http://isboxer.com/

You click in one place - and this is transferred to a 5 other running eve clients.
So 6 accounts are doing the same thing.

Now guess what - few minutes in web and i found EVE Bots running on ... IsBoxer.
Instead connecting to eve client they connect them self to IsBoxer - then isBoxer ( as accepted software ) do the rest.

So CCP - this means that IsBoxer is now forbidden?

Not in this cases - instead player providing input for isboxer - bot is doing this.

Autopilot to 0 does not make Eve a better game. It makes Eve a worse game. Hence the ( temporary ) bans.
Consider it a warning if you are using other cheats - now is a really great time to stop cheating if you want to continue playing.
Expect other bans for other forms of cheating once CCP thinks the warning has had enough time to sink in.

How can CCP give a definative answer on something like multiboxing when the software tools used to multibox are outside of their control?

If CCP looks at ISBoxer ( just as an example ) and comes to the conclusion that it's OK - Then they say "Yes it's OK to use ISBoxer"
What happens when the day after CCP said it's Ok ,the ISBoxer devs update the software and add a feature that CCP are very much against?
CCP just said it was OK to use it, but now it does different things to when CCP reviewed it.
CCP can't ban people for using something they said was OK to use. But it now breaks the rules, ELUA, spirit of the rules in a way that is definitely cheating. CCP are now stuck.


CCP deals with this by problem defining as best they can what is cheating.
They then say you can't use software that falls into their definition of cheating.
ITS UP TO YOU TO DECIDE IF THE SOFTWARE YOU WANT TO USE MEETS THIS DEFINITION OF CHEATING OR NOT.
If you are unsure then the simplest way to avoid problems is not to use the software.
It's not up to CCP to YES/NO every bit of software that they have no control over.

That's purely opinion, and it's wrong.
It is an exploit as decided by CCP and the ELUA. The bans are proof that CCP consider it an exploit.
That it negatively impacts a single player is enough. That fact you want to be able to do it is irrelevant.
It provides imbalance. Piracy is a valid deliberate play style in Eve - auto to zero interferes with that game play style in a matter that the game manufacturer considers serious enough to ban people for.
You can petition CCP to change their stance on this as is your right - but right now it is a bannable exploit.

Nope absolutely not.
It's up to you to abide by the Eve ELUA - it's that simple. Abide or be banned.

What you propose is a practical impossibility for soooo sooo many reasons I couldn't list them all here.
Basically it all boils down to CCP has no control over 3rd party developers.
e.g. anonymously written software, how could CCP possibly control that? Pure fantasy.

As a player of Eve you must abide by the ELUA of face the consequences, it's that simple.

CCP prepare a topic:
- automation wish-list in eve.

Take 20 things people are requesting most often.

Create a voting on each ( people can say YES/NO)

And after this decide what things have to be changed in eve.

And the 3rd party devs who don't work with CCP or abide by CCP rules?
It's not the ones who play fair that are the problem. Soime 3rd party tools - the botting software for exaple is clearly against CCP rules - those devs are hardly cooperating with CCP are they?
CCP cannot control all 3rd party external software developers. That's a fact.

and it's not for you to decide who does and doesn't post here thank you - it's not my fault you are trying to build a straw man out of thin air

Only what type of automation we are talking about?
Im talking abut of automation level already present in eve.
For example auto reloading weapons - this is automation level that im thinking about.