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Again you do not realise that this is the case in ALL GAMES. CCP could ban you right now for NOTHING.

Why light bonfires and get pitch forks just because they have actually NAMED things they do not want you to do.

You just need to turn the cache scraper part of it off. Evemon works via Eve's API. All the information that is available through the API has been made available by CCP to be used. Using the API is fine, as long as you obey the 3rd-party developer policies CCP has.

please explain how you know it to be different? You can't, that's the point! There is a lot of uncertainty.

It must be clarified: will CCP that ONE player = ONE active eve client = ONE account = ONE subscription or multiboxin allowed and sponsored(The Power of 2 special offer). That for multiboxing you need more monitors or helping tools (ISBoxer etc...), for me its equal.

I think by CCP, left leg dont know what right leg do.

My question falls under character transfer and buying. Now that we can buy another character's skills, through skill extractor/injector; why or how can we just buy a character outright?

I run three clients on Linux in a tiled window manager (Debian; 'Awesome'), and I have two monitors. I am capable of playing with three "fullscreen" clients active on the same tag simultaneously (three clients on one screen, all in "fullscreen" mode), and I usually have a fourth window reserved for something else entirely. My other monitor, typically, is reserved for fullscreen browsing or watching documentaries. If I were to add just one more account, which I'm considering doing, I could fully play the game with 4 clients in a box layout with no window overlap (Awesome does not decorate windows). If I were to upscale further, then I could feasibly play with 4*n clients, where n is an unbounded number of tags/'desktops'.

Now, in Awesome, windows can have multiple tags simultaneously, so one window can be shared across multiple 'desktops'. If I were a nullbear, it would be extremely feasible to leave 1/4 of each tag dedicated to a single "intel" client with a cloaky scout one system out. This would essentially give me all the data available to a single client, across multiple screens, with the same effect as if it were merely overlaid over a screen. If I had 22 accounts (for hardcore mining or ratting or whatever), I could have 7 tags configured to 3-clients-per-tag, with a fourth (scout alt) shown across all 7 tags.

This merely implements basic OS-level features, but under the vague definitions outlined in the dev blog, I fear I'm at risk merely for playing with different system settings.

• Claiming Awesome is third-party would be equitable to saying Gnome3 or KDE is third-party, at which point no Linux gamers are capable of playing EVE (you cannot play the game without a graphical desktop environment)
• Wine, however, is a third-party tool that is required for any Linux gamer to play. There's no native Linux Eve client, but we have Wine, which spoofs Windows binary calls.
• Awesome in particular changes window focus every time the mouse moves or clicks onto a different window. This might look suspicious in logs, especially depending on how CCP decides to combat overlays via server logs (I imagine mouse location is recorded whenever window changes focus)
• In practice, the demonstration mentioned above is no different from having multiple clients in windowed mode (a person on Reddit posted this screenshot)

Essentially, without any non-OS, non-Wine third-party software, I'm worried I could be at risk because my desktop environment natively supports a configuration that might look suspiciously similar, server-side, to graphical overlay use. Under the "we don't care" pretense, I have no protection in case someone decides "hey, this guy looks a little suspicious". There's no leeway for providing evidence of battlestation configuration, for OS discrepancies, for any false flags raised from Wine, for anything.

This dev blog essentially says Linux gamers risk having their right to play revoked at any time for any reason at all, outside of their means to prevent.

CCP, will you please clarify at least some of the points raised in this thread?

Playing EVE via Linux is unsupported. Do so at your own risk.

[FYI, I'm a professional Linux OS developer. I play EVE using Windows 8.1.]

There is an entire subforum in the EVE Technology and Research Center dedicated to Linux. It's "unsupported" officially ("mileage may vary"), but CCP have not (until now) come out with a policy implicating Linux gamers as EULA-breakers simply for not using Windows.

Your examples are correct.
The second example allows multiple clients to be controlled from a single application focus, without needing to bring each individual full game client to the front of your screen.
You can tile the windows in the first example, but you need to very precisely sequentially click through them in that exact order to execute orders on the clients. After one round of click-throughs, you need to spend several seconds/a minute re-layering each window in the right focus order in order to repeat this cycle again. This is simply unmanageable and useless outside of travelling around/non-active gameplay.
Going back to your second example, it allows all those clients to be managed without this hassle, and more actively and beyond what most players have access to do.

See this? This is the kind of **** that shouldn't be possible in EVE, it allows one player to control 11 Algos' in PVP simultaneously, allowing for outcomes that shouldn't be possible.
Scale this up to larger entities, you have players deploying a dozen dreads from one player using 3rd Party Client Management tools to control all of them far more efficiently than if they had to click through each of the clients one-by-one.
I've managed up to 4 clients simultaneously without 3rd party tools for Escalations and general EVE stuff (one hauling, links, pvp ship, something sitting idle) - it's hard to actively manage more than 2 clients at once using Windowed Mode.

I don't believe that CCP ever intended for a single player to control 11 accounts simultaneously in active PVP, try doing this kind of thing without ISBoxer or other tools that allow clients to be overlaid and pinned on top of each other in a way that allows interaction with each, without Windows adjusting forward focus/on top layering of the currently selected window.
You're being deliberately dense if you can't see that clear distinction between these things (using what they provide, and modifying the usage of their client through 3rd party apps), but you're even denser if you can't see that it's tied to a massive post about RMTing.

They're giving a heads up to people using ISBoxer to print ISK all day in whatever way they do, for RMTing purposes. After this heads up it's ban-town folks. The Stormtrooper dude with his 11 Algos isn't their target or focus, they don't really care about that guy, he's an anomaly. They care about those printing isk all day and want to have a rule to point to when they ban those accounts.

But then you can still see the intel regardless, and clicking and pressing hotkeys in quick succession will still allow you to operate all of the clients and ludicrous speed. You never need to re-layer the windows, you simply work backwards so at the end of each cycle it's naturally as it was.

That is possible with absolutely no tools. That guy assisted his drones then just fired with one client and all of the drones launched. Anyone can do that with no tools. The reason there's 11 is that one fires the gun for the drones to trigger and the other 10 assist the drones for the maximum 50 assisted drones.

Depending on the task you are performing it can be pretty easy to multibox anyway. Without any tools I have 3 monitors at a minimum and can easily run a few clients on each without much trouble. Something low input like mining, 16 accounts is a breeze.

Does this bit make you feel a bit silly now you realise there's a huge chance he did in fact do that without ISBoxer?

I don't much care about the second half of the post, though effectively they're saying "if you're too efficient and our data analysis picks you up, you will be banned, but if you buy isk, something you know for a fact is against the rules, you can completely avoid the ban".

No, it really isn't. If RMT were their target, they'd go after bots and they'd go after easy mechanics, since that's why things like mining and missions are so easily scalable. If they were really going after RMT they'd go after casino sites and the like too, since they rake in literally trillions, and let's face it, that's getting RMTed.

Ed: to be honest you only need to look at the accounts per player graph to realise that the number of heavy multiboxers is pretty minimal.