EVE Search - CCP, questions about the RMT war

CCP Sreegs wrote:

Ejit wrote:

Shadowsword wrote:

Hi CCP.

I'd like to know, and I'm sure I'm not the only one:

- How many CCP employees are assigned to actively looking for bot operations? I mean not simply waiting to receive reports, but rather things like watching 0.0 mining operations to see if they are done by humans and wallet transactions from hardcore 0.0 ratters?

- Do you have filters in place to bring to your attention accounts that stay logged almost permanently?

- Will you ever stop being so lenient with buyers and permaban them at first offense? Just taking away the isks isn't much of a detterent.

- When is the next Unholy Rage?

Thanks for your attention.

I don't think CCP will ever release any concrete details on their anti RMT efforts. Especially regarding software tools or staff devoted to the fight.

I personally believe CCP invests very little manpower, time and effort in the RMT war. Especially since some CCP staff have their fingers in the RMT pie as rumoured.

I'll address this as well as possible though to be frank I don't think the answer is one you'll find 100% satisfactory.

- We are not going to divulge numbers of employees devoted to security tasks.
- We have old and continue to implement new detections for various types of activity regularly
- Leniency is relative. The numbers we've been collecting show that the current system of administrative actions is effective at curbing the behavior.
- Never. Security is a process not a powerpoint presentation or a graph.

To elaborate on the last point however it is likely that we'll be expressing some more information to you in the near future regarding certain aspects of this subject. I can't really elaborate because timing and such are subject to change.

Regarding insinuations of staff members being involved in RMT you may report allegations of misconduct to IA. Otherwise it would be pretty peachy if you would refrain from making allegations you have absolutely no reason to believe. If you have a reason to believe it and want it to stop I can only assume you'd report it. Otherwise the alternative is that you're just trying to cause trouble and that makes my job harder which is pretty uncool.

This isn't the "make shadowy insinuations about CCP staff forum" and nothing will get resolved by doing such here.

Thanks!