Akita T
Caldari
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2007.02.10 00:02:00 -
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 Originally by: Baudolino
I have no problem with devs playing the game and fully appreciate their need to experience the game.
However..
there is absolutely no need to hide the fact that a character belongs to a dev.
A dev should not have clandestine presence in the game- it simply invites both suspicion of and actual misconduct.
A dev character should be market as such for accountability purposes- as for what dev the character belongs to, there is no reason for players to have this information.
This is an important principle and it surprises me that CCP does not attend to it with more foresight and finesse.
Exactly what I was trying to say and didn't know how to put it.
All "regular" characters that have ANY ties with CCP (and free "employee/associate" accounts), while they do own those free CCP accounts, should have all their own regular characters flagged as "CCP related".
That includes devs, forum mods, aurora/star... basically every person that signed any NDA or other kinds of confidentiality agreement with CCP.
Also, the ONLY place where ANY type of game-modifying tools can be used on the TQ cluster should be at the main CCP office, and ALL such interactions should be logged and logs made non-deletable.
More important, ANY direct interaction between a game modifying tool and a "CCP related"-flagged account and its immediate surroundings should only be possible with the confirmation of at least 2 other devs of similar ranking.
Furthermore, any change of any kind involving manual content creation on TQ should be approved by a second dev.
Those are just general examples of guidelines, not the way it should be.
But it does give a general idea.
An EVE that has non-playing devs or devs that just play a certain style (carebear?) will crumble soon.
We do need them to be in alliances, and even more important, in the larger ones.
But they do not and should not be secretive about the fact they are indeed related to CCP.
Having devs abandon their long-played character just because they're outed makes no sense.
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