EVE General Discussion

So here's a thought, and bear with me on this.

Corp thefts.

What are your thoughts on intentionally lying to someone/building their trust over days, weeks, months for the sole purpose of stealing everything possible? During this time, much personal real-life information is likely shared as people talk about the kids, pets, jobs etc.

I have always liked the idea of these, but simply cannot bring myself to do it. This is how I acquired KOP. After a short time, I fessed up to the founder, we had a good laugh, and I went out of my way to request no roles whatsoever. Now, eventually I was handed the keys to the kingdom, but simply an empty shell corp. I know a number of guys who have concerns over the depth of the bonus rounds yet engage in this type of activity quite regularly. They are my EVE friends and we simply have disagreements on certain things.

Now, we all know corp thefts/awoxes/safaris have been widely celebrated in EVE for much longer than I have been playing.

We also know that Teamspeak and other comms are used to facilitate this pixel thievery.

What about the people that are legitimate friends and just decide to walk off with everything, backstabbing friends?

This my friends, is the huge can of worms that is literally being opened in this thread.

*edit* I should add that I absolutely cringe when I see real life stuff in the evemail apis. On the handful of times this has happened, I tell the clients to delete it, keep it out of game, and if I ever find that an escrow agent does anything whatsoever with it, I will have nothing to do with them, period. EVEmail APIs should be removed from EVE or at the bare minimum moved to a completely separate authorization page.

Never know.

CSM member might hunt you down and burn you at the stake if you don't.

We know they certainly won't publish things based on factual evidence, lol.

Like I said in my first post on the thread....

What a ******* joke.

I joined EVE because of the danger, too.

But that's irrelevant.

We aren't talking about "scamming, looting and pillaging".
We aren't talking about "da rulez", either.


We're talking about unethical behaviour, and the reputation deriving from it.

This was the point I made when this thread was fresh, back when the White Knights wanted everyone to cancel subs and state Ero as the reason in hopes that CCP changes policies.

If CCP really listened to all the QQ threads and reasons people post in the Unsub forms..then ganking, scams, piracy, wardecs, PvP, and the Eve Servers themselves would have been removed LONG AGO.

Eve is a game that is notorious for unethical behavior. It thrives on it. Your ethics have no place in my Eve.

Did you go to the cops? CCP doesn't have to file a report to the police, you do.

except unethical behavior is what brought us here.

lies, deceit, theft, betrayal. the myriad of morally bankrupt shenanigans are what made this game so appealing to many people.

It has a place for you so you must fit into one of the above categories.

actually, eve online has a place for everyone from all walks of life provided they don't break the tos/eula while playing the game.

your prejudices towards certain demographics are irrelevant.

There are various degrees of unethical behaviour.