{"id":13044,"date":"2018-02-16T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/314741"},"modified":"2018-02-16T23:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T23:30:00","slug":"eve-online-to-permanently-ban-repeat-offenders-using-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/16\/eve-online-to-permanently-ban-repeat-offenders-using-bots\/","title":{"rendered":"EVE Online to permanently ban repeat offenders using bots"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a blog posted earlier this week,<\/a> EVE Online<\/em> developers announced that players who create automated bots will be banned for three days and\u00a0removed from the game permanently if they are repeat offenders.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While CCP isn’t taking legal action against players who create automated bots\u00a0it could be a possibility in the future,\u00a0as a\u00a0court recently ruled in favor of Twitch<\/a> cracking down on illegal bot makers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After players expressed frustration over the increased number of botters\u00a0in EVE Online<\/em>, CCP was prompted to implement stricter\u00a0punishments.<\/p>\n

“A little over\u00a01800\u00a0accounts were banned for botting\/automation in January,” the blog states.<\/a>\u00a0“About one third of the affected accounts received permanent bans as repeat offenders, while the rest was temporarily banned on first offense.”<\/p>\n

Starting March 1st, players caught on a first botting offense will be temporarily banned from EVE Online<\/em> for three days as opposed to the current thirty days. A second offense will result in a permanent ban from the game.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lead community developer Sveinn\u00a0Kjarval went into more detail\u00a0about the update in the comments of the\u00a0blog post. “We used to have more strikes in the past but they were reduced down to two which is plenty enough,” he writes.<\/a> “Our goal isn\u2019t to punish but to end the behavior that breaks the rules for the sake of the game.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a blog posted earlier this week, EVE Online developers announced that players who create automated bots will be banned for three days and\u00a0removed from the game permanently if they are repeat offenders.\u00a0 While CCP isn’t taking legal action against players who create automated bots\u00a0it could be a possibility in the future,\u00a0as a\u00a0court recently ruled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}