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Our policy is that we do not make any guarantees about any tools being allowed and safe to use. We can't feasibly do that.

But client modification right now are anything that injects/touches the running EVE process. That is, reads or writes memory into it, injects and executes code. Basically anything that modifies the client to change the client or extract information that's not normally accessible. That includes bots of course.

Yes, this! When I get some corrupt files in client, when i use teamspeak overlay plugin or when eve programs using cache (evemon, evehq) making something with cache - get i perma ban for this? We need more specific clarification from devs

too slow, thanks for ccp stillman answer

In other words he's the brains of the outfit.

And he does all the heavy lifting too. He is, after all, The Enforcer Of The Law™

So here's a concern I have. In the past, there have been false positives that pop up - people wrongfully banned because (to use the example from one instance involving a fellow pilot) they legitimately bought a character through the forums which had been involved in RMT, and so were caught up in the sweep. Reversing these bans has been an agonizing process, in no small part due to their communications more or less being ignored by your team.

I understand that many botters and RMTers will protest their innocence as a matter of course which can make "ignore everything" an appealing option, but in the case I referred to above, the person was on the verge of quitting before loud and public action by his CEO on his behalf finally prompted a response. I have to imagine there may be other cases where wrongfully banned people had no one looking out for them and simply quit instead.

My question to you then is, what do you plan to do about this?

That is a legit concern.

However, I can see how complicated it can be if you take into account the possibility that the person petitioning the ban may be lying through their teeth (if they have any) and pretending to be an innocent player.

A player who wants to RMT goes to a friend who does not play eve and says:

"Could you start a character in Eve, buy a pile of ISK via RMT, then sell me the character?"

How would CCP stop that from happening, other than swinging the ban hammer even after the character has been sold?

Edit: Ill answer my own question: Ban the person who did the RMT and remove the ISK. That way the receiver of the character gets zero benefit from the transaction.

Real Money Trading, basically buying or selling ISK for real currency outside of the official mechanisms such as PLEX or Game Time Codes, it also covers the buying or selling of ingame assets for real currency.

For one, this would violate the character transfer rules. A character can't have a positive ISK balance or assets prior to account transfer. If you want to buy a pile of ISK via RMT outside of PLEX, at a certain point the transaction is going to be big enough that CCP will see it and check it out. Then you and your supplier both get banned. They'll track down other accounts you own or have worked with and could take those down too. I mean... it's CCPs game. They can go after ISK and leave you with a neg balance.

With regards to CCP Sreegs, I wonder why he left?

As you said that any Idea would be apreciated, I would like you to go to this tread and take a good read.

UNIFIED ACCOUNT THEORY

This could possibly bring the war against bots and RMT to annother level.

The main Idea on this tread is to ask for an analysis on this pssibility, that could increase profit, make players life easier, allow better interaction between CCP and the player(not only the account) and prevent botting by increasing the consequences. ( hitting not with a ban hamer, but with an Viking Ban Axe cutting trough all chars that belong to the Eula breaker.)

And please, give this tread a like or a comment just to make me aware that it was not for nothing.