EVE New Citizens Q&A

Highsec is not safe, it is merely safer than anywhere else in the Eve universe. A dev said recently that the ability for someone to ruin another person's day is a cornerstone of Eve, and will remain so, highsec is not exempt from that cornerstone, nor should it be.

What you are asking for is a fundamental design change in the game, which isn't going to happen. The day that CCP remove any one of scams, ganks, awoxing and everything else that people fall victims to from any part of Eve is the day that they start to lose the mainstream press coverage the aforementioned things generate. They'll also anger a large portion of the playerbase into the bargain, the players reaction to stupidity of that magnitude from CCP will make the bad press, riots in Jita, forum threadnoughts, the unsub numbers and everything else related to the Incarna fallout look like Paris in spring, it'll kill a unique game and they know it.

CCP aren't trying to be Blizzard or EA, they're a company that make niche games with very few restrictions on what the players can and cannot do, and they do it very well, even DUST514 will have the same sort of scams when the markets and trade windows become integrated completely with Eve, and that's a fairly mainstream game compared to Eve.

Eve is one of the more successful MMOs with pretty much constant subscriber growth since 2003, there's very few titles that are ten years old that are still growing without sequels, or that can boast of players that have been playing constantly since beta.

You should be aware that some of the posters that you labelled as dimwits are probably professionals in the fields of consumer psychology, customer service, or financial growth. You'll be amazed at the RL professions of Eve players, I know of at least one player who is the CEO of a household name multinational, and another who is a real life space scientist, he did a very interesting presentation at fanfest covering FLT, space elevators and other esoteric subjects, hardly dimwits.

TL;DR, your idea is bad and you should feel bad, please stop trying to water Eve down until it becomes just another MMO.

And relatively cheap.

lol this guy just made my day. craptacular day at work and this is perfect. Thank you OP, your tears and terrible ideas have improved my mood.

ps. Ive been scamed, contract scam, sucked, i was pissed. Grow a pair and move on.

Not sure if serious. Navy Augorors were selling for about 55M ISK in my neighborhood on the market. Why would you buy one on a private contract for 6x that price?

Edit: You're offering a lot incentives for people to use your buddy invite. You must not be all that space poor, and should feel extra bad for complaining about being scammed out of 300M in the event this thread isn't just trolling.

I can't help but find people like you disgusting. You clearly don't have a clue about sandbox mmo-rpg games, and instead of learning, you cry.

Don't buy a new car with a credit card. Don't mortgage your house for a yacht. Don't trust the bank. And don't just buy anything in eve. All kind of falls into the common sense category I guess doesn't it. I was once told by a magistrate clerk. " your ignorance to the law is no excuse for breaking it. Its common sense".

If you got scammed, that sucks! Sorry for your loss.

But hey, 320mil for a ship is a lot for a newer player. (Yes, I am aware that you didn't get the ship you thought you were buying) What are you going to do when you inevitably lose that ship?

Because you *will* lose it. If you can't or aren't willing to afford that loss, don't buy that ship.

Accept that you didn't pay attention, resolve to do better next time, and move on.

Or, if you are so inclined, spend your game time in rookie chat and warn all the new players about this sort of activity. Don't demand that the developers of a SANDBOX game put more rules and restrictions in game to "save newbies from being scammed".

I am envious of you... I can only afford to offer a 35% increase of any ISK that is sent to me. I am not space-rich enough yet :(

If someone could help me out and send me 1 billion ISK, I promise I will put it to use scamming, trading, and cheating, and I will return their ISK in full in 30 days, with an additional 500 million ISK as thanks!

how does anyone get scammed in this game? If you're in a market hub and reading local rather than just watching out for war targets, you're doing it wrong.
Finding a decent corp with a reputation to protect isn't difficult, CCP just made it even easier. They are who you ask questions of and request support from, not random gamers in local.

No one can threaten or steal your stuff from an NPC station. Only in sov null can you lose your stuff so easily, and corps in sov null wouldn't last long if they were in the habit.

I've had a CEO run off with the corp wallet and hangar, virtually all of which was his stuff anyway. Set me back, oh a week.

Every scam in Eve relies on an error in judgement on the victim's part. At the very least hit the help channel and ask there if something seems bogus. There are orders of magnitude more players that will honestly answer questions and warn against a shady deal, than are scammers.

Take it as a lesson learned- it's all internet stuff anyway. You'll quickly lose much more to a random gate camp then be back saying how THAT should be banned too. Stop reading Jita local and most of the problem is solved. Actually reading something before hitting accept, maybe asking in help channel- solves the rest.

I just read the full OP's post (I had skimmed over it before), and this bold part worries me. I do not think that you will get very far in Eve with that entitled attitude. And yes it is entitlement. You seem to think that you are a special butterfly, and that despite the fact that many many players have been caught out like this, you should be the only one to get this reimbursed. You are bad, and I feel bad for posting in agreement with you before...