EVE General Discussion

Plus I think posting toon names of offenders does NOT impede progress to reformed citizen.

RL such stigma does however often lead to special groups.

Such toons might well need to locate other offenders to form new corps.

Carebears might even offer to set up HALFWAY HOUSE type corps where a few parole officers monitor their behavior over 6 months to a year. As graduation gift they get special public award.

Heck CCP might even have its staff players CEO a few of these HALFWAY HOUSE corps to make sure they don't get griefed too badly nor go rogue and to add soem weight to the reformed sticker.


Opportunity not problem.

Please, may I draw special attention to those posts made by the player-run businesses/investments - as they're among the most directly endangered by unknowingly interacting with botters.

OMFG I QUOTED A DEV

I think a marker (unknown to the botter) for the first day would be "fun"... Then allow CCP's normal disciplinary routine to take over. I also only think that this would really only work in hi-sec. Lvl 4 & mining bots would then be a lot less popular...


As a side note, allowing players to pop them is far more enjoyable than /graphpron....

vOv

I personally hate bots, but if CCP can turn someone around and get $/month from them, more power to you.

If you really want to do something put a one year tag at the first offence and perma ban at second. Why give a second try?
So he can bot until he gets caught at the first one?

Sounds like an excellent idea. I'm all for it and most if not all of my reasons have already been listed from a brief glance at other postings.

In short, Do it.

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[quote="Asuri Kinnes"}I personally hate bots, but if CCP can turn someone around and get $/month from them, more power to you.[/quote]

okay, I have to respond to this. Really don't like the activity of botting, but I understand that many of these players are just impatient or young players who couldn't be invested to make their ISK through more legitimate means. There is no reason as I see it that they should be banned permanently as a result of this. If they want to quit out of shear frustration from actually having to work for their ISK that's fine, but it's something they'll have to decide for themselves after this.

Also, having such a "Scarlet Letter" may actually give them some insight into how offended people are getting by their activities. If they can't deal with that either, then so be it, but as I said they should at the least have the choice to learn from their mistakes rather than repeat them. Not being able to legally sell the offending toons is good too.

There are other benefits to this for CCP too, but I'd be remise to give them away.

Really bad idea. I revived a ban, despite never botting and if CCP does something like this, I won't be playing anymore. I'm not going to put up with players harassing me for a mark I got due to GM lacking the competence to understand how sentry drones and aggro mechanics work.

Unless an opposite "Viridant Letter" is placed on false positives. An explicit "this person was marked by mistake".

Or this

If cought botting, all items not in use are deleted but the current market value and the contents of there wallet( to a negative balance of 100 million isk) are spread out to all players. And they serve a 14 day ban. This I strike one

Strike two.

As above, but they are biomassed in place of ban.

There is a big issue about rumors of CCP banning non-botters: Who made the reports of the bans? After all people who do bad things have been known to lie.