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Carebear alert! Criminals are bribing CONCORD to look the other way!
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Droidster
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2013-10-03 10:17:24 UTC
Attention all care bears, recently CONCORD has been accepting bribes to erase all negative status that criminals have and allow them to fly around even in Empire without consequence!

The reason you haven't heard of this is that CONCORD only advertises this in low security areas so you don't find out about it. All it takes is tag-type items costing 475 million to erase any criminal record, no matter how many murders they committed.

Take all appropriate action to bring the officials accepting these bribes to account.
Electrique Wizard
Mutually Lucrative Business Proposals
#2 - 2013-10-03 11:08:28 UTC
I for one support CONCORD in their efforts to pay their bills and continue their services.
The alternative would be demanding money from the person that's being attacked in highsec. So you'd get a catalyst on your retriever, CONCORD shows up and demands 40mil before they take action against the daring Catalyst pilot. You would rather face that alternative? Roll

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Plastic Psycho
Necro-Economics
#3 - 2013-10-03 12:01:35 UTC
Who would you rather Concord extort? The former criminals who just want to clear their names and get on about their lives, or the honest hard-working (but slightly dim) miners who just can't let go of a grudge?

One way or another, the Concord forces *will* get paid. Who do you want paying those bills..?
Leto Thule
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#4 - 2013-10-03 16:06:18 UTC
I enjoy my negative sec status, thank you.

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Reese Armgo
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#5 - 2013-10-03 16:31:23 UTC
Quote:
I for one support CONCORD in their efforts to pay their bills and continue their services.


They could just kill the Criminal, reprocess his Clones and take his Money. Would be way more efficient!
Leto Thule
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#6 - 2013-10-03 17:12:17 UTC
Reese Armgo wrote:
Quote:
I for one support CONCORD in their efforts to pay their bills and continue their services.


They could just kill the Criminal, reprocess his Clones and take his Money. Would be way more efficient!


And how boring would eve be with no criminals?

Thunderdome ringmaster, Community Leader and Lord Inquisitor to the Court of Crime and Punishment
Gingar Bread
Doomheim
#7 - 2013-10-03 17:40:11 UTC
Just to help the dimwitted OP with the logic of this:

Within the game-logic, this isn't a bribe, since it would have to be front loaded money.
It is somewhat of a redemption system, you see?The idea behind it is that someone who has a criminal record can "clean his name" by doing "Acts of good" and chasing down especially sought after criminals in the name of Concord. The tags are sort of a "proof of kill" of those bad bad NPCs concord hates. And killing them will grace you in the eyes of society.

If anything, it is the capsuleers themselves (mostly CAREBEARS) who are the root of the evil, for it is only profit they seek, and in the hopes of making some tax free ISK, they sell those tax to some criminal who didn't do anything to earn them in order to clean his name.

It's just like real life.

So, Criminals aren't at fault, nor is CONCORD. Thank your fellow carebears for being spacepoor.
Also, WTF thread!
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#8 - 2013-10-03 17:50:36 UTC
Gingar Bread wrote:
Just to help the dimwitted OP with the logic of this:

Within the game-logic, this isn't a bribe, since it would have to be front loaded money.
It is somewhat of a redemption system, you see?The idea behind it is that someone who has a criminal record can "clean his name" by doing "Acts of good" and chasing down especially sought after criminals in the name of Concord. The tags are sort of a "proof of kill" of those bad bad NPCs concord hates. And killing them will grace you in the eyes of society.

In the real world it's called community service and involves helping the elderly and cleaning graffiti etc as payment for past crimes.

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Feyd's Survival Pack
Silvetica Dian
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#9 - 2013-10-04 13:00:04 UTC
Electrique Wizard wrote:
I for one support CONCORD in their efforts to pay their bills and continue their services.
The alternative would be demanding money from the person that's being attacked in highsec. So you'd get a catalyst on your retriever, CONCORD shows up and demands 40mil before they take action against the daring Catalyst pilot. You would rather face that alternative? Roll



This is what happens when you privatise once public services.
grrr neocons.
wait which forum am i on again?

Money at its root is a form of rationing. When the richest 85 people have as much wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion (50% of humanity) it is clear where the source of poverty is. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/20/trickle-down-economics-broken-promise-richest-85
Inxentas Ultramar
Ultramar Independent Contracting
#10 - 2013-10-04 13:35:59 UTC
There are even criminals with positive sec status selling said tags to criminals with negative sec status. Oh my! Lol
Xolve
State War Academy
Caldari State
#11 - 2013-10-04 14:19:22 UTC
-10 for life.
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#12 - 2013-10-04 16:15:03 UTC
I love farming the tags and then putting them up for outrageous prices at the CONCORD stations. No matter how much I charge, people still pay for them.



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Dream Kim
Solar Winds Security Solutions
#13 - 2013-10-04 16:35:11 UTC
I think CONCORD should tax the dim miners to subsidize security tags for the criminals.

Everyone deserves a second chance, and it's up to society to pay the tab on that.

Gallente Socialism FTW.