Stupidity!!

[Mangala]

http://ad0pt.evekb.co.uk/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=1539031

lost 74 plexs.

OUCH!

http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1365551

[Kathras]

Holy shitfire, batman.  I would have loved to hear the rage just after that kill.

[Macrune]

nice. over 1200 dollars gone just like that.
Some people have more money than sense. 

[Mangala]

The comments there just keep getting better and better  :lol:

Quoting for posterity and bolding the extra lulz.

EX River: 2010-08-08 10:50:59

As if our alliance was not made fun of enough, this happens.

WTB new alliance leader.

ChYph3r: 2010-08-08 11:01:34

Stop making comments right now! It is being petitioned and when it is reversed I will see to it all kill boards have this exploit removed. The threads featuring this kill are also being petitioned. So everyone relax and chill out.

ChYph3r: 2010-08-08 11:05:22

Also if you don't chill I will see to it personally you are removed from monkey space never to be allowed back. The guy was unlucky and that in combination with 0rphanage exploiting lag in Kits this happened. So back off. Everyone is allowed to make a mistake.

[Mangala]

http://www.smalliance.com/killboards/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=2847

Their KB comments suggest is was alliance moneys that invested....

[Mangala]

http://www.smalliance.com/killboards/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=2847

Their KB comments suggest is was alliance moneys that invested....

Caught before they got deleted:

Someone delete these fucking comments already ffs! And store QQing all over the rammed place and get back to farming you pathetic fucks! We are The Monkey Alliance! This incident will not stop us. We got a few more days before the SOV bill is due so we need a lot of ISK or the shit is going to hit the fan. You can donate if you like and I am setting up a bonds system so you will get you ISK back.

[Mangala]

Oh and for the tinfoilers out there who presume that ccp have rigged it so plex wont ever drop:

http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=7118520

Plex do - as does anything - its just determined by randomness

[Caradir]

Oh and for the tinfoilers out there who presume that ccp have rigged it so plex wont ever drop:

http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=7118520

Plex do - as does anything - its just determined by randomness

anyone who gets killed in hi-sec in a cov-op by a BS deserves to lose everything, you must be a retard for that to happen.

you are being targetted

*beep*beep*beep*

yawn, maybe i should cloak

*beep*beep*beep*

do you know what i dont think i will, maybe ill just align and warp.

*beep*beep*beep*

nah ill just sit here for the 30 secs it takes for him to target me

*beep*beep*beep*   BOOM

[Mangala]

Its on massively:

Like many MMOs, EVE Online  has a problem with players buying ISK from shady websites to short-cut the ISK-making process. On the other end of the spectrum, many players are great at making ISK but unable to afford the monthly subscription. To kill two birds with one stone, CCP created PLEX. Sixty-day game time codes purchased for cash can be converted into two 30-day Pilots License Extensions, which become items in the game. The PLEX can then be traded to other EVE  players for ISK, creating a legitimate way to buy ISK without fear of being hit by the ban-hammer. Players with some ISK to spare can buy PLEX from the market and redeem them for game time, essentially playing for free. It's an innovative system, and until recently it was a completely safe market to deal in.

Last month, CCP announced changes to allow PLEX to be transported in a ship's cargo. This meant that if a ship was transporting pilot's licenses when it was destroyed, the killers could literally find game time codes in amongst the loot. Last night, players from Method Of Destruction corporation became the first to prove just how dangerous it can be to transport PLEX in a ship's cargo hold. After scanning the cargo of a lone Kestrel in Jita, "slickdog" and "Viktor Vegas" discovered that the ship was carrying a whopping 74 PLEX. Unfortunately for the trigger-happy duo, all 74 were destroyed when they blew the ship up.

To verify that the kill wasn't a hoax, one of the pilots provided the killboard website with his EVE API key. This gives direct access to parts of the player's private data, including their recent kills, straight from CCP's own database servers. At current prices, the 74 PLEX destroyed would have sold for a total of over 22 billion ISK, or they could have fueled an EVE subscription for six years and two months. The huge cache of licenses represented approximately $1,295 US worth of game time that someone purchased. Perhaps the real winner here is CCP, who was paid for $1,295 worth of game time that can never be redeemed. Some players have suggested that CCP should donate the value of all destroyed PLEX each year to a charity, in a similar manner to the PLEX for Haiti campaign earlier this year.

http://www.massively.com/2010/08/08/eve-player-destroys-over-1000-worth-of-game-time/

[Mangala]

Just lol:

Not sure how this hasnt come out yet as there are a LOT of us very unhappy about what our brave inspirational leader was doing with our Corps hard earned isk (i cant even think about how many hours of mining were lost or i'll cry) but basically people thinking that rl money was lost here and cryinmg about CCp stealing it are way off.

That isk was everything we had in our corp wallet, our genius leader saw a descrepency in isk prices between another hub and Jita and was moving the plex between these hubs to make a profit, from what we can work out he would have made about 1.2 mill profit per plex if he had managed to dock and resell the plexs at current prices.

Obviously he didnt manage to dock.

http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1365549&page=5#127

[Mangala]

Its on the bbc tech brief too:

BBC Tech Brief wrote:
• Games are full of random destruction and explosions that amuse the child in all of us. In serious online space sim Eve an explosion can be costly. Very costly. In Eve cash can be converted to game time in the form of objects known as Plex. Steal a Plex and you get game time for free. So when space pirates scanned a trading vessel passing through their sector found it was transporting 74 Plex it was too good a chance to miss. They homed in, unleashed the pew-pew lasers and blew it to bits. Plex and all.

"At current prices, the 74 PLEX destroyed would have sold for a total of over 22 billion ISK, or they could have fueled an EVE subscription for six years and two months. The huge cache of licenses represented approximately $1,295 US worth of game time that someone purchased."

[Warcold]

ooh wow, he could have made a 0.3% profit on it!

what a tool