EVE General Discussion

Here's a little story I found on miner bumping.

In the seemingly endless and bizarre search for tears in this game, a complete noob at Eve was humiliated and scammed for everything he had by Erotica1 and friends, including members of New Order / Code. This noob was invited to Erotica's 'Bonus Room' on teamspeak with promises of receiving 7bil+ if he handed over all his noob assets, with further conditions of:

- gathering all assets, including as many corp assets as he could lay his hands on and handing them over
- demanding on Teamspeak he sang (in front of his wife and kids that you could hear next to him) either 'Queer' by Garbage, some brony theme song as well as other idiotic ideas. The noob pleaded with them not to humiliate him by making him sing this in front of his kids.

The eager noob then agreed to read a random page out of wikipedia, with plans to spend his 7 billion winnings on gametime. After 5 minutes of reading out the page he was then scammed out of all his assets.

You need to hear this to for yourself. 45.28 is where it properly starts. https://soundcloud.com/fancy-space-tourist/happy-miner-payout

It's not just the fact he was a noob; it's the way the guy was completely humiliated with attempts by the scammers to humiliate him even more in front of his small children. Never heard anything so sickening in any game. You guys are F'ing idiots and sociopaths.

You are joking right? They made him sing in front of his wife and kids?

If he was a kid I'd have sympathy.

It's a game. Nobody forced him to do this. It's not like he was at gunpoint. Why would anyone go along with this in the first place? If you are willing to do all this the lets be honest, you kinda brought this upon yourself.

Even if this is true, nobody put a gun to his head.
No sympathy for the stupid.

I take offense at the unqualified inclusion of every Eve Player in "you".

World is near end.

Fools, fooling fools?

Eve has plenty of fools.

Seems like a **** move;

Scamming is funny as ****, but doing this on new players who dont know the game that well on this scale is rather disgusting.

How is anyone that oblivious? It seems fair tbqh.

The Teamspeak stuff - in case you didn't know, that stuff happens in all games with voice comms; minus the scamming, which of course is one of the features of EVE gameplay. Invite another player into your Vent/Mumble/Teamspeak to humiliate or play a practical joke on him -- fairly common. We can talk about whether it's "nice" or immature or whatever, but it's not exclusive to this incident or EVE players, by any means.