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I don't know if you can have his stuff, but you already have as much sov as him.



This is a good point.

edit: This entire thing could be solved by a dev coming in here and saying "Yes this is our new policy" or "No, this is not our policy."

Ah, another new fool with no conception of CCP's schizophrenic history on GM pronouncements at various levels. Any "the logs show nothing" idiot can change the channel. Anyone with experience with the petition system knows that such people are reversed on appeal to higher authority 50% the time (and then reversed again and that's reversed once more, because :Icelanders:).

The first layer of GMs are often regarded as a joke. They rarely seem to know anything about the game, or have more than a nodding relationship with logic. That's why someone wants to hear from a higher authority.

Don't worry, they don't need to argue with you, or even try to have a relevant discussion with you.

All they have to do to make you look dumber than you currently look is flood all the major news outlets with another nasty story about CCP.

They've shown they'll revert a change in a heart beat if it causes bad press.

Stupid goonies spent the summer fixing your game, they must be ******** right??

Yea, bad press totally didn't have anything to do with the subscription numbers or new players trying out for it.


My bad.

Drake Darconis, you know better than this. You know full well how the whole CCP thing works, and by extension you know full well how this is going to pan out. Someone is going to get scammed, and they are going to use the "but I was in the recruitment channel a while ago, they must have seen me through that", even though the char doing the actual scam isn't even near the recruitment channel.

You have to be able to see that in a game where people use neutral alts to provide logistical support to game the system, or flip cans etc, something like this is going to be abused to get revenge because they were being dumbfucks and got scammed.

How about "Hey, why did EVE Online turn into Hello Kitty Online, where everyone is protected from their own stupidity by Daddy CCP"?

I was having a pretty good night.




Then you reminded me there are people as stupid as you out in the world

don't see the big deal, there are many other player-operated chat channels with "no scamming" rules

if you don't like the new rule, set up your own recruitment channel and advertise it.

DHD getting banned does more good to EVE than all other changes in the winter expansion combined.

Why would anyone look for a new corp in an unofficial recruitment channel which is just like the official one with the added 'feature' that you might get scammed? Why would any legitimate recruiter be using an unofficial recruitment channel rather than the official CCP approved scam-free-zone?

Perhaps CCP should apply this 'no sandboxing allowed' policy to other aspects of the game. Maybe a region should be a designated zone for 1v1 combat only, where CCP ban anyone who uses dishonourable tactics in PvP? Maybe highsec ice belts should be a CCP-approved miner-only zone where suicide gankers are banned and all dead hulks are reimbursed by GMs? Maybe Jita 4-4 should be for 'fair' trading only and any form of market manipulation is a petitionable offence?

After all, if we don't like the new rules we could always go and sandbox somewhere else!

The logs ... they show nothing.