Every day on every account. Everyone can do it. 
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I did actually update my Condor some time later…180 DPS or so. Way more than the noob 25 DPS or so. But generally these days I do most PvE and ratting stuff in my 700 DPS laser Gnosis.
Nice, i haven’t gotten more than 40ish dps out of it, probably because my missile skills were trash, and i didn’t use any damage modules
This is all off topic, take it somewhere else you two or the thread will be locked. Reminder that this thread is about chat channels being ruined with referral spam. Cheers.
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Agree these links should not be allowed in public chats
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I have to agree - this is a problem that needs addressing.
Personally I’m blocking the spammers right out the gate but they appear to be stifling communication in the newbie NPC corp I’m in and that simply can’t be a constructive or positive thing.
Regards,
Larry
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ez solution. Just remove corp chat from all NPC corporations. the Noobs have rookie and help channels which are moderated.
no. stop trolling.
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CCP should remove the corp channel from NPC corps (fake corps), that way the problem is solved.
I’m on my phone at the moment and can’t see if CCP has responded to this thread. It’s obvious that most players don’t like this type of spam.
Back when they offered PLEX if someone accepted your “Buddy Invite”, it was much better. People generally sold the PLEX or used it for game time and then shared a portion of the ISK with the newbie who upgraded off the Invite. It gave a good incentive for people to put in the legwork to get people to use the Invite, and the free SP + ISK was a great way to start people off who stuck around longer than the typical newbie.
Then CCP changed the system and I honestly barely ever hear anything about the new “referral links”.
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CCP. This is what new players see, It looks like goldselling in some godforsaken Chinese grindfest MMO. Is this how you want your game to look? Do something.
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You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet.
This free week of Omega will turn the next two weeks in NPC corp chat into Jita chat on steroids.
Mr Epeen
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Saying this as someone who was in CAS for way longer than I probably should have because they actually had an active community back in the day…
I’d honestly just remove rookie corp chat. If CAS corp chat is like that then the other 11 are guaranteed to be the same. There’s official help channels people can join so there’s no real purpose for the corp chat beyond these people just spamming referral links.
If they can’t remove it because of spaghetti code or whatever then restricting alpha accounts’ ability to post links would be the next best thing.
(obviously that won’t do anything this week but still lol)
and now that I think about it, it’s bad enough that they’re spamming referral links, but they also one of those people that spell lose as “loose.” I swear there’s nothing that triggers me as easily as that lmao
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I’m so used to the lose/loose mix up that it looks funny to me when they actually use them properly.
What gets me going is when I hear someone pronounce nuclear as new-q-lur.
Mr Epeen
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I don’t know why people bother spamming the link anymore, you don’t even get a PLEX/gametime when people subscribe anymore.
I wouldn’t even call NPC corp chats a “social channel.” Even before this was a huge problem, CAS had the only really active corp chat, and were by far the exception rather than the rule. An ISD moderated help channel will always be superior to an NPC corp chat when it comes to actually helping new players. I’ve always thought local to be a better facilitator for spontaneous conversation anyways. Even if most people don’t use it for that, the potential is there and I encourage more people to strike stuff up in local.
I’m usually not for removing features that are just there and aren’t causing any harm, but this is clearly harmful to the new player experience. It looks very much like the the gold spammers from other MMOs.
There could also be legitimate reasons to post a referral link to someone, like in the instance where someone actually gets recruited to the game by their friend. Sure, they could just send the link over Discord or whatever other chat app, but it would be much more convenient to do that over Eve itself… Of course, you then get in to the weeds of how exactly you discern between a spammer and someone doing it legitimately. You can just ban the spammers on an individual basis, but it’ll be like whack-a-mole. They’ll just keep popping up.
I’ve had alts in Pator Tech School recently and when it’s not overrun with referral link spammers, it’s just dead. It’s really not a good first impression. I think there should be more impetus to get new players in to either another player corp, or at least their own corp where NPC corp taxes don’t hamper their income. Treating NPC corps like a “holding area” inbetween being in a player run corp, whether it would be someone else’s or their own, is better in the long run.
Disagree, all the rookie corps were active, (FNA in particular was extremely active) just not the other npc corps you’d get shunted off to after you joined and left a player corp.
No one is claiming links should be banned entirely, just in the rookie corps. Though, personally I do like Aisha’s filter idea best. The filter just need to be set to atomically filter links, and you’ll see people stop doing it immediately.
It’s dead because of the spam. It wouldn’t be if the channels were free of it. I’ve heard some rumblings that ccp is thinking about dropping all the new players into a single rookie corp (probably air) sometime in the future. That would also make rookie chat a bit more lively (perhaps a bit too much.)
All rookies are already dumped into Rookie Chat, which is occasionally moderated (I guess more so in EU and US TZ than in AU TZ). I would ask CCP to make sure there is active moderation at all times, but especially if they’re not taking further measures to fight the spam.
Also, next to “Report ISK spammer” we need another right-click report button for reporting referral link spammers and other rule breakers. Ain’t nobody got time for using F12 or something else with more steps to report these annoyances.
People will just end up ignoring the channels that get spammed.
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Sweet, now we’re getting them in militia chat too. Less of an issue as the Rookie channels, but still annoying.