“Perception is reality, and if a substantial part of our community feels like we are biased, whether it is true or not, it is true to them,” Hilmar Petursson, CCP’s chief executive, said in a telephone interview. “Eve Online is not a computer game. It is an emerging nation, and we have to address it like a nation being accused of corruption."
“I envision this council being made up of nine members selected by the players themselves, where you announce your candidacy, and if you win the election, they come here to Iceland, and they can look at every nook and cranny and get to see that we are here to run this company on a professional basis,” said Mr. Petursson, CCP’s chief executive. “They can see that we did not make this game to win it.”
In an interview over an Internet voice chat program, the player known as SirMolle, chief executive of Evolution, one of the player corporations in Band of Brothers, said that his alliance’s goal was to take over every solar system in the game.“Our goal in Eve is to control all of 0.0 space, and when that’s done we’re going to take over the empire one by one and control the empire as well,” he said. (SirMolle would not reveal his real name but said that he is a 40-year-old manager for a heating and cooling company in Sweden.)
dann gibts halt eine Geschichtsstunde für BoB. Jedes größere Imperium, dass hier auf Erden herrschte ist irgendwann in sich Zusammengefallen. Langsam hat bob ja die richtige Größe. müsst man mal ein paar interne Machtkämpfe anfachen bei denen.
regarding your latest article: In a Virtual Universe, the Politics Turn RealI'm sending this on behalf of the ex-player who initially unearthed the T20 scandal. Your article seems a bit one-sided in that it omits a number of wrongs that CCP has done and has not even acknowledged much less attempted to make amends for, and as well the only people you interviewed "SirMolle", "blacklight", were all part of the entity that was benefitting from the corruption. You didn't interview anyone specifically from "the other side".First of all was the banning of the player who uncovered the corruption. The name he took that most people know him by is "kugutsumen", and he played the part of an "information broker" in EVE. He would receive ingame intel from spys and informants, access to forums, and using his own ingame spy characters, he would obtain secrets and either sell them for profit or post them on his website(www.kugutsumen.com) for all the world to see. He always was a sort of controversial character but he was careful to remain within the limits of the EULA, because he knew all his accounts were already closely watched.When he was handed a copy of the Band of Brothers forum database, upon inspection of forum posts and so forth, he discovered the rather blatant developer corruption. At the time, developers player identities were supposed to be kept secret and the developer in question actually registered on those forums with his @CCP e-mail address. Upon finding this, kugutsumen posted this on his website and was ordered to shut down his website by CCP. He complied, removing public access, but a day or so later all of his accounts were banned. Later investigation proved that the allegations were true, but kugutsumen and all of his accounts remained banned under a catchall phrase in the EULA basically meaning "you didn't do anything specifically wrong but we don't like you, so we're going to ban you". Funny enough, even mentioning his name ingame in public channels has gotten people banned.After this came out, for a while CCP tried everything it could to censor what had happened and remove any reference of kugutsumen or corruption from it's own pages after resolving the issue. This isn't the first time some questionable things have happened, but this is the first time that there has been a website people could air their complaints without being censored. In the past if there was some sort of complaint, usually CCP would try to erase it from existance.Most of these past issues are recorded somewhere on kugutsumen's website, but it takes a lot of digging to find them, and you also have to sort through a lot of speculative crap posted by people who don't know what they are talking about. to get you started, search for "LV mothership event", "GM spawned items"most of the issues seem to have been resolved, except the whistleblower who started it all is still banned.
