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So if I sell my watch isk for WoW gold to buy my wife a brush mount in WoW and my wife sells her gold gold to buy my character a watch chain monocle, Team Security could leave us both disappointed?

They don't need to as Eve is not using OpenSSL.

Anyway, thanks for the dev blog. It's nice to hear from the security team(s) when there is actually no big threat

I just have one question... does bot hunting ever look something like this?

The stop doing so much RMT then !!!!



(just joking )



Edit: I'm not. Please don't distort the forum lay-out. ISD Ezwal.

With so much isk being seized/impounded, how large an influence does this have on the inflation of isk in the game ?

Thank you very much for your hard work, maintaining balance in our game, and generally preventing its degradation by cheaters.

past team security presentations have shown there's more bots in the forge than all of nullsec

best of luck with your insane delusions

I would like to see some information along the lines that Dinsdale has asked for as well. There is a large amount of speculation and anecdotal evidence on the forums and virtually nothing in the way of facts from CCP. As I don't have a horse in the race I would be interested in knowing some breakdowns based on security status and on activities (ratting, mining, missioning, etc.).


Thanks for all your efforts Bugartist and Team Security, it's appreciated.

How about some tools for a player to actually challenge a potential bot? We would like to help. I have no idea what this would look like. In terms of information:

Maybe one of CCP Quant's graphs for botting? I'd very much like to see actual numbers of bots and ISK sellers caught.

Edit: bot-hunting! Make it a new profession supported by challenge tools prior to lodging a bot ticket with rewards for each bot caught!

As somebody who is presently studying network security under scholarship (2 semesters to grad... yayyyy), I have some inkling how difficult your jobs are.

Security is a dynamic enterprise because those who want to 'get in' are never resting on their laurels and are always adapting to their success (getting in) or your success (stopping them).

If you stopped one attempt, they're adjusting to how you stopped them and trying something else. If you didn't stop them, you have to discover they are there, stop them, and close the hole they found to get in.

Since EvE online is played internationally, your efforts are hampered by the fact some countries don't have laws against cybercrime and some countries even SUPPORT cybercrime (as crazy as that seems).

The very type of operation Eve online is (a 'open-ended' game) also hampers security concerns since you have to be extremely careful what you are observing is not some new tactic cooked up by a legitimate player, but an actual bot or a RMT.

I am also very much aware you can't give all your details because those sneaky guys and gals will use the details to adjust their attacks. I have noted several times sudden lag spikes and almost always suspected DDoS attacks, then.

I, for one, appreciate what you're doing and wish you the best of fortune.

As much as we laugh at dinsdale with his crazy ass theories that there is some massive conspiracy going involved most of null sec and CCP, for once he has actually made a good point.

Would be great if CCP produced what he has asked for.

Now fair enough if CCP did produce such a break down and it showed that the vast majority of botting / RMT came from HS based players he would scream "lairs" and that its part of a conspiracy