CCP's silence on this issue is really disappointing.

CPM's inaction is also really disappointing.

Gamers; if someone doesn't tell me it's wrong, it's ok, because **** principles.

Taking SP gained from AFK farming would not be a punishment. How would it be a punishment to take SP away from them if that SP was never earned and should never have received in the first place? They literally did nothing to gain it.

It is not about New Eden. This is about a real life game that is called Dust 514 and there is a bug in the game that lets you sit out the game and do nothing and still gain SP from it although you are ruining other people's gameplay.

Your failure to recognize this AFK mechanism to be a cancerous and is killing the game worries me.

Your "sandbox" argument does not even make sense. Sandbox refers to the endless possibilities players can create with their tools. AFK makes it meaningless to play with the sandbox. How can you not see this?

Says who? Currently the only requirement to earn Active SP is entering a match, no one said I had to leave the MCC. I earned my SP fair and square.

Did CCP punish the players crashing those LAVs? No they didn't. I was there when those shenanigans occurred and when orbital strikes were coming in literally every minute during the whole 15 minute match. CCP will fix the problem the AFKing but will not punish the players who were AFKing because no rules were broken.

EDIT:

I remember the "limitless orbital" bug you mentioned. It was tested once and reported immediately to CCP by the corp who first discovered it. As a result, it was used only once or twice before an extended downtime kicked in fixing it.

What I'm trying to say here is that everyone here is allowed to do as they wish.

No one has any right to tell anyone how to play in the sandbox.

genius

Protobear squads and incompetent new-berries ruin my experience too.

Taking SP gained from AFK farming would not be a punishment. How would it be a punishment to take SP away from them if that SP was never earned and should never have received in the first place? They literally did nothing to gain it.
I say take away all SP made from AFK farming (if possible).

TL:DR version right there.

I'm not trolling when I say this:

You are effectively asking CCP to punish players for using a tool in a way that technically didn't violate the rules. The tool is the mechanic implemented by CCP long ago that allows you to earn WP/SP from time spent in the match as part of their experiment. The experiment didn't go very well so they will likely remove that feature but they will not remove the SP earned because the players were merely doing what they were allowed to do under the mechanics.

What you are suggesting is like this:

You put a lab rat on one end of the maze and a lump of cheese on the other. You then leave tiny trails of very small crumbs of cheese somewhere alone the way because you think the lab rat won't make it to the other side of the maze in time before starving to death. You then realize that the rat is not going after the big lump of cheese and is just sitting around munching on the crumbs you left around. You then decide to remove those crumbs and leave the big cheese where it is so that the rat can finally get moving. But before you let the rat move, you pick up the rat and force it to vomit what it just ate. Effectively punishing the rat for eating what you gave it.

The point of giving SP for just being in a match to ensure that new/bad players make a minimum amount of SP to ensure they can progress, and NOT for you people to essentially get a free passive booster.

It's too bad there are so many of you super liberal (not in a political sense) apologists, or else we might actually shame CCP into punishing them.

I'm not trolling when I say this:

You are effectively asking CCP to punish players for using a tool in a way that technically didn't violate the rules. The tool is the mechanic implemented by CCP long ago that allows you to earn WP/SP from time spent in the match as part of their experiment. The experiment didn't go very well so they will likely remove that feature but they will not remove the SP earned because the players were merely doing what they were allowed to do under the mechanics.

What you are suggesting is like this:

You put a lab rat on one end of the maze and a lump of cheese on the other. You then leave tiny trails of very small crumbs of cheese somewhere alone the way because you think the lab rat won't make it to the other side of the maze in time before starving to death. You then realize that the rat is not going after the big lump of cheese and is just sitting around munching on the crumbs you left around. You then decide to remove those crumbs and leave the big cheese where it is so that the rat can finally get moving. But before you let the rat move, you pick up the rat and force it to vomit what it just ate. Effectively punishing the rat for eating what you gave it.

Since skirmish stats arent tracking how do you prove you weren't AFK in those games it could look like it if you have low lifetime WP but high SP how do you know they are AFK and not just suffering from this glitch?

It's incredible how some of you people act. Just because someone used a legitimate mechanic in a way you don't agree with, suddenly you want to punish them for it?

So what? CCP never told me that I have no choice but to jump out of the MCC. But I do it anyways because I like the action of stabbing enemies. And I don't see CCP telling me that I shouldn't team kill my fellow blueberries with an LAV (remembering to switch seats just before impact).

Its more like forgetting to make a law that outlaws stealing, and then upon realizing your mistake you take all the stolen goods back from the thieves, but then not throwing the thieves in jail or any other punishment.
Oh no, those poor thieves got their unearned stolen goods taken away from them, what a terrible punishment

Exactly. CCP, why the hell aren't I getting my SP in my merc quarters? Why is the MCC so different? This is bull ****, quit telling me how to play MY game!

It's incredible how some of you people act. Just because someone used a legitimate mechanic in a way you don't agree with, suddenly you want to punish them for it?

AFK is the exploit that allows risk-free farming of reward that is normally gained by active gameplay, by taking advantage of the real playing people.