Saturday, October 21, 2017

Highsec Fact Check

A lot of misinformation and propaganda floats around highsec. In a sense, this is surprising; the New Order, which rules highsec, is legendary for its transparency. And our Agents, of course, are notoriously straight shooters (pun very much intended!). What accounts for all of the nonsense, then? Simple: Some bad people have a lot of time on their hands and like to run their mouths.

When it comes to sorting out the mess and separating truth from fiction, the burden falls upon the humble fact checker. His is a quietly dignified profession. A valuable one, too.

Several of the most common claims about highsec were submitted to an esteemed fact-checking committee. These are the uncensored results.
Claim: New Order Agents don't honour the permits they sell.
Status: FALSE
Carebears frequently advise one another--including new players--not to buy New Order mining permits. Rebels say the permits are a scam because Agents routinely violate the permits or even go out of their way to shoot permit-holders. Carebears even spread rumors about anti-Code gankers who roam highsec in search of permit-holders to target. However, none of these claims are supported by the evidence. [1]

Though tens of thousands of permits have been sold over a period of more than five years, critics have yet to find even one instance a permit not being honoured. [2] It's not for lack of trying, either; the resistance has made feverish attempts to find a case of New Order misconduct, but they've always come up empty-handed. [3] Granted, a permit-holder may be ganked if he violates the Code, but miners are always advised of this when they buy a permit: "A mining permit is not a license to violate the Code."

If Agents routinely targeted permit-holders--or even occasionally did so--we would have seen plenty of evidence by now. But there isn't any. [4] As for the claims of independent organizations of gankers that specifically target permit-holders? Only one such group has ever been confirmed to exist. In 2013, a corporation called the NEW ORDER DEATH DEALERS started out trying to hunt permit-holders, but then decided to join the mighty CODE. alliance and kill permit-less miners instead. [5]

The lesson to be learned here is obvious: Trust the Agent and buy the mining permit.
Claim: Miners shouldn't bother buying permits. Just tank up and you'll be fine.
Status: FALSE
It's true that miners should tank their ships. It's also true that they should favor inherently tankable hulls like Procurers and Skiffs rather than Hulks. Indeed, the Code requires miners to do so. [6] Even so, there is no evidence to support the notion that tanked miners are immune from New Order ganks. Quite the opposite, in fact. Highsec is littered with the wrecks of miners whose superior tanks were useless in the face of determined Code enforcers. [7]

Not long after the mighty CODE. alliance was formed, groups of Agents proved themselves more than capable of taking down even the tankiest Skiffs. [8] Even as early as February 2013, CODE. gank fleets were successfully suicide ganking Orcas. [9] Eventually, freighters followed. [10] Unless you happen to borrow Chribba's highsec dreadnought, trusting in EHP is a dicey proposition.

Ironically, some miners trust in EHP so much that they buy blingy tank modules. In some cases a miner may spend hundreds of millions of isk to tank his ship, which only has the effect of attracting gankers. Better to get a 10 million isk permit instead.
Claim: New Order Agents engage in harassment, bullying, and other EULA violations.
Status: FALSE
One of the most astonishing qualities of the New Order is its integrity, a quality the organization demonstrates at every level. The New Order is great, but it's also good. From the Saviour of Highsec right down to the most inexperienced Agent, the essential goodness, decency, and humanity of the New Order is on full display.

Goofuses who don't understand EVE's game mechanics or rules accuse the New Order of bullying, harassment, and all manner of other evils. Incredibly, though, not one of the New Order's hundreds of Agents has ever been caught committing such an act. [11] And while a number of Agents have been martyred for the Code when CCP gave them erroneous permabans, there are no documented cases of Agents being permabanned for violating the EULA. [12] That's quite a record.

The carebears, by contrast, don't have such a great track record. It's safe to conclude that when a carebear accuses an Agent of misbehaving, it's merely a matter of projection.
Claim: Someone will eventually find a way to stop the New Order.
Status: FALSE
Since the earliest days of the Code, rebels have uttered some variation of the following: "You're making too many enemies. Eventually you'll piss off the wrong person. Someone will find a way to stop you." Despite these dire warnings, the New Order has only grown stronger over the years, and its enemies--to the extent they're willing to crawl out of their holes and show themselves--have only grown weaker and more intimidated by the New Order's power. [13]

Smart, reasonable people who have looked at this question have all come to the same conclusion: There is no feasible way to stop the New Order. [14] The conventional wisdom isn't always right, but in this case it is. The CODE always wins. Always. [15]
Claim: Obeying the Code is the only way to survive in highsec.
Status: TRUE
Of all the ways highsec dwellers have tried to deal with the New Order, only one has ever worked in the long run: 100% compliance with the Code. [16] Other methods, including counter-bumping, counter-ganking, counter-blogging, remote-repping, jamming, wreck-sniping, wardecs, anti-Code propaganda, orbiting rocks, faking permits, station-camping, gate-camping, begging CCP for nerfs, filing frivolous petitions, hiring mercs, real-life threats, and dumping countless gallons of carebear tears... all have failed to do anything but increase the New Order's already seemingly infinite resolve. [17]

Obeying the Code is the smart choice. It works every time it's tried. [18]

[1] Source: MinerBumping
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45 comments:

  1. I'm Nitetime Video and I approve this post.

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    1. Calm down murder lover. Your savoir is a false prophet leading your cult followers to beat and molest children and do terrorist acts.

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    1. A good programmed sleeper, what words do you think your are programmed with to enact your violence IRL? I bet James knows, he programed you well.

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  3. JTClone Ares is building an invasion force in null-sec and will return to destroy CODE once and for all. You are hereby put on notice. Your time is up James315!

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    1. Lol, that shitter will never be good at EVE. Not even slightly.

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    2. Whenever somebody mentions that clowns name all i hear is loyals voice after receiving billions from him to try and buy the alliance saying, thanks for the free isk bro. Hahahahahahaha.

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    3. Holy shit! I had almost forgotten about the 'fisherman spider'. Then he tried to run for CSM on a ship skins platform.

      It's hard to believe people like JT survive to adulthood.


      Always fun to revisit a classic.
      http://www.minerbumping.com/2014/12/oceans-zero-part-1.html?m=1

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    4. Look another agent loving the idea of child death. Calm down murder lover James may tell you that killing innocent people is fun but its murder and you don't need to be like the other agents who gunned down people over a game.

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    5. Look, another John Pirtle post trying to be anonymous after he accidentally posted with his name on our blog.

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    6. Look another triggered agent who cant keep his impotent rage contained within a game he sucks at. Hope he doesn't shoot up a petrol station.

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    7. Thank you Agent Anon 4:10 for the link.

      Ahh, such fun ancient times, when Tweeps could just introduce himself as the mastermind of an evil AG cell who will bring down CODE.. I may be seeing a pattern here. :)

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    8. Calm down murder lover.

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    9. So it is taking JTClone Ares over 3 years to plot his revenge? Could be interesting assuming he doesn't fail immediately.

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    10. Calm down murder lover.

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  4. The death dealer days were great. Best mates in game and great fun had with great people. Miners were tougher then. Now, not so much.

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    1. Calm down murder lover.

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    2. The only loner who is mad as hell is you john. Never forget shardani.

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    4. Another shardani prayer for the code murder lovers.

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    5. Karma been triggered lets hope he doesn't go full vegas style like the last agent.

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  5. Hishsec ganking is simply chickenshit elite pvp

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    1. Yet you still fail to stop the ganks. Keep crying.

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    2. Calm down little johnnie pedo, it's ok to quit EVE, just like your friend. At least he finally realized how useless he truly was.

      In game of course.

      Also you have no argument, as you have no proof that you know anything about pvp, carebear.

      Against your kind, the Code will always win.
      Always!

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    3. Calm down murder lovers. Your terrorist ways need to remain in game only, stop bringing them into real life. Do not be like paddock or Mathews or shardani, James may tell you to be like them and kill people even real life people but you do not, seek help surrender your firearms and leave your impotent rage in game where it belongs.

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  6. Running out of propaganda to spin there Nazis, whats the matter? Plus your sources are from the same guy who writes the articles not really a source. If you look up this type of behavior you will find that it matches a cult.

    The New Order, a cult, who knew.

    Now its very followers are taking their message to RL and bringing the playstyle with it, gunning down people in the streets.

    Source: the news.

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  7. There's a lot of murder loving child molesters in here too that need to leave the rage in game.
    We call them code.

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  8. Wow the cult of James is in a rage today, full article trying to defend their hate, plus triggered agents who may be one step away from shooting up another city.

    Someone please shut down this cult of barbarism before they plan another terrorist attack.

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  9. Dj meet johhny, john is fixated on CODE. Because basically he is butthurt that he is irrelevant. He has no friends in eve and thinks everybody should be anonymous like him until they forget to log off properly and post a salty one liner under his real name.

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  10. So i just did some basic calc, like how much dps in a 0.8 needed to drop a hulk with a damage 2 and concluded that john piddlepants has spent 8 hours of his life in the last 2 weeks depleting his sodium levels in these here comment section posts. That is some A grade retardation.

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    1. Wow same amount of time you spend here droning on about how great murder, provoking suicide, making bomb threats and child molestation is.

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    2. Johhny please.....reading blogs and getting triggered by them are polar opposites.

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    3. Calm down murder lover.

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  11. Calm down murder lover.

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  12. It's high time carebears simply got on their knees and beg forgiveness of the Savior. Putting up with their idiocy must take the patience of a saint

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    1. Here goes the cult sycophants again praying to their savior for more murder.

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  13. Shardani's of the week coming up!

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    1. Calm down murder lover.

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    2. Pretty sad when you are creating your own flame comments and then responding to them all by yourself. Why do you still try to remain anonymous, John Pirtle? You failed in eve and you fail at trolling. Just get over it.

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    3. Yet you fail at human life, why wont you just admit that you and your friends are cowards and need to stop molesting children and shooting up places.

      Right because some savior told you to do it and it was righteous to do so. You know what that sounds like right?

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    4. Sounds like a delusional anon who failed at being anonymous because he posted with his real name in the comments section of our blog.

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    5. Somehow you can never see past your own delusions and want to lecture people about delusions murder lover.

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    6. Well shit, nitetime been triggered, I hope he doesn't go full veags style like the last agent.

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  14. what's hilarious is CODE. living in their own little fantasy thinking they winning agains't the rebels.

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