I am totally evil for finding the scams in EVE Online funny. Back when I 'lived' in Declan next to Goonswarm space, I was befriended by Vile Rat. Goons are known for their rather loose definitions of 'friends' and 'allies' as people not to be shot and killed. Goon policy actually was at the time 'Shoot them and tell VR' if the target was neutral or friendly. Certain players not in Goons could be individually marked as nontarget, I have a sneaking suspicion this was what happened with me because I could apparently wander with impunity around Goons and I never ended up dead. With VR gone I wouldn't try some of the insane crap I did now [I flew a ship and cargo worth around $500US in real world money 35 jumps through Goonspace with nothing more than a newbie frigate dual boxed in. Think of it as the WW2 Queen Mary loaded with half the goodies from the Metropolitan Museum being sailed through the north Atlantic with a rowboat escort at the height of the Wolf Pack.]
In EVE, anything you can think of scamwise, you can try. People have set up 'investment banks' and run legit for a fair amount of time, then scarpered off with the resources. People routinely sell 'original' unlimited blueprints that are limited run copies, ships that purport to be fitted with tech 2 stuff that has vendor trash equipped, all sorts of stuff. People run 'casinos' where you and over millions of ISK [in game cash] and play poker or number guessing games - some casinos are legit, most are scams. [I know a pilot who regularly makes hundreds of millions of ISK playing poker at a particular legit site] And yes, there are Nigerian EVE scammers as well
If EVE is representative of the future of Mankind let loose in the universe, we should be very scared
In EVE, anything you can think of scamwise, you can try. People have set up 'investment banks' and run legit for a fair amount of time, then scarpered off with the resources. People routinely sell 'original' unlimited blueprints that are limited run copies, ships that purport to be fitted with tech 2 stuff that has vendor trash equipped, all sorts of stuff. People run 'casinos' where you and over millions of ISK [in game cash] and play poker or number guessing games - some casinos are legit, most are scams. [I know a pilot who regularly makes hundreds of millions of ISK playing poker at a particular legit site] And yes, there are Nigerian EVE scammers as well
If EVE is representative of the future of Mankind let loose in the universe, we should be very scared
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