An official EVE Online event let players publically "execute" cheaters - Sensationalist Headlines

https://kotaku.com/an-official-eve-online-event-let-players-publicly-execu-1828696164 Publisher CCP’s policy is that on the first strike a botter is given asmall ‘slap on the wrist’ ban of only a few days. If that player gives up their life of crime, they are allowed to continue to play the game. Repeat offenders find their accounts permanently closed and are banned from playing the game again. Normally, all of this is dealt with behind the scenes, in-game assets are impounded and destroyed, and from an outsider’s perspective, that player simply never logs in again. Last week, however, the EVE OnlineGM team staged a public display to reinforce to the community that they are hard at work removing these players from the game. On two separate occasions during the recent GM Week celebrations, spaceships owned by bot-using players who have been caught using bots to play the game for them were teleported by CCP into neutral space to experience some good old-fashioned mob justice. In the solar system of Yulai, home to the in-game security organization CONCORD, players were told to travel to a certain spot at a certain time for an unknown “special event.” CCP’s official Twitch stream came online with a live feed from one of the space stations inside of Yulai, and there were many GMs and CCP employees in chat channels, both in-game and on Twitch. As players gathered, they saw something very strange appear: a Thanatos-class carrier. Carriers and other capital class vessels are not normally allowed in “high security” space like the Yulai system. After the ship’s sudden and as-yet-unexplained appearance, players noticed something else: The carrier was displaying the “suspect” flag, meaning that the in-game police and peacekeeping organization would not attempt to protect it, should a player try and engage it. EVE being EVE, it didn’t take long until the Thanatos was destroyed by the roughly 50 players that surrounded it. Over the next hour, 8 more carrier and super carrier vessels appeared and were destroyed in Yulai. The bloodthirsty mob grew to nearly one hundred and fifty players towards the end of the event. During the staged executions, CCP employees joined the Twitch chat to explain what was happening, and informed players that they had been deputized to help eliminate botter vessels. This event marked the kick-off of GM Week, where the EVE Online GM team took the opportunity to get to know and interact with the people that play EVE. In addition to public executions, the week featured GM convoys attempting to navigate their way through hostile space, interviews and AMAs on the game’s subreddit, art contests, and even the chance to change one of the GM’s names. As GM Week drew to a close, the players were once again invited back to to Yulai. After a repeat of the previous event, with several botter-owned carriers and supercarriers being sacrificed to the mob, out rolled the pièce de résistance: a Titan. Titans are the largest and most powerful vessels in the game, but this one stood no chance. Nearly 700 players immediately opened fire, closing out GM Week with an enormous bang. I (and most gamers) will never play EVE, but it never ceases to be one of the most persistently interesting games to read about.

I saw this on livestream when I was participating in an ingame capital op. I think they should do this at least once a month. There were close to 1000 people there participating in the event.

That is actually pretty awesome/thoughtful. I do love GM-powered public humilation in MMOs, though. Such as Dhuum/literally the grim reaper showing up and killing people who exploited/got banned in GW1.

Reminds me of that one gw2 incident where a gm made him jump off a bridge or something before getting banned.

Aren't those carriers and Titans worth approximately several thousand dollars?

Avatar | Elephantine Palindrome | Killmail | zKillboard Put your cursor over the ISK value to see.

Huh. Well, I guess that's a good thing. More toys for people to play around with.

i love eve, and i used to play it a lot, some of my best gaming memories are from the first time i ever went ratting in a WH and got stuck because one of our new players accidentally collapsed the exit. the problem i had when i was playing it is that it was just hard to find good tutorials or ways to learn how to get better. that and the fact that (at least before injectors) a new character could literally never surpass an older character. it is just a lot to take in for a new player and the time investment needed is huge

what the fucking shit, i was in the next system over and had literally no idea this was happening.

i always hear cool shit about eve like this and the massive wars and things that just make it sound like fun, but then i look at actual gameplay and the HUD and shit and it just seems massively hard/impossible to get into or learn

Its really not, the game is basically titans online at this point, you can't do anything without someone dropping a capital ship on you which is exactly what drove me away from it. Im by no means a saint in this regard but when you have people dropping super carriers on a single cruiser worth less than 10% of the fuel it cost to jump it, its a bit grating.

You just blew your cover

Unless they've changed the mechanics of it since I played, sounds like you'd be happier in a wormhole.

what did he mean by this? stay away from big sov blocs and staging systems and you wont get caps dropped on you

BEHEAD THOSE WHO INSULT CCP

I love this. Maybe i'll hop back in and make some t3 pirate ships and go blow up bots.

I recall on runescape bots wound up being sent to a Salem witch trial where you could execute them before they got perma banned.

You posted OOC

in star citizen, you get to actually execute cheaters for greater immersion

"worth" In-game currency has a real money value attached to it because you can buy your game subscription and sell/buy it in-game. So if 500 Plex worth $20 is going for 1.5 Billion isk, then 1.5 billion isk is equal to $20. So even though no real money was used to make the modules and ship, since everything has an isk value, then it has a 'real money value' even though it doesn't really

I am always in character.

except nothing changed and the GE was and still is plagued by riots of bots spamming ads for their botting websites