The bravest or thickest pilot - you decide
Ahoy mates
Thought I would pass on this bit of EVE news that happened recently.
Firstly – people should know that for some time players are able to use in game money to buy game time – to extend their subscription.
Players can buy game time cards from established sellers using paypal or a credit card and once they have that item – or they have the game time code – they have the option to convert it into an in-game item called a PLEX –
This option is available to anyone that logs in – the process is fully automated by CCP.
PLEX cost roughly about 300mill ISK for one and they appear on the market as a normal item – for example, like you can buy a ship or some guns etc
For example – the other day we saw our old friend LaserJet desperately running some missions to acquire enough ISK (EVE in game money is called ISK after the international money code from Iceland) to purchase a PLEX – that way he could extend his account by another month without having to pay any real money.
The thing to remember here is that even if LaserJet would not put in any of his real money into buying a PLEX – at one point – someone did – 30 day GTC are $20 and 60 day ones are $35.
So – the PLEX are on the market – rich people are selling them to automatically generate loads of cash so they can buy the most expensive ships and get a head start.
The experienced players that know how to make ISK by doing whatever they do can buy PLEX and therefore avoid paying real cash to extend their subscriptions.
We have speculators buying PLEX at low points hoping some months down the line the price would increase and then they could sell them off for 20-30 mill profit.
This state of affairs continued until CCP made some changes to PLEX –
Although it was an item like any other item – it was not. PLEX could not be moved – it could not be transferred – it forever stayed in the station it was created – that was about to be changed – now PLEX could be moved – you could stick it in your ship and take it to another system – or systems far far away.
Everyone was waiting…
Now dear reader – if you had a few of these – and for some reason you wanted to move them – how would you do it?
If it was Freelancer – I would use a VHF, have some clan mates with me for protection – maybe I would wait until the system was empty?
Would you move these items in war time conditions?
Would you move them in one of the smallest ships available?
Would you transfer these PLEX in the busiest system in the whole of EVE? A system where there are normally between 500-1000 people in at all times?
Read here then to see what happened..
Roughly $1,300 of real cash was destroyed when a pilot flying a Caldari frigate called a Kestral decided to undock with 70 PLEX in his cargo – the items were completely destroyed in the explosion.
The said pilot is now KOS by his whole alliance and people recommend he actually delete his character as his name is now forever linked with stupidity and incompetence – his whole alliance is a laughing stock.
See kill mail link here
got dockrapped for sure... poor guy, now he should start hacking Eve 
