EVE General Discussion

Yes corp was moving, people had courier contracts assigned to him, he passed away.

The OP is right, the handling of CCP regarding this sad situation is despicable.

Also this puts my plans to corp infiltrate and then kill the CEO's on hold, as it seems to not be possible due to the stupid GMs.

Ahem I used to dissapear from eve 6-9 months at a time.

And others knew about it.

What if I got reported as dead in that time frame what then?

I come back and find all of my stuff gone removed because somone claimed I was dead isnt a valid excuse to reposses something that clearly belonged to the person in question.

CCP took proper response and did the one thing that If I came back from my hiatus wouldnt surprise me if it where so that the CEO gets transfered.


How would you like if it your best friend knew you where going on a long business trip and tried to record you as dead. Would you like it if he stole all of your BPOs you privately owned?

Now the CEO holding onto the BPOs of the corp is a another manner but that is no different from CORP THEFT in a scenario such as this thus its allowed and further more TOUGH LUCK.

by contacting the account owner ? like via e-mail ???

Then finish it with following line

If you dont answer this email in *some time* we would consider *some action* as appropriate ..

f.e. ??

Either way its not like its impossible. Even if he is not, not responding to such email will actually cover the come-back rage.

thats actually interesting question ...

fair enough..

altho i wouldnt post death certificate of relative to some gaming company ? Sounds like a really bad joke if you ask me .

at my post28 sound like optimal approach, which will does not burden anyone, except CCP employee.

Problem with your post, person goes on a long ass self discovery sabbatical to "middle of f##king nowhere" like those people who spend half a year + up a mountain in Nepal for example.

He's informed the corp of this, set up directors, relocated assets etc.


In every situation there is the potential for it to backfire horribly. The only way to be 100% certain is through authentic documentation, however getting someone to waste time doing that (unless they also play the game themselves) is very unlikely.

Also if he passed away, wouldn't his bank account close and thus his game account essentially stop dead?

I am sorry to hear of the OP's predicament. Of course, there's always the chance of it being a scam, but if not, my sincere condolences for his passing. This issue does remind me of an old concern and I'd like to share it.

Having been the CEO of a sov holding corp, I'd like to think of myself as having been a responsible leader (or at least tried to be). That means that I must not let my corp mates down like how the OP described, even in the event of my RL passing. Issues such as personal/corp assets, transfer of leadership roles, etc should not be left dangling even after the CEO's passing. Fine, joke about "Eve is Real" and that its a game, all you want. But I do feel that where real players' investments in time and effort are concerned, my responsibilites to them are equally real as well. I've actually considered leaving my login details and final instructions in my Will, but alas, the EULA and present game mechanics prevent a sure way of administering this during my term.

My suggestion, therefore, is to have CCP implement a Last Will and Testament mechanic, available as an option for every capsuleer. It can be in the form of a new tab, available under the Corporation button of the Neocom, allowing:

Players to specify the activation of any or all of the following actions after a pre-set date or period of time, if there is no response to a pre-set number of reminders to suspend the actions
Transfer of assets and isk to another specific player(s)
Transfer of CEO/Alliance Executor roles to another specific player(s)
Automatic broadcast of a certain message to the corp or alliance, or specific player(s)

While I believe this will be useful for the intent mentioned, it can also be a source of tears when such actions are forgotten and automatically carried out when the main player forgets to de-activate it and when a subscription runs out, or when the player becomes inactive. In which case, the onus is purely on the player himself and there will be delicious tears for us to all enjoy when a player loses all of his/her stuff due to neglect.

Any thoughts?

You'd be surprised with how many fucks a bank gives to someone who died =)

My father passed away 7 years ago with an unpaid debt, and the bank still sends letters to my house asking him to pay up, and offering deals and such. Mind you, the bank isn't asking me or anyone else for that matter, its asking him

One time i even considered sending a note of "adress change" to the bank so that they would send the bills to the cemetery instead.. but i don't think the old man deserves to be bothered tbh

Holy **** that's terrible. I take it you've RTS'd the mail with a note saying "Recipient is deceased, please stop tormenting his family" or some sort, do it in a way that impliments them with the notion that they're harassing and tormenting a family over their loss and they'll backtrack pretty fast.

If they don't, take it to the media.


Anyway, the whole "Reply to this email or we transfer stuff/assume you're dead" etc is having terrible reprocussions in that other game™ where GM's are losing ownership of Guilds because they don't log in for a month.