EVE General Discussion

but CCP have done this before, as you know, because you followed the links in the OP, and, as you know because you clicked the links, there is currently 76b being held in funds for emergency relief.

If this takes off, I will donate what I can. Would need to liquidate some in-game assets but can't see any reason I can't chip in a billion ISK or so. I would prefer Doctors Without Borders if they are active in the Phillipines as I feel they are the best charity around, but my contribution won't be conditional on that.

If I have any luck scamming over the next few days, I might be able to make that two billion (come on, courier contract scam, work for me for once...)

To the detractors - what CCP do for these charity drives is effectively 'refund' the donated PLEX for $15 less a small admin fee (the fee representing their costs, not a profit), then all the money made that way goes to the charity drive. Basically it's a way to turn the in-game greed of people that buy bulk PLEX into a way for those of us with more in-game resources than RL money to donate to an emergency fund. Or alternately, it can be thought of as non-illicit RMT where the money is for charity, not some shady RMT company.

CCP get massive PR out of it at a quite small price, the Phillipines fund gets some urgently needed cash, and quite a bit of it comes from people that otherwise could not afford to donate to the charity because they are broke IRL.

If CCP wants to continue donating to charity through PLEX, it might be a good idea just for them to set up a system in game for people to do it whenever people want. Instead of picking your disaster, just make donations to the Red Cross, International Red Cross, or Red Crescent. This way anyone that wants to donate, whenever, for whatever, can.

Be a lot easier, ethical?, to do this than just for the disasters that reach a level of criterion to warrant special consideration based on what one human's evaluation of "need" is for all people who want to donate in game.

Either that or just say we won't be doing plex for charity anymore.

But this random donations to "major" disasters is problematic.

The two are not mutually exclusive and donating by proxy is the only way to convert ingame assets into a donation. I doubt any charity would urge CCP not to do this since it will be an additional set of donations, not an alternative set. There is really no downside to this.

Take them and I'll swap them for PLEX in Jita. (I contract you 4 PLEX in Jita and you contract me the PLEX in whereever.)

Ok deal!
It'll be my VAERT CEO alt doing that (Ishkahunta).

I'd love to have PLEXes in easily reached (read: contiguous high sec) locations for two reasons:

1) Don't ask me why, but for Japan there were logistic issues on the CCP employee who had to pick the PLEXes. Considering if the initiative starts we'll be in a hurry, I'd rather avoid the guy being unable to pick the PLEXes in locked stations and have to wait till some other CCP programmer force-unlocks it with some code patch or whatever.

2) I always produce a video that proves the whole process has been transparently and diligently done. Having the PLEXes well visible in the local items hanger when I create the contract certainly makes it as easy and transparent possible.

Just make eve online compleet free no money need also give everyone free stuff and max everyone to the maxs sp points. Als donate every also with money because we need it also....

Ps Also best scam ever please send more plexs

I put up a contract for 4 PLEX in Jita to the character Ishkahunta shortly after you posted.
Just put up the 0.0 PLEX in a 3 day or longer contract and I'll accept it later.

I am space poor at the moment but I can sell some assets to buy plex and help out,

I have trained the alt with the skills to create more contracts so now you have all PLEXes contracted up.

Contract 1 screenshot.
Contract 2 screenshot.

I have redacted part of the station names.