?&lt;p&gt;I assume the former, but there&amp;#x27;s something perversely funny about the idea of a player in a fictional universe having to resign from fictional corporation because he failed to adequately address in-universe HR claims.</text></comment>