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Yes absolutely. Reviewing our policy pages and providing a central location for all of these policies on our to-do list. No ETA, but we are working on it. I'd like an eveonline.com/security page, personally!

"Six by nine. Forty two."
"That's it. That's all there is."
"I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe."

since macro use is such a large part of the pie it would be interested to see a further breakdown. I guess input replication is not part of it since it is still legal till january?

I notice that, in the plots of bans and ISK confiscation, there is no general trend, either increasing or decreasing. That is, your efforts are keeping up with the violators, but nothing is happening to drive down the amount of rule breaking players do.

I have a feeling that most violators are new players that do not realize that what they are about to do will have consequences, that they will be caught. Many may not even know their actions are a violation. After all, how does a new player know it's illegal to bot? Read the EULA? Yeah, right, not many do that. Look at Dev blogs? In a month this one will be buried below several new ones.

Many other violators are players who know the rules, but think Team Security has stopped doing their job, so they can get away with it.

What you need to ask yourself: What are you doing to stop players from doing their first offense?

What is needed is deterrence. Deterrence not only reduces the amount of rule breaking, but also reduces the amount of business done by ISK sellers and bot writers. Reduce their income from Eve, and they may go elsewhere.

To be effective, deterrence needs to be overt, continuous, and persistent. I suggest that, on the launcher, there is always a little notice that says something like:

"Team Security report: Last month we handed out xx bans and confiscated yy trillion ISK for EULA violations."

No need to additional details, just give sufficient information that the players will always see you guys are on the job catching the bad guys.

According to this, if 2 or more actions are performed by 1 keystroke/mouseclick, that is considered stored keystrokes and violates the EULA. Like pressing an ISBoxer hotkey and having the software execute F1 plus whatever command is required to cycle to the next client. ISBoxer users will need to input 2 commands, not 1.

Don't ask me how CCP plans to enforce it; that's just what I got from CCP Random on Twitter.

Oh, and if anyone tries to use an old post from the forums saying that's okay, don't bother. Looks like any of those old responses will be considered "outdated" on 1 January 2015. Which quite frankly, I'm okay with. I've always hated having to reference old forum posts. I thought that was pretty stupid. In a couple of weeks, they are all outdated and we just need to go to the EULA, ToS, and policy pages.

Hmm, it does seem like a CCP statement would be good here. I've thought of the new rules as "One keystroke sends one command to one client". If that keystroke also tells your computer to switch to another client, that's OK, as it is not a command sent to the client, but to your computer.

But I'm not CCP.

It should be if the cache scraper is continuously running with no user input. Hopefully the dev for EVE Mentat will do what the dev for EVE Central is doing and move to getting the market data from authCREST. That would eliminate the EULA violation beginning on 1 January 2015.

UPDATE: I was informed that EVE Central is completely on CREST and most of the others are on track to be on CREST by the end of the year

Another statistic that might be interesting to see month to month is the mean time between first warning and perm-ban.

Good to see the tightening of the policies.
Scale of the graph looks to be a deliberate obsfuscation?
I'd assume trillions, but assumptions is the mother of all FU ... left open to interpretation by the masses.

1/10 on graph-fu. Fail.

For newbies, my suggestion would be to put a warning against macro use, certain portions of the EULA, and maybe a pointer to the full EULA or to the very eye-opening charts in this blog into the New Player Tutorial in-game. Players can view it from the in-game browser, and the tutorial can point it out to them, and make them aware that certain things are illegal and will have serious consequences.