Charae
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Posted - 2006.06.13 23:56:00 -
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People speak of the inability to ingame check trust in their defending CCP's reaction, but that's utter BS ofcourse.
First of all, scamming is allowed (and glorified) in this game, more often than not people will call it a form of PVP, and as long as it doesn't hit you people will laugh about it. Suddenly (when it hits the higher profile peeps) people will 'invent' all kinds of rules, bend the known rules to be in their favor.
Some time ago We had a 'nice' discussion with Bhaal on how CCP would/would not interfere with forum based scams. In the end, what it came down to is that unless there's RL money involved, scamming is allowed. If posted on the forums it may have repercussions for the forum account but NEVER any form of action/reimbursement ingame. And that's how it should be.
The whole 'there's no ingame check to see if it's legit' is BS. What if someone is stopped by pirates, a highly glorified action btw, we all laugh when another dumbass gets caught and gets send back to 3 weeks of mining if it's a newbie, we tell him to STFU, he's dumb, he learned his lesson, LOLZ!!!!1... oh and he can't vent his frustration either, cause that would be smacktalking and that is considered to be honorless.... or something. Now this guy pays his ransom HAVING TO TRUST THE PIRATE NOT BLOWING UP HIS SHIP FOR WHATEVER REASON, BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW HOW TRUSTWORTHY PEOPLE AT THE BUSINESS END OF A GUN ARE, but then gets blown up anyway.
So he 'trusts' the pirate with his money, but gets blown up. He had NO way to verify the trustworthyness of that pirate, so according to our forumwarriors newly implemented 'rules' he should be reimbursed by CCP. However, this doesn't happen ofcourse and we all go "tough luck man, if I see him I'll blow him up for ya"
Mind you, I'm not condemning piracy (although it may have looked that way), the normal reaction to any loss/scam/wardec/grief is 'tough luck man, hope you recover from it, game mechanics give you the option to hunt/kill that guy". As it SHOULD be, but suddenly with the reimbursements for this scam right here, it seems as if some people/corps/alliances are more similar than others.
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