Originally by: Nicolas Tesla

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Originally by: Jazeki

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Originally by: Fluffernator

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Originally by: tres testor

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Originally by: Bobafeit

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Originally by: Darkstar BP

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Everybody loses.
CCP loses big time: Digged and Slashdotted again, CCP is going to find out very soon whether the old mantra ôany publicity is good publicityö is true. I think in this case it is not. The allegations will come back again and again, something new will surface and you wonÆt be able to stop the snowball. This will now go on and on for the remainder of this game. It must be very disenchanting to see that you are now so fundamentally distrusted by a large portion of the playerbase that any allegation snowballs into 150 page thread and people take it to the public forums.

You brought it onto yourself: After T20 you had the choice to explain and set professional rules, visibly to the community, whereby you would avoid interference with top-level alliance politics. You didnÆt set those rules. You blamed T20 and T20 alone, you swept it under the rug, you banned people for making references to the incident. You warned and banned people for using the BoD acronym, and let BoB make Dev jokes all around, brilliant. And thus it festered on. You didnÆt want your developers and GMÆs to lose their friends on MSN, now that friendship is coming back to haunt you. You continue to believe that it is OK to be involved in top-level alliance warfare.

BoB loses too: BoB can and should win Eve at the moment. D2 has not been able to effectively coordinate the North and canÆt even stand up to the 2nd tier alliances combined with MC. You have the allies, the experienced players, the Titans, MC to kill Ragoon. Anything less than that would be failure. After these two alliances are removed from 0.0 you will have won Eve. There is no alliance that even has a remote chance of challenging you after that, and you suggesting that is a joke.

That win will always, of course, be tainted forever and people will smear you as long as your alliance exists. You could have made choices along the way that would have avoided this. You chose not to. You focused on the narrowest possible definition of being able to do what the game allows. Anything goes within the law in terms of Metagaming outside the game. You cherished your special relationship with CCP.You and a group of people in CCP developed a culture in which T20 could allow himself to get compromised, in which those people are always a click on MSN away.

So:
A GM in BoB flying a Polaris frigate through an enemy system, is in line with what the game allows, and does not amount to BoB cheating.
A Dev in BoB spawning items/BPOÆs, is his problem and his problem alone, does not amount to BoB cheating.
A BoB member leading the alliance tournament, does not amount to BoB cheating.
Claiming ôBeing sworn to secrecy by CCPö, does not amount to BoB cheating.
The list goes on and on.
YOU KNOW WHAT, I FULLY AGREE. It will kill CCP, but BoB did not cheat. IÆll paraphrase what some of you said: ôCCP can do what it want, and if CCP wants to allow cheating, tough luck for you. Can I have your stuff, whiner?ö

Brilliant smack talk. AND YOU ARE RIGHT AGAIN.

However, it doesnÆt help to counter the rot that permeates Eve, comes to every corp, every alliance. The rot is here and Eve will enter a very dark period. We have not seen the last firestorm, and things can get much much worse before they will get better. That and the fact that the endgame of Eve is now known will turn people away in droves.

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/signed

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/signed

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signed ^^

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