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Massive Theft from Circle of Two Lights Up the EVE Sky - EVE Online News
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Massive Theft from Circle of Two Lights Up the EVE Sky - EVE Online News
The Judge, once an integral part of one of EVE Online's biggest alliances (Circle of Two), has just perpetrated what many believe is the largest theft in the game's history. The Judge has since joined The Imperium alliance and dragged along about 1.5 trillion ISK as well as a
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I played solo and my toon has over a billion ISK.
~~ postlarval ~~
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This person once when he found out that someone at an Eve event was suicidal he and the goons conspired to egg that person on. His perma ban was lifted.
This was a killing blow.
Meh, it has had a good life. Probably better to slowly sink this way than put themselves in a NGE situation. As someone who never could get into EVE, i assumed this is what kept the people still around playing.
Happenings like this usually result in a player influx, so I suspect CCP are quite contend with the situation.
No it doesn't. Big wars where ships go boom creats an influx. And for the record the majority of the last mad influx has left.
Back to the current drama....
someone posted this on the Eve forums.
"I have had a family member commit suicide. I have struggled with depression my entire life. I don’t think half of you understand how hard it is to do simple things when you are extremely depressed. Just to get out of bed, to brush your teeth, to clean up the damn house. Depression that can lead to suicide is a very real thing in the gaming world. CCP I am absolutely ashamed of the way you handled Mittani back in the day".
someone else responded.....
Was it your child?
I know how you feel. I had a pet commit suicide, once. It was a goldfish. He ate himself to death. I think he had an eating disorder.This is Eve.
This is why people join.
At market value, we would be talking around 30,000$ USD.
And with that in mind you need to think long and hard about how truthful the first post where. Not saying it was not, but do not assume that it was. The meta in eve is staggering.
Poster number two obviously had reached the conclusion that the first poster had ulterior motives for his post and thus deflated it.
If he was wrong, you, that is a horrible answer. If he was right on the money, that is a perfect answer.
That is EVE.
I mean there must surely be a temptation at all of the biggest corps to replicate this since not only is there a massive financial incentive but the infamy that goes along with being the person who stole the most. Plus it creates paranoia with people thinking i'd better get in first before someone else does since its pretty inevitable that its eventually going to happen.
That said, there is no way in HELL I would ever think about playing this trainwreck of a "video game"
People do leave because of this nonsense.
~~ postlarval ~~
There are players in EVE who wield trillions of ISK all by themselves, likely this alliance contains some.
The bigger loss is their leader getting perma banned as most of these big organizations thrive due to the cult of personality around their often eccentric leaders.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
Thing is, running a corp or worse an alliance is a big effort, so to ease the burden power is often shared with trusted members and this the result.
A few years ago I flew over a year with a trusted officer in our corp who had complete access to our shared assets.
One day he decided our alliance wronged him somehow and he took it on our corp for some reason and stole everyones ships and the corp wallet.
He tried to make some weird excuses about how the corp leader was to blame, but when pressed to give back players personal ships he declined.
We stalked him for a bit until he sold his accounts and CCP confirmed the characters were owned by a different player. (As we were still stalking until then)
No idea what possesses people to betray others, assets weren't worth that much (most of my ships were stored in a private POS) and I joined with other long time players to buy ships for those in corp who lost most of theirs.
Life goes on, most of us still kept playing as the drama is what EVE is all about.
I'd consider going back but just haven't found anything new worth returning for.
Heck, maybe I should give corporate espionage a go.
Kidding...don't have it in me.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
Mate i've played plenty of hardcore pvp games where you lose everything like Darkfall, Mortal Online, ARK etc and i'm fine with it but imo having 1 person with so much power and incentive just leads to stuff like this.
I call it bad design but it works for EVE (i guess) so as long as it keeps those crazies in there and playing i've totally fine with it.