Warning: Proud Beard

[Asdrabael]

Ice is still water.

[Akucaen]

Goddamn you are retarded asdrabael. Are you really going to pull that card?

[byte]

Well it's either that or ban a handful of RMT (Not enough to make a difference). Look at how many people they ban per month then tell me they can find that many RMT by looking through each case individually. If they did utilize this approach, RMT character creation would rival that of character deletion. In this case, SE barely addresses the problem of RMT.

However, I am not suggesting bans for trial accounts NPCing crytals is good. NPCing a crystal within 14dys of FFXI is not a unrealistic or strange occurrence. Yet, at the same time, individual case analysis is too slow to work. The solution? A general means of tracking RMT with the ability to return characters immediately. Will a generalized approach his regular players? Obviously. There is almost no means of making the distinction between a normal player and a RMT (Hell, some HNMLS players RMT gil) on a generalized base. Nor is it practical to analyze case by case. In short, generalized concepts work to promote swift bans while returning characters sorts out the serious players.

No, this a fucking horrible idea. I don't want to go through the stress of getting banned for no reason just so you can have marginally less RMT that barely affect the game in any negative way at all. Plus, I'd have to make an international call and speak to SE's abysmal customer support. I'll stick with having slightly more RMT in the game, thanks.

[SassiAsura]

my guess is that an alla poster got banned for doing something illicit and made up a ridiculous bullshit story in an attempt to preserve his integrity.

have some pics of me going all the way to bastok on a naked level 1 job with my linkshell unequipped just to vendor some random junk to him and then relog following a short convo with my rmt comrade.

Spoiler: show

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if i'm banned tomorrow i guess you can all have a good laugh, but honestly.

... jebus. clicking on those images to see bigger pictures... NSFW.

[Melios]

People complain and bitch about SE's customer service for a reason: it really IS that bad.

Is it worse than SOE?

[Gergall]

Is it worse than SOE?

Much worse than Secret of Evermore.

[Malacite]

http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/b...IL_AT_LIFE.png

[Silenka]

Is it worse than SOE?

I don't actually know, I never played a Sony MMO, and I hope I never have to. :D

After hearing about the Star Wars fiasco...

[Melios]

I don't actually know, I never played a Sony MMO, and I hope I never have to. :D

After hearing about the Star Wars fiasco...

Yeah NGE; trying to salvage their failed Star Wars themed UO clone by rewriting the entire core mechanics, and not telling anyone until the day after the second expansion was launched (which was apparently only two weeks prior to planned implementation).

You'll notice SE never did drastically change FF11's game mechanics in a knee-jerk reaction to WoW like SOE has done in their games. In fact, the only time they really did anything like that was from the bad press in the Pandemonium Warden incident.

[Gergall]

Yeah NGE; trying to salvage their failed Star Wars themed UO clone by rewriting the entire core mechanics, and not telling anyone until the day after the second expansion was launched (which was apparently only two weeks prior to planned implementation).

You'll notice SE never did drastically change FF11's game mechanics in a knee-jerk reaction to WoW like SOE has done in their games. In fact, the only time they really did anything like that was from the bad press in the Pandemonium Warden incident.

And the magic resist glitch that went from "Working as intended" to "OMG we are so sorry, it will be fixed ASAP" after Allakhazam posted a headline news article about it.

But yeah, most of the fixes were a long time coming and not knee-jerk reactions to games/websites.

[Wutangwarrior_Hades]

On the evening of Tuesday July 14th I received a perma-ban LM-17 on my account. This took place between the end of Limbus and the start of Sea, so Mountain time 8pm-10pm. Upon calling US Customer Service on Wed morning I was informed that this was due to RMT gardening activities.

I explained that not only was I not RMT, but that I did not do any gardening at all on my mule or my main.

Later that day I did some research, and found this thread. My character for 4+ years has been a Bastok citizen, and I almost exclusively sell items to the NPC Proud Beard in Bastok Mines.

Of course I have no idea if this is the actual reason for my ban, but I find it interesting.

I have requested a review of my account for reinstatement, however with the update and any issues that come from that I am not hopeful that this will take place any time soon.

Anyone else have experience getting their accounts back from being banned for RMT gardening without actually gardening? I have seen 3-7 day turnarounds in other threads, but of course those people actually gardened.