Crime & Punishment

I don't know how to take this seriously. If it wasn't so illogical, or your proposal that I be banned for having an opinion, than perhaps I could take you for something other than a troll.

WTF´s this doing in C&P, go play in GD or something

However, since its here, +1

Wrong. They´re bots, what the hell do they need all that for? You can leave them in a pod and strip them of isk and assets, then whoever owns them will just jet a barge from somewhere and they´ll be back to mining again, dont need isk and assets in order to mine.
Banning them would be the logical method but in doing that CCP will be selling less plex on the market to the botters, this is why nothing will ever get done, botters still mean subscriptions for every character thats botting, it still results in cash in CCP´s wallet when it comes to plex buying. The only case this does not apply is when isk is being sold through other methods. I´d like to see them banned but we´ll see with CCP´s current subscription problem.

Good old Forum cookie monster, eating my post and all I did was hit preview

To rehash it quick, cause I got to go.

The general population is a collective idiot that jumps to the quickest assumption "Bot! Get the pitchforks and rope!" without enough information because they see the exact Name1-Name5 in the same belt. Not everyone bots, I know of a guy that runs 5 accounts (converstation jumps from character to character as he alt tabs) mining to PLEX them all and if thats his choice...so what. If he was botting, he wouldn't keep on doing it after CCP did an investigation only to find macroboting and mining is so brain dead that you don't need to bot it. If he wants to work a second job in EVE, kudos to him because it helps to keep the price of PLEX more or less stable as too many selling PLEX they just bought with RL cash (<--micro-transaction! Get the rope!) would drive the price down to the point no one would want to sell 100m for 30 days of game time (to many slackass buying PLEX with cash to trade for ISK is also a huge problem already, they are to damn lazy to mission or mine for a source of income but they want to jump straight to ship piloting and ship destruction). . And if this same guy botted....where would he get the necessary material to start over if all 5 accounts to mine again if his account was set to zero? He isn't part of a sweat shop, which should deserve perma banning, but on the individual basis for those running many accounts I don't think CCP really cares because they encourage multi-boxing and if someone took a short cut...well I doubt they would want to start over from scratch unless it was the sweat shops but threat of lolban hasn't stopped them yet.

And Bob is your uncle.

attention CCP looks like BuzzyBeagle is a RMT isk buying communist

Stop ruining the good name of SN on the forums, or at least try harder.

The entire thread is moot. If anyone had any intelligence, they would come to the conclusion that one of the following is true

1)CCP is diligent
2)CCP is lax
3)CCP is being paid under the table to let it continue
4)Forum drama exaggerated the actual truth of botters, cause they are uniformed and don't know to send a petition so the GMs can deal with the issue

I am thinking its a combo of 1 and 4 that brings this topic up every month. The pitchform bridgade should just let the topic die and submit petitions should their spide-senses go off, cause I am quite sure the massive number of "Bots!" is just people running many accounts with Alt-tab.exe and cause we all know the idiot bridgade bothers to try communicating with people before opening fire, we all speak the same language, or that in EVE you generally either keep close attention to local to warp off if it spikes or ignore it cause if you do say something you might get a wardec or someone's ire comming your way . Submit petition and move on, I ain't botting and its generally not affecting me but as an upstanding citizen of EVE it is a responsible act to alert the proper authorities.

As for the example of the 5 accounts getting isk/assets to continue after being reset...wouldn't you be keeping tabs on the issue in the first place and suddenly they are back at it gain. Where did the new assets come from? Quick Robin! To the Batcave! and dig deeper, cause now your dragnet just got wider and going for the source. At the same time, you might find some people who bot but don't want to loose the entire character/accounts and would be willing to cough up some cash to keep the accounts in playable condition with threats of further punitive actions should they try it again, cause right now nothing stops the bot farms from starting up a new character from scratch which no one knows who it is until its discovered and it only takes a month to get a new CNR runner or 2 months for a Hulk pilot.