No way - it's a great isk sink. Whoever bought the isk will have it taken off them
Also, Eve is on the Beeb news pretty regularly.
Billions stolen in online robbery
- Thread starter Greebo
- Start date
No way - it's a great isk sink. Whoever bought the isk will have it taken off them
Also, Eve is on the Beeb news pretty regularly.
The guy used the theft to get real money...
He got kicked from the game for converting the K to $AUS.
Inter Stellar Kredit = ISK
100b used to be about $10k didn't it?
Need to get back in game when i find the time
To put this in perspective, the GH-SC corp have recently claimed that they have stolen / scammed (in game) a total of over 1 trillion isk. This article was what got me to start playing Eve in the first place. Strangely in the time I have played (on & off) for 3 years - 45mil SP) I have neither scammed anyone nor been scammed.
Yet
...
Yet
...
Associate
- Joined
- 23 Jul 2006
- Posts
- 944
Imagine if he stole all of it. He stole 8% and sold it for £3k.
the isk was shared across various directors/tellers accounts iirc so he couldn't get it all
To put this in perspective, the GH-SC corp have recently claimed that they have stolen / scammed (in game) a total of over 1 trillion isk. This article was what got me to start playing Eve in the first place. Strangely in the time I have played (on & off) for 3 years - 45mil SP) I have neither scammed anyone nor been scammed.
Yet
That article makes me want to play. The type of world the article paints is cut throat and exciting or as the writer says it is "ultra-capitalist competition and faction-warfare".
Something like this
Revealed with a flourish on the Eve Online forums, the attack by the Guiding Hand Social Club on one of Eve's wealthier corporations, Ubiqua Seraph, was a masterstroke of patience and cunning. Initially, the Guiding Hand, who had previously set themselves up as committed assassins, had been hired to assassinate the CEO of Ubiqua Seraph, and were to be paid handsomely for the task. Their method, though, was not the crude and difficult matter of waging war and killing the mark by martial means alone. Instead, the Guiding Hand infiltrated the Ubiqua Seraph to the highest level, taking 12 months to ingratiate themselves with the corporation and gain access to its extensive resources.
Like the 1930s FBI infiltrators who organized the Communist party meetings in which suspected conspirators were to be arrested, the Guiding Hand's own influence on the CEO of Ubiqua Seraph arranged the time and place of her doom. Not only did they schedule the trap, but the executioner was to be a fellow colleague, a director of her own corporation, and just another member of The Guiding Hand. When the time was right, The Guiding Hand ambushed their quarry in space, claimed the bounty, and pillaged the corporate coffers. What had originally seemed like a large sum was but a fraction of what The Guiding Hand plot would actually claim.
The mark lost her near-priceless battleship, one of a number of limited edition objects that the developers dropped into the game. She also saw the assets of her corporation, which she and her corp-mates had worked for 18 months to accrue, ransacked by Guiding Hand infiltrators. The Guiding Hand members who devastated Ubiqua Seraph took some 30 billion ISK in game money and assets, an amount that, if taken at current eBay exchange rates for EVE's virtual currency to real cash, comes in at a staggering $16,500.
makes it sound brilliant.