So it begins....

When I first created this blog, I couldn't think of what to first write about...

Which is, in many ways, quite ironic for me as usually the one thing I am usually not lacking is some topic that has pushed my button.

However recent events within Eve, have given me something to "rant" about...

"Forum Spying"

Now don't get me wrong, I fully accept spying is part of the game in Eve, and don't take issue with spying in the general sense of the word.

Indeed, the meta-game of trying to work out who the spy is within your ranks, is quite an interesting addition to the game.

No, I'm referring to the retards who give Spies a bad name! The type that gets it's jollies by posting excerpts from your forums, or fleet chats, into local or CAOD.

The main benefit of spying, is that you know information about them, that they don't know you know. By posting it in local or in the COAD forums, you confirm to the enemy what they probably suspected, i.e. a spy amongst them. Also you give them more information to track you down, i.e. who used the forum within x<->y time, or who was in the fleet....

What happened to the good old days of honourable spying...

You know, when no spy gave themselves away, when each side only had it's paranoia and no evidence to confirm it's suspicions. When the enemy would keep it's carefully gathered information to itself, when counter espionage was a valid opportunity to the spy (i.e. your spy in the enemies fleet trying to determine who the enemy spy was in yours).

Showing the world that you have managed to infiltrate your enemy shows nothing. It is easy in a game of multiple accounts and alts, to achieve that, no the achievement is to use that information meaningfully.. You know, to achieve a tactical advantage in-game and in-battle.