Groups like CODE are the reason, why many people stopped playing the game. There is enough space to pvp in EvE. As long as CCP does nothing to intervene with all kinds of betrayel, scamming, ganking and such, the game remains a place for idiots. This is not the fault of the players, EvE invites them plainly to be assholes, it is the fault of CCP, allowing all that.
EvE is Harassing Online by design.
CODE are minor irritants, they only attack miners and shuttles in transit, as long as your not afk or semi afk, then they are pretty easy to deal with, although admittedly, they do harass miners a lot, so when they are around, miners do tend to stay docked up. As for the rest, its not against the rules to attack people in high sec, which is where CODE like to play, usually around Amarr/Jita area, where they try to catch afk pilots in transit. If your not afk travelling, then usually they have little chance of catching you, and even if they do, a shuttle is hardly much of a loss. As for anyone moving valuable freight, if you don't have an escort then your pretty much fair game to anyone, not just CODE.
This is an outright lie. They will gank anyone. You don't have to be afk or 'lackadasically' flying. From their start, anyone was the target, and at least at the beginning they had a huge protection scam running against miners.
So yea, is it within the capabilities of the game? Yes.
Are they childish cowards? Yes.
Not sure i would call them childish cowards, but i wouldn't label them as anything more than a minor irritation either, as long as you play smart, then they are easy to deal with, too many pilots do the afk autopilot thing, and end up on a CODE killmail, its pretty easy to see who is travelling afk, as they warp to 10km from the gates, a none afk pilot will always warp to 0.
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