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Posted - 2006.09.22 12:05:00 -
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 Originally by: Fubear
Those are most definately not the rules involved here. We are talking about banning people who take advantage of game mechanics which are not labelled as exploits.
CCP has published guidelines on what will get you banned. The individuals involved have not violated any of those rules, the only thing they may have done is fail to report the bug, and neither you nor I know if they bug-reported it or not.
Remember, it is not an exploit until CCP makes an anouncement saying that it is, which has not happened yet. They have not been exploiting, but taking advantage of a broken game mechanic that has not been labelled as a bug or exploit.
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Account Sharing and ISK Selling are definately bannable offenses, if you can prove that someone is participating in either activity, then petition it and shut up. Otherwise you are levelling baseless exploit accusations at an entire group of people, and in this case it appears to be based almost entirely on nationality (just like all Chinese players are ISK farmers... right?). This is what I would call harrasment, but it appears that the mods/GMs don't do anything about it.
Straw man. I don't care if they were exploiting or not. The charge I level is that if, as others say, they spent 23 hours a day cloaked in the final level, that means account sharing. And if there's account sharing going on, then GM's need to investigate.
I don't have first-hand knowledge of this, so I can't petition it. I'm just illustrating one way in which we can get past the question of whether or not this is an exploit and whether or not someone should have KNOWN it was an exploit and just get to the banning, already.
w/r/t your suggestion that I'm slandering the Russians: we're allies (to say the least) with ASCN. ASCN controls one of these 8/10's. Ban 'em and take their isk if they exploited and ban 'em if they shared accounts, whether they're RA, AaA, ASCN, or noobcorp. There, am I clear enough now?
On a COMPLETELY different note...
The advantage of complexes is that they give you a reward for saf3guarding* your space. Keeping a tight lid on security means that you get to run complexes in your region. If you don't, that's fine, too, but the complex bunnies will be there in very short order to teach you why you should. Really, it's one of the very few built-in ways that the EVE mechanics reward control of space; ISS famously uses the other way, control of stations and thus of docking/repair/... fees.
Remove the complexes? Fine. But find a new way to reward groups for maintaining control (read: not just sovereignity) of their space. I say this as someone who farms a 10/10, by the way.
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*: Really, CCP? "Sa***uarding" gets *'d!?
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