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Boris Naeb
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Posted - 2008.12.26 12:43:00 -
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hi,
i do not know how exacly works macro mining programs. Idea is to apply some veryify real preson test when mining ship warp in asteroid belt. example - when we warp in asteroid belt EVE client pop up some letter in one row , and in second row four letters with one from first row, the player should pick good one to be able to mine. That would be difficult for honest players (miners) - but isn't worth to do that? This is general look, what you think?
sorry for terrible english
thx borys
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Pottsey
Enheduanni Foundation
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Posted - 2008.12.26 12:48:00 -
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I can just see it now, warp in find out its not safe and die while trying to type the correct letter or the pop up box apears over something. It also breaks immersion and is just plan irritating. How does it know only to pop up for the miners? ____ Telltale sign of their presence is non-linear teleportation (www.eve-online.com/races/theodicy/Theodicy_All.pdf)
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AmosTrask
Minmatar
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Posted - 2008.12.26 13:08:00 -
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How about we just use this thread to generate a list of know MM's and petion ccp with it. Or we could derail it and talk about mince pies. Do you get it?
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Boris Naeb
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Posted - 2008.12.26 13:23:00 -
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Edited by: Boris Naeb on 26/12/2008 13:24:50 maybe simple veryfiy test when we activate first mining laser? simple I mean just one click, no typing something. I know that is difficult and can be hard to do this, but we block micro miners programs.
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Niccolado Starwalker
Shadow Templars
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Posted - 2008.12.26 13:37:00 -
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Edited by: Niccolado Starwalker on 26/12/2008 13:38:19
Originally by: Boris Naeb Edited by: Boris Naeb on 26/12/2008 13:24:50 maybe simple veryfiy test when we activate first mining laser? simple I mean just one click, no typing something. I know that is difficult and can be hard to do this, but we block micro miners programs.
Tbh mining is annoying as it is, without making yousolve puzzles or clicks etc. to verify your presence.
Mining bots is a nightmare and its operators cheaters who needs to be banned and removed from the game. But I would prefer doing it a way without having to make all miners potentials suspects, putting them on continuous trials to verify their good intentions. After all its a game.
Originally by: Dianabolic Your tears are absolutely divine, like a fine fine wine, rolling down your cheeks until they flow down the river of LOL
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Boris Naeb
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Posted - 2008.12.26 13:43:00 -
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I see, but I would take this burden just for chance to eliminate computer miners. Maybe some votting? It is really hard to click one more time before miner laser will start working, i do not get it.
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Dr Axler
The Dead Parrot Shoppe Inc.
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Posted - 2008.12.26 13:53:00 -
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change the eula to allow searching through the clients ram. then make a simple application that starts with eve online (in the background. 99% of players wont know about it) which looks for third party applications. flag such accounts and ban once a month.
lose a ****load of subscribers, and go bankrupt...
macrominers support the eve economy with the basic ore atm. they are also the reason why the mining profession sucks atm. CCP should deal with this very carefully.
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Niccolado Starwalker
Shadow Templars
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Posted - 2008.12.26 13:55:00 -
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Originally by: Boris Naeb I see, but I would take this burden just for chance to eliminate computer miners. Maybe some votting? It is really hard to click one more time before miner laser will start working, i do not get it.
If you have been sitting and mining for 6-7 hours - not to mention 10-12 hours - which DO happen now and then - yes, it gets pretty annoying...
Remember: there are people out there who do make a living out of mining. And you dont do that by mining a few hours only. Its not only macroers who do spend lots of time in the belts, but ordinary dedicated players too!
Originally by: Dianabolic Your tears are absolutely divine, like a fine fine wine, rolling down your cheeks until they flow down the river of LOL
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Abrazzar
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Posted - 2008.12.26 14:01:00 -
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Originally by: Dr Axler change the eula to allow searching through the clients ram.
This would be the day I would cancel my account. What I am doing besides playing EVE is my business alone.
-------- Ideas for: Mining
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Salliene
Gallente Terracorp Technologies Dark Trinity Alliance
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Posted - 2008.12.26 14:09:00 -
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The companies that run these macro mining bots are in it for the money, therefore whatever you come up with to prevent them from macroing they will find a way around it in no time. It's not a game to them, it's a way of life, so whatever obstacle you put in their way they WILL find a way around it.
The only way to stop macro miners and ISK sellers is to get the players to STOP BUYING FROM THEM. But they obviously have enough EVE players willing to shell out real money to keep their business afloat with dozens of employees, so I don't see that happening anytime soon. One Girls Journey through the EVE Universe |

Dr Axler
The Dead Parrot Shoppe Inc.
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Posted - 2008.12.26 14:23:00 -
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Originally by: Abrazzar
Originally by: Dr Axler change the eula to allow searching through the clients ram.
This would be the day I would cancel my account. What I am doing besides playing EVE is my business alone.
if it includes third party applications for macroing then it is not your business alone. though i agree, but it is a price i would be willing to pay to get rid of macroers...\
it is true, they probably will find a way around it, but there will be less of them.
i remember reading about it, not sure what year it was. blizzard did something like this and banned thousands of accounts (half of the eve player base).
im not sure if i would do it. that is still a big number of accounts which pay the monthly fee. and that fee allows for better servers, and better services... _________________________________________________
"nerf rock, paper is working as intended."
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Abulurd Boniface
Gallente Mercantile Exchange for Mining And Exploration
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Posted - 2008.12.26 14:27:00 -
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Originally by: Abrazzar
Originally by: Dr Axler change the eula to allow searching through the clients ram.
This would be the day I would cancel my account. What I am doing besides playing EVE is my business alone.
I wholeheartedly agree.
I don't need the thought police to determine whether I cheat in a game or not. Mining is my business and I do all of it myself. I don't want to be the subject of continuous probes. Clicking a character? No thanks.
Don't put the onus on me, the honest player, put the onus on the people who break the system.
Abulurd Boniface ME ME CEO For good to survive it suffices for evil to acquire a deadly, incapacitating disease. |

Gadwad
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Posted - 2008.12.26 16:00:00 -
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Originally by: Dr Axler
Originally by: Abrazzar
Originally by: Dr Axler change the eula to allow searching through the clients ram.
This would be the day I would cancel my account. What I am doing besides playing EVE is my business alone.
if it includes third party applications for macroing then it is not your business alone. though i agree, but it is a price i would be willing to pay to get rid of macroers...\
it is true, they probably will find a way around it, but there will be less of them.
i remember reading about it, not sure what year it was. blizzard did something like this and banned thousands of accounts (half of the eve player base).
im not sure if i would do it. that is still a big number of accounts which pay the monthly fee. and that fee allows for better servers, and better services...
WOW still has a LOT of botters.
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Billy Sastard
Amarr
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Posted - 2008.12.26 16:10:00 -
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Originally by: Dr Axler
Originally by: Abrazzar
Originally by: Dr Axler change the eula to allow searching through the clients ram.
This would be the day I would cancel my account. What I am doing besides playing EVE is my business alone.
if it includes third party applications for macroing then it is not your business alone...
And what if I am not using the macroing software for EVE, but for some mundane work related stuff, then I cannot play the game? There are too many situations where people completely innocent of cheating would get burned here. <-------------------------------------------------> "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -Albert Einstein |

GateScout
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Posted - 2008.12.26 16:21:00 -
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Edited by: GateScout on 26/12/2008 16:23:31 Think of EVE not as your personal game, but as a business.
What makes sense to you from a business stand point? Would the cost of implementing anti-macro code and removing macros from the game (perhaps, as you're not sure to eliminate them) boost your revenue? Would your code get in the way of AFK autopilot flying? Would this, in fact, **** off your current customer base? What would it do to mineral prices? What are the other aspects of the game that would be effected? ...?
Bottom line: Are macros a big enough deal to write extra code, inconvenience your current player base and, most importantly increase your revenue? Probably not.
While macros are a bit of a pain, they don't hurt the majority of the player-base in any real, significant way. I mean...how many paying subscribers have quit because of macro miners? I bet that number is pretty small. If CCP finds a way to increase subscriber numbers and remove macros, I have no doubt they will owrk on implementing it.
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Major Templar
Caldari DFX Industries
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Posted - 2008.12.26 16:46:00 -
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Edited by: Major Templar on 26/12/2008 16:47:17
Originally by: Niccolado Starwalker
Originally by: Boris Naeb I see, but I would take this burden just for chance to eliminate computer miners. Maybe some votting? It is really hard to click one more time before miner laser will start working, i do not get it.
If you have been sitting and mining for 6-7 hours - not to mention 10-12 hours - which DO happen now and then - yes, it gets pretty annoying...
Remember: there are people out there who do make a living out of mining. And you dont do that by mining a few hours only. Its not only macroers who do spend lots of time in the belts, but ordinary dedicated players too!
I myself am a dedicated miner and I spend anywhere from 8 to 16 hours in a system mining with my corp gang. I don't say belt because one belt does not last me and my gang for more then about an hour. And let me tell you, if I had to click something special or take some test every freaking time I started my mining laser, well I would just quit the freaking game because that would be so annoying.
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Breaker77
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Posted - 2008.12.26 17:02:00 -
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Originally by: Abrazzar
Originally by: Dr Axler change the eula to allow searching through the clients ram.
This would be the day I would cancel my account. What I am doing besides playing EVE is my business alone.
Then you never have played or never will play a battle.net game. When you create your online account you have to agree to let it use "Warden" on you. Warden scans your cookies, running processes, and registry looking for known hacks/cheats and bans accounts automatically if it finds one.
Sadly, I remember when it considered Microsoft Paint a hack 
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Boris Naeb
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Posted - 2008.12.26 17:02:00 -
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thx for answers, so I see that macro miners are no problem for miners, not so much to take some action or to complcate their mining job.
cheers borys
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Dr Axler
The Dead Parrot Shoppe Inc.
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Posted - 2008.12.26 23:38:00 -
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Originally by: Abulurd Boniface
Don't put the onus on me, the honest player, put the onus on the people who break the system.
Abulurd Boniface ME ME CEO
in order to see who breaks the system you must check everyone. so by letting ccp scan everyone's PCs, only those actually breaking would be affected.
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"nerf rock, paper is working as intended."
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masternerdguy
Gallente Gate Control
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Posted - 2008.12.26 23:40:00 -
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what? thats easy to get around!
All you have to do is use a OCR program to identify the characters to type.
Use a catcha? one problem: some of these exist that get 80% accuracy or more on catchas.
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Dr Axler
The Dead Parrot Shoppe Inc.
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Posted - 2008.12.26 23:40:00 -
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Originally by: Gadwad
WOW still has a LOT of botters.
wrong, wow has less botters.
although that is still allot yes :) _________________________________________________
"nerf rock, paper is working as intended."
- Scissors |

Dr Axler
The Dead Parrot Shoppe Inc.
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Posted - 2008.12.26 23:43:00 -
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Originally by: Billy Sastard
Originally by: Dr Axler
Originally by: Abrazzar
Originally by: Dr Axler change the eula to allow searching through the clients ram.
This would be the day I would cancel my account. What I am doing besides playing EVE is my business alone.
if it includes third party applications for macroing then it is not your business alone...
And what if I am not using the macroing software for EVE, but for some mundane work related stuff, then I cannot play the game? There are too many situations where people completely innocent of cheating would get burned here.
it doesn't look for all macros. it looks for very specific software. it doesn't even ban all botters, just those using software the company which made the game decided isn't legal. (although, as someone pointed out, on the example of the warden, there were a few bugs:) ) _________________________________________________
"nerf rock, paper is working as intended."
- Scissors |

Dr Axler
The Dead Parrot Shoppe Inc.
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Posted - 2008.12.26 23:48:00 -
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Originally by: masternerdguy what? thats easy to get around!
All you have to do is use a OCR program to identify the characters to type.
Use a catcha? one problem: some of these exist that get 80% accuracy or more on catchas.
yes, that is exactly true. OCR bots can even avoid being caught by the ram searching application as they do not need to fiddle with ram, just look at your screen. however OCR bots are allot harder to make and there is allot less of them.
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"nerf rock, paper is working as intended."
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Dr Axler
The Dead Parrot Shoppe Inc.
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Posted - 2008.12.26 23:56:00 -
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Originally by: GateScout Edited by: GateScout on 26/12/2008 16:23:31 Think of EVE not as your personal game, but as a business.
What makes sense to you from a business stand point? Would the cost of implementing anti-macro code and removing macros from the game (perhaps, as you're not sure to eliminate them) boost your revenue? Would your code get in the way of AFK autopilot flying? Would this, in fact, **** off your current customer base? What would it do to mineral prices? What are the other aspects of the game that would be effected? ...?
Bottom line: Are macros a big enough deal to write extra code, inconvenience your current player base and, most importantly increase your revenue? Probably not.
While macros are a bit of a pain, they don't hurt the majority of the player-base in any real, significant way. I mean...how many paying subscribers have quit because of macro miners? I bet that number is pretty small. If CCP finds a way to increase subscriber numbers and remove macros, I have no doubt they will owrk on implementing it.
totally agree here. lots of thinking to be done, and personally im not sure i would ban them if i was the CEO. as i said, they pay the fee, which pays for better server and services.
another thing is that a player which reads the description of a miner in the character creation screen, and decides he likes it better then soldier one, cant hope to make as much mining as the soldier one will make missioning. in fact, when he will ask for advice, he will most likely be told to train for a raven or make a new character ;)
wow had the same choice a few years back. let people complain, or ban.
then warden came out. it didn't ban, it kept records. then, thousands of accounts were banned. i think something along the lines of half of the entire eve player base atm (number of active accounts) _________________________________________________
"nerf rock, paper is working as intended."
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Confuzer
Volition Cult The Volition Cult
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Posted - 2008.12.27 00:03:00 -
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I want CAPTCHA checks on every click a player makes! So when he fills in a CAPTCHA, he will also get a CAPTCHA for that, and so one.
Would make Jita more quiet too. ----------------- Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It's not a thing to be waited for - it is a thing to be achieved. |

Captain Pompous
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Posted - 2008.12.27 00:37:00 -
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Originally by: Dr Axler
Originally by: Abulurd Boniface
Don't put the onus on me, the honest player, put the onus on the people who break the system.
Abulurd Boniface ME ME CEO
in order to see who breaks the system you must check everyone. so by letting ccp scan everyone's PCs, only those actually breaking would be affected.
i'd give you 3/10, for execution if not content
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Selene Arlath
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Posted - 2008.12.27 00:48:00 -
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Well if you wanna do something like that, there's a really simple way to do it.
When you register to forums, you often... well, pretty much always these days.. have to type in a word combined of letters and numbers that you see in a random picture.
Add one of those for engaging your mining laser, and voila, macrominer death.
That is... you make them have to do that each time they return to a belt to start mining anyways, but hey.
So yeah, that's my suggestion.
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masternerdguy
Gallente Gate Control Eradication Alliance
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Posted - 2008.12.27 00:49:00 -
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Originally by: Selene Arlath Well if you wanna do something like that, there's a really simple way to do it.
When you register to forums, you often... well, pretty much always these days.. have to type in a word combined of letters and numbers that you see in a random picture.
Add one of those for engaging your mining laser, and voila, macrominer death.
That is... you make them have to do that each time they return to a belt to start mining anyways, but hey.
So yeah, that's my suggestion.
until you add the high grade OCR, along with other wonders of programming.
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Jakooni
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Posted - 2008.12.27 00:54:00 -
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Originally by: masternerdguy
Originally by: Selene Arlath Well if you wanna do something like that, there's a really simple way to do it.
When you register to forums, you often... well, pretty much always these days.. have to type in a word combined of letters and numbers that you see in a random picture.
Add one of those for engaging your mining laser, and voila, macrominer death.
That is... you make them have to do that each time they return to a belt to start mining anyways, but hey.
So yeah, that's my suggestion.
until you add the high grade OCR, along with other wonders of programming.
Don't forget the flux capacitor, Marty.
Seriously, that's a completely boneheaded suggestion that will only cause the few people that actually do regularly mine to find something else and only help to destroy what's already a pitifully neglected profession in EVE.
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Dantes Revenge
Caldari
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Posted - 2008.12.27 00:57:00 -
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Originally by: masternerdguy what? thats easy to get around!
All you have to do is use a OCR program to identify the characters to type.
Use a catcha? one problem: some of these exist that get 80% accuracy or more on catchas.
You don't need it. Most game macros now integrate with the software itself and read the memory locations. The problem is that computers don't talk in puctures, they talk in code... ASCII being one of them. No doubt someone will soon find the location of the memory containing the ASCII code it's looking for and just code it into the macro to look there.
Probably the best way is if you come across any macro programs for Eve, grab them and send them to CCP so they can use algortihms to specifically find them in the same way a VK finds viruses.
-- There's a simple difference between kinky and perverted. Kinky is using a feather to get her in the mood. Perverted is using the whole chicken. All this has happened before and will happen again |

FT Cold
The Scope
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Posted - 2008.12.27 01:52:00 -
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Originally by: Dantes Revenge
Originally by: masternerdguy what? thats easy to get around!
All you have to do is use a OCR program to identify the characters to type.
Use a catcha? one problem: some of these exist that get 80% accuracy or more on catchas.
You don't need it. Most game macros now integrate with the software itself and read the memory locations. The problem is that computers don't talk in puctures, they talk in code... ASCII being one of them. No doubt someone will soon find the location of the memory containing the ASCII code it's looking for and just code it into the macro to look there.
Probably the best way is if you come across any macro programs for Eve, grab them and send them to CCP so they can use algortihms to specifically find them in the same way a VK finds viruses.
First, no.
Second, Unicode.
Third, it's all yes's or no's, and the faster you learn calculus + statistics, the better more informed you will be.
Fourth, I can't believe I got trolled... Now, now, now. Sounds like someone's got a case of the poor me's. If you were gonna die, you would have done it by now! Maybe you just need to realize you're gonna to have to live with intense pain |

Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2008.12.27 07:20:00 -
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First, check your assumptions. How many macro miners are actually out there? Having discovered how many there are, compare their contribution to the minerals economy against people who are mining properly.
Then, go figure out how many macro mission runners are out there. Would you suggest that we have to fill in a CAPTCHA every time we activate a weapon module on a hostile target?
A simple solution to the perceived "macro miner" problem is to mine the rocks out from under them.
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Barbara Nichole
Cryogenic Consultancy Black Sun Alliance
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Posted - 2008.12.27 08:26:00 -
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Quote: Then you never have played or never will play a battle.net game. When you create your online account you have to agree to let it use "Warden" on you.
This would be why I no longer play on battlenet. I don't agree with their EULA; it's an invasion of privacy regardless of whether they find anything or not.
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Deturnasis
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Posted - 2008.12.27 09:03:00 -
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I thought the main problem lay with macro missioners. Why is the price of Trit so high if these awful macro miners are ruining the game?
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Snake Doctor
MacroIntel United Corporations Against Macros
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Posted - 2008.12.27 16:45:00 -
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It seems as if the war on Macros specifically is at a standstill--- most of the macros that mine mine ice.
You have to make a specific distinction here:
Macro: Repetitive tasks performed by a scripted set of instructions. "click here, wait 40 seconds, click there, repeat".
Farmer: Farmers are extremely difficult to catch and take weeks(sometimes months or a year) to catch. You have to realize that 75% of "Farmers" are just kids with no life (of varying nationalities), farming missions for THEIR OWN wallets. We've all done it when low on cash. It's perfectly legal. 25% of these players, however, report to WORK and play Eve to make isk to in turn contract, market order, or gift (launder) their isk to their coordinator, which in turn gifts, contracts, or market order (launder) their isk to another coordinator, and then so on until the isk is sold through websites. 99% of the time, when stalking a suspected rmt farmer, it will become apparent within minutes that it's a real person.
Bots: Bots are programs run with an AI tuned for the job they've been assigned. They use OCR, a specific set of "hooks" on the gui or loaded into ram, and a built-in "understanding" of what their world is, programmed by their creator.
Macros: all mine ice now. There are a few mining ore, but not many. The greedy ones mine ice, the college kids mine ore. There is no such thing as a mission macro. None.
Farmers: Too many. They are everywhere. It's why isk for USD is soooooo cheap. These are your missioners. They leave AE open for a week and usually ignore you if you steal from them.
Bots: I would challenge anyone to find a working one. There was an autopilot warp to zero "bot", but it really was a macro with a few options. There was a "belt ratting bot" scheme sold on ebay, but it was bogus. There is NO SUCH THING as an Eve bot since you need the source to implement your hooks. You could reverse engineer, but you'd find nothing of value since all your client does is math. It's not CounterStrike, it's just not built that way.
I'm a little off topic here, but all I'm saying is that your suggestion would only serve to annoy the real players. No one would mine!
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masternerdguy
Gallente Gate Control Eradication Alliance
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Posted - 2008.12.27 21:27:00 -
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personally i love macros, they flood market with cheap ore so that my stuff costs less.
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AmosTrask
Minmatar
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Posted - 2008.12.27 23:11:00 -
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/AmosTrask bangs head against the wall to reset cpu and clear ram.
Told you we should have talked about mince pies
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Safri Wolff
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Posted - 2008.12.27 23:14:00 -
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no, what they do is sell their dastardly recieved ores at a little below your prices so thiers sell first, so you drop your price below theirs and they drop again, its a vicious circle and it all leads to ****ing the genuine miner off so much that they end up changing professions. How many times have you keenly logged on monday or friday after DT to find ZILCH! no ore at all in the system...wtf? where has it gone, then you check local and see 30 or 40 odd, 4-6 random letter named chars in local, all in npc corp, all same race, style, sex and BIRTHDATE!!!.....all flying hulks and a BC sitting outside the station giving the boosts....THATS where the ore went. Petitioning CCP gets the petition closed insanely quickly with the same old crap "we will look into this" its all umgwalla-gwalla and nothing is done about it simply because CCP cant afford to lose the accounts! Tell me im wrong CCP or ban the macros. There is NO other way!!!!!
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AmosTrask
Minmatar
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Posted - 2008.12.27 23:17:00 -
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Originally by: Safri Wolff no, what they do is sell their dastardly recieved ores at a little below your prices so thiers sell first, so you drop your price below theirs and they drop again, its a vicious circle and it all leads to ****ing the genuine miner off so much that they end up changing professions. How many times have you keenly logged on monday or friday after DT to find ZILCH! no ore at all in the system...wtf? where has it gone, then you check local and see 30 or 40 odd, 4-6 random letter named chars in local, all in npc corp, all same race, style, sex and BIRTHDATE!!!.....all flying hulks and a BC sitting outside the station giving the boosts....THATS where the ore went. Petitioning CCP gets the petition closed insanely quickly with the same old crap "we will look into this" its all umgwalla-gwalla and nothing is done about it simply because CCP cant afford to lose the accounts! Tell me im wrong CCP or ban the macros. There is NO other way!!!!!
BINGO
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Concorduck
Gallente
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Posted - 2008.12.27 23:19:00 -
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Macros contribuite for 52-53% of the whole tritanium market.
the left 48-47% is divided equally between players and Chribba. -----------------------------------------
Originally by: Crumplecorn Contact the CSM about it, voting themselves into disbandment wouldn't be pushing the boundaries of absurdity for them.
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Safri Wolff
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Posted - 2008.12.28 16:42:00 -
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quote "48-47% is divided equally between players and Chribba".
Do you seriously expect us all to believe that Chribba is somehow manipulating the EvE mining market to an extent that he has a share of the roids.....you obviously havent been in Chribba's part of space.....space being the word as thats ALL there is.....space where the roids used to be, space in his dread's hold where the ore used to be.....space in everyone elses wallet where their hard earned ISK they used to buy Chribba's ore used to be.....SPACE its called! CHRIBBA'S SPACE!!!! |

Shadowschild
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Posted - 2008.12.28 16:57:00 -
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it's the same song & dance in every mmo. If the game designers were not serious about botters from the very start, then it will-not-change. Okay? We are clear on the concept now??
On a side note, I would assume it's only an issue in HIGH-SEC?
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Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises Otherworld Empire
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Posted - 2008.12.28 18:13:00 -
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Leave my space alone? 
Secure 3rd party service |
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FarosWarrior
Amarr Sonnema
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Posted - 2008.12.28 21:56:00 -
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almost everything you will do to try and counter macro's will fail, sometimes it arent'even computers but just someone that has a 'job' with some 'company' to mine all damned day with 15 chars and then earn 1$ a day...
but when countering programmes it should be possible... I think Cheers, Faros
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Ocih
Amarr
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Posted - 2008.12.28 22:53:00 -
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Originally by: Boris Naeb hi,
i do not know how exacly works macro mining programs. Idea is to apply some veryify real preson test when mining ship warp in asteroid belt. example - when we warp in asteroid belt EVE client pop up some letter in one row , and in second row four letters with one from first row, the player should pick good one to be able to mine. That would be difficult for honest players (miners) - but isn't worth to do that? This is general look, what you think?
sorry for terrible english
thx borys
No worries on the English and on Macro Mining, my view is they are smarter than me. Anyone (myself included) who devotes any amount of time to this 'feature needs to mine the rocks out of thier head first. In a game that supposed to be about a universe full of drones and human to machine interface, they leave something like this up to some poor toad? fly to rock.. shoot rock.. fly to base dump cargo, fly to rock shoot rock, fly to base dump cargo. wo kids and a dumb monkey could do this blind folded but they can't make a drone or a macro for it? |

Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2008.12.29 00:02:00 -
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Originally by: Safri Wolff no, what they do is sell their dastardly recieved ores at a little below your prices so thiers sell first, so you drop your price below theirs and they drop again...
Have you seen the price of tritanium lately?
Originally by: Safri Wolff How many times have you keenly logged on monday or friday after DT to find ZILCH! no ore at all in the system...wtf? where has it gone
Nope. I don't mine in Caldari space. In the systems I do regularly mine, I know exactly who is responsible for strip mining the asteroid belts within two hours of downtime. There are a bunch of folks who do the "warp to belt, fill hold, warp to station" thing. Then there's this other person encroaching on my territory with a Hulk/Orca pair. Damn them!
Originally by: Safri Wolff There is NO other way!
Find another system, or mine the rocks before they do. There's two options for you, and I only spent five seconds thinking those ones up.
Another option is to actively recruit Australian/Korean/Singaporean players into your mining corporation. Their prime time is wrapped right around EVE's daily downtime. Took me another 10 seconds to think of that one :)
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Bullageddon
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Posted - 2008.12.29 00:32:00 -
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Originally by: Dr Axler
Originally by: Abulurd Boniface
Don't put the onus on me, the honest player, put the onus on the people who break the system.
Abulurd Boniface ME ME CEO
in order to see who breaks the system you must check everyone. so by letting ccp scan everyone's PCs, only those actually breaking would be affected.
I absolutely agree here.
I believe in warrantless search and seizures as well!
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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2008.12.29 00:41:00 -
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Originally by: Dr Axler in order to see who breaks the system you must check everyone. so by letting ccp scan everyone's PCs, only those actually breaking would be affected.
Yes that's right, only those breaking the rules would get affected by a "Warden" style program that watches everything you do on your computer.
Except when the Warden program triggers the anti-virus software. Or causes Windows to crash. Or makes a mistake by identifying the drivers for my Logitech Mx518 as botting software. Or makes a mistake by identifying Windows Vista SP2 as botting software. Or clobbers C:\boot.ini (but that's never happened has it).
Sorry, there is no way I'm letting someone run a program on my computer that will monitor every keystroke, and scan all the memory of my computer. My passwords and SSH keys are only secure because noone knows them.
Perhaps the people who write Microsoft Windows should up the ante and provide separate memory spaces for each application?
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