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