Player Features and Ideas Discussion

When I think about it, there could be a way of obtaining some evidence. It would require some data mining and programming skills.

For ganking throwaway alts:
For a selected period of time, let's say a year, the API verified killmails from eve-kill are grabbed and filtered to include haulers, battleships and freighters (the usual targets). Character names from the killmails are then looked up in Doomheim corporation (http://evewho.com/corp/Doomheim), CCP's corporation for deleted characters. Add some time filters and compare the data with times from killmails and you could actually have something.

For scamming throwaway alts it's not that easy, since the observer would have to have an alt, for example in Jita, and turn on chat logs. The logs are then parsed into a database and spammers filtered out statistically. The tricky part is that one must have a character logged in Jita for at least a month to gather some solid data and the whole detection process would extend to the following months as well until there is a measurable evidence that scamming alts are, in fact, joining Doomheim as a rule.

Until this is done, we are free to discuss pros and cons of a potential change. So far the only directly negative side of this particular idea that we got in the thread was provided by Sipphakta en Gravonere from Goonswarm. It would be nice to have at least one more downside before the idea is thrown away.

In regards to suicide ganking, it is against the rules to use throwaway alts for it and you can be banned if you are caught.

So overall i have no idea what you are on about. -1

So where are the stats on that? Has anyone lost an account this way? Can I just petition every time I am ganked to see if it was a throwaway alt?

The problem here is there is no reliable way for US the players to confirm these things. It is on CCP ( and maybe the CSM ) to look into this type of matter.

I personally think it's a great idea, no impact to 95% of players.

Oh and because I saw no mention of it here, Awoxers need a clean record to get into most corps nowadays.

I think someone went on a safari tour in OP's corp.

Haha... no, I'm sorry to disappoint you.

Anyway, to stay on topic... Throwaway awoxing alts are something that a good recruiter can filter out and protect the rest of the players. This thread is about all other situations where players are powerless.

Any situation that does not require joining a corp.

We can start by taking all these useless forum alts, biomassing them and then changing the ownership of their posts to the character with the highest SP on the account.

That'd be.... interesting......

Nicely spotted problem and a good suggestion.

One of the alternatives would be to link it to account age.

+1

Disposable alts are awesome, fun and generally good looking but its still an absolutely ******** mechanic.

Might I suggest that there be a dedicated slot just for forum alts that isn't time limited. That would solve the problem of having an alt for purchases and to make anonymous comments on forums, but wouldn't allow them to abuse that capability in game. Our meta-game activities shouldn't limit our in-game activities and that's what's being crossed right now.

Other than that, I completely agree. I also believe you should be able to rename your character in the first 7 days or so of life. But after that you have a reputation. They could even make the official naming ceremony something in-game and lore-based. So you pick you short-term name which does a temporary reserve on it, but you can go to this place and rename yourself in that seven day period.

I believe that solves both major concerns nicely while preserving the purity and efficacy of the original idea.