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Yaba Yaba
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Posted - 2012.04.03 19:01:00 -
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Hello,
I've made it my personal mission to try to catch as many botters as I can. As everyone knows, it takes a lot of time and effort catching them as they usually safe up when you enter local. However, so far I've taken out 3 Tengus in the last 2 weeks worth a total of 3.5+ bil.
With the first two tengus, I blew them up and reported them. However, the most recent tengu I took out, I sent a mail and made a proposal: They give me a sum of ISK, in return I don't report them and don't bother them again. No answer yet tho, so who knows.
I'm wondering if this is even allowed in game as I would be profiting from illegal activities. And if they were to catch the botter, (especially with the new dev blog out about botting), they may take the cash from me as it was originally from botting.
Not that I had any intentions of upholding my end of the bargain; I would still hunt them down and report them. But I'm just wondering if I'm putting my own account at risk if I were to receive a 'player donation' from a bot |
Yaba Yaba
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Posted - 2012.04.03 20:22:00 -
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Skydell wrote:How do you ransom a bot, that's the question.
Did they write that in to the macro? Pay 2 billion in ransom on certain cases? Ransoming an RMT player is just another transaction that counts as a legitimate way to do illegitimate things. I think the status Quo answer is to report them.
You send them a mail and hope that the operator reads it. Chances are it wont happen, but you never know. I've seen a few operators actually get in game and do stuff
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Yaba Yaba
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Posted - 2012.04.03 20:23:00 -
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Also, a tentative answer from the man himself:
CCP Sreegs wrote:Yaba Yaba wrote:Question, as per this topic: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=91174tl;dr: can you ransom botters (send a mail and hope they read it after you blow them up) under the premise that you won't report them or bother them again (but of course do both those things). Basically, scamming them for ISK on false premise (legal in EVE), but the ISK is tainted (illegal and might get taken away) I'll have to get back to you on that. I believe it would be fine but it's a hypothetical. Bots get dinged for isk generated and we're not looking at passing that on unless it's going bad places. |
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