Known & Declared Exploits

Disclaimer

This article outlines public exploit notifications which are still in effect and also addresses certain practices which are commonly misunderstood as exploits when they in fact are not.

Please do keep in mind that this list is not an exhaustive resource for every disallowed action in EVE Online, only exploits which have been publicly disclosed will be listed below.

Should you think that you may have discovered an unknown exploit, please report it directly to us through the "Exploit" category in a support ticket. Furthermore please always remember that exploit abuse carries repercussions as outlined in the EVE Online Terms of Service.

Please bear in mind that publishing steps on how to abuse game errors or making a game feature appear erroneous for personal gain will be treated in the same manner as publishing an exploit, independently of whether or not there is an actual issue. Report all erroneous game behavior immediately.

Declared Exploits

This page contains all publicly declared exploits which are still in effect. Many bugs which have been publicly declared as exploits in the past have at this time been fixed and are therefore not included in the table below.

The links provided will take you directly to any past public exploit notifications.

Public Notification(s)	Description	Notes
Exploit Notification - Delaying CONCORD Response Exploit notification from GM Grimmi	Delaying CONCORD response or completely avoiding it.	Committing a criminal act and delaying CONCORD response for an extended period of time. Commonly involves leaving empty ships or drones in space that CONCORD focuses on before dealing with the attacker. This exploit is not limited to drones or ships and applies to any item or method which might be used to delay CONCORD. It is also considered an exploit to commit a criminal act and prevent ship loss to CONCORD by any means.
Cynosural field inside Starbase forcefield is an exploit!	Have an active cyno while inside a POS forcefield.	It is considered an exploit to have an active cynosural field inside a forcefield.
Exploit Notification Clarification - Starbase Forcefield Ship Bumping Exploit Notification - Starbase Forcefield Ship Bumping POS Bowling Exploit	Bumping ships out of force fields without having access to the POS.	Using any method to bump a ship out of the safe confines of a Starbase force field is an exploit if the bumper does not have access rights to said forcefield.
Drone Exploit Warning!	Assigning drones from within a POS forcefield	Using any method to control drones while being protected by a Starbase force field is an exploit.
Exploit notification	Bypassing acceleration gate ship restrictions.	Using any method to bypass acceleration gate ship restrictions to enter complexes is an exploit. The notification specifies Factional Warfare complexes but this has since been extended to all sites which have acceleration gates.
Buying ISK for real money is not allowed!	Buying in game assets or ISK for real money is prohibited	Real money trading is prohibited.
Using ECM Bursts to PVP Flag tethered ships	Ships tethered to a citadel are supposed to be immune to all effects.	Tethered ships are not supposed to receive a PVP flagging when hit by ECM Bursts.

Common Misconceptions about Exploits

This passage contains common tactics and other player conduct that is often mistakenly reported as exploits but are in fact not.

Non-Exploit	Description
Log Off Traps	Players are free to log out and back into our game at their own leisure. Surprising a target by logging in is not considered to be an exploit.
Grid Manipulation	Extending the grid to increase the available information on the overview.
AFK Cloaking	A player is present in a system for a long time, usually cloaked, doing nothing at all most of the time.
MWD Cloak Warp	Using a Cloaking Device and one cycle acceleration on a Microwarpdrive module to enter warp immediately upon decloaking.
Ship Bumping	Ram the ship of another player with your own in order to prevent them from warping.
Warp disruption fields at star gates	Having players dragged into bubbles by strategically placing them behind star gates is not an exploit.