EVE General Discussion

So i am curious a lot of the jita scams are about people linking bogus contracts but are allowed to change the link text to make it seem legit

Why ccp do you allow this? When actually stopping it would cut down the jita spam considerably. Im sorry but having that crap constantly spamming local just looks a bit tacky and makes the game look incredibly cheap, but i digress...

I understand what your saying but i just find these type of scams just bring the level of the game down. Real scams and infiltration fine.
For example if a newbie that spent a lot of time earning his isk to get started, got scammed and then unsubbed? (because they are still new and well dont quite understand the game yet). Do you think the fact he got scammed was better than keeping him subscribed to CCP? if it is then ill have to question the business model.

Because it looks like the text is simply using html or xml tags and such. Because this is a pre-existing system, CCP used it without the need for modification or testing. It's like creating a hyperlink that shows a text of "Click Here" but links to www.CCP com. This is fairly standard stuff that has been tried and tested.

What you are asking for would require that the current system check the link, recognize the text string, and have a huge collection of of/then statements to police the list and stop contract scams.

As for why not change the base system... Because it used for linking just about everything. It's why when you link a ship fit, you only see the name of the ship, not the full xml of the fit.

So basically though what you are asking for may seem intuitively simple, from a game design/coding stand point, it isn't.

Basic rule for all contracts; Make the window fill the screen so you can see all the fields (especially important with BPOs and BPCs). Ready very carefully the 'you will get' and the 'you will pay' section as that is the only part that really matters. If you clicked the link from a local chat, it is a scam 99% of the time. If you see five contracts in a row? At least one of them is probably 1000 times more expensive than the 'good ones' in hopes you'll buy it too.

Fun fact, at one time you could change the actual text in the contract itself, and the UI display was much less friendly and easy to check.

Cheap Charon scam anyone? :D

For those not aware, back when you could alter more text on contracts a common scam was to post a sell contract for a "Cheap Charon" that contained 1 unit of Carbon for something close to a billion ISK. There was no icon for the item in the contract window, the contract title was player set not auto-generated, and people made billions doing this at a time when PLEX was about 300m a pop.

99.9% of everything in Jita local is a scam. Just minimize your local window to the point where you can't see anything. Voila! No more local spam!

why the hell should anyone have to minimise local? ita a problem which imo be sorted. look i know you mean well and you may of noticed ive bee n around a while so i know the whole idea behind scamming and blocking and closing windows yada yada. but thats not the issue sort of albeit annoying.

the fact is ccp.can stop it easily bit dont so im just wondering why, because its easy to drag link lots of things now there is no need to inject html unless for scamming especially for contracts as mentioned you can drag link a contract

I don't always sign contracts that jeopardize my wealth, but when I do, I make sure not to read the fine print.

No seriously, even if EVE is their first MMO they should know people can scam you in a trade. This happens almost every MMO, with only a few having limited safeguards to mitigate it.

yep i gues one laugh in local is better than growing eve and retaining subs when onilne numbers are at an all time low. yep defo the way to go...more laughs please

We either do our homework, or learn on our own expense. Sounds all right to me.

I kinda' like that buzz in local while I travel through civilized areas.