Ah, datamining, the best way to guess about what’s coming to EVE Online in future patches based on incomplete evidence! (And every other game, really, but we’re talking about EVE right now.) With the shift in management for EVE’s Chinese version, players have mined out a couple of interesting bits of upcoming interfaces, starting with an entire panel for just buying and selling ISK for real money without the usual workaround of PLEX. Reddit being what it is, you can probably guess about the jokes following that bit of mining.
Players also uncovered what appears to be prison sentences for players who are found guilty of cheating in the game, apparently locking players out of playing for the duration. This looks like a consequence of the old rules of suspension running afoul of Chinese regulations, so the designers found a way to work around that while still giving a functional suspension. It’s still kind of weird and unsettling in context, though.
Menial 'prison' labor appears to be coming to Eve: China as an anti-cheat measure. Looks like a way to punish behavior without bans because apparently the old process of suspension was contentious under Chinese law when Tiancity was operating Serenity #tweetfleet pic.twitter.com/LbRurk6Lj0
— Neckbeard Nixon💬 (@JadekMenaheim) October 3, 2018
