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As someone who plays with 3rd party dev (Slowly) and helps to support EMDU for EMDR (Got it working on windows). I'm fairly saddened to see this happening. I use an extensive amount of market data pulled from cache files, dumped into my Spreadsheet of doom(tm), to deal with market orders, buying stuff from my corp membership etc. What I'm seeing here is a change in CCP's tone from "We want you all to play nice" to "We're going to make sure you're all playing nice in a manner that we approve as nice."

As someone who multiboxes 10+ accounts, and pays subs on them, I keep a close eye on the security team posts, as I'm a heavy isboxer user, though I avoid most of the features other than "Ooooh. Easy screen layout! Win!" Simply because I'd prefer not to run afoul of team security. I'm now concerned by the increasing tones of "We don't want possible cheating techniques to be available." Which is fine, but now you're starting to cut off more and more supplies of data, that 3rd party devs use, and are refusing to define what you consider to be cheating. Please keep in mind, that CCP continually pushes to have the player base sign up for more account (Power of two anyone?)

Also, the following wording is highly concerning to me: "2. You may not use your own or third-party software to modify any content appearing within the Game environment or change how the Game is played." According to this, we can't modify how the Game is played, but how do you want us to play the game? Are we to only play the game with one account at a time? Are we to play the game without any external tools to help us track jobs, manage accounts, track assets? By denying cache scraping officially, and in such a blunt manner, you've pretty much said, "Third party developers that explore out of our very, very limited API, are assisting users to play the game outside of how we want the game to be played" And that tone, is one that I really don't like to see. This game is unplayable for all intents and purposes without 3rd party developers, and I suspect, that's something that everyone here can agree with, on some level, simply because, the first day you join an alliance, and say "I'm new, where do I get started" You get slammed with 3rd party tools to make the game make more sense.

What the hell is "Warp to 0 km hack", mentioned in ban reasons?

If this is not what you are looking for and is not cheating then why are you saying its illegal but not to worry? Makes more since to say that cache scraping for cheating is not legal rather than a blanket statement that everyone who uses it can get banned whether it's cheating or not, but if you are not cheating with it you might not get banned.

Can we please come out and ban multiboxing software? Running multiple clients is fine (and these days works pretty well without ANY non-ccp software), but when you mirror keystrokes, mouse clicks, etc. is absolutely using 3rd party software for in-game advantage. Seeing a 60 man skiff fleet with characters name_1 to name_60 is, frankly, bullshit. Even as a user of multiple accounts, I want no part of this in my game.

Alright, so cache scrapping for non-botting activities is ok.

What hasn't been clarified is if the use of market scanners, like the ones used by many popular market data sites are also still ok. i.e. if the use of the (legitimate, rate-limited) IGB JavaScript functions to open the market page ( CCPEVE.showMarketDetails() ) for items is in the clear.

So ... I just opened up Eve-mon this AM to check my training queue. I am not even in game. I didn't even hear about this new pants on fire insanity by CCP until about 5 minutes ago.

Did I just get permabanned?