EVE General Discussion

I'd track down game of thrones haters and kick them in the shin.

A big tool in hacking is social engineering, getting to know who your target is, gaining knowledge in how to hack their accounts by the personal info they provide publicly. So if you think it'll be a better world because everyone knows exactly who you are beyond just a few trusted people, you're in for a rude awakening.

Just like when CCP had that ship design competition publicly blowing peoples anonymity, screw that! ...why a lot of 3d artists here didn't participate. But then it was less about this community and more about publicity, a reason in itself to say shove it.

Not unless someone looses an eye.

I love a bit of thread necro (not real necro though...that's just weird).

I wouldn't be any different if I was using my real name. I might be a little bit more outspoken on some things on the forum perhaps, but in game, no different to how I am now.

Eh, I doubt it'd be that noticeable. I've spent a lot of time getting shot at by CVA, Goons and whoever. At fanfest we were still just chatting like it was nothing. It's just a game, most people are smart enough to not take it too far.

I think that behaviors would change fast, People like to bring up Facebook in this discussion, but they leave out that all that crap on face book? Ends up that it frequently has real world consequences and people are starting to wise up to that.

I will say that Ragnarok Online, which is the only game I can think of off the top of my head that is not a facebook game but has your personal info attached, has some of the most helpful, polite gamers I've ever had the pleasure of playing alongside.




Not under the law. Race, religion,etc, sure. Guild/clan/corp affiliations are not. And yes, I do ask at interviews 'Have you ever flown for Goonswarm'?.

I would not play EVE without anonymity.

99% of people would leave in-game defeats in-game. But that 1% - go ganking for a while, and you will see what they are like. One example: the minerbumping site had one article the other day showing an EVEmail where one person said "I would beat you bloody in real life if I could find you".

Only one person in game knows my IRL identity, and they knew me before either of us played EVE, they aren't traceable to me and we don't really interact much in game at all. (Although I do get the odd market tip from them).

A person I wasn't friends with on Facebook (but an online friend of a friend of a friend) decided one day to drive down a couple of states, break into my house, and wait for me there. He was able to locate me because though my first and last name are common on their own, they are unique when paired together. Not sure how he got my address but I was pretty active with a few groups at my Uni who maintained mailing lists and similar information that was likely not locked down from public access.

It's good that nothing happened to you, but I hope you are sensitive to and can appreciate the importance of privacy.

I was pretty flippant about it too, until something happened to me.

prejudice is prejudice. and i assume that's a joke