EVE General Discussion

Hey,

There's a player that joined a friend's corp recently who's been in eve for over a year and yet Battleclinic-Killboard has no record of the person even existing... Any thoughts? I have reason to suspect the persons motives for joining but can't find a single trace of his name or anything close to it on Battleclinic. Anyone know why this could be?

Is that the only reason? If so, then perhaps nothing to worry about. I just haven't ever seen anyone never appear on Battleclinic before, let alone one with an old account. Seemed suspicious to me, like they had a griefing history, and somehow managed to find a way to conceal it

It's not that hard if you're alert and stay in hi-sec mostly, which a lot of mission runner types do.

What is so suspect about it. The guy probably was in high sec and so never exposed to any pvp. If you are really that concerned then why not ask him about it, and if that doesn't satisfy you then ask for his API so you can back up the story he is giving.

if you are really that paranoid check evewho to see posts, if any. check previous corps, look at a listing of current and old members, see if they share any similarities on creation date, join/departure date on corps, faction, bloodline, NPC starting corp, even background choices can be tells.

add all members that look suspicious to the watchlist and see if any of them go online when he goes offline, or if they come online at the same time.

also look at killmails of the suspected characters, specially if they have 0.0 sec rating, those are boosting alts, they should have a few deaths on BCs filled with Command processors. look at the places where they died, and guess how.

usually current awoxers used to have highsec warrioring wardec corps, you can easily spot old disbanded one man corps that were active on griefplay by looking at the killmails, you'll spot one alt that always dies on a scout, usually on a cloaky. another alt that has a lot of deaths in hsec after crimewatch 2.0 while flying logistics. if he was part of one such corp or an alt of one of those players, and you cant find a sale thread on the forums, then he is still on the hands of the original owner and hes now using them to join random corps.

and if after all this you are still paranoid, don't invite him...

or create a secondary holding corp for rookies and screen them there where they cant awox? don't fly alone in a pimp ship? have a plan already in place between your current members as to what to do when some dude goes on a safari?

you can even hire some merc to join your corp and do it just to test your security/corp roles/contingency plans... just make sure to remove anything valuable while they are conducting the... ahem... "Audit"

Why would a dedicated carebear die to anything? Rediculous statement.

I have many characters right now who've never been on battleclinic. I've even gotten them killed, and they still aren't there.

And sometimes you can make battleclinic do things that help it forget killmails. Just saying

Lots of carebears die you're right. However, the very cautious and/or the very smart can stay alive. Maybe this guy has just never hung out low, never wandered into a wormhole, never mined afk in an untanked Ret, never autopiloted an Industrial with 500mil of cargo 20 jumps, or any of the other myriad things that can get carebears killed.

I wouldn't use a lack of kills/deaths to arouse suspicion. He could be clever enough to be an asset to your Corp.

Extremely informative replies, thank you everyone. As for paranoia, yeah, EVE can do that to you. As for the recommendation to look at his previous corp, similar characters etc, that's excellent advise. I'll do some screening, and if I catch anything concrete, I'll have something, otherwise I'll just relax a little.

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Thanks everyone the great tips.

And you GreenSeed have been the most informative of all. Many thanks.

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