Can you say 300 million isk Maelstrom?

Local got immediately halved today

Anyone got a link to that guy's blog where he reposted the best gems from the botter forums?

Local got immediately halved today

Anyone got a link to that guy's blog where he reposted the best gems from the botter forums?

Oh, the righteous tears of those who break the rules and get butthurt about being punished.

"rider23: I was botting 20hrs/day, on 4 accounts, all banned (+1 extra!) for 2 weeks. 2 remain. Now, without botting I have no other way to make isk and get plexes for all accounts even for my main. So there is no way to play for FREE. FREE? Hmm, seems that CCP have problems with their funding to support company, servers, etc.

So, I will let them eat my s**t, and on my 2 remaining unblocked accounts I have started the process to return all characters to the virtual biomass, where they virtually came from. Subscriptions already canceled."

Lawl.

Stealth ganker nerf detected

I noticed an Amarr Icebelt that would usually have 60 to 100 people had 3 in it last night.

Keep pushing, CCP. Maybe when people are paying 3 mill for a combat probe they will learn to leave my ATK Mackinaw alone.

Oh, the righteous tears of those who break the rules and get butthurt about being punished.

"rider23: I was botting 20hrs/day, on 4 accounts, all banned (+1 extra!) for 2 weeks. 2 remain. Now, without botting I have no other way to make isk and get plexes for all accounts even for my main. So there is no way to play for FREE. FREE? Hmm, seems that CCP have problems with their funding to support company, servers, etc.

So, I will let them eat my s**t, and on my 2 remaining unblocked accounts I have started the process to return all characters to the virtual biomass, where they virtually came from. Subscriptions already canceled."

Lawl.

The bot bans guarantees that CCP gets my continued subscription fee.

Keep it up

They will not, because resources are the excuse for the miner close to you to pay a merc to come gank your ship until you accept to join his corp



So you are a juicy victim anyway and there's absolutely nothing you can do or that will change after bot's ban and drones alloys taken. You will still be the older an richer players hoar.

For those complaining about how this is causing inflation: It's not. It's removing an artificial source of deflation and the prices are returning to the levels they are supposed to be at. All is well, especially if you're an ethical miner or producer, since you no longer have to compete with cheating smacktards.

The bot bans guarantees that CCP gets my continued subscription fee.

Keep it up

I hope so, im already loving the 203misk maelstrom, i loves my maelstrom bpo now :D

Ending bots ends superblobs obviously. Battleships were not meant to be cheap.


It's 2006 again.

Ending bots ends superblobs obviously. Battleships were not meant to be cheap.


It's 2006 again.

Alliances are rich enough that this doesn't effect them in the slightest. If anything, they'll prolly profit from it because they have the BPOs.

Having a BPO (aside from T2) doesn't mean you aren't affected by the price of minerals rising. Only having miners does that.

Alliances have miners and huge stockpiles of minerals. And they're probably the ones causing all the speculation right now.

Some allainces HAD alot of miners and minerals.

Jeez, botting with 4 accounts. What a ******. It's not even like it's hard to make the 500m required to purchase an isk in a reasonable time without any ******* bots.

That guy should have definitely been permabanned on all accounts, because he definitely isn't one of the people "just trying it out".

For those complaining about how this is causing inflation: It's not. It's removing an artificial source of deflation and the prices are returning to the levels they are supposed to be at. All is well, especially if you're an ethical miner or producer, since you no longer have to compete with cheating smacktards.

Go bot go and good riddance. I might return to mining now the market is a bit bouyant. Or i might just sell the hulks an lol all the way to the bank.

The bot bans guarantees that CCP gets my continued subscription fee.

Keep it up

Actually the Ice Cream Iteron IV two systems over had it's freezing unit blow out so they are selling all there ice cream at half price.

We're all there right now.

*\o/*

Screw 'em with chainsaws...

"Sorry we can't invade you right now, we have to mine up the minerals for battleships right now." is going to be a hilarious refrain from the null alliances.

It feels good becuase these are A$$HATS that deserve everything they get.

I dont think the Blogger's math is correct. He states

"CCP Sreegs stated he expected to seize 100 billion isk a day from botting accounts. But how much money is that really? Using the average sales price in The Forge in March 2012, it converts to 205 PLEX. Over a month, that is 6,150 PLEX, or over $107,000. That sounds like a lot, but is it in the context of Eve Online? Here are some other figures that puts CCP Sreegs expectations into perspective."

From my calculations with PLEX average at around 450 mil each at 205 per day... thats about 92bil... not too far off for Sreegs.

Whoever posted the link to nosy gamer , Thanks so much.. Those bot tears are very delicious, kinda salty with a hint of wine... or is it whine.. I dunno, but hope more come..

For those complaining about how this is causing inflation: It's not. It's removing an artificial source of deflation and the prices are returning to the levels they are supposed to be at. All is well, especially if you're an ethical miner or producer, since you no longer have to compete with cheating smacktards.

We might have higher mineral prices, but I'd rather see a bunch of cheating smacktards cry and have to pay more for ships than the game go into a downward spiral because prices are artificially low, we're all paying the same prices effectively and industry has been given a shot in the arm after being bled dry by entitled little cliff dwellers who don't even play the game.

In the short term it's painful on the wallet, in the long term it's better for the game.

Unless CCP Sreegs stops, I'm pretty sure there will be more

I hope he has been given a permanent contract and stays with CCP for a long time. His work makes up for so much that I could ... *sniff* ... cry!

There, I said it.

Wow, you have sure changed your tune.

However, since its for the better, I shall join you in a little sniffle.

This is a good move but it will only be effective if the bans are "forever" because 2 week bans wont do crap and all people will forgot about this until next year.

i understand but cheating should not give you a second change.

i understand but cheating should not give you a second change.

Oh, the righteous tears of those who break the rules and get butthurt about being punished.

"rider23: I was botting 20hrs/day, on 4 accounts, all banned (+1 extra!) for 2 weeks. 2 remain. Now, without botting I have no other way to make isk and get plexes for all accounts even for my main. So there is no way to play for FREE. FREE? Hmm, seems that CCP have problems with their funding to support company, servers, etc.

So, I will let them eat my s**t, and on my 2 remaining unblocked accounts I have started the process to return all characters to the virtual biomass, where they virtually came from. Subscriptions already canceled."

Lawl.

Im loving the new Jita prices :)

Say, as someone fairly new to this game, where is this Jita I've heard about? I'm guessing it's the trading center of the game.

With all the bans going out I wonder if some people have been mistakenly banned? Loving the new mineral prices though ^_^. Sucks for people who dont have time mine though.

It is, and a complete cess pool, do yourself a favour and don't look at local if you go there. You might wish to avoid it after the 28th.

Hehe, I will bear that in mind. Being that it's in Caldari space (from what I saw from that link), once I get around to getting marketing up to level 5 (not before I get my retriever though), I'll put stuff up to sell remotely. :)

An advice. If one day you'll go to Jita, NEVER, EVER TRUST OR BELIEVE what you read. ANYTHING said in that chat WILL get your money. ANYONE opening a trade to you there will replace the item you want with a piece of rubbish in 1/100 second while you push the trade button. Whatever happens do NOT trust anybody, anything, anywhere, any *.* in there.

This is a good move but it will only be effective if the bans are "forever" because 2 week bans wont do crap and all people will forgot about this until next year.

I don't know if they realize it but putting wallets into negative is pretty much a 1-strike policy. There is no way people are going to try and work their way out of a 10-20bil negative wallet. And since you can't upgrade your clone, make contracts, or do anything really, that account is essentially dead. I can understand the no trading characters after a ban, but if they want to try and make players good after a ban and keep them, they would take away assets on the 2nd or 3rd strike.

The two week ban by itself may not do anything, but also take away the money made while botting and flag their accounts so they can't transfer characters? That hurts them. Here's a quote from a botter:

With all the bans going out I wonder if some people have been mistakenly banned? Loving the new mineral prices though ^_^. Sucks for people who dont have time mine though.

Can they pay the market fee for a plex sale with negative wallet?

Can they pay the market fee for a plex sale with negative wallet?

\o/ Would love to see some juicy ban stats.

Probably. The tax gets deducted after the amount went into your wallet. But if not, then I am not going to bother about it.

I will make a dev blog with some stats in a few weeks.

We've got a lot of stuff going on at the moment on this front which is taking up a lot of my time. Once that is over and we have some good data, I'll put together a dev blog.

The bot bans guarantees that CCP gets my continued subscription fee.

Keep it up

Tim Horton's Edition Itty IV, in honour of CCP's Canadian FF attendees (Hell, we're practically neighbours)--make it happen, CCP!

I will make a dev blog with some stats in a few weeks.

We've got a lot of stuff going on at the moment on this front which is taking up a lot of my time. Once that is over and we have some good data, I'll put together a dev blog.

ahaha keep going ccp. i really like this, i am finaly getting use of my hulk!