EVE General Discussion

Just wondering... What is ccp's attitude towards players that are using really old alt characters to sit in stations to spy. Being afk cloaked is one thing, but being able to spy on local in a station you are not supposed to be in, for a period of months is kind of breaking the mechanic... just wondering if you can do something about this. i had heard that ccp does not support this behavior and that you can put in a ticket to have the character moved if he consistently logs in just to spy on local in a station... one that he has no rights to.

Any information is welcome...

Just remember with citadels the easiest way to pod those players is to destroy your own citadel. If you REALLY want them gone this will be the way of the future.

Btw you can jump clone in and out of any station in null you have a clone to as there is no lock out. Not sure if this still works for citadels. So sitting in enemy stations is a very simple thing that can be achieved relatively easily. I have so many clones that will die when these old stations die lol.

Wouldn't that be kewl???

Amarr have handheld laserguns, Gallente have personal drones and Caldari have shoulder mounted rocketlauncher.

Minmatar? They just have ductape!

Get rid of local, problem solved.

Actually we have a few in the Outposts which we control, who would have been screwing up the market etc. as they did in the past, but as we use a Fortizar which has not been there too long they sit there in blissful ignorance and impotence and even if they get in there they cannot trade and If you look at the map it tells you how many are docked and how many are in local, which makes them even more irrelevant.

Ignore them..., or better still put up a Citadel and laugh at them...

Or your corp could spend a few seconds on telling the new players what the guy is doing. In a welcome to the corp mail.

The problem with what you are proposing is, players return to this game after an absence (illness, military service or other more important real life issues) to find themselves locked out of the station with all their assets. Currently they can stay docked and try to join the new owners or sell their stuff and load one ship with items they want to keep and a GM will usually move them to a nearby lowsec system. This allows them to rejoin the game without to much loss.

What you are suggesting removes those options, returning players will be without access to their stuff and it will be alot harder for them to rejoin the game.

But if you move the player as you suggest and the ship they are in or all their items to avoid the problem returning players have. You make evac'ing from nullsec space to easy. If your alliance is losing a war over sov and decides to relocate to lowsec to regroup, just leave corp and your stuff is safely moved.

Surely it is easier and simpler for your corp to help its new players settle in their new home.

A simple solution would be to block the "guests" lists for someone who does not have docking permissions in that structure. Yes they are still docked, but unable to see who is docked, and if they undock... well, there you go.

It's not immersion breaking, as someone who is banned should be technically "frozen" from being able to access structure services. They are merely hanging out in the air-lock.

Automatically moving banned characters out of a station is not a good solution as mentioned above, since it's not always due to someone being specifically blocked/kicked.

This is actually a stealth "resuscitate Incarna" thread??

Well-played.

KB