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Son Callar
Nerroths covenant
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Posted - 2011.12.05 01:55:00 -
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Hi,
I'm quite interested to know if CCPs policy on their employees playing eve is available somewhere or if anyone knows how they handle that ?
For example are CCP employees allowed to let people know they work for CCP, are they allowed to join player corporations, if an employee has an already active character are they allowed to continue playing on that character etc.
I'm interested purely for personal reasons, it is not that I know of a CCP employee ingame or am trying to put out dirt on someone, just interested on how its handled, if anyone knows.
Thank you ! |
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
106
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Posted - 2011.12.05 02:08:00 -
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CCP employees are allowed normal accounts on which they cannot use their super dev powers to do anything under. They also cannot let people know they are devs so they're kinda like superman. |
Alara IonStorm
RvB - BLUE Republic
556
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Posted - 2011.12.05 02:10:00 -
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Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:CCP employees are allowed normal accounts on which they cannot use their super dev powers to do anything under. They also cannot let people know they are devs so they're kinda like superman. If Superman encouraged everyone to aspire to be a Lex Luthor. |
Amsterdam Conversations
Cheesecake Starshine
64
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Posted - 2011.12.05 02:12:00 -
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They're allowed to play EVE normally. As I heard, whenever someone becomes a dev, their known accounts get frozen, my guess is they can "create" new accounts in their place to play on. The moment someone finds out that someone is a dev, that account is not going to be played any more either.
Maybe I'm totally wrong though.
All this because something about t2 bpos and something with a K and ugut and some sumen. |
Nova Fox
Novafox Shipyards
534
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Posted - 2011.12.05 02:34:00 -
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Devs are allowed to still play on regular accounts HOWEVER they are more monitored than the bots are and are strongly discouraged to revealing thier true selves to the community.
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Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
520
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Posted - 2011.12.05 02:44:00 -
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Allowed to play as much as they like on "normal" accounts in any corp/alliance they want, as long as they avoid being identified as CCP staff by anybody else (at least anybody else that's not CCP staff too), and as long as they don't (ab)use any "insider" powers or knowledge to their advantage.
In case they get identified, they used to have two choices : stop playing that account for as long as they remain a CCP employee... or "become randomized" (think witness protection program for EVE characters - broken contact with all old friends, new name, fake new corp history, new face too for good measure). Not sure if the second choice is still offered nowadays.
They're also far more closely monitored than most regular players to avoid an encore of the ancient T20 incident. EDIT: As per the poster below, yes, making a profit from an upcoming change is also something they're forbidden to do on their "regular" accounts. http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Contributor_name:Akita_T#Contributions_link_collection |
Captain Mastiff
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Posted - 2011.12.05 02:44:00 -
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I'm also under the impression they aren't allowed to profit from their development knowledge, i.e they can't buy a tonne of T2 materials knowing that the price will go through the roof in the next week due to an upcoming expansion. They can't use their position as a bargaining tool though that shouldn't matter either.
I think it's a case of they can't abuse their position for an in game advantage. |
Alexa Coates
LNTC
13
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Posted - 2011.12.05 02:57:00 -
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with all these restrictions, why would they even play on a normal account? Love my Gallente Federation Navy ships! |
Jovan Geldon
Lead Farmers Kill It With Fire
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Posted - 2011.12.05 03:19:00 -
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Alexa Coates wrote:with all these restrictions, why would they even play on a normal account?
Because there are people who actually like this game, and there are people who work for CCP, and occasionally, when the planets align just right, there is the tiniest overlap between the two groups, and CCP employees actually start wanting to play their game instead of spending all day looking at endless reams of spaghetti code and dicking about in Photoshop |
Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
520
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Posted - 2011.12.05 03:27:00 -
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Alexa Coates wrote:with all these restrictions, why would they even play on a normal account? What exactly sounds all that restrictive anyway ? That you can't tell them where you work ? How often do YOU tell people in EVE what company you work for in RL ? Or that you can't participate in patch market speculation ? Very few people in the game ever do. Or maybe that you can't use your dev powers for your own benefit ? Most of the other players don't have access to such powers, so again, what's the big deal ? http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Contributor_name:Akita_T#Contributions_link_collection |
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Shionoya Risa
The Xenodus Initiative.
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Posted - 2011.12.05 03:32:00 -
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Akita T wrote:And as long as they don't (ab)use any "insider" powers or knowledge to their advantage.
They shouldn't even be able to see the insider window on their normal accounts since they would have the same permissions as everyone else and the insider and its contents are shown based on those permissions. |
Lone Gunman
Forhotea Corporation
13
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Posted - 2011.12.05 04:35:00 -
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Now if we can just get CCP Helmar to play his own game, maybe I wouldn't be typing this while Im waiting for the Captains Quarters to load. |
Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
520
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Posted - 2011.12.05 06:23:00 -
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Shionoya Risa wrote:Akita T wrote:And as long as they don't (ab)use any "insider" powers or knowledge to their advantage.
They shouldn't even be able to see the insider window on their normal accounts since they would have the same permissions as everyone else and the insider and its contents are shown based on those permissions. I'm talking about the possibility of doing something fishy with the aid of their work account while at work so that their "regular" non-work non-empowered account might possibly benefit, or some knowledge they picked up as a person by simply being an employee of CCP that would have otherwise not been available (or would have required far more effort or time to obtain).
There is no question about whether their regular accounts have any access to GM/dev tools or not. They have no reason to. It would be laughable if they did. Maybe at some distant point in the past they might have, but nowadays, the mere idea is preposterous. http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Contributor_name:Akita_T#Contributions_link_collection |
Liam Mirren
34
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Posted - 2011.12.05 06:41:00 -
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Those restrictions (as Akita explained, not that restrictive at all just logical) is probably also one of the reasons many stick to "easier" stuff like mining or PVE and less so PVP focussed stuff where they're expected to be on voice and all that. (that and them being blithering carebears ofcourse).
The whole The Enslaver "issue" showed that you just can't have CCP folks in positions of power and/or PVP because there'll always be someone who feels so self-important he has to out them and cause lots of trouble. Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude. |
non judgement
Without Fear Flying Burning Ships Alliance
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Posted - 2011.12.05 06:55:00 -
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I heard a rumour that some of them do actually PVP. I don't see why they wouldn't be allowed to PVP. If no one knows who they are, why not let them PVP as much as they like?
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Nova Fox
Novafox Shipyards
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Posted - 2011.12.05 08:23:00 -
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Any one of us in this thread could be a developer in disguise, It could be you, or you or you, or even me.
p-p
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Plave Okice
Krazny Oktyabr Revolyutsiya
54
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Posted - 2011.12.05 08:33:00 -
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non judgement wrote:I heard a rumour that some of them do actually PVP. I don't see why they wouldn't be allowed to PVP. If no one knows who they are, why not let them PVP as much as they like?
I remember a dev poll long ago about playing the game and something like 70% of them were pirates, the rest miners.
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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
106
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Posted - 2011.12.05 08:37:00 -
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Anyone else in here besides Akita T and Nova Fox remember the T20 thing? |
Jaroslav Unwanted
Brutor Tribe Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2011.12.05 08:52:00 -
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Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:Anyone else in here besides Akita T and Nova Fox remember the T20 thing?
heard of it.
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Plave Okice
Krazny Oktyabr Revolyutsiya
54
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Posted - 2011.12.05 08:54:00 -
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I remember it well, as will pretty much anyone playing then, it was huge.
Early 2007 he got caught. |
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Marcanious
0be Trading
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Posted - 2011.12.05 08:55:00 -
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If memory serves me correctly they also get x number of free accounts that they dont have to pay for, but again this may have changed.
But to be honest which would you prefer playing a game where the devs play and have a good idea of what they game is about from a players point of view or would you just prefer them all to be code monkeys who only see the back end of the game |
Daravel
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Posted - 2011.12.05 09:17:00 -
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I remember the t20 thing. It's why the internal affairs department was set up - who monitor developer conduct (I assume that sitll exists?) |
Thorn Galen
Bene Gesserit ChapterHouse Sanctuary Pact
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Posted - 2011.12.05 10:12:00 -
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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." - Lord Acton (1834GÇô1902). Historian and moralist.
Unless you happen to be a real Saint, no person is immune. The universe is an ancient desert, a vast wasteland with only occasional habitable planets as oases. We Fremen, comfortable with deserts, shall now venture into another. - STILGAR, From the Sietch to the Stars. |
Alpheias
Euphoria Released HYDRA RELOADED
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Posted - 2011.12.05 10:58:00 -
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I have T20 on my steamlist and we play TF2 from time to time. Good guy. I'd kill kittens and puppies and bunnies I'd maim toddlers and teens and then more |
rodyas
Tie Fighters Inc
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Posted - 2011.12.05 11:56:00 -
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What do the internal affairs people get for perks? All the API data they want? Invisible ships that can go through a station and they watch you spin your ship correctly?
Does hilmar get all the data downloaded to excel programs he wants as perks. |
RaTTuS
BIG Gentlemen's Agreement
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Posted - 2011.12.05 13:00:00 -
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T20 - sure I remember that, - CSM was setup in response. boot.ini - I remember that RMR - I remember that - Boy do I remember that - http://eveboard.com/ub/419190933-134.png
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Gealbhan
Celestial Horizon Corp. Flatline.
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Posted - 2011.12.05 13:07:00 -
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Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:CCP employees are allowed normal accounts on which they cannot use their super dev powers to do anything under. They also cannot let people know they are devs so they're kinda like superman.
cough* T20... |
Myxx
Atropos Group
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Posted - 2011.12.05 13:10:00 -
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Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:Anyone else in here besides Akita T and Nova Fox remember the T20 thing? Yeah, sadly. |
Tanya Powers
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
379
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Posted - 2011.12.05 13:11:00 -
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Son Callar wrote:Hi,
I'm quite interested to know if CCPs policy on their employees playing eve is available somewhere or if anyone knows how they handle that ?
For example are CCP employees allowed to let people know they work for CCP, are they allowed to join player corporations, if an employee has an already active character are they allowed to continue playing on that character etc.
I'm interested purely for personal reasons, it is not that I know of a CCP employee ingame or am trying to put out dirt on someone, just interested on how its handled, if anyone knows.
Thank you !
Simple, they have the right to use your credit card to pay their own sub, they can pick your isk to buy ships you will never be able to use, when they fart dozens of plex appear in their hangar and they can instantly kill you just by eye balling you.
You should fear those, they're nastier than Goons but not strong has PL, they're now training supercaps and you should know also when you take 45D to train stuff they take 45mn afk cofee shop and fresh beer.
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Shionoya Risa
The Xenodus Initiative.
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Posted - 2011.12.05 13:36:00 -
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Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:Anyone else in here besides Akita T and Nova Fox remember the T20 thing?
Yes. |
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