E-Honor?

Fights are fights! Whether you're hunting or being hunted, one of the great things I love about this game is there are usually no excuses. The game mechanics of Eve allow for a pilot to exercise strategy to accomplish whatever they need to. If you are hunting there are plenty of ways to catch your prey. If you are being hunted, there are plenty of ways to get away if you can outsmart the people hunting you.

Recently, on a corpmate's blog, there has been alot of scufflebutt....yes, scufflebutt about logging off as an escape tactic. He has a pretty funny post on his blog Response to an angry boy.

Here was my comment on the matter for your amusement. I'm interested to hear what everyone's opinions are.

"The bottom line is there are plenty of opportunities for pvp'ers hunting someone to catch their prey! If the prey gets in a situation to log off, then they won, its the hunter's fault for not catching them. If someone catches you and aggresses you on a gate and has you tackled and you log off, you die! If you get in a situation where you can log off then that means you got away! Pure and simple. I really don't see anything wrong wiith this tactic...Maybe you should try actually catching people and killing them instead of bitching when they slip through your fingers!-Agro"

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for E-Honor, and not destroying the game for people, and maintaining a level of integrity in the game. I just don't think logging off is a question of E-Honor, or ethics. Like I started to say in the beginning, the game mechanics are such that if you are a skilled pilot, the people you are hunting shouldn't even be able to get to a safe to log off. If they get away then you failed at catching them. End of story.

"It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope." - Niccolo Machiavelli

-Agro