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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 !

should a character become outed as a CCP employee character either the character is deleted permanently or copied to a new characterID, that allows you to continue playing - but any and all social ties that character had have to be severed..

Raid'En is obvious dev!
Sever him, sever him!

PS: CCP aren't allowed to grief and scam? ... Really?

i do think the "char death upon outing" is a little harsh. as long as you're behaving i don't think it is a big deal if people know your personal accounts.

unless of course it becomes a problem of harassment for the dev (ie everyone convo'ing them).

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.

It is a bit harsh, but if a CCP employee maintained a steady name and identity, everyone would message them with 'Can I have free stuff'. No only that, but joining a corp would be a huge conflict of interest.

How often do YOU tell people in EVE what company you work for in RL ?

Anyone else in here besides Akita T and Nova Fox remember the T20 thing?

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.

Also, think of the other members of that corp, if we assume that a known dev character will be followed to the end of the universe with war declarations.

Is it still true that most devs who play are pirates?

Do you discuss playing between you?

Do you know who each others characters are?

Yub.

Are CCP employees allowed to "out" their in game alt identities to each other?
Are they allowed to form corporations or alliances entirely or mostly consisting of CCP employees?
Are there any rules governing the level of interaction between CCP alt accounts with each other?

Just out of pure curiosity.

I assume that all employees that play with non-CCP accounts are required to inform Internal Affairs about this.

Could we have some figures (channeling CCP Diagoras) on how many of the CCP employees that play EvE Online with their own private account on a regular basis?

Is it still true that most devs who play are pirates?

Do you discuss playing between you?

Do you know who each others characters are?

no griefing ok, but no scamming?

Are you... quite certain internal affairs does not hate you?

Yub.

"Eve Balling"

Is that like a power word?

Becuase someone who can just point you and say die has a distinct advantage in combat.

this would be a cool feature/character service for a few hundred million isk

Already there are too few ways to take revenge or hold people accountable for their actions. This would be a terrible feature.