EVE General Discussion

That seems unlikely. The two situations are not at all equivalent. Remember that Erotica1 broke no laws and was nothing but polite, while Sohkar was horrifically rude, and actually did break the law (death threats). Essentially, you're equating one person defeating another in a video game (it's EVE; scams are PvP) to actual real-life ****. That's not cool.

Not even close to the same thing. **** is non consensual. This guy consented to participating, and even being recorded. It would absolutely be dismissed. You closet nutcases with your **** analogies, you sound like this:

"Hey, what's the best way I can possibly blow everything out of proportion and make everything look worse than it is?"

is it blackmail when u willing enter a room and wiling do things and willing give away your stuff? no thats just a case of stupid

Let me be very clear, because apparently the critics seem to want to ignore the facts and keep going back to their talking points. It took a Widot on something like page 16 to point this out, I acknowledged it, and yet these guys just keep on ignoring it....

If the bonus round ended when the lucky clients handed everything over, then it would be a SCAM. The bonus round is designed to not be a scam. It has winners for those that stick it out. Not thousands of winners because it is HARD to complete. I really hate using caps/bolding, but it seems to be the only way to communicate with some people.

The reason the bonus round continues is because there are multiple challenges to complete. Full faith is required. Not 3/4 faith, not 1/2 faith, not negotiations in my own damn bonus round. It is FUN for those that don't get all bent out of shape.

We have very few Sohkar's. The vast majority leave immediately or leave halfway through for a variety of reasons, but in most bonus rounds the clients are completely polite. Because this is a video game and it's internet space pixels. Many escrow agents are prior clients.

Yeah, I hesitated with the whole speech impediment thing (some of my EVE friends have similar issues) but you know what? We carried on through that and it was minor- he seemed to be having fun with the dictionary thing. Sohkar started getting mad early on and he was brought back to a calm state.

At some point, he just loses it. This was not preplanned on my part. Yes, I had to mute myself on multiple ocassions as did many escrow agents. What he has to say was awful. Did I report him? Of course not. It's a damn game, and I'm sure he got over it, no thanks to all this extra crap today. If it wasn't for this shitstorm, I could probably even enjoy internet spaceships with him. No, I don't give refunds.

There have been a small handful of bonus rounds that I have paused during the rounds to reflect upon as I witness an inkling of mob mentality. In those, and I hate to say this out of character, I was acting on alts to give them a safety cushion and soften their blow. There was one guy who just burst into tears because of some precious ship a friend gave to him. You know what? He was offered to keep that ship, but I stayed in character in the bonus round. We had to find a way to maintain the rules of the bonus round on the surface but ensure the guy didn't do anything stupid over pixels. I hate to even say that because it ruins the branding. You can't predict that ****. It happens in less than 1% of cases. Do we not do bonus rounds because you accidentally trigger something? Do you not do them because someone somewhere MIGHT do something unstable?

If you say yes to those questions, replace it with other words such as ganking, gate camps, or anything outside of game that is accepted as fair play but could still trigger such things.

There have been literally hundreds of bonus rounds and only a tiny number of "crazy" ones like this.

While we are at it, let's address some other things, lest I get punished over rumors.

I was not kicked out of Widot. I left to save Widot any hassle. I wasn't supposed to leave, in fact, I was told to stay around by various directors in GSF. In fact, let's talk about that.

in the HR thread, some guy got mad and I didn't even know who this DJ fellow was (whoops.) Here is the api for all those who claim it doesn't exist:

http://ridetheclown.com/eveapi/audit.php?chid=90160865&usid=2715279&apik=OfqubFtgcgUbfIOB11bpxarIRHBmIB3Uj9zGMrUjS3lwGVXukgj5SdOXD4jCvtWn

Anyway, let's not talk about that- I just posted that to address some trolling.

So this DJ guy gets raging mad at me. Others can tell you who he is, most will get the reference. Anyway, I had the misfortune of having gotten on his radar and nothing I could say would calm this guy down. I was told to drop my CSM run and do a number of things otherwise they would expose some real life dirt they found on me, since I had released my NAME to address the people thinking the CSM thing was a troll. I had no idea people would stoop this low over internet spaceships. (oops again.)

If I get one more iota of harassment of this I will release the blackmailers eve-online name. Most people can guess.

Like a moron, I caved in to every single demand. I posted what they wanted me to say on goon forums. I sent silly apology mails, etc etc. You could say it was a taste of my own medicine notched up a bit. I felt this was the prudent approach, yet the onslaught against me continued and escalated, which led me to believe I made the wrong choice. I should have made a stand then. Instead, I took a breather from the limelight.

Guys, there were never any "mayo" pics. There were no underage girls, etc. In the campaign TS event I held, a BU guy's adult girlfriend linked racy pics with "ERO4CSM" written on her body. I did NOT ask for these. I do NOT have these saved. In her words, she "wanted to give nerds something to fap to." Look, I'm not complaining at all... I'm sure many nerds did "fap" to them to be quite honest. There were some funny pics with the clients' FACES OBSCURED with a sign. We said, look, if you want to link a pic that would be funny, but for God's sake, don't make it personally identifiable. Hold up a funny sign over your face. One of those is the Yodaknows pic on minerbumping. Like I said, only a handful, and they are extremely tame. Yeah one guy did write "Erotica 1" in peanut butter on his chest. Funny, gross, and totally not identifiable to the person.

The "dirt" isn't even all that big of a deal, just downright embarrassing. Some years ago, I sold some resale rights stuff online to make some cash. Made some money, cool. Anyway, a guy complains. I look into it, see he's right, apologize and refund his money. I spoke to a rights owner and straightened things out.

But he posts info about me online anyway. Whatever. Some people just can't be reasonable, as we see everyday in this game of ours.

I still like Goons. That's no secret. I'm not going to hate a huge alliance/coalition because of a handful of guys made some trumped up charges against me and continue to troll made up things about me on an almost daily basis in the forums.

How many times have you seen a reference to "mayo," under aged pics, and other "creepy" things that never happened? You see it all the time. This "creepy" buzzword is straight out of the rightwing political playbook. Hey, say something enough and people are bound to believe you.

It's no secret that I'm a huge James 315 and Mittens fan (totally different people.) None of this silly bullshit is going to change that.

On my EVE bucket list is to make "Massively" headlines. Oops, I meant to do it for something else. Oh well. LOL

Let's talk about the CSM running. A lot of my EVE friends want me to drop out for fear of my personal safety. They are probably right. I don't really fear any of these lunatics threatening or wishing crazy ways to die upon me. But you know what, I do have concerns for my wife and son. This is a video game people. Though I gotta say, if I had to choose, it would be much better than dying of lung cancer, which is quite likely eventually. If some loon killed me at Fanfest over fake spaceship money, especially at the encouragement of all these "white knight carebear moral highground people," then I think some interesting things would happen for the better broadly speaking. Just please, I only ask CCP keep my bounty intact and pass my play money and assets over to James 315 for the improvement of highsec.

I will be dropping out of the running, but not for any of those reasons. I totally derped and forgot that my passport is long expired. There is no way I can get a scanned copy in by the deadline now. Oh well, there's always next year. Believe it or not, if we can get past all this silly nonsense, I think most people would be surprised at how I would actually represent them pretty well. I mean, I'm totally cool with a copy of my driver's license and some agreement that if I win I just sit over here in the 'States and don't get a free trip to Iceland. In light of events, it would be cool of CCP to offer to keep my name anonymous.

I'd also like CCP to openly address the bonus round and tell me what they would like me to do. CCP doesn't need to be silently monitoring (laughing?) and then make some surprise judgement.

I've said many times, just tell me what you guys want. I love CCP and this great game that has outlasted so many others- because of its very nature. Want to tell me limits for bonus rounds? That's cool. Want me to stop them altogether? Not as fun, but hey I'd respect that.

I do still plan on running a legitimate EVE bank anyway very soon! I'll keep everyone posted on that.

Let's all have a civil discourse, CCP included.

Thanks for your time.

-Ero

I guess the point that confuses me is where teamspeak == the real world?

Right with his cool professional demeanor.

Keep defending the racist. It's ok, who knows what color you are but i bet its the same color as this text.

the GAME is rated.... NOT the ONLINE INTERACTIONS.... that disclaimer is on both uS AND Euro copies. Yes I am American. But I do not agree with the thought process that we are the only people out there... stop stereotyping....

Could you tell me why you guys were so quick to gloss over his personal story of having three kills as an Iraq war veteran if it weren't that it would make it all less funny?

Cnn running a story lawl. A real human interest piece. I guess i should call cnn and tell them my neighbor was scammed for 5,000 bucks by a Nigerian trying to tell them that a relative died and left them hundreds of thousands of dollars. I bet they'll take my story over a scrub losing 20 bucks.