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I don't think Calder is laundering money. I rather think the criminal world has discovered anonymous wireless money transfers with virtual assets is a possible way to make money clean. This doesn't even afford CI to actually know it's happening - though a huge amount of transfers without active player base should have their alarm bells ringing. They probably willfuly ignore it and enjoy the liquidity of the market.
The prime party to report this to the authority would be themselves - at least it's like that in my jurisdiction. I've been asked if I would report it - I would if I thought it's a case in my jurisdiction. We have means to report mere probable cause here. But I don't think Germany is a major laundering lynchpin for SC virtual assets. No, that's happening elsewhere.
And on the topic of financial authorities - they kinda struggle with international constructs and online business. Took a hell lot of time to find out what's happening with VAT carousels in EU. And the latest scandal here saw a payment settler reporting 1.9 BILLION EUR on its balance that was nowhere to be found. One of the EOs legged it. And do you know what's funny about it? For years there were rumours about balance sheet tricks at Wirecard - but our financial authority rather slammed down on those reports chasing imaginary market manipulation of the Wirecard share. Today it turns out even authority crew were trading actively in the shares.
As old and grainy and shamelessly "borrowed" as that film is - it still is more coherent, better scripted, visually unique, at higher FPS and original than anything Genuine Roberts has managed to come up with.
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That’s my morning coffee properly snorted, thanks to you both.
tryed yesterday. Always the same mess.On another noteAnyone playing at the moment?
Thank you for clarifying your earlier comments, I am sure that Calder are also pleased to have their innocence confirmed by you.
If folk(not necessarily you) in places like this who strongly dislike the way CIG and associates act will not draw plausible illegal acts to the attention of the authorities then they may get away with it. Just because something is difficult is not a good reason to try.
Without action it is akin to playground name calling and slurs.
I find all the allegations and hints at illegal activity, not being backed up with action makes those allegations and slurs "hilarious"
Welcome to the SC thread. I recognise that feeling.p.s. meant to reply to this Tuesday....20 pages ago.
"Server to Client Actor Networking Rework" is at 1/3. This item was first added to the roadmap 18 months ago, and was due in 3.7 for Q3 2019.Elevator panels still at 0%
Of course. You have to keep something like that around as a believable blocker for the mythical server meshing. After all, if the client and server actors can't talk to each other then it would be silly to suggest that server actors can do so among themselves, and thus CI¬G has an excuse for why something pointless will never happen, and thus why the MMO part won't come out until 2122 at the earliest.
Duh.
Of course. And it's even simpler than that : the project hinges on SQ42 being. Period.
If they can't make a simpler solo game, that's stable robust and if possible of good quality gameplay wise (story wise it's already assumed it'll suck) how on earth can they make a BDSSE MMO?
Only 90 devs on SC? I thought it would be higher, given the number of studios they run.
Source: https://youtu.be/vsM6hflmMrw?t=196
(around 3:16)
Doesn't include artists, does include devops.
(via thread on Spectrum)
(around 3:16)
Doesn't include artists, does include devops.
(via thread on Spectrum)
I never said it's against law or that I have evidence - thus theory. Also I am not sure CI would want to do anything about it even if they knew; as you said it's hardly followed by national services and it's money after all.
It never matter how public something is when you control the accounting and nobody actually look at it very thoroughly.
And lol at the guy who snarkly insist that people like me need to report it to the authority. Just lol, you sounds like a SC white knight.
This explains why we hear so less good thinks and getting so less screenshots from Mr Novak and LittleAnt
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As mentioned by the others, it's possible to have some reasonable theories on this front without having hard proof of illegal activity.
- Gaming markets are a favoured target for money launderers. The fact that SC has not only a grey market, but one that features macro purchases, would logically make it a particularly attractive choice for such activities.
- A fun, if tricky to verify, claim comes in the form of this spreadsheet. If it accurately represents the major greymarket traders on the trades subreddit, as it claims, the Russian accounts handling collections that run up into the $130K range are... eyebrow raising, shall we say [EDIT: This may not speak to transactions at that scale, due to the melt/reclaim system. It still speaks to a fair amount of liquidity sloshing around in theory though.]
If you want to get into some really fun speculation though, there's always stuff like this...
- Since the share swap with Turbulent Cloud Imperium UK has a 25% stake in them and two seats on the board. (Ortwin holds one of them).
- Turbulent is doing work for Redpill VR. (And if the gossip TheAgent has heard is correct, some CIG devs are doing some work for them too...)
- Redpill VR are in partnership with Sensorium.
- Sensorium's 'Visionary / Beneficiary' is Mikhail Prokhorov, one of the Russian oligarchs named in the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act. (Although admittedly that list has been challenged for being primarily a 'Forbes rich list', isn't a comprehensive proof of wrong-doing etc, and doesn't carry any sanctions). He's still an interesting character though
All of the above dug up by TheAgent, o'course
It starts to lean a little bit...
But it's certainly fun to note some of these peculiar connections and shifts behind the scenes
We are talking about a parent company whose CFO didn't spot the mafia shenanigans tied up in Gizmondo when he and Erin worked on it, after all. Lord knows what history might have in store for us this time
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A bit off subject, until a little while ago, Duel Universe which has made it to the Alpha 3 stage, offered no access to the general public. That's been changed because one now can now make a pledge of three amounts each giving slightly different perks. In so much as the actual downloading of the game it self will be free, pledges will get a slight head start on those that don't pledge and wait for the game to go live and pay a small (8 to 9 dollar) monthly subscription fee.
I know, pay to play sucks, but anyone on a console whom prefers multi-play, will tell ya, if one wants to enjoy multi-play, then one is mandated to paying a subscription price. It's only a matter of time before PC's will also. SERVER'S cost a lot of money and if a game is going to continue well into the future gaming companies can't depend on new sales to cover the cost.
I know, pay to play sucks, but anyone on a console whom prefers multi-play, will tell ya, if one wants to enjoy multi-play, then one is mandated to paying a subscription price. It's only a matter of time before PC's will also. SERVER'S cost a lot of money and if a game is going to continue well into the future gaming companies can't depend on new sales to cover the cost.
Even without considering money laundering, look back at Chinese gold farmers and how gullible can be a apparently big fringe of citizen, its easy to guess there's many that want to profit from them through grey market and could be preparing for when/if SC launches. These may have a significant impact on fund tracker.
Lets not get too serious here...we're talking about Star Citizen after all