New RMT exploit or gimmick?

[Seanr]

You bing! Shabi!

[Gergall]

Hey guys maybe don't engage in trades with characters that are likely to be banned for RMT. Remember how the RMT-Pwner works?

[shaddix]

Most of the ones here are gone now, or at least there were 6-7 constantly moving in mines and now they are not, I assume it has something to do with FINAL FANTASY XI Official Web Site

Data Collection Period Banned Accounts Frozen Gil
3/1/2009 - 3/31/2009 11,070 Approx. 1.5 billion

But I see new rmt already being made and shoveled into mh D:

[Xanthe]

But I see new rmt already being made and shoveled into mh D:

Nah, that was me gearing up for Mog Bonanza.

[Zorax]

Hey guys maybe don't engage in trades with characters that are likely to be banned for RMT. Remember how the RMT-Pwner works?

I considered that I might be jeopardizing my account before I did it, but I do not fear the banhammer. After 3+ years I have been mulling over quitting anyway. It would give me an excuse to finally leave this madness once and for all.

[Midnightjade]

been like this on Midgard for a little over a month. They use a team of taru's and a team of humes. you can watch for their patterns;

- All run up to npc
- Create a "chain" to the npc
- Sit in a circle in front of the MH
- A combo of 2nd & 3rd

I've never seen them run as far as the AH. As far as profitable? SE is just giving away these accounts, cost is no issue.

Yes, Bastok Mines on Midgar has become a little RMT taru colony recently. I figured to call them in to the STF but assumed someone else had done it already, since that area is also the gather spot for Dyna-Bastok.

[The Stig]

Hmm, are they desynthing RSE gear in their mog house? Haha...

Are they desynthable anyway? XD

[Kilorilo]

Yes, Bastok Mines on Midgar has become a little RMT taru colony recently. I figured to call them in to the STF but assumed someone else had done it already, since that area is also the gather spot for Dyna-Bastok.

Last time I did Dyna-Bastok we saw a chain of 10 or so Taru /anon RMT named run away from the moghouse, then shortly after run back, I don't think any said/did anything beyond going "WTF, did I just see a bunch of RMT run by?". Think SE needs to remove the 14-trial thing, if its still running, cuz how many new players are they seriously going to get now ?

[shaddix]

Think SE needs to remove the 14-trial thing, if its still running, cuz how many new players are they seriously going to get now ?

yespls

[levish]

they should leave the 14 day trial but leave it on a trial only server, when they activate give people a option to move to a server of their choice after paying for a subscription

[Spekkio]

or require the trial accounts be tied to a cc number and allow each cc to be used once or at least only allow 1 active trial per cc at a time. if all you need is an email address and a fake street address to sign up for a trial account, it's easy to make a machine to do it. if you need a new cc for every one of 5,000 accounts, then it starts to become a problem for the cgf to exploit.

[fndragon]

Not just RMT are the problem - the fact that it brings more money into economy causing inflation (Xmas '05 anyone?) is an issue too. If just few people do it, then no problem.. but if masses start using it to make gil (now that we have a thread about it it's very likely..) then a nerf is needed, with or without RMT's presence.

^ This. Wildgrass is not a real income path, I suspect it was an oversight since no other seeds can be bought from vendors.

[Kipling]

Yes, Bastok Mines on Midgar has become a little RMT taru colony recently. I figured to call them in to the STF but assumed someone else had done it already, since that area is also the gather spot for Dyna-Bastok.

Jade, are they at least really cute?

[Max™]

You bing! Shabi!

fuke fuke fuke

I gotta see if there are some on Carby, sure we've got some.

I presume bastok creation CS is faster to spam through?

[shaddix]

I think it has to do with the proximity of the sales npc and the dbox

[Max™]

Oh yeah, Windy npc is way over in port, and Sandy is pretty close but dbox isn't.

You'd have to zone twice for the windy, or a long trip for sandy.

[Hogie]

My bet is that they have somehow found a way using Open Mog to speed up the rate of how fast you can garden letting them do it extremely fast letting them NPC this stuff

[Acturus]

Oh yeah, Windy npc is way over in port, and Sandy is pretty close but dbox isn't.

You'd have to zone twice for the windy, or a long trip for sandy.

It's not so bad in Port Sandy. I run my gardening mules to Regina's magic shop first, and then backtrack to the delivery NPC there.

[Thistle]

I've been tracking this RMT group for weeks now. (Like others said, they do the same thing on Midgar.) They used to go to a vendor in a shop, then they seemed to "discover" that Proud Beard will buy stuff, so they only run to him now.

I reported this to a GM and the STF a month or more ago. They're still running around.

[Max™]

Small update note: NPC's will only buy from characters under level 5 once per game day, then they will say "GTFO AND LEVEL YOU NOOB!"