EVE General Discussion

Hi folks,
I recently ran into a problem with a veteran player demanding millions of ISK based on my participation in rookie channel.
The problem was trivial until it crossed over to the Extortion of ISK from rookies.
I talked with an ISD that stated its not a problem he can deal with.

Here's the rundown:

"RookieVet" chats up a storm in rookie channel and gains the trust of many new players while tracking all players that are in the channel. All players in the channel are 30 day or less accounts, so basically "easy" kills. The "cover" for this operation is to help the rookies by giving suggestions on gameplay and generally gain the trust of all that are paying attention. This will allow for better "casing" of rookies that are possible targets for ISK extortion. The domination of chatting will also give you the chance to spot any Vets in channel that you should avoid. This works best if you have some help from others in the operation, which should not be hard given the large sums of ISK you can extort from rookie players.

When you find a target to kill, send "deathmail" demanding ISK in millions or constant kills by an outside merc. The merc should also declare wardecc if the target has a player corp, this is your favorite target. The merc should also have a high damage ship ready to kill players doing mining or hauling activity so that CONCORD will not reach them before the kill. The targeting of player corps makes the CONCORD problem trivial. The main use of the merc is to make sure the targetted rookie is shaken up by the kill and will find his situation hopeless unless paying the Millions of ISK demand. Notification to the target is necessary after a confirmed kill is made to assure that you plan to lock down the target in their station they are using. This will further make the target willing to pay your extortion to allow them to operate in their desired area.

The rookie channel will not allow this activity to happen in channel so nobody can actually discuss the events that transpire in that channel and you are free to gather ISK per week. Always extort more ISK than the merc is required to make the kill.

Solution: Having said all this, the only solution to this problem seems to be making rookie channel voluntary or buy an account and wait 30 days before creating a character to avoid the spectre of rookie channel extortionist. At the time of this post, I understand that Eve won't change this problem, so it's free game to exploit !

Thought this was about some serious new illegal scam against new players, until I got to...


That, and then everything you said afterwards makes me question your own understanding of what you're talking about.

"Give me 100K ISK or I'mma blow you up!"

Damn, this sounds like better income than Faction Warfare plexing.

It is disallowed, even if it's not an exploit. But I doubt it would happen.

This is absolutely disgusting. Wow. Petitioned.

I suppose scamming people for millions might be fun when the billions become boring in much the same way as flying frigates is more fun than battleships…


That said, where's the exploit?

Got that right! Just the other day I spent almost an hour probing down abandoned drones. I only made 9mil, but I felt like a winner!

ISK in MILLIONS!!!

Petition the guy, newbies are awesome.