The reaction from EVE players was one of widespread condemnation of Cally’s actions, but served to highlight one of the major shortcomings of online worlds in that there is no effective police for non-aggressive actions such as Cally’s. The game just isn’t set up for dealing with the political and financial machinations that EVE allows players to be part of… but then, that’s why so many people play it and why players such as Rast can get away with it.
The game
is set-up to deal with these issues, its just that many people don't like how its dealt with. Callys stunt was superb - there is no other way of putting it. He planned well, worked hard and it paid off. Fair play to the guy.
Originally Posted by Lucio
As such a starting player has next to no chance to get anywhere and only those people who'se names are well known enough to a few, can actually get on and play the game.
As a new player to EvE (only a few months) I have to disagree with this. I'm doing fine - have over 100million in my wallet, a couple of battleships, battlecruisers a bunch of other smaller ships. Probably a minimum of around 50million+ in assets if I counted it all up.
EvE rewards being cautious, but to imply that you have no chance to get anywhere is wrong IMO.
Originally Posted by Lucio
Personally, I gave up on the game after loosing pretty much my entire 3 years worth of assets. Any game where you can loose your entire "lifes" work over one tiny tiny mistake, or the act of another vindictive 12 year old just isn't worth playing....
If you lost 3 years of assets, I have to ask - what did you do wrong? What was this "tiny tiny mistake" ?
The games developers will reimburse for hacked accounts, so I am assuming it was done via legal game mechanics such as fraud. If this is the case, why did
anyone have access to your
entire 3 years worth of assets?
Its the number 1 rules of EvE: Don't let other people access what you can't afford to lose. Even as a newbie I've learnt that