Missions & Complexes

And none of them fall within this category. Feel free to alert the CSM.

Anyone who was performing the activity I'm referring to in the news item has most likely already been banned for doing so. Another item about the belt ratting bit is that in the scenario you paint the amount of income gained is basically nothing. In the scenario we're specifically discussing in this thread you are making a lot more money. By a factor of a whole bunch.

If we're not altering the game, we're not doing anything wrong.

CCP designed drones. CCP designed plexes. We pay to use them. CCP bans us for using them!

I just don't get how you can keep banning people for playing the game. This isn't the first and it wont be the last time time you pull somethingf like this.

When I was ready to build my first battlecruiser I grabbed a Bestower, fitted a T1 mining laser to it, activated it on a huge Veldspar asteroid and went to sleep. The next morning I had enough Tritanium to start the production job.

Guess it's time to hand myself in for botting?

So i am not allowed to go afk in a plex, while mining, or hell going AFk at all while logged in or i am going to get banned for it?

If I'm reading what you're saying here correctly you're presuming that we haven't already gone over this internally. The system is doing precisely what it's supposed to do. The GMs are aware and were a part of this decision. Human people have reviewed each of the instances where this has already occurred. This instance fit within those rules because... IT ISN'T SUPPOSED TO BE HAPPENING IT IS NOT NORMAL AND IT IS EVEN SPELLED OUT IN THE EULA AS NOT ACCEPTABLE.

The only difference between now and the halcyon days of yesteryear is that when I tell you something's bad I can actually monitor it to make sure you're not doing it with some accuracy. There may very well be other exploitable conditions in the future that will fall within this same ideal. Detecting bad activity is detecting bad activity. I don't really see how it's relevant that a particular system alerted us to the anomaly, regardless of its function. If we WERE measuring for this then we wouldn't have had to make this news item because it would already have been made.

look at all these Scott Tenormans!

go re-read his announcement

Well you cant very well say that I mean you cant place a monetary value on AFKing. Especially after you blatantly stated,

"The activity itself falls within the same philosophical context we place botting within. I get it you don't like it. You can't change that however. With botting we concern ourselves with more than the technical limitations but rather what types of behavior and automation we find unacceptable."

Essentially the ideology of AFKing is to generate profit. Granted its small amounts; however, it still falls under the same philosophical idea. The moment you blurred the lines between botting and AFK actions is the moment that idea became more prevalent to apply to all forms of AFK income.

You're, quite frankly, an idiot.

This ruling in no way affects what you do in 0.0 while running PLEXes in the safety of your Sov under the comforting blankie of Intel networks. This is specifically about High-sec STATIC PLEXes that continuously spawn NPCs and can be farmed 100% AFK from DT to DT.

Try not to be so intentionally clueless and obtuse if you choose to post again in this thread which, clearly, would just make you look dumber.

So the concern really isn't that people are using the tools given to them by the game design to make isk, it's that they're making a lot of isk doing it.

You just keep digging the hole deeper and deeper. I highly suggest back off your position and fix the problem in the game mechanics instead of making threats about banning non-botters and scaring the crap out of everyone.

Every single person who has ever walked away from their computer while running the game, for any length of time or reason, read your news article and said, "What?!"

And then they come here and read that CCP would rather make non-specific threats and varied explanations (is the issue afk isk or lots of afk isk?) as to why this is being done instead of simply fixing the problem where it started: in the code.

Less Godzilla, more diplomacy.

Let me help:

"Hit there, this is CCP. We're turning off a few high-sec missions while we adjust the code, sorry for the inconvenince."

And if you can't simply turn them off while fixing them, then let the problem continue until you do fix it. You caused the problem, it's not causing any huge issues, what's the big deal if some afk'ers make a few more iskies until you can roll out the fix? It's certainly 100x better than the customer relations problem you're causing by going this route.