| EVE is one of the hardest MMOs to cheat at, | | | | and compare them to prior patches and files |
| and attempting EVE Online cheats is a | | | | used in the prior installation. The aim of |
| surefire way to get your account shut down | | | | this EVE Online cheat is to find malformed |
| and your characters nuked. There are two | | | | tables, and little exploits that can be had. |
| primary methods of doing EVE Online cheats. | | | | When CCP, the company that runs EVE Online, |
| The first is buying ISK (the in game | | | | detects this, they usually issue new patches |
| currency) offline and having it transferred | | | | within 24 hours; interestingly enough, they |
| to your account. However, CCP cracks down on | | | | don't actually try to go after people who do |
| this hard; they track the accounts of known | | | | this; the interior logic at CCP is that |
| ISK sellers (and look for "mining bot" | | | | people who will take the effort to do this |
| operations that these people use to generate | | | | are telling them where things have slipped |
| the currency that they sell) and then | | | | through quality assurance. |
| penalize the players who buy the ISKs by | | | | |
| rescinding the transferred money and then | | | | While not exactly an EVE Online cheat, there |
| hitting them with punitive in game fines - | | | | are also 'bot programs that will run your |
| this can result in an account balance that's | | | | account for you. Some, like EVEMon, are |
| negative - and negative by a couple of | | | | tacitly approved. Others are programs that |
| million to a couple hundred million ISK. | | | | will automate mining and the like. Because |
| | | | the sort of actions that a macro or 'bot can |
| That may not sound quite so bad, but consider | | | | do have very different play patterns than a |
| - to get an agent mission in EVE, you have to | | | | human being playing the game, the trick to |
| pay a small fee to the agent. If your | | | | using EVE Online cheats of this nature is to |
| balance is deeply in the negative, you won't | | | | be subtle about it. CCP GMs can and does |
| be able to. The only way you'll get out of | | | | nuke accounts for this as a violation of the |
| the hole is spending a lot of time floating | | | | Terms of Service. |
| in space killing pirates, or asking your | | | | |
| friends to bail you out. Again, this is all | | | | So, if you're going to attempt any of these |
| part of the penalty for being caught doing | | | | EVE Online cheats, our advice is to |
| EVE Online cheats. | | | | reconsider it. You play EVE for fun, and for |
| | | | the experience of the game. If you're |
| In extreme cases, the GMs will close down the | | | | cheating just to get to the "top of the |
| accounts of people who are repeat offenders | | | | heap", you're depriving yourself of the |
| at this. | | | | experience that you're paying a monthly |
| | | | subscription fee for - and you won't enjoy |
| The more technically savvy EVE Online cheat | | | | your character's capabilities for having |
| will merit you an auto-ban; it involves using | | | | gotten them this way anyway. |
| database analysis tools to analyze patches, | | | | |