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

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

CCP is against scams and scam artists of this nature in-general, but so long as people abide by the EULA, funds or assets acquired through what one would term fraud and/or embezzlement in RL are within the context of the game at-large, and thus not actionable by CCP.

Firstly a Dev should know the game inside and out, this has to be an advantage even if they are playing a normal account.

So simply being a Dev is an advantage surly

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

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

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

Isn't voice chat a problem - at least for the more prominent Devs? Many corps require voice chat at least for corp events or PvP. I guess most people would knwo who they talk to over voice if it would have been e.g. Soundwave or StevieSG.

Voice comms tend to distort the natural voice of the person speaking, so Soundwave or Stevie would sound substantially different over Teamspeak or Eve-voice compared to in real life or on the videos of Fanfest or the Alliance Tournament.

Voice comms tend to distort the natural voice of the person speaking, so Soundwave or Stevie would sound substantially different over Teamspeak or Eve-voice compared to in real life or on the videos of Fanfest or the Alliance Tournament.

I'm not comfortable with giving out figures of how many CCP employee accounts there are out there.

The rules covering CCP Employees are not public as far as I know, but the gist of the rules has already been posted above.

As has been stated in this thread, CCP employees are allowed to play EVE, using normal accounts. In addition to be required to follow the EULA, the TOS and other rules to the letter, any 'gray' area gameplay by CCP employees is forbidden. Griefing, scamming, exploiting or the abuse of knowledge of coming game changes (market speculation) absolutely fall under that.

Furthermore, it is forbidden to reveal that we work for CCP when playing on our normal characters and 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. The actions depend on how the character was outed.

And needless to say, Internal Affairs watch all CCP employee accounts very carefully.

I must say that I find it funny really.

Yes, CCP employees are not allowed to tell anyone about coming game changes that lead to market speculation but; isn't it funny that the market orders for items that become very powerful post patch always increase dramatically the week before the patch is released?

I'm surprised CCP staff are allowed to play at all.

Having access to insider knowledge, whether it is abused or not, is a huge integrity issue. Perception is reality.

Human nature being what it is, I've no doubt that line has been crossed in the past.

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 !

I'm surprised CCP staff are allowed to play at all.

Having access to insider knowledge, whether it is abused or not, is a huge integrity issue. Perception is reality.

Human nature being what it is, I've no doubt that line has been crossed in the past.

So, how would CCP IA figure out that you're playing a character? Even if you got a friend request for a trial from a neighbor, and then subscribed with plex, and stayed on with plex, how would they figure it out? Is it because you guys are using the dev console? Is it because you guys use the Kunami Code?

I'm surprised CCP staff are allowed to play at all.

Having access to insider knowledge, whether it is abused or not, is a huge integrity issue. Perception is reality.

Human nature being what it is, I've no doubt that line has been crossed in the past.

can we get a graph about how many eve dev alts troll on forum?

I wouldn't want to play a game where the development staff was disconnected from their own product, that just creates balance changes that make no sense what so ever and a QA department and feedback can only give you so and so much.

I also reckon a lot of the staff at CCP are there be cause of their love of the game, that's one of the things I like about them is that they seem to recruit people that actually care about the game and know what they are doing (excluding the incarna expansion but that has gotten enough coverage already)


Thank you all for the responses ! and thank you Xhagen for the very informative replies !

If scamming is legitimate in the game why are CCP characters not allowed to partake in such a "legit" game mechanic? Surely if you ban yourselves from doing then it should be the same for everyone else?

It's not like we know you are dev character or not so it can't be a public image thing, why so? Do you think it's one of the lowest form of gameplay?