EVE General Discussion

You didn't play blink around the time this happened, did you?

There were dozens of people watching the blink winners making scam contracts insinuating the person got a double-win but would either scam isk or the item they won. Then suddenly it stopped, and it's not because no one was falling for it any more (despite blink making people aware of the scams being around)

You are also reading into the wording of my example and not the context. Every text box in the game is now a torch waiting for a spark.

Lets take your bio for example:


Meet the new goons eh, sounds to me like you are impersonating a goon.

Right, you seem to be offering no proof at all, so I'm going to make the call that you're talking out of your posterior.

share logs, I've never seen somebody pretend to be a dev or GM in jita
also scamming newbies in the starter systems has long been classified as forbidden griefing by CCP, so yeah that's not it either

care to try again?

Currently in Jita, can't see anybody impersonating Devs, GMs or ISD members. There's some folks shooting at the statue, plenty of "isk doublers" impersonating Erotica1 (the only honest Isk doubler), and plenty of contracts misrepresenting what they actually contain. http://eve-live.com/Jita if you can't be arsed to log in. Chribba is our very own alphabet surveillance agency.

07 probag bear, I saw you, shooting at that poor defenceless statue.

Fair enough. I haven't seen much of this personally but I'm willing to stipulate that you may have played a lot more EVE than I have and have certainly done it with a larger group of people. (Thus giving you access to far more anecdotal evidence... which is all we have in this case since CCP doesn't disclose data on this stuff.)

So people have received minor sanctions for what most I'm sure most reasonable people would consider minor violations. People have received minor sanctions (name changes, etc.) for previous violations of what CCP claims to be the exact same policy. Is there any reason to believe that they're going to go off the deep end now? Or would it be more reasonable to think that they will reserve the ban-hammer for extreme cases? (I'm thinking of the recent incident where the wiki was edited to portray a scammer as someone who was vetted as a trusted party by CCP representatives?)

Lol theres your proof and stop impersonating a bear, we have been threw this

Oh I'm not going to pretend CCP will start to ban me if I go around and tell people I'm in fact GSF Logistics Director Kismeteer/PL Chief Angry Person Grath Telkin/Trustworthy Third Party Darknesss. But scamming requires people to be liberal with the truth, and since scamming people with more money than sense has a long tradition in EVE, I'm against any rule change that will curb this. (Especially since checking with Kismeteer/Grath/Darknesss if I'm really him is as trivial as sending an evemail and waiting for the reply.)

Also the GM-provided interpretation saying that you can fall foul of the impersonation rule on your own character is pretty bad.

edit: Old news is old.

Unfortunately Jita Local is full of idiots who don't understand the problem at hand.

Local law enforcement officers are not in any way empowered to enforce federal law, just like Federal law enforcement officers are not empowered to enforce state law (absent special agreement, i.e. many NPS LE Rangers are deputized by the local LE dept).

In addition, Law enforcement actions are public. GM actions are not.
The public can find out how often the local PD is holding pot users for the FBI.
The public cannot find out how often GMs are doing anything nor can we find out for what reason they're doing it.

The legal tools at their disposal that covers "I want to ban someone in a fit of pique" and related offenses are found in TOS sections 25 and 26.


Anyway, why do you think it should be against the rules to associate your alt and main?

Yet even if said people are ok with you using their name, the victim can petition to get his stuff back and get you a warning, if not a temp ban, because you misrepresented yourself with malicious intent.

Cold, harsh universe 2012™ RIP

As far as I recall (correct me if that's changed) even Blizzard only returns the content of your pillaged guild bank if someone gets keylogged and a person other than the account owner does the crime. Not when you just gone derped and handed it over to a dishonest player.