Given this, it's my belief that CCP's intentions regarding The New Order haven't changed. Perhaps there was even an attempt to blur all this by including loyalanon's long-time EVE-pal 412nv Yaken in the ban-splat?. So, stumped by CODE.'s reaction, they decided to remove the head, thereby hoping to incapacitate the body. There was and is no way for devs to prevent mass freighter-ganking without showing their hand. Loyalanon responded to the move by CCP in typically 'adapt or die' fashion - by simply coralling more cats to the cause. I know the buff was applied to all ships, but I do believe that was a smoke screen, applied to disguise its true intention. Isn't this much more likely to be the result of a miscalculation by CCP?įor my money, the failure of the recent freighter EHP buff to end CODE.'s dominance of the Trade Hub pipes is a much more likely candidate.
If it is true, then these code agents got caught red handed and no amount of spin that Jimmy Boy 315, the father of the botnet, can do to change these facts. They are targeting autopiloters and botters in the name of championing the delusion of James 315 and his so called code, but now we find out they are botters themselves. The fact that they see in their logs 10 accounts owned by one person with correlated input that no human can manage, that's evidence enough that CCP can use as justification to permanently ban all 10 accounts.Īnd now we see CODEdot laid to bare for all to see.
It won't matter if they detect the automation software or not. With CCP's cash flow issues, they are not going to ban someone with 10 accounts unless they are doing something wrong. If Loyalamoron was doing input automation, then the ban is justly deserved. Doing it manually with a mouse takes time. Hit one button and all 10 accounts register the same input within milliseconds of each other. If he and others were multi-boxing with input automation, CCP can easily see that in the logs. 'Cache scraping is illegal when you use it for cheating' is not enough.Here's the issue from a developer's standpoint. Is cache scraping to feed a manufacturing program with up to date prices illegal? Is cache scraping to find out whenever someone beats your order illegal? Is cache scraping to reseach the eve market generally illegal? Is cache scraping to find the best trade routes illegal? Is cache scraping to better manage you order portfolio illegal? Is cache scraping to upload to Eve Market Relay or Eve Central illegal? It allows them to deal with cheats and bots when necessary without being hamstrung to the point they have to disallow software that is genuinely handy. Until Crest is fully functional this is actually the smartest way to handle things. If you aren't cheating or botting with your cache scraping software they aren't going to ban you, but if the software is modified so as to cross that line they reserve the right to come after you at any time.
This gives them the flexibility to deal with software designed to circumvent the game rules without providing loop holes in their enforcement policy that could be exploited. If you are using cache scraping purely for informational or utility purposes (meaning not to bot or otherwise cheat) then they excercise their right to NOT bust you for it. and if you use cache scraping for botting purposes they reserve the right to shut you down for it. This clarification closes a loop hole and gives CCP another tool to use against bots and cheats of various types.
Trust me, we have no interest in banning people unless they are doing something that hurts the game. "Is this in violation of the EULA" and "Will I get banned for this" are two completely different questions. CCP has made an effort to separate botters from other people who violate the EULA, which is more than you can expect from most companies. But they haven't, because they value these things in the community and don't consider you a bad person. They could just as easily take a blanket approach to the TOS and EULA and enforce it by the letter, which wouldn't just ban everybody using EVEMON but also everybody who's ever used Triexporter to play around with EVE's 3D models, textures, or fonts. What they can do is opt to enforce or not enforce the clauses on a case-by-case basis, which CCP's security staff does. The EULA is written by lawyers to protect the company, and random members of staff can't alter its clauses. The EULA also makes it clear that CCP can ban you for whatever reasons they feel like, should it come to that.Ī dev saying that something is okay or another dev saying something should be okay to do doesn't actually void the agreement you've accepted which states that doing so is not okay. Why? Because they are written to allow the first party to cover all eventualities and do whatever they want with you. The nearest we have had previously was that cache scraping was legal.Īll EULAs are vague, on purpose. The EULA has always been completely vague.