EVE General Discussion

If you are known, you get petitions answered faster.

If I petition on Mr Epeen instead of one of my less known characters, it gets answered faster and is more likely actually read than auto-answered.

So it stands to reason that if I had a name like 'The Mittani', for instance, anything I petition will be noticed almost immediately and jumped to the front of the queue. It's just the way people are. They are attracted to the familiar. GMs included.

No tin foil. Just an observation on common human behavior. The tinfoil will come out when the sputtering denials start coming out in barred posts.

Mr Epeen

You do realize that petitions are sorted into ques based on different categories before people even look at them right?

I know I've had some petitions that are answered within a few minutes to a few hours, and I've had some petitions answered within a few weeks. It all depends on what it is filed under. It's just like calling in to a call center, if there isn't a huge queue you get to someone faster.

He's a guy who personally signs each and every post with his name, so people can be sure it is him.

Dont lisson to him he is a wow spy and wants all your gold for his sick pony p0rn!! they made it so we can make players cry the other side of the world So long live ccp and fuk all of you trolls who qustion ccp

Neither your employees nor your careers are in any danger. Talk about overblown. IA is there for that, right? Aren't they taking care of things? Can't we rely on them to find and root out all wrongdoing? If IA says its all good, then everyone else is just running their mouth, right? Further, these aren't accusations against real people... unless your name is really CCP Sreegs. Sreegs is an EVE character too, you know.

Frankly, as an ex (?) goon, I'd think you would have some better perspective on this. You don't think for one moment that anything you say will satisfy anyone making the accusations, do you? So why bother? If you're content to feed the trolls, you deserve what you get.

Here's what should have been said: "CCP [guy in charge of these things]-- We take potential cheating seriously. Cheating, by CCP employees or players, is unacceptable. Whenever we find a cheater, we take immediate steps to remove that person from the game or company and fix any problems they may have caused. If you have specific accusations, proof of any kind, or questions about activities that might potentially be cheating, please file a petition and include [relevant specifics]. CCP does not respond to vague accusations, conspiracy theories, or unsubtantiated statements about player or employee misconduct. All petitions will be reviewed carefully and, when appropriate, actions taken. Posts that make unsubstantiated accusations about CCP employees or other players will be removed and added to an Internal Affairs petition for further review."

Post it once on each page of the thread or lock the thread already.

From a personal standpoint, I really don't care if Goon(dot), BOB(dot) or anyone else out there has CCP in their leadership. It is there game and it really does not effect my game in the slightest...




But what kind of frosts my hiney... is the incessant insistence that they are NOT there at all (even after certain historical events demonstrated that CCP employes had, once, in the past, effected the game directly with their dev powers) They most certainly are there, they have always been there and they have always been tied to the biggest and baddest alliances of the time. That is not to say that devs made said alliances great, it is only to say that they were attracted to that arena for reasons only known to them. The presence of a dev does not instantly infer misconduct as the forum trolls would have you believe.


& ATM, the biggest and most influential alliance in the game is basically goon(dot).







So to say "We dev's are not giving players an unfair advantage, and we are not allowed to talk about our presence in game"

is one thing...


But to flat out deny that there are any DEV's in leadership roles throughout eve online (FC roles, manufacturing roles or whatever roles) inside of major player run null sec alliances like goon(dot) and friends is complete and utter bunk. You should not be able to talk about it at all, and that means that you should not be able to confirm or deny it in any way shape or form.


The only valid answer that you should be able to give us is this "Yes there could be dev's in said role. It is possible and not against the EULA... but we are not allowed to discuss it and I cannot confirm or deny whether or not their are at present. ".






The potential is there and the possibility is there, but more pressing is the history of EVE Online which shows us that the likely hood of there being devs in said roles is greater then them not being there. This does not mean that misconduct is the inevitable outcome, but on the flip side to that people are only human at the end of the day. So yes, they are there. Yes, we know that they are there, and YES it is OK THAT THEY ARE THERE.


Just don't try and tell us that they can't/won't/will never be there, because that is just blah blah.

I guess the question that would be nice for someone to answer is:

Are there any CCP employees that play the game that are NOT involved or associated with GOONS and if so, are they in a High-Sec only corp? Would they publicly admit or endorse that player corporation? Is there anyone within CCP who is anti-goon?

I'd have to say that most likely the answer to this is a big NO. Otherwise, you would have heard about it by now. I've never heard of a single accusation that DEVS are involved with any other corps or alliances other than the BOB stories from years ago.

Certainly there are other large alliances that are enemies of GOONS that could make for some great gameplay for the devs if they chose to fight against them. But that wouldn't happen because of the "watch the world burn" mentality that the GOONS have and I'm sure if the shoe was on the other foot, that they would protest the GM/DEV's involvement against them, and would might even try to pull a "everyone in the alliance threat to quit" card to get their way.

So really that's the lingering question. Why do the DEVs choose to get involved with GOONs rather than GOON enemies? And if there are, where are they? Why are they hiding in the shadows in regards to that but not the other way around?

Would a CCP Dev ever help a large alliance fight GOONs toward their final days?

Anyways, food for thought I guess.

Why do you throw this out when you don't have any evidence of it?

CCP Devs shouldn't be helping or hindering anyone.

Edit: Except the entire playerbase.

Dont know anything about that, what I do know is the track record to ban ppl that bring employee wrongdoings to light that you cant say their names on the forums 6 years later