Posted - 2010.04.23 19:49:00 - [1]

 

Edited by: Volucer S on 23/04/2010 20:01:22
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Greetings, dear EVE Online players and developers!

We would like to create a topic about mysterious and very successful endeavors performed by a player named The Monkeysphere and a couple of his alts in Eve Online. Those events eventually lead to a public outcry and investigation on the most polular Russian EVE community forum at www.eve-ru.com We would also like to raise an issue about a general use of exploits and tampering with client side of the game.

To CCP staff:

With our utmost respect for the developers, we ask you to take a note, that in the first three days of that topic appearing on Russian EVE forum, the thread got over 1000 replies. At the moment that thread got over 2000 replies and the entire Russian EVE community is in an uproar.

The alleged exploiter, The Monkeysphere, registered and posted on the Russian forums (http://forum.eve-ru.com/index.php?showuser=25746), claiming that he was doing it to combat macrobot users. However, it seems that lately he got tired of killing macrobots and started to kill regular players, who brought it up to the Russian Eve Community. Our preliminary figures state that The Monkeysphere was petitioned over 30 times, however, GMs claimed that "their logs showed nothing."

We are not making any conclusions about The Monkeysphere allegedly using exploits, the only one who can confirm or deny that is the CCP team.
Nevertheless, we can say for sure that there definitely is an issue, and it should be resolved.

Unfortunately, the situation got more complicated. From the very start of the public outcry, Monkeysphere immediately ceazed his "pvp" activity, which raises some additional suspicions about the methods he was using.

Those who may doubt that The Monkeysphere is unusually successful at ganking ratting ships - just take a look at his killboard. According to the figures, he was the most accomplished ganker in EVE during the last year. Nobody in the entire game can compare to him in the number of ratting battleships destroyed during that time. http://eve-kill.net/?a=pilot_detail&pl...&view=kills

Described below are several signature characteristics of the methods that he uses:
Appearance in local channel:

Lately, we received a multitude of different reports written by players from various corporations and alliances about an unusual gang, which moves through 0.0 sec. Most of the reports describe very similar occurrences, which could be summed up into a report about The Monkeysphere abuse:

1) Victim didn’t see anybody in local chat before he was scrambled by Arazu (Goose Hypocrisy)
It looks like this. When the player detects neutral in local chat – he immediately warps to POS. But by this moment he discovers , that Arazu is already near, scrambling him. It takes just 10 seconds (showing up of neutral in local, warp to POS, detection that Arazu is already nearby)!

2) In most cases, when the victim was sure, that something is going wrong – there was a distance to nearest gates that, Arazu takes at least 1 minute to reach.
For regular Arazu it takes approximately 45 seconds to travel 1 AU (acceleration, acceleration in warp, braking in warp). But there where cases, when victims claimed that there were over 40 AU to the nearest gate. Even for warpspeed rigged Arazu it take 50-55 seconds to travel this distance. And now the most important! It requires to guess where the victim is from the very first time to remain concealed for 50-55 seconds and tackle the ship !
The third paragraph is about it.