Scams are NOT a game and I HAVE PROOF that many many hundred Alpha/Mew players have either quit or Decided NOT to omega upgrade SOLEY ONLY SPECIFICLY due to…
Scams.
So if ccp csm and the playerbase is really worried about Alphas and Noobs.
Not true. Newbros are pikachus just watching and waiting to evolve into what? Some kind of horrible nasty thing. This is no time to get lazy and complacent.
It’s not possible to get rid of scam (culture)
But what is possible are counter measures against these activities to protect unaware and vulnerable players in most what is possible, but inside ccp development nothing has decided to do something about it yet.
They are even being seen as part of the eve online universe.
Sometimes they are even given more opportunities with new game implementations, because they also don’t do minor hotfixes on stuff when it’s seen sometimes new stuff is being heavily exploited by scams.
Stopping giving them opportunities is one thing let alone backtracking scamming in particular.
The scam community is being seen as part of the ‘wonderful eve’ universe, even if it cost you 100k active players you still have something to brag about having an unique game world full of something which is unique in games.
But I agree, the scam culture like this for example is a disease, but you can’t stop it only reduce it.
When I started the PVP with loss and the scamming, intrigue, piracy, etc made me want to sub.
I didn’t want a boring foofy game like all the others. I don’t even scam people myself, but I still like that the game has those aspects to make it interesting.
The difference between some people is this:
Some people cry because they were scammed/ganked/PVPd etc and don’t learn.
Others learn to protect themselves.
Others have it happen to them, and think “Wow how can I learn to do this myself?!”
Personally, I think CCP should add a new skill to the game so that players could sue scam contracts for False Advertisement. I’m talking about contracts that say ‘Full set of +5 Implants’ when there’s actually only a couple of them contained in the contract. Or contracts that say ‘Faction Ship’ when it’s actually a T1 ship, etc.
New skill = Legal Proceedings:
This skill allows a lawyer to sue one previously flagged contract once every 24 hours for False Advertisement per level. Each level trained would allow the ability to sue another previously flagged contract plus add another 10% to the settlement fee. The settlement fee is a percentage of the contract price to be removed from the wallet of the contract owner. If the owner of the flagged contract doesn’t have enough isk to pay the settlement fee, any remaining isk in the contract owners wallet is removed as settlement fee and the contract is then removed from public view.
Level 1 = ability to sue 1 previously flagged contract every 24 hours for 20% of the contract price.
Level 2 = ability to sue 2 previously flagged contracts every 24 hours for 30% of the contract price.
Level 3 = ability to sue 3 previously flagged contracts every 24 hours for 40% of the contract price.
Level 4 = ability to sue 4 previously flagged contracts every 24 hours for 50% of the contract price.
Level 5 = ability to sue 5 previously flagged contracts every 24 hours for 60% of the contract price and special ability.
Special Ability:
Legal Proceedings Level 5 grants the Lawyer legal authority to be Judge, Jury and Executioner allowing him to ‘Flag’ one different contract every 24 hours for False Advertisement. That contract would then need to be ratified or flagged by 2 other level 5 Lawyers to enable Legal Proceedings against the contract, thus enforcing the 3 strike rule.
Joseph ‘Judge’ Dread
*DeMichael Crimson silently embarks on the “long walk” from Mega-City One , a tradition in which a retiring Judge ventures into the “Cursed Earth” wasteland “to bring law to the lawless”.
Like everything but the last part about being able to flag contracts with ratification of 2 other level 5’s.
Very quickly it would devolve into a player and his alts flagging competitors’ valid contracts, or more likely, it would be used as another griefing tool.
The simple answer is that CCP simply ban all scamming. I realize that with bots in Jita, that is problematic. But CCP can easily ban IP’s, or supposedly, ban based on unique PC identifiers.
But CCP will never ban scamming, because management wrongly assumes that subs would go down.
Or, just make information about scamming and what to look out for more visible as information so that new players can be informed about what to look out for. That way, as long as they decide to read the information there should be less of a chance that they fall for scams.
Also if the general consensus is that the majority of the scams are A: in jita and B: are from bots then why are CCP not investigating and banning those accounts if the use of bots is not allowed.