prohibiting plex scams isn't going to bring in more new players period, stop talking

It will cause more to stay.

It will cause more to stay.

I don't see a reason for screwing with a system that works. Lord knows, EVE has very few of those as is.

CCP has a vested interest in not letting people scam/grief noobs.

Maybe it was me.

And that is the point, If the kid came to help bitching about a lost ship no one would care. Yet this instance of a PLEX scam produces 13 pages and 2000 hits.

PLEX is different and it needs to be treated differently.

You can freely scam them, but it's looked down upon by the player base & very few people do it as a result.

allow people to buy items in game with no risk

The Plex system is not the problem. It's the lack of a real tutorial on the game.

New players come in, get basic training from the tutorial system and go on their way. Unless they know someone in game, they have very little idea how the game really works.
CCP needs to put actual useful information in the tutorial, things that pod pilots really need to know about the universe they live in.

How about a scamming tutorial? A spy tutorial? An alt tutorial.....

Do Goons have hangers full of PLEX with some idea of a way to hyper inflate the price of PLEX?

Oh, maybe just by making PLEX a bad buy for new players by scamming them, less PLEX will be bought and the return on the stockpiled Goon PLEX will be substantial.

Thats a neat idea. Is there any way to see what people have in their lockers? That would be a neat in game option. Spy nanopaste!

Got to be something more than just scam based inflation. It would be a great way to suck ISK out of highsec though.

hey, not to be mean...but you kinda forgot to switch chars when posting up there.

Don't feel bad, happens to the best of us.

Got to be something more than just scam based inflation. It would be a great way to suck ISK out of highsec though.

Pretty juch all of our free PLEX come from people like this. The rest are bought off the market for special people, because they are really special to us.

Yeah but do you guys have a huge surplus of PLEX? or just enough to get by?

Maybe the kid shouldn't play EVE at all and what the heck is going on if you get a PLEX from your mom to birthday or something. Jesus go play outside when you are a kid.

Maybe the kid is in a wheelchair. Maybe the kid has asthma. Maybe the kid just likes playing EvE. One thing is for certain, though: Someone out there just stole some kid's birthday present.

I would argue that scamming in EvE doesn't make you a bad person but shows that you fantasize about being a bad person.

Which I suppose if you think about it, still makes you a bad person.

If there is a god, he probaly still considers stealing play money as stealing. You probaly won't burn in the same circle of hell as say Bernie Madoff, but it is probaly not a pleasant place.

Fortunately, most of us have the ability to differentiate reality from fantasy.

I would argue that scamming in EvE doesn't make you a bad person but shows that you fantasize about being a bad person.

Which I suppose if you think about it, still makes you a bad person.

If there is a god, he probaly still considers stealing play money as stealing. You probaly won't burn in the same circle of hell as say Bernie Madoff, but it is probaly not a pleasant place.

theft is not possible in this game unless you hack somebody's account, which is against the EULA. all forms of "theft" in this game are actually fraud or embezzlement, hth

I'm a good person for shouldering the responsibility and stigma of an antagonist.

Galaxy Pig is a bad person.