EVE General Discussion

You know, I take a lot of efforts to "protect" myself in this game. As a matter of fact, probably too much for what is suposed to be an entertainment medium.

I'm not raging about being scammed persay. I'm raging about the fact that as far as I could tell there was no counter, no way I could have protected myself (other than outright not using contracts to buy stuff which is the lesson learned here).

I decided I wanted a new ship so I looked on contracts (mistake #1). I found the ship I wanted, fitted and rigged. I double checked, triped checked the contents of the contract to make sure it clearly stated "hulk" "exhumer" , not hulk blue print, but exhumer.

And of course when I completed the contract there was the ******* blue print.

Now, I've been playing this game long enough to realize that its full of scammers and botters. But I have to say I do grow a little tired (really tired actually) of playing a game that **only** has me looking behind my back all the time. Paranoia online? You're likely to develop some form of mental complex finishing the day each day like this.

So how did they do this one? How do you package a blue print to make it look exactly like a ship and when the hell will it be fixed?

Its one thing to get scammed because you weren't paying attention but I'm growing really really tired of all the game mechanics that are there just to screw you over.

Eve is a game of rock paper scissors until it comes to player economy and on a separate side, suicde ganks.

Then its just a rock to the balls and have a nice day.

I guess I know there is always soemthing a player could have done differently, but its a bit depressing that the different thing to do is to simply avoid using CCP's contract system.

oh i did, ill let you know how THAT goes.

If it's at Jita and it's on contract, assume it's a scam. I won't buy a ship off contract, period. The marketplace should be the only place people go to buy these... to hell with the contract scammers.

I buy alot of things on Contract... have not fell for a scam once. For the most part scams are pretty obvious, reading them is a perk, making sure is a bonus before you click on accept.

A surprising few contracts are scams... I don't buy things on contract that i can buy on market

Yeah, are you trying to reenforce the idea that Eve is a 2nd job?

Can you post a screenshot of the contract for us?

This must have been a private contract or done from an alt - not the char you are posting with.

In game:
Bring up someone's char info.
Upper left corner are the stacked bars. Click that.
Chose "Show Contracts"

That will show any/all finished public contracts a character (or corporation if corp info is checked) has done. Private contracts don't show.

This works for individuals and corporations. Example: You show no public contracts executed from nor to your character. Your corporation shows 3 contracts - last one done back in February for a 5 copy Covetor BPC...

You obviously weren't careful enough.

There is a tick box in the contracts search window that lets you search for 'Exact item type'. Mark that if you want to make sure you're only seeing Hulks, and not Hulk blueprints.

If a contract appears to have a ship and rigs in it, make sure the rigs are fitted. The contract info will tell you if they are. If they're not clearly stated as being fitted, be suspicious.

Finally, as others have suggested, show info on anything in the contract you want to check.

I often buy ships on contract, and have got some very good deals there. Never been scammed yet.

Check his CEO's contracts.

In that contract, it's listed as a "hulk blueprint - mining barge blueprint - BLUEPRINT COPY".

Also, the mods are not indented like fitted mods are in a contract.

"Our logs show nothing. Thank you for you time please fuk off!"