Ships & Modules

FYI, the owner has to transfer the character to an account owned by you. The account can't be given to you, so before you start, you'll have to deal with that.

First things first, I seem to remember that if a supercap pilot hasn't logged on in zomg years, he is moved to station dock (i.e. where he had it's clone at), super and all. You will be able to see if that's the case when you are at the login screen, it will say something along the lines "docked up in zzz". Just pray you are not docked up in a staging sys...

If you are indeed docked, log in at your leisure, survey the fit, get a cloak installed, see if you have enough jump fuel !. You may even be able to buy stuff from the station you are docked.

If you are not docked, you will still be able to see where the char is located, compute needed amount of fuel to jump to safe sys beforehand, then you'll have to log in just before DT (2 minutes or so), survey the fit, see about jump fuel.
Have your cyno alt in the safe sys, ready to light up the cyno if you do have enough fuel and gtfo in one go if possible.

You may need to have a carrier meet you in the safe sys to refuel/refit, just in case (i.e. can only make 1 jump before running out of fuel).


Gl

P.S. I know a guy, who knows a guy, who manages supercap hand overs, just let me know the sys and I'll have the professional supercap mover in your system, ready to offer assistance.

Oh, good tip about logging in right before downtime to check things out!

I assumed I'd have to transfer the character eventually, but just to get it safe, we could get him a plex and have him jump to me, but thanks for the reminder on that. I was going to look up the rules about accounts, but hadn't yet.

This is still in the early stages, but I wanted to think it through beforehand.

You dont have tro transfer the account really to get the super safe. You can ask your friend to log in to get the super safe (or something) and you can worry about the use of the account and thransfer of the char to the proper account later.

Obviously all those offering to help you are really looking to get a supercap kill, or there is a significant chance thats all they are doing which amount to the same. I highly doubt anyone would accept payment after the ss is safe lol.

Using Chribba etc is safer in cases where you transfer ownership but in your case you need actual on grid assistance and the valid options are two. Ingame help from real life friends (none of whose gf you have boned recently) or do it on your own.

gl & hf,

remember locator agents are already running on you and your alts as we speak...

Obviously we are
a) not as desperate as you kill a single super
and obviously
b) a contract can be insured via 3rd parties of your choice as Chribba, Darknesss or whatever (3rd party gets worth of super from us and hands it back to us when contract is done or gives it to the contractor when we should decide to blow it up)

If someone really thinks we want to ruin our ongoing merc business for 1 ship, when we could just start another Asakai again I feel sorry for you.

Why would he need to transfer the toon.

I wouldn't think it would be against the EULA to use the toon on the other account. Its not "sharing" the account if he is the sole user of the account (since his friend long ago quit). Would he not be allowed to just takeover his friends account wholesale?

CCP will move it all for you.

The reason CCP is against account sharing/trading is that in the past players have exploited it to scam other players. Some players have sold accounts, only to later petion CCP that the account was stolen and get it back, thus scamming the purchaser.

To avoid these scams this rule was put into place. If you buy or use an account that belongs to someone else, you have no legal rights to that account. At any time the original owner can get it back through a petition and CCP will will respond as if you had stolen the account. CCP can and does track the IP accounts are accessed from, I had a few issues when I moved as I accessed my account from 3 different IPs and all 3 changed when I moved. I was flagged for suspected account hijacking. I was contacted by CCP and had to verify my address change to avoid having my accounts locked.

That being said, if your friends account has been dormant for some time, logging into it from your location should be fine, they should just assume the owner moved, although there may be an issue with the account being accessed from the same IP as other accounts belonging to another player. I know there have been issues with this in student dorms, especially when a new player is prevented from logging into a trial account because another account is already logged in from that IP.

Transferring the character is the safest way, but you should not have a problem taking over his account, as long as the account contact information is changed over to your e-mail, and possibly your credit card, making you the account holder before you log in. As long as your friend does not decide he wants his account back, you should be fine, but if he does, CCP will treat you as if you stole the account, even though he gave it to you. These rules exist to protect players from account theft and hacking, not to prevent the reactivation of a friends dormant account. I do not expect CCP would enforce this unless the original account holder filed a petition for a hacked/stolen account. I would say this is a grey area, But I expect if a GM was to comment they would say it is black and white, that no you can not take over his account.

And about floating IPs ??

This seems quite weird as policy since you can hide/fix your IP permanently or have floating ones or some more funky stuff. MAC addresses can be changed too (hardware) so the possibilities to "workaround" are quite large.

Fixed.