Jurgen Cartis
Interstellar Corporation of Exploration
Nex Eternus
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Posted - 2008.06.18 04:51:00 -
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 Originally by: lpha centurion
Edited by: lpha centurion on 17/06/2008 11:58:02
Edited by: lpha centurion on 17/06/2008 11:56:42
Drastic ways to ban macroers :
-> Image Ingame Control (IIC)
After a random moment of connexion, a windows appear asking to copy a number, if no answer after 15 minutes : kick  .
-> ISK Transfer Amount Control (ITAC)
GMs are able to check the accounts of players who have received or given a lot of money to other characters (lets say 2b+ in a week ?). These guys are highlighted in the GM panel 
-> Computer Configuration Ban (CCB)
I think it is possible but a dev answer is needed. A good way to ban people is to ban them and their hardware. A same PC can't create a new account on EvE if it is CCB.
-> Yulai Internal Financial Protection Team (YIFPROT)
Creation of a new team in ISD of players able to check if players are macroers or not. They are in charge to search them (perma-cloacking, local invisible) and to inform GMs on the possibility of macroing players.
Hope some of these ideas are possible and not too stupid, I really hate macroers destroying the mining economy 
IIC is bad because Eve does not need more modal windows. . . Think about it, random modal window pops up in the middle of you sparring with a buddy. Now you can't turn off your guns or call of your drones until you deal with it. Oops. Now take this situation and apply to small gang PvP and worse, fleet PvP at your leisure. Especially mass fleet PvP with 15+ minute grid loading times. . . In short, far more annoying to us than macros. They just have some flunky make the rounds every 10 minutes and fix as needed.
ITAC is useful, but the GMs probably already have access to ISK logging. The thing is, many people have alts who make money for them or are otherwise going to be sloshing around large sums of ISK. Telling the difference requires some thought, and not just an automated tool. Now, if he's sloshing out ISK in large amounts to many unrelated characters, start looking, hard.
CCB is very powerful, but has huge backfire potential. Particularly when the macroers sell the now useless hardware to people who aren't involved, and if they use cybercafes in any part of their operation. A large operation may be able to simply switch machines that are CCB'd to Eve to another game, and move other computers to pick up the slack.
YIFPROT might be useful. I'm not sure if GMs are cloaked to local, but I'm pretty sure that GM Cloaks are better than Covops Cloaks. There are other tools that can be deployed in concert with this that could be very useful, particularly timing how long certain activities take. Humans will have some random element, simpler macros will be precise to the millisecond.
Checking on anyone who's on 23/7 seems useful, though again it takes some care, as people DO log in simply to try to make their enemies station camp them eternally despite them being very much AFK. A bit of GM watching should clear up which is which though.
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