INTERVIEW !!!!!!!!!! MAKE IT STICKY OR BURN :P

[TP]

Thank you for posting/conducting this interview Bercus.

Sorry if this has been suggested already, as I skiimmed most of the middle pages. But the next time you or whoever gets an opportunity like this, a bit more can be added. Perhaps give them suggestions from the community instead of just questions. For example:

1) We players have a few suggestions for countering bots and 3rd-party claim programs. Certain NM claiming programs are notorious for transporting somebody directly to the NM's position and claiming it as soon as it is popped, even from great distances. We believe it would be possible for your GMs to forcibly pop the NM from a distance or even force-pop a fake replica of the NM for the sole purpose of triggering bot users' programs and exposing them. (At this point if they deny that GMs have such power, well, we all know that's bullshit and you can cite examples of where GMs have utilized their powers in such fashion.)

2) We also have a suggestion regarding identification of RMT accounts. Your staff could purchase a small quantity of gil from an RMT site. That way you could see what account is breaking the TOS beyond any doubt. You would not even have to spend any real money to do this. You could simply deny the charge on your credit card. Or, if you were somehow worried about the validity of disputing the charge (lol), you could have a GM accompany you to meet the RMT player and "arrest" him/her before the gil actually changed hands from their account to your decoy account and therefore claim to have not received the goods, justifying the chargeback.

3) Please consider carefully what suggestions you take seriously and be very wary of suggestions garnered from sites like Allakhazam, where many of the players do not have the perspective or experience to be contributing suggestions that alter the core mechanics of the game. Many of these players do not even maintain their subscriptions, but rather complain and then cancel their account, never looking back. Please give more weight to suggestions given by players that have not only progressed and experienced much more of the game, thus making them much more qualified to contribute valid input, but have also been faithful customers for years.

Edit: Sorry, it's a bit late. I realize a lot of the questions already had suggestions imbedded into them. But maybe those suggestions could be more forcefully presented, I don't know. I guess I'm starting to ramble...

[Koul]

This is in cahootz with the instanced 3 kings fights~ Made it when I couldn't sleep last night

Here's to hoping you get a good night's rest forever.

Until my dad buys more nyquil that won't be happening... letdown'd?

::Edit::
And I apologize and I'm sorry Viq for freaking out and being a nazi at you for you just voicing criticism against my ideas it was unfair of me to do that

[Boyiee]

the first 2 things you said were stupid. People are gonna find a way around whatever claiming system that is implemented as long as it stays a claiming system and not a ??? or bcnm type thing.

Buying gil from a website and arresting the account that trades the gil will probably delete a decent amount of gil from the server, but i think rmt sites are smart enough to move the gil around to more than just that one character. SE bans those large gil holding accounts now anyway so you basically just said what they do except you put in them buying the gil as well which i dont think they need to do lol.

3) Please consider carefully what suggestions you take seriously and be very wary of suggestions garnered from sites like Allakhazam, where many of the players do not have the perspective or experience to be contributing suggestions that alter the core mechanics of the game. Many of these players do not even maintain their subscriptions, but rather complain and then cancel their account, never looking back. Please give more weight to suggestions given by players that have not only progressed and experienced much more of the game, thus making them much more qualified to contribute valid input, but have also been faithful customers for years.

we can only dream, right? And if they read this site they probably wouldnt be too happy or take any ideas from it, they are bashed too hard here and would probably think "screw them lets make the game even harder for players like those" Which is why they take suggestions from those other gay sites that dont know shit either.

[Airshort7]

A really bad idea

yeah I know forgive me for y'know... trying to make 3 year old content new and actually exciting/difficult for what they drop

but I guess it is a bad idea since your LS is probably one of those shitty moron LS that have people cast fire on fafnir everynow and then BUT IT WAS FIRESDAY !!!

Actually when I lived in Aery I killed with the JPs who botted claim and we would kill it with 9 people.

[TP]

the first 2 things you said were stupid. People are gonna find a way around whatever claiming system that is implemented as long as it stays a claiming system and not a ??? or bcnm type thing.

Buying gil from a website and arresting the account that trades the gil will probably delete a decent amount of gil from the server, but i think rmt sites are smart enough to move the gil around to more than just that one character. SE bans those large gil holding accounts now anyway so you basically just said what they do except you put in them buying the gil as well which i dont think they need to do lol.

Well, that may be true to an extent, but one thing I'm trying to get at is a counter to SE's excuses of "oh, but we can't prove such-and-such." If a player suddenly appears out of nowhere next to a mob, when they were 50 yards away only a moment before, wouldn't that constitute irrefutable visual proof for a GM? I mean, yeah, they can be super thickheaded sometimes, but even the worst GM couldn't be th... well, then again.

And even when RMT sites move gil around to minimize losses, setting a little trap is a relatively effortless measure. Or at least, it seems a lot more effortless to me than to have a GM shadow suspected RMT and wait for them to fleehack or pos. You could hit quite a lot of accounts in a matter of days, instead of removing a lump sum every 6 months and giving the impression that the other 5 months, people are free to get away with whatever they please.

we can only dream, right? And if they read this site they probably wouldnt be too happy or take any ideas from it, they are bashed too hard here and would probably think "screw them lets make the game even harder for players like those" Which is why they take suggestions from those other gay sites that dont know shit either.

Gotta keep trying though, yes? It's a pretty dark Vana'diel to play in if you can't hope for some substantial improvement sooner or later.

[Machazareel]

Really, they could probably just ammend the ToS to say something like "We reserve the right to discontinue service on any grounds we deem justified."

[Woyn]

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i226/Sudrol/EBody.jpg!

I am SO making a shirt out of that.

[Priran]

koul, much like rydiu and madawc, is a Valefor Production

[spooky]

sorry to necro bump this but, I was said that questions were going to get emailed to SE. did that ever happen? did they respond?

[Janeru]

[spooky]

postcount+1?

[spooky]

sorry to necro bump this but, I was said that questions were going to get emailed to SE. did that ever happen? did they respond?

Bercus ? >.>

[spooky]

I'm upset there is still no reply from Bercus on this. I've even PMed him. ; ;

[bercus]

sorry to necro bump this but, I was said that questions were going to get emailed to SE. did that ever happen? did they respond?

Hi. I was waiting till my Bday for a reply and flew on September the 11th to America for a 3 week trip. Iam back now and YES i got replies and yes I will be able to send them questions. Now beeing awake since 53 hours straight cause of damn flight delays I will post informations about this later, prolly when iam back at work on Wednesday. Take care ^^.

[spooky]

Today is the day, I expect great things Bercus!

[bercus]

Check the new Thread I made.

http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12793