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Security is very important to CCP. Our Security Team does a lot of things, such as targeting evil RMTers and botters and making sure they don't negatively impact EVE Online. It's been a while since their last dev blog and the team has undergone many changes since. CCP Bugartist, the Director of Information Security, comes forward with this new dev blog to update everyone on what's going on on the security front!

1st well done. Damn got beat!

The amount of ISK seized is huge! That is actually a major ISK sink in the game, comparable to the amount of ISK created by mission rewards.

Edit: I have said this before, and I will say it again: When it comes to RMT and botting, CCP is not doing anything in the way of deterrence. Instead, they are acting almost like CONCORD, providing consequences to player actions.

To me, it seems that it would be better to do something that deters new players from doing either botting or RMT. Sure, once they do it and get caught they are deterred from repeating. But better would be to deter them from doing it at all, even once. My guess is many of the RMT and bot dealers make their living off players who do not realize they are doing something wrong. We need to change that.

What is out there right now that deters a new player form bad behavior? The EULA? How many people actually read the EULA? Dev blogs? I did not start reading them until I had been playing for several months. I didn't know they even existed. Others likely are the same way. Even once a player knows about dev blogs, one about RMT or bots can quickly get buried.

CCP, you need a deterrence against botting that is overt, continuous, and persistent. For example, on the launcher you could have some counters giving the results on the war on bots and RMT: ISK seized in the last 30 days, bans issued in the last 30 days. These would always be there for everyone to see. A constant reminder to not do it, even once.

good job lads, look forward to hearing more.

does team security have team security blankets

The annual - let's do something with security before fan fest post.

How about dumping those plexes into the market that security has been squatting from the big bot sweep???

CPP had no problems at all whatsoever with injecting some of these PLEX last year as it was noted during the economic presentation at fan fest and since they have blown past that number again. Eve Online as every other game is going to be judged on subscription / accounts active.

Remember, once those accounts stay shut off, they are harder to get people to turn back on as they learn to live without those alts.

Personally I'm a goon, no price is too high for dominance of the universe.

Hail CCP for sticking to the issue.

And hail CCP Peligro and GM/CCP Grimmi for staying at a boring job that bosses often fail to see as 'important' :/

Yes, I'm interested in the amount that does not appear on the chart. How high is the actual figure? Impossible to answer of course. Also, how many individuals are represented in the graph? Are they finding the source of the isk or just the suckers who bought it?

How is most of that isk generated in the first place? Mining bots + sale on market, ratting bots, no bots at all? Or perhaps the Dinsdale favourite of nullsec cartels!

A very unsatisfying devblog in its lack of detail.

I would like a more secure login method.

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