Special Task Force Announcement (29/01/2009) (And their new website)

[Mayareira]

Special Task Force Announcement (29/01/2009)

The Special Task Force (henceforth, STF) was founded at a time when a rising number of characters could be observed engaging in illegal conduct. The presence of these characters adversely affected gameplay, threatening to undermine the enjoyment of the game for the honest, rule-abiding majority.

With the invaluable information provided to us from our players, the STF was able to formulate myriad countermeasures with which to eradicate illegal conduct from Vana'diel. To ensure that the STF never ceases to represent the best interests of upstanding adventurers, the Special Task Force Report was made available on a monthly basis to keep all informed of our latest activities, and to serve as a channel through which players could contact us.

Thanks in no small part to the contributions of our virtuous players, the activities of the STF have largely been met with success. Each passing season has marked an appreciable decline in the number of sightings of illegal conduct being brought to our attention. More than ever before, players can embark on their adventures with the confidence that their time spent in Vana'diel will not be marred by unpleasant encounters with illegal conduct.

However, the effort to maintain a balanced and enjoyable game environment is a never-ending endeavor, and we at the STF intend to remain ever vigilant.

For the sake of convenience, until now the "mass bannings" format for reporting STF activities has been left unchanged despite the improvements that have been implemented over the years. As our players are likely already aware, advancements made in policing technology have greatly shortened the time interval between detection and intervention. With the resultant increase in transparency in the activities of the STF, it was decided that announcements made via the newly established STF homepage will be limited to the number of banned accounts and amount of frozen gil.

At the STF, our sole mission is to preserve the integrity of Van'diel as a fun and balanced gaming world. We look forward to your continued assistance in our endeavors in the years to come.

Click here to access the newly inaugurated Special Task Force Official Homepage.

FINAL FANTASY XI Official Web Site

New STF Website: FINAL FANTASY XI Official Web Site

[Ashira]

Less information is better!



ie, we don't want to actually disclose the actual information from this month because honestly not everyone got hit just for salvage stuff.. and we didn't really implement it very well.

[Belgaer]

What a waste of text. They could have just said "The Special Task Force (STF) has a new site!" and be done with it. >_>

[Mayareira]

Basically they are replacing monthly detailed reports with:

Data Collection Period
12/23/2008 - 1/27/2009

Banned Accounts
7,210

Frozen Gil
Approx. 1.5 billion

this format.

[Lordwafik]

...Each passing season has marked an appreciable decline in the number of sightings of illegal conduct being brought to our attention. More than ever before, players can embark on their adventures with the confidence that their time spent in Vana'diel will not be marred by unpleasant encounters with illegal conduct...

Have these guys not stepped into Dragon's Aery or something?

[drwaffles]

Evidently they've been too busy scouring year-old logs for suspect Congestus Cells to spend any time reviewing logs of people claiming Fafnir with no action prior to or after claiming.

[Mizango]

Have these guys not stepped into Dragon's Aery or something?

That too is what I'm wondering Hell, step foot in Beh. Dominion while they are at it.


The total accounts banned is almost over 9000. SE Gestapo ftw.

[Ramses]

Have these guys not stepped into Dragon's Aery or something?

Yes, but they thought 24/7 was just that good. But they sound pretty pissed with their subtle (not really) praise about "virtuous" players which I inferred as a shot at dupers. I didn't use the dupe or anything, but please don't don't call me "virtuous". Makes me feel kind of lame.

[Ashira]

Least we got an answer to the gil frozen questions people were wondering about with the Salvage bans, more or less... honestly can't recall previous figures off the top of my head, is it comparable or significantly less or more? Because it being a lot less would make me laugh for some reason I can't quite pinpoint...

[Mayareira]

Least we got an answer to the gil frozen questions people were wondering about with the Salvage bans, more or less... honestly can't recall previous figures off the top of my head, is it comparable or significantly less or more? Because it being a lot less would make me laugh for some reason I can't quite pinpoint...

It was 1.8 billion last month and 1.3 on Nov.

[S N K]

Boy DA and Behemoth's Domnion must have been forgotten about..

[kayn]

Have these guys not stepped into Dragon's Aery or something?

But you see what a fuss it causes when actual players get in trouble for circumventing the game mechanics.

[Melios]

Have these guys not stepped into Dragon's Aery or something?

It's basically a Jagd; no Judges...err..I mean GMs can enter that forsaken zone.

[Xno Kappa]

The timing of this website's release is pretty suspect. SE's pseudo form of admittance to fail on behalf of its GM. Considering this could have helped to prevent the mass Magic-8ball style bannings.

[Ayn]

Boy DA and Behemoth's Domnion must have been forgotten about..

Sounds like a suggestion for me to tell the STF to get the fuck back to the Aery.

[Destinye]

Evidently they've been too busy scouring year-old logs for suspect Congestus Cells to spend any time reviewing logs of people claiming Fafnir with no action prior to or after claiming.

Still butthurt? Christ lol.

[WyldFyre]

Have these guys not stepped into Dragon's Aery or something?

Do people that camp HNM even bother with reporting bots? Nobody ever did back when I was camping Faffy. There was no STF back then, and GM's didn't really give a damn.

[Almalexia]

FINAL FANTASY XI Official Web Site

In the interest of making every player's gaming experience more enjoyable, GMs can use a special area known as Mordion Gaol, commonly called "jail".

hahaha oh wow

[Nattack]

every players. except those in jail

[Dezzimal]

In before 10 pages on the detectability of claimbots (spoilers: they can't be 100% sure without implementing something like warden).