> It's unclear why none of the other shareholders voted though. Did they quit the game or something?
The Reddit thread [1] has more info on that:
> So we settled in and watched, gaining an insight into when they were active and latest the most important part, who was active. In this intelligence gathering phase it clearly showed minimal activity, especially by the CEO and Directors. This fact encouraged us!
> Another sign for us that the CEO, the person in charge was barely active.
> We watched and waited, then one evening we set the wheels in motion. I moved enough shares to our agent to create a vote for CEO. The vote came up on my screen and we both voted yes! This now for the duration of the vote locks out the current CEO’s roles, but sadly not the Directors. This was worrisome as we now had a 72 hours wait on our hands before the CEO role and all its power was transferred to our agent.
> Over this time DOTLAN and the Corp description showing the new CEO and still no one noticed! No one in EHEXP or Horde, it was eerily silent. We checked nearly every waking hour to see if our plan would be found out, but it remained slowly moving to the final outcome.
Going theory is that he was a former director or CEO. I think figuring out who he is and how he got the shares is going to be the more interesting story that's going to cause some drama. Your average player couldn't have pulled this off because of how shares work.
Would it have been possible they were given shares by another player inside the corp that does have shares? Although I'm sure share transactions are logged and public information, if not through the game then through the APIs, and most Corporations will make some API access required.
you have to be trusted somehow to gain access to these shares in the first place. thou afaik they were never important for anything else than showing of.
Using shares to gain control of someone elses corp and steal their stuff is an extremely old scam. Like, it was very well understood some 15 years ago. The mechanics haven't changed.
I don't remember the details well, it was a long time ago, but there was a step by step guide to stealing a corp away. You had to have roles. I got them via the standard alliance recruitment "need a temp director to run a full corp check via api". Believable, and 24 hours later the corp was mine along with all its assets (a lot less than this).
The Reddit thread [1] has more info on that:
> So we settled in and watched, gaining an insight into when they were active and latest the most important part, who was active. In this intelligence gathering phase it clearly showed minimal activity, especially by the CEO and Directors. This fact encouraged us!
> Another sign for us that the CEO, the person in charge was barely active.
> We watched and waited, then one evening we set the wheels in motion. I moved enough shares to our agent to create a vote for CEO. The vote came up on my screen and we both voted yes! This now for the duration of the vote locks out the current CEO’s roles, but sadly not the Directors. This was worrisome as we now had a 72 hours wait on our hands before the CEO role and all its power was transferred to our agent.
> Over this time DOTLAN and the Corp description showing the new CEO and still no one noticed! No one in EHEXP or Horde, it was eerily silent. We checked nearly every waking hour to see if our plan would be found out, but it remained slowly moving to the final outcome.
[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/12a6szd/pandemic_horde...