I haven't played for a while but Corp creation and access mechanics were always incredibly frustrating and buggy and these "heists" are almost always people exploiting mundane software bugs in the platform rather than being clever and/or sneaky in carrying off anything daring. This makes for really boring and unpleasant consequences for the victims of these actions which basically just drive people from the game.
Example: My alliance leader basically stole a huge amount of my personal money and several months of work from me.
Background: For anyone who doesn't know eve, wormholes in eve are habitable spaces but they connect in ways that are governed by rules but are fundamentally random in nature. So your wormhole might always have 2 guaranteed connections to particular types of space but specifically what systems it connects to is random and will change every now and then. And also other new connections will spawn and disappear at random all the time. It is also entirely lawless space full of people trying to jump you at every turn, (sometimes) powerful NPCs and (usually) very powerful corporations who will every now and again mount operations to jump into a wormhole and evict the occupants if they are not very careful about defending themselves. All of this makes wormhole space very dangerous and inconvenient in lots of ways, but if you persevere, the game rewards you with very interesting gameplay and valuable rewards. I had a lot of experience with wormholes and was teaching people in my corp the ropes.
I had bought a new higher-class wormhole for my corporation, set up several new stations and a bunch of infrastructure. Because of the randomness above, this kind of logistic stuff is very slow and tedious work and I had spent a month or so of my time and a bunch of ISK (in-game currency) buying the hole, the stations and all the ships and stuff so my guys had stuff to do and didn't have to sweat the logistical stuff.
My alliance leader created a new corporation, transferred all the stations in the wormhole (including all my stuff and all the things I had put in shared hangars etc) into that corp and made the other people in the hole in charge of that corp. I was locked out in the middle of nowhere with no recourse.
He said he had misunderstood a message I had sent about taking a break (for the rest of the day) as quitting the game completely but anyway it fitted his objectives for the alliance so I could just basically stfu and accept it.
I tried playing a bit after that but it really was never the same. I left the corp and tried to restart but never got back to where I was or recouped what I had lost.
Example: My alliance leader basically stole a huge amount of my personal money and several months of work from me.
Background: For anyone who doesn't know eve, wormholes in eve are habitable spaces but they connect in ways that are governed by rules but are fundamentally random in nature. So your wormhole might always have 2 guaranteed connections to particular types of space but specifically what systems it connects to is random and will change every now and then. And also other new connections will spawn and disappear at random all the time. It is also entirely lawless space full of people trying to jump you at every turn, (sometimes) powerful NPCs and (usually) very powerful corporations who will every now and again mount operations to jump into a wormhole and evict the occupants if they are not very careful about defending themselves. All of this makes wormhole space very dangerous and inconvenient in lots of ways, but if you persevere, the game rewards you with very interesting gameplay and valuable rewards. I had a lot of experience with wormholes and was teaching people in my corp the ropes.
I had bought a new higher-class wormhole for my corporation, set up several new stations and a bunch of infrastructure. Because of the randomness above, this kind of logistic stuff is very slow and tedious work and I had spent a month or so of my time and a bunch of ISK (in-game currency) buying the hole, the stations and all the ships and stuff so my guys had stuff to do and didn't have to sweat the logistical stuff.
My alliance leader created a new corporation, transferred all the stations in the wormhole (including all my stuff and all the things I had put in shared hangars etc) into that corp and made the other people in the hole in charge of that corp. I was locked out in the middle of nowhere with no recourse.
He said he had misunderstood a message I had sent about taking a break (for the rest of the day) as quitting the game completely but anyway it fitted his objectives for the alliance so I could just basically stfu and accept it.
I tried playing a bit after that but it really was never the same. I left the corp and tried to restart but never got back to where I was or recouped what I had lost.