EVE General Discussion

Keep peddling this story. Someone might believe it.

It surely won't be CCP.

Additionally, he forced his EVE clients to not stack in the task bar, something which gives him a distinct advantage in switching clients and activating modules over people who did not.

They called it the Boxer virus.

No one knew where it came from, some suspected it was a plot by Sansha Kuvakei to take control of the growing legion of capsuleers, others suggested some remnant of long lost sleeper technology.

One thing for sure, it is insipid, permeating the very fabric of New Eden.

It started small, a few capsuleers in one system. But in time it spread, with entire fleets succumbing.

The virus was strange, it didn't damage the host's health, if anything it improved it, but it exerted mind linking properties unlike anything seen before, like a hive-mind creating a fleet of drones, but rather than mechanical drones with simplistic AI, it was a capsuleer piloted drone, capable of flying any ship across the cluster.

As you can imagine, this concerned quite a few the leaders of New Eden, the empires, CONCORD, even some of the Pirate Commanders were worried. Imagine large fleets of ships controlled with a hive mind, a single action performed simultaneously across a fleet.

It was the stuff of nightmares, especially if Kuvakei were behind it and was the puppet master pulling the strings.

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CONCORD Research Center Alpha 357
Yulai
Planet VIII – Moon 10 – Concord Logistic Support
Professor Grian Julkit Falcon
Initial Research Report – Boxer Virus

The virus is strange, near undetectable in it’s dormant state, it increases synaptic speed of capsuleer minds. In and of itself, this is no real concern, with the capsule linking systems achieving much the same during flight.

When the virus is active however, the change is extraordinary. Synaptic speed continues to increase, but beyond that, it seems new links form that allow the mind to transmit and receive information, however only to and from one source.

The fleet that was captured has proven interesting to study, there was one member who appeared less infected than the others, and seemed to exhibit the characteristics of controlling the other “drones” for want of a better term. Interrogation techniques have so far proven futile, with the “controller” yielding no new information.

I have engineered what I hope will prove to be a vaccine against the virus, and with the current production cycle planned, it should commence distribution from 1 January YC117. Given the concern around this virus and the power it could grant to one person if harnessed, vaccination will be compulsory, and conducted in top secret. It should not be too hard to have our agents install Aerosol units on every ship in the cluster when they dock.

I will continue trying to understand this Virus, who made it is truly important. As if it is Kuvakei, the stability of the Empires will be in jeopardy.

But I also highlight, as with any vaccination program, we will not prevent it all, so ongoing monitoring of the Capsuleer population will be necessary to ensure the eradication of this virus is complete.

Incorrect as the only way to ban VideoFX's interaction with a client would also snag video capturing software such as Fraps (though as I mentioned earlier I'd be unsure as to Shadowplay due to the nature of how it grabs frames from the GPU). VideoFX then displays the "dashboards" onto Windows Aero, not the client directly.
And finally, TS3, Steam, Overwolf, and Mumble overlays all arguably violate 6A2 as well, and Fuzzworks and EVEMon/Pyfa/EFT/EVEHQ arguably violate 6A3, yet you have been mum on their legality. Double standards, much?

Wrong. As for your mention of TS3, see the Third Party Policy under Client Modification, which states:

"the use of programs that provide in-game overlays (Mumble, Teamspeak) is not something we plan to actively police at this time."

So you can throw that argument out as they specifically mentioned them. Double-standard or not, it's their rules. As for Fraps or Shadowplay, they capture, they don't change anything within the game environment.
VideoFX uses Innerspace and provides windows within the DirectX window. This clearly violates EULA
6A2) "You may not use your own or third-party software to modify any content appearing within the Game environment or change how the Game is played."
Very clear.

Wrong. VideoFX displays screens onto Windows Aero, not the clients directly. I told you this ages ago.
Additionally, dxNothing is not under CCP's purview and does not violate 6A2 unless you restrict everyone to a given window size and resolution.

It's painfully obvious you don't know what you're talking about as well.
ISBoxer is the program that generates the "barebones" profiles that Inner Space "reads". ISBoxer's profiles include FPS limits, proper CPU management, and monitor setups and tiling.
VideoFX is a feature of Inner Space and utilizes Windows Aero.

And finally, ISBoxer used to be "... not actively police[d]...". The sudden reversal of one program's stance does not immediately mean every other program is suddenly safe. Look at cache scraping, for heavens sake. It's explicitly disallowed by the EULA and TOS, and then CCP turned around and said it was explicitly allowed for market shenanigans but disallowed for other stuff.

The tears of unfathomable sadness.