EVE General Discussion

So I guess its time to give you guys an official response to what is at hand as I can't bare to watch any man be trolled by Riverini be him friend or foe.

2 weeks ago Bat Country decided with the upcoming elections for the CSM that we would do our part to help Dear Leader with his campaign. A few Bats came up with the glorious idea of showing you guys, the people of highsec that as much as we may play our game differently, that we do in fact care about the same issues and want what is best for this virtual world that we all share by attacking the most notorious botting region and inflicting as much pain and suffering as possible to those that violate the EULA and ruin the economy for us all.

As a token of fairness and good will we also decided to create our own reimbursement program where if we happened to kill someone who was not botting by accident that we would pay to replace their ship. Things in this department have been running very smoothly with 4bill+ so far being paid out to those that swear blind they where 'answering the door' or giving 'CPR to their Grandmother' and whilst there was some delay in payment we are quite happy with how this has been managed.

It was planned that once we had managed to reach 1000 dead botters that the campaign would be announced with stats and pie charts for all to bask in but there was one thing we had not accounted for, the chief propaganda minister and self appointed voice of high sec - Riverini. Despite having sent him mails before his "press release" telling him of our intentions and what our campaign was actually about, he took it upon himself to use this situation and the mixed impressions of the High Sec community to go ahead and send a shock wave through the Market in regards to Caldari Ice.

"No, I haven’t stocked up on Ice yet; a decision I might regret. We’ll keep an eye on this one. - Riverini" - heh I'm sure.

I think its safe to say that Riverini has made himself and his crew a very nice tidy profit after the scare that he has created via the use of his popular propaganda and CCP endorsed website Evenews24.com and we can only warn people and market buyers to be very careful when using information from Initiative Alliance's "news site" in the future.

I will say on one last final note, that 800 bots have now been destroyed by at most 15 guys with destroyers in the space of 2 weeks. Think about that when you want to sit there screaming at CCP for an impossible to manage situation. This is a Community and Sandbox game and you should approach such problems with those 2 points in mind.

Anyway High Sec, this has been our gift to you ♥

From Bat Country with love

Vote Mittani for CSM

All targets where reported

Thank you.

Before anyone screams that "report bot" doesn't work. Let me quote myself from another topic.



And again

Thanks for the decent and informative post, Razzor Death.

It's not often one gets to read logic and reason in these forums, without the obligatory emo-fits and rages.

I have two friends ingame who were recently hit by your campaign - and subsequently reimbursed as advertised.

Whatever the Goons are, at the very least this campaign has cleaned-up a good portion of the real botters out there.

As for Riverini - the less said about him, the better.

Respect o/

First of all, grats to Khan Farshatok for breaking 2k points score!

Second, Riverini comes way, way late in the news (Feb 16).

I sort of started the whole stuff on Feb 11 and then made it much more visible on GD on Feb 15, 1 day before that blog.

As investor, I have to enter the markets (nitro isotopes in this case) before others do, therefore I try to find out those opportunities as fast as possible and possibly, to help them bloom.




I am sure you killed a number of non bots (I kept my own statistics, some of those you popped mined for 2h a day and chatted in local). Did you report them as bots anyway? I see the "reimbursment" thing but if they get banned for something they did not know, it won't help to have some 100M ship back.

They are goons, collateral damage was inevitable. Your gonna have to just trust CCP to investigate the reports before they hit the ban button(and that those 2h a day players weren't botting for 2h a day, tho that would make no sense).

That would take a lot of Tornados to Whelp a Station...

If a Station could be Whelped that is...

This only applies to minerals mining. Ice miners have like 12 to 18 minutes long cycles, you could pop half a belt before they alt tab back to check what's going on.

Edit:
actually, while a real pilot will not stay forever watching paint ehm roids dry, a bot can be programmed to always check for flagged corp / ship kinds in local / arriving at belt and warp out. So the bot escapes, the real player does not.

Besides the "23/7" and the calling pilots with patterns (i.e. Joe01, Joe02 etc) I don't see any way to discern between a bot and an human.

Only basic way is to pop them and see if the pod keeps going from belt to station and vice versa, but I have noticed some bots now detect the pop and don't warp the pod to belt. They stay just outside of the station.

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