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gfldex
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Posted - 2010.12.15 00:46:00 -
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 Originally by: Lubomir Penev
PLEXes provide way for RMTers to have accounts not tied to RL identity, and PLEXes provide incentives for Joe Schmoe to bot in order to "play for free" (people can't read an electrical bill).
Suppress plexes. Ban BUYERS...
You got a good point there mate. Sadly you don't provide reason for CCP to change their policy. I might be able to help here.
The real problem is the combination of red wallets and selling PLEXes. If you get your nice RMTed ISKed removed by a GM you have placed a bet and lost. That bet is that you have to pay less for your ISK then somebody who went with PLEXes right away. So if you get cought, _and_only_then_ you have to pay that little premium that is on PLEXes to do it legit. There is in fact no reason to avoid RMTers as you can all the time fix your red wallet with a few PLEXes if you get cought. Not much of a problem for somebody who bought his way into the game in the first place.
On top of that the current practice is putting corps at risk. You can't really accept ISK donations if you can't see where the money came from. If you do, you place a bet, even if you have no intention to do so.
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gfldex
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Posted - 2010.12.15 12:29:00 -
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Let's see if you can censor faster then we can post: Nakit Emperor!
To add a little more content to my post, I would like to raise the question how many sov bills are payed with bot ISK.
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gfldex
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Posted - 2010.12.15 12:44:00 -
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Originally by: Muul Udonii
One other question however: Is GM Grimmi a Dev? As in a person who codes the game. Or is he the person who tells us that the logs show nothing? Because they aint developers.
How can you question the success of an assignment to the department that requires the least skills to get hired in?
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gfldex
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Posted - 2010.12.15 13:27:00 -
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Originally by: Vincent Athena
Now if we could have a webcam looking at the keyboard....
As it seams there are 2 bots out there right now. Not hard to sneak a little extra into a patch that has a look at the process list and forwards a tiny little wee bit of information to the server. Heck, even Blizzard is getting that done. CCP could have done that years ago. They don't care and/or fear they would have to ban halve of their ingame buddies. You can handle only so many MSN messaged per day, you know.
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gfldex
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Posted - 2010.12.16 16:33:00 -
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Originally by: Cyaxares II
I freely admit that my knowledge of computer security is a bit sketchy (but then I am an economics grad student) - however, from my POV the only way you could enforce your idea of "how things should be" would be in hardware.
Not even there. Any virtual machine can simulate any hardware. You can make assumptions about speed and rule a few bits out that way, but over the interweb that's a bit tricky to do so.
The effect of punkbuster and friends is not caused by them being able to detect stuff. (PB works for 2 days for popular cheats, then those cheats are updated) The effect comes from the heads of folk that think PB _might_ catch them. You create an environment where only those who want to leave the game anyway would use it. (And a few idiots. Brains are funny things.)
As a result you wont scare RMTs off with that. But I would be very surprised to see somebody risk his accounts to maintain sov with botted ISK. It's a bit counter productive the fight over space, just to lose it because you could not convice your alliance members to pay for it.
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gfldex
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Posted - 2010.12.17 00:39:00 -
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Originally by: Apollo Gabriel
What market bots are you talking about?
Those maybe?
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gfldex
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Posted - 2010.12.17 00:42:00 -
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Originally by: Arithron
contacting him covertly via MSN posing as a customer, enact a transaction and await the character trading within game. Once this info is known, other accounts etc linked can be banned.
That wouldn't work in germany. In fact, call the police or leave them alone.
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gfldex
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Posted - 2010.12.17 13:51:00 -
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Originally by: Manfred Sideous
As a capitalistic business CCP is only concerned with a quality product in so much as what maximizes profitability. So therefore there expenditures on quality and control will always stay within the bounds of forecasted effort for profits.
I doubt that's the reason why they act as horrible as they tend to do. But it's for sure a nice excuse they can use to justify their actions. There are plenty of such excuses for their choosing. So I doubt it not for being a reason but for being a less strong excuse then the following:
"EVE is just not everybodies game."
"We are creating an online world, not a computer game." (Notice the nice contradiction that indicates cognitive dissonance.
"With a single sharded game you can't replicate WoWs success."
"There used to be only 5000 players on the server!" (Read: we started really really low and didn't improve much.)
"Our subscriber base is constantly growing!" (How many of them are bots and/or alts? How the _player_ base looks like (and feels) would be the proper question.)
Remember, cognitive dissonance is the most powerfull force on this planet. (Hi Obama! We are still waiting for that change!)
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gfldex
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Posted - 2010.12.18 15:47:00 -
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Originally by: Lili Lu
Find a politics thread on some other forum and jerk yourself silly on it. 
You mean psychology thread. Well, politics is framed by psychology more then any other profession ofc.
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