I Knew I Forgot Something

Periodically I change the force-field password on my Towers and I did this just the other day I notified the people I knew used my towers to idle in when in space.

Except I missed one person and a couple of days later I received an evemail from my CEO with a link to a kill mail.

Ah Fudge

It was only a couple of hundred million ISK and I had totally forgotten this person friend was using it as a staging post as he ratted up his security status.

I could blame my memory, lack of notification from the pilot that he still used this tower but that's not right. I fucked up and changed the password without checking with everyone whom I knew had used the tower.

Restitution

I'm sure we'll laugh about this in a week or two but right now I'm embarrassed about this screw up on my part.

I haven't spoken to the person, I think time-zones are very much against us at the moment, but I have already purchased a new ship and fittings and it should be in his hands in the next 24 hours.

Faster than a speeding bullet...

Whilst waiting for the launcher to update my game I was reading the r/EVE sub-Reddit when I spotted this:

Oh dear, I use multiple clients so I'd better have a look and see if this could be a "thing".

So I login my main, no problem. I fire up a second client, no problems so far, it appears and I enter my login details. Then this appears:

Damn. That isn't good.

Reading further comments in the Reddit thread there was much mirth, laughing, finger pointing (they want us to only have one character), serious fraud possibility [tinfoilhat] the power of 2 promotion would be negated and thus they could be liable to fraud [/tinfoilhat].

Amongst the trolls there was a good fellow though and he pointed out a temporary fix:

It did indeed work but ....

as this was all going on CCP have released a new patch that fixes the issue, which it does, no word from CCP on this issue (that I can see) and the Reddit thread is CCP Falcon empty at this time (it is nearly lunch after all :)).

Tin Foil Hat

This should be a major embarrassment to CCP. Testing has missed something as such basic functionality as multiple clients before it was released. Unless of course this was done on purpose to gauge response from the community or for some other nefarious reason?

Who knows.

Caught by the Rozzers

For those unaware of the meaning, Rozzers is a slang term to describe the police. Its has a comical nature to it.

It was a quiet day

I was moving goods from Amarr to my home base, nothing major just the culmination of buy orders from the last few weeks as well as random odds and sods I'd accumulated.

I jumped from Amarr into Ashab when I got a notification:

and a popup box appeared telling me that I had to choose Yes or No and it was possible my ship would be destroyed. Being in a freighter I did not want this to happen so I read the box and decided that something I was carrying was at fault and I should allow confiscation.

I clicked Yes, received a wallet flashing indicator and a new notification:

Standard Exile Boosters were the cause. I don't remember them being in my hanger but they were and I have been caught.

It's a Fair Cop

Bugger.

A 327, 680 ISK fine and confiscation of the goods. It could have been worse and I could have lost a 1.4 billion ISK ship. I should have checked the cargo before I loaded it and I do remember a popup about "contraband" but I auto-piloted through that and click Yes to.

I think I'm going to have to have words with Scotty...

Oops, I accidently the whole database

I read a fair few EVE Online blogs, some good, some great, some not good or great.

 

One of the blogs I read is The Abysmal Aussie, it was a well written blog and the fact the author was Australian time-zone like myself was a key reason I started reading it. That said over time I enjoyed the blog because it covered a nice range of topics and Jac's writing was both clear and interesting.

 

I'd point you to the blog and say have a read except, oops Jac accidently deleted all his content during a hosting change.

 

 

I did have a laugh reading that and whilst what was written has been lost I'm sure there is more content coming in the future that will be worth your visiting his site.