EVE General Discussion

I've noticed that in some of the starter corporations, certain individuals are running scams. Is this what we want the new players to meet when they start on their new eve career? I have nothing against beeing scammed, I am a veteran. Probably would be suprised if you managed to do so. But I want to hear Your opinions on letting People scam in channels dedicated to the newbros.

Being a new player, I'm kind of torn on this one.

First, I'm not certain how CCP would even protect against this. It would be another "report it after it happens" kind of enforcement and I'm fairly sure they don't need to be full time cops but they might be willing to take this on.

Second, it's a part of the game as accepted by the players. Sure, almost every other MMO whips out the ban stick for this kind of stuff, but here in EVE, it seems to be accepted along with the rest of the game... so player beware!

What I might point out is that a little smarter 'training aid' could be developed. Like the first time you click "Transfer ISK to another player" it pops up a little video from "Yohann, your friendly banker trainer" warning about scams and such from other players, maybe even offering to detail how they work. This could be extended to other newbie oops maneuvers like improper fitting. "Hi, I'm Evalyn, your fitting trainer. I've noticed you're trying to put a hull repair module on your Venture... let's talk...", etc. etc. etc.

So, I guess, no, don't protect us, but do educate us.

Evalyn has no idea how to fit a ship if she thinks it isn't ok to put a hull rep on a venture. Or any other ship for that matter. Scam awareness is a solid. Fitting advise not so.

Just one of the many reasons why the NPC noob corps are poison. The average level of advice quality in those chats is somewhere between laser cane and hacking myrmidon. It's a terrible environment for new players in basically every respect - poor advice, blind leading the blind, active scamming, and your corp-mates have little to no interest in you.

If you are a new player and reading this, the takeaway is find a good player corp! Get out of that awful npc corp ASAP.

You can also get back at the scammers by petitioning that you were inside the starter systems when you got scammed. And they'll get banned.

Because the rule of not messing with newbies in the starter systems still stands, and spamming scams on a chat channel gives them no control over who takes the bait and where.

The topic isnt on rookie systems, It is on scamming in rookie corps.

I just think that the starter corp should have somewhat the same failsafes as the rookie systems. You are just as much a rookie, when you start out on the first day in a ibis, as you are when you say hi in that corp chat the first time.
Having a scam toturial is a brilliant idea +1

what kind of scams?

Though I agree that some from of limit on biomassing could be useful it should be set at a quite high number. There are afterall other reasons then the 'perpetual scamming' to use the biomass that are legitimate.

Easy, make alt, watch corp chat.