In recent months, I have had a few experiences that have made my time with EvE quite bitter. That off-color taste was a direct result of coming into contact with what is essentially the STD of New Eden... Goons.

For one, I have a contact who was defrauded by Goons as a result of being contacted from within RECRUITMENT chat. At the time, the MOTD in the channel specifically stated that using to channel to scam was NOT ALLOWED.

The player appealed, including the fact that the channel prohibits use of the channel for such things, and his loss of ISK but was flatly denied. Ironically, the MOTD changed the very next day and was sans the scam prohibition, only now WARNING against scams. CCP continued to LIE and claim that the MOTD had changed a month before the incident, which is still a complete LIE.

Doing further research on Goons and their nefarious activities, it is hard to understand how a company, CCP, can allow a group of players to wreck such havoc on the entirety of the playerbase.

This incident, in addition to anti-playerbase events such as 'Burn Jita' (trit was less after then it was before.. LOL!!), the sponsorship and basically now ownership of Hulkageddon, the custody of virtually every tech moon, every change in game benefiting Goons more than any other group, a flaky 30-day suspension for virtually laughing away a human being's life, joke or not.... and so on and so forth.

I had come to my own personal conclusion that CCP and Goons have a deep, close relationship. Was I crazy or just looking for an answer that I could live with? Come to find out, one of CCP's most active and out front employees representing EvE, CCP Soundwave, was a Goon director, even presenting for the alliance at FanFest : See it here. Ya like that little sickness you are feeling knowing that their frontman is a f*cking Goon at heart?

Given the knowledge, information and other abilities that ANY CCP employee has at their fingertips, it would be prudent, fair and HONEST to prohibit CCP employees from participating in the game.

There is just too much B*LLSHIT Goons get away with that would not be tolerated by any other group not friendly to them. I have to believe that there are countless more CCP employees in Goon corps and blues.

These close relationships create a most unfair and unbalanced situation. Knowing beforehand changes that players are not aware of, being able to reposition and strategize before the rest of the playerbase is aware is absolutely UNETHICAL

No, actually we don't.

From that incident we got the CSM and the Internal Affairs dept. at CCP, both of which we are far better off with than we were before.

tl;dr

Why? 'Cause tin foil is starting to get a bit dear?

Or because you fail at EVE?

Since CCP employee's can only have regular characters (unless using official, recognizable CCP accounts) and can not hold positions of power in any player organization, as well as being strictly monitored by IA, you have your wish.

That will never happen. So wait for Gw2 to be released and quit eve and never look back.

I have been saying for years now on various chars. that ccp bieng involved in player corps is insider trading and should be stopped. As well as the CSM members should not be allowed to have back to back terms, and should not be allowed to have more then 2 terms in 5 years. this goes for known and unknown alts. In turn the alliance as a whole should not be allowed to keep "electing" members to the board. This would create a beeter chance for a "CSM OF YOUR PEERS". Long story short CCP as a Corp the Corp that makes the game Should not allow "Employees" to play or communicate any changes or suggested changes to the game ahead of the offical devnotes. With programs like TS3 Vent.. etc Email blah blah alliances like goons spreading the "info they get from things like the CSM are easy to spread. Since these guys have 6 months or so to prepare, its no wonder they are always ahead of the curve.

The OP and many others are suffering from a very common gaming phenomenon where their paranoia that the developers are 'cheating' combines with disdain of those that seem to be 'winning' to create the delusion that the 'winners' and developers must be working together to keep everyone else down.

This is not healthy. You're taking things too seriously. There is no conspiracy. Remember to have fun.

I seem to recall BOB denying it with equal fervor.
History repeats I guess.

I believe the proper reply here is to inform you that no we do not expect you to have magical powers to detect developers playing within alliances. Nobody ever stated such. That is audited by IA. What we do expect is that if you are going to make allegations you have some basis for making them.

I hope that people realize that while to us Eve is a game, to those who work at CCP its a job and what pays their bills. After T20 I highly doubt many Devs would risk going to great lengths to manipulate the game in their favor at the risk of their job.

Ya, going from crying about your space pixel datacores to making unsubstantiated attacks on someone's professional conduct is pretty ******* unhinged behaviour. At this point you really need to unplug and evaluate your life.

Its hard to know the reasoning without actually working at CCP or knowing their contracts or employee's code of conduct agreement. .

but even still your missing the point. Obviously since it is a job to them and how they support themselves and/or their families its not worth the potential risk.

Youre talking to a guy whose told you he has Goons blocked

Edit: which he can see now since I quoted it lol

You're assuming an active desire to "sabotage" the hiring process. It is actually much, much simpler than that. Any person in this game who has actively participated in the more involved forms of the spy game would have already done all of the things I mentioned and many other things simply to evade the more intricate forms of alliance counterintelligence.

:eveo:

Would you like to be a goon? It costs :10bux:

Literally anyone with the capacity to use a keyboard and access to money can be a goon.

Wait... you think CCP is going to fire someone over this thread?

Classical hysteria... the kind for which doctors used to administer vibrator treatments.

Nobody said IA doesn't collect evidence.

expected response from a hisec tinfoil hat wearing mouth breathing pubbie

that's not evidence that's baseless speculation

I type how i want sucka

This thread gives me a headache.

nooo!!! they drop nice loot

but yeah, CCP plays there own game, nothing u can do about that