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Report ISK Spammer

I see this button in my right click menu, and I wonder, how does this work? Does it work? Can I use it on this annoying person asking for money to replace his ship?

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rokera

"ISK Spammer" in this context has a very specific meaning. As I understand it, this is intended to be used against so-called "Real-Money Traders," that is people selling ISK via those suspicious third-party websites.

It's the equivalent of gold farming in WoW or other such MMOs, and it is absolutely forbidden. If you are caught (and you will very likely be caught -- CCP takes this stuff seriously) the money will be removed from your wallet -- usually leaving you with a negative balance -- and further infractions will potentially get you banned. The ONLY sanctioned way to buy ISK is via PLEX or GTCs. Because they take this so seriously, the reports that come in via this option are investigated for these sort of transactions.

So, that said, you should ONLY use the "Report ISK Spammer" option on people who are actually advertising ISK-for-$$$. I vaguely remember hearing rumors when it was first introduced that using it for non-ISK-spammers would get you a sternly-worded warning, but I don't know if that's true or not. What I do know is, if it really bothers you, you're better off using the "Block" option on that beggar. It will have the same effect on you, and will make less unnecessary work for the GMs.

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harlock [ Editor ]

Rokera is perfectly correct. To add to the topic of isk sellers (aka gold farmers), keep in mind that :

  • Buying from those people is making them stay in business
  • Those people are most often chinese people living in terrible conditions
  • Most gold farmers are using hacks and bots to make their isk : ripping off your account, macro mining, autoplay bots, and so on...

Gold farming is taking a toll on your gameplay because they get the game out of balance by creating wealth that shouldn't exist. 24/7 players are not CCP's target, and the game was balanced thinking of normal players.

See this documentary about them, see how they live : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho5Yxe6UVv4 (I think it's the correct one, there are several in youtube so I ain't sure).

If you "buy" isk, use the PLEX system, and nothing else ! Because it's sanctionned by CCP and the game is balanced around it ;)

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kazz
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True but you can petition someone if you believe they are bot-mining. The stop spammer button was meant a a quick way to shut-up spammers in chat channels (they are instantly muted) and remove all of their chat from the channel.

darinas
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Another thing to note is that the ISK spammers will sell you the ISK, but to get it you jump through some hoops which will add a keylogger to your PC. This in turn gives them your eve account(s) password and allows them to clean out your account. Then CCP also remove the ISK you bought and the items you bought with it when they catch you.

werner lucifer
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Hm. A little side-not on the “the game out of balance by creating wealth that shouldn’t exist”. The current game is balanced around bot-miners (aka wealth creators), creating a lower price on minerals. A more viable theory is that CCP doesn’t like ISK-sellers because it makes them loose profit destroying there business model. You don’t see a report bot-miner button.

harlock
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Werner > the game balanced itself with lower prices, but it’s due to the macro mining people that made prices go down.

Compare a regular player with one or two accounts and a macro miner fully fitted for the job. What’s the input in terms of mineral for a random guy occasionaly mining ?

How much can pull a macro miner ?

Those guys are just making all of us poor by killing the market. I read a very interresting article regarding botting/gold farmers and wow, the guy showed how low prices where in fact BAD for everybody.

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