I saw a link for a 21 day trial to Eve, and decided that was too good to pass up. I've subbed to the game before a couple times, and although it got boring after a while, its still not bad to play for a month or two at a time.
Just in case anyone isn't familiar with Eve. Its a ruthless sandbox space MMO, filled with piracy, player politics on a level you may not believe, espionage, treachery, deceit, profiteering, and any other despicable act a human being is capable of in a freeform MMO with player "owned" space and economy, as well as unconsentual PvP.
I'll breifly describe a few of the daily occurances in the game. First up, Suicide Ganking. You and some of your buddies equip "throw away" ships and blow some noob's brand new and expensive craft up, before the police can kill you. Then we have the ever popular Baitcanning (or is it Canbaiting?). Jettison some piece of expensive cargo into space, rename the container to "Free stuff!!" and wait in your battlship of death for some noob to grab it. Soon as they do, you are allowed to blast them into dust. Then there is the ever popular, Can Flipping. Go around in your small and weak looking ship, stealing the cargo of noobs, hoping they in turn, will try to blast you into dust. As soon as they do, you zip away back to a spacestation and hop into your battleship of death, return, and blast the noob into dust instead. And lastly that I'll mention, is Gate Camping. Certain star systems in the game are bottlenecks between "carebear" high security space, and open pvp, low security space. Good luck getting into these systems though, as there are nearly always groups of players that do nothing but sit at these systems day in and day out, waiting for noobies to venture out. As soon as their heads poke through, a cruise missile in the face is there to greet them.
So, holding people ransom for millions of dollars, threatening to blow up their ships/and or escape pods, tricking players into joining a corp (guild) that has had war declared on it by another corp, getting different characters into other corps for the sole purpose of blowing up your own fleet with smartbombs, and any other such act in Eve is perfectly acceptable, and is in fact, encouraged. Its what makes Eve, Eve. In fact the Dev's themselves have often gotten into the act. There is a plethora of articles out there about how the CCP Dev's have "stirred the pot" of their own game.
But... what you can't do in Eve, apparently, is say the F word, or call a girl fat. Because in Eve, you know, that game I was just describing up there, the Dev's care about the sensitivity of their players. Curse words and derogatory statements go against the spirit of an otherwise clean and friendly game. Some players feel that even though they can mute you in chat, the game would be much better off without someone saying adult words, or poking fun at others. So, in order to protect all the innocent children that play Eve, certain players rallied together to petition me enough to get me permantly banned. In game currency was even exchanged. A certain "fat" girl paid handsomely to those who sent in petitions. I found this out when I started a new trial account. A couple of the people involved in the banning were so excited, they couldn't help but brag about it. And again, that type of behavior is perfectly acceptable in Eve.
I actually wanted to continue to play the game, too. I had planned on renewing my subscription as soon as the trial was over. I'm basically waving my consumer dollars around in a sultry "take me now, im so hot" kind of way. I've petitioned the GM's twice now (as many times as is allowed), and after 5 days, my petition status is still open. It took less than 15 minutes to get banned, however. So the message is clear. They don't want me in Eve. I guess my foul mouth and I are just too offensive for that upstanding and mature group of cheaters, pirates, market fixers, spies, liars, extortionists, backstabbers and egomaniacs.
I've played Eve twice. I was part of the beta before it released (and released early, I might add - they supressed the bug pop up window so no one would immediately know they were there). Those were some good times.
A couple of the first pirates, Stavr0s and Ys set the tone for piracy. Back then Concord didn't exist, so they were popping players as they entered the game for the first time. Some GM tried to come in game with some badass ship to control the situatiuon, and they pod killed him...lol.
Back then you could find high level asteroids in relatively high sec space (certainly higher than 0.0) So much has changed.
The corp I was in fell prey to internal piracy. We were one of the first with an Apocalypse BP and mined like crazy every night to crank them out. This dude in the corp took everything we had worked for. Back then, there was very little control over the corp hangars, so it was way easier to get robbed from the inside. Wow did that suck! Were I to renew my account, I still have my Apoc (which is largely useless since I haven't been training all this time, and my mods are hopelessly outdated. When I renewed the first time, I had no idea where I had last logged out. I was deep in 0.0 with the Apoc and had to work my way back to high sec with no mods to speak of. That was an intense trip, but I made it!
The problem with Eve is that it's a pretty boring game in high sec space, and subterfuge is so bad that getting into an established corp where you'd have some high end support is tough - or at least it was. Maybe it's better now. To make the problem worse, people that have played the whole time are so far above you in training, that catching up to even be slightly competitive in a fight would take a year at least of playing the boring high sec game. You can't speed your training any (like by playing more often) so catching up is not in your immediate control.
It can be a really fun game, but if you're just starting, don't plan on being in the thick of it any time soon.
Oh...I worked for the events team for a while (which was a joke and another topic) but as such, I had access to all the other teams as well. No one got banned for calling someone fat or saying "fuck." I agree with the others that said something else must have happened.
I quit EVE myself when I found out how much CCCP employees were interfering with the game. As the OP says, all kinds of dirty tricks are par for the course, and if idiots get ripped off nobody is going to 'reset' it, which gives the game it's unique flavour. However, when CCCP is fucking around and slanting the playing field toward their corps, that ruins the good clean scamming.
Yep i remember Arkonor in Semeski or someplace, can't remember the name exactly, it was a .4 system anyways. Within a few days i had a Moa BPO, i remember thinking they needed to slow mining down a little, as we'd have battleships in no time otherwise. I was in TTI (Taggart Transdimentional) whom at the time were the corp everyone loved to shoot, mostly because we signed a NAP with m0o (Stavr0s and co). I think the systems they camped were Pasari and Mara? Can't remember exact spelling, was so long ago! .
It's funny you mention the Apoc, because the entire agreement with m0o and TTI came about because we had just obtained an Apoc BPO and they had just got the Dominix BPO so we agreed to trade ships or something along those lines.
Anyways the NAP didn't last that long, before one battleship was traded. It was a bad move on our part, we probably only gained a minor amount of income from free movement in empire while on the other hand we were labled as pirate lubers (which at the time was kinda like being likend to a nazi in eve, they were hated that much) and it stuck with TTI until it's collapse and became a shadow of its former self.
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