Powerlevelers and Booster/Gold Sellers

Calzone2

How will people who sell AoC Powerleveling or AoC Gold be adressed by interpid?
what do u guys think

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unknownsystemerror

They will be found and banned. They have stated this previously multiple times.

daveywavey

Gold Sellers are scum

Azeem

They're going to have live GMs monitoring the servers so it shouldn't be too bad.

Dargour

Prepare your pitchforks because we're gonna be hunting for some gold scammers in game.

daveywavey

Dargour wrote: »

Prepare your pitchforks because we're gonna be hunting for some gold scammers in game.

I hope the Corruption System can be turned off for Gold Scammers.

Lore Dynamic

Oh good! I'm glad this issue has already been addressed, because I was curious about exactly that:

Gold-Sellers and Gathering-Bots.

I'm relieved to hear that Intrepid will have a dedicated team tracking them down and squishing them! The last thing any of us want is these fiends ruining our immersion and our economies!

Warth

Its pretty simple actually.
The harder you crack down on the sellers AND buyers (!), the lower the market will be and ultimately the problem in the end.

Permaban the selling accounts and punish the buyers of such services extensively.

This way, you remove the corporate aspect of it. Then you just have those left, that sell some gold to a friend once in a while. Which is a neglible problem.

LieutenantToast

For reference, here's the handy dandy section of our Terms of Service that covers this accordingly:

"You agree that you will not buy, sell or trade, or offer to buy, sell or trade, any Game Assets, except that you may trade certain in-game items (e.g., houses, armor, weapons, consumables) for other in-game items and/or in-game currency in an in-game transaction expressly permitted by Intrepid (e.g., an authorized transaction using an in-game auction house or Intrepid-sanctioned in-game item trade between Intrepid Account holders). For the avoidance of doubt, and in no way limiting the foregoing, you are prohibited from offering for sale or purchasing any Game Assets (whether or not held by Intrepid Accounts registered to you) outside of the Service, through a website, or any other medium, or exchanging Game Assets, whether inside or outside the Service, for anything of value outside the Service or in the real world."

Which means if you do these things, the hammer may swing! 🔨 As some other folks in this thread have already mentioned, a combination of in-game support/GMs and your lovely eyes and ears on the ground reporting them to us will help us make Verra a safer place

akabear

There will be a set of stocks or gallows in each town where players that have been banned will be strung up on public display for all to see!

Ball and chain to foot, and limited walk speed and bound to town for very minor infringement for a timed penalty ie use of profane language..
Stocks for minor infringement
Gallows for perma ban

(Just a thought!)

bloodprophet

Hopefully sharp sticks and lots of fire.

BobzUrUncle

I love the idea of the characters being locked up. Or maybe instead of banning completely, have the whole account marked as permanently corrupted.
While that sounds fun, it is better to just ban-hammer them.

George_Black

I am actually interested to know if a player can be un-banned if there is proof of a missunderstanding on any ban reason.

FuryBladeborne

I would hope so. Provided that it is actually proof and not an unsubstantiated claim.

Damokles

daveywavey

BobzUrUncle wrote: »

I love the idea of the characters being locked up.
...
While that sounds fun, it is better to just ban-hammer them.

Why not both? Ban them, but leave their unplayable character model in the stocks for a week where we can pay 1gp to the node to be able to pelt them with rotten fruit, before they're deleted.

Michael

daveywavey wrote: »

BobzUrUncle wrote: »

I love the idea of the characters being locked up.
...
While that sounds fun, it is better to just ban-hammer them.

Why not both? Ban them, but leave their unplayable character model in the stocks for a week where we can pay 1gp to the node to be able to pelt them with rotten fruit, before they're deleted.

I will be Verra's finest rotten fruit salesman for this very purpose.

Atama

Michael wrote: »

daveywavey wrote: »

BobzUrUncle wrote: »

I love the idea of the characters being locked up.
...
While that sounds fun, it is better to just ban-hammer them.

Why not both? Ban them, but leave their unplayable character model in the stocks for a week where we can pay 1gp to the node to be able to pelt them with rotten fruit, before they're deleted.

I will be Verra's finest rotten fruit salesman for this very purpose.

Getcher veggies, getcher old rotten veggies! Extra slimy and stinky, get ‘em while they’re no longer fresh!

Grihm

LieutenantToast wrote: »

For reference, here's the handy dandy section of our Terms of Service that covers this accordingly:

"You agree that you will not buy, sell or trade, or offer to buy, sell or trade, any Game Assets, except that you may trade certain in-game items (e.g., houses, armor, weapons, consumables) for other in-game items and/or in-game currency in an in-game transaction expressly permitted by Intrepid (e.g., an authorized transaction using an in-game auction house or Intrepid-sanctioned in-game item trade between Intrepid Account holders). For the avoidance of doubt, and in no way limiting the foregoing, you are prohibited from offering for sale or purchasing any Game Assets (whether or not held by Intrepid Accounts registered to you) outside of the Service, through a website, or any other medium, or exchanging Game Assets, whether inside or outside the Service, for anything of value outside the Service or in the real world."

Which means if you do these things, the hammer may swing! 🔨 As some other folks in this thread have already mentioned, a combination of in-game support/GMs and your lovely eyes and ears on the ground reporting them to us will help us make Verra a safer place

Just wanted to add a question to this.

To further ensure the economy does not evolve to gold sales etc ahead with people and their elaborate plans, could we not include a full permanent ban and account wipe / deletion for people that start to spam chat with the usual
w-w-w. yeahgoldishardbutg3titherelaaawl. co---m 3$ - 50k gOOOld?

Also, to be prepared for these people, what about a specific report section that you can send in and it includes

* Screenshot of chat box to add gold seller info / addresses
* Timestamps / Node / Server / World location etc etc ( as in ALL the info )
* Optional screenshots taken during gameplay for more evidence

I feel there are often a lack of tools for us to use to report these situations, and instead we have to make due with calling it " abuse " or " bad behaviour " and it get´s flooded in the pile of never ending reports.

The absolut most game affecting abuses should very much have their own specific report section.

Also, when these reports are sent in, and there are an abundance of evidence that fully proves what they are doing, i would vote for you wiping the entire guild / faction / group or whatever you want to call it. Make it clear day one what happens.

Maezriel

I wouldn't mind if GMs had a way to flag botters so nearby players were free to engage them w/o fear of Corruption.

unknownsystemerror

Maezriel wrote: »

I wouldn't mind if GMs had a way to flag botters so nearby players were free to engage them w/o fear of Corruption.

If a GM has enough time to determine that someone is a bot, they have time enough to ban.

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