CorpThieving ALT
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Posted - 2006.04.27 08:26:00 -
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What is interesting about this thread is that people keep mentioning the "real world" where stuff like this happens all the time. The difference in "real life" is that employers can do thurough background checks, run people through law enforcement agencies, check their email/phone records, and all sorts of draconian measures to find out if the person in their employ is the real deal. Here in the wonderful world of eve, there are no means by which to determine if the player you are dealing is who they say they are or has 15 other accounts used on the IP of "Ebil Corp Obliterator". There is no way to send the name to concord find out if the player who is joining has other characters on the same IP. One simply never knows. Would it be cool to be able to submit a potential recruit to concord and get an email back saying "X" number of people use this players IP, sure. Screws anyone with a static IP, but great for the dial up users whose IP changes everytime he connects.
Either way, in the "real world", when someone rips you off, you have a way to deal with the problem. Whether that be ethically or unethically, legally or not, there are ways to deal with the problem. In EVE, if you are ripped by a 1 year toon bought on the trade forums, there isn't diddly you can do about it. As a CEO, you can't pull all evemail they have sent, can't determine who they have opened conversations with, can't look at detailed accounting -specifically isk donations and who sent them, etc... Very limited and frustrating.
Nothing anyone can do except tighten up the corp hangars, be able to spot photochopping, have people take screenshots of their character selection and the username drop down where other names show up, get screenies of "search" for eve to try to find multiple installations. At the end of the day, any security routine a corp puts in place can be circumvented. CCP just doesn't make it possible to find out if your new recruit is indeed the only player on their IP or if their IP changes every time they log in.
Pretty easy to infiltrate a corp without leaving any fingerprints. Not unless they are as obvious about it as me. 
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