[2019] Devs Play EVE - CCP policy change discussion

Please us this thread to discuss the CCP policy change announced in this dev blog.

You can’t create a character with “CCP” in front of the name and if you try to impersonate a CCPer you’ll be in contravention of section 8 of the Terms of Service.

This change only applies to the requirement of CCP to maintain their anonymity and the internal security policies that were implemented in wake of that event still remain in place.

A fix should be coming in the next release we can get it into!

The backgrounds of CCPers who were active EVE players prior to joining the company is super diverse. Pretty much every major alliance and playstyle is represented at CCP in some way.

Generally, we’re playing on our own characters, just like everyone else, and skilling up the normal ways (and if we want skill injectors we buy them with our own money.)

We do have more flexibility for gameplay conducted to serve a business purpose, but (as has already been the case with this kind of thing) our Internal Affairs department will be involved from the beginning to make sure we don’t distort the game world when doing so.

I’ve never known a single CCPer who cared much about in-game politics, regardless of where their characters were.

Nope. Not allowed. And not necessary to achieve the benefits of playing.

Don’t get the point of the first one. Are you concerned that CSM and developers might communicate?

As for the second, I think that’s a somewhat bizarre restriction. In particular, I think (from my own experience) that participating in tournaments would be a unique learning opportunity for developers that would expose them to subtle gameplay that doesn’t exist anywhere else in the game.

• Note that that doesn’t mean flying in the tournament, but even participating in the preparation, etc. would be valuable. I agree that developers shouldn’t be collecting prizes from CCP, for example.

Much of the point was to deal with the fact that the strict anonymity requirements kind of sucked the air out of Eve gameplay for the developers who played the game under the prior rules. The consequences for being outed accidentally were the kind of thing that would be highly disruptive to gameplay.

Today, under the new rules, I can have confidence that my character’s been vetted to go public and I don’t have to tell a soul, but if someone finds out somehow, it’ll be no problem.

These changes are only notable in the Eve community because of the history regarding these rules and how they came to be in the first place. Twelve years ago CCP was a young company lacking internal controls and it caused serious problems that some people today still remember vividly. This is just part of the process of moving on from that.

Beyond that, I agree, it’s not really a big deal.

It’s absolutely, positively forbidden to use our developer access in any way remotely like that.