Marsha Mallow
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calscan wrote:The new launcher requires re-acceptance of the EULA so I skimmed through it and one particular paragraph caught my eye as it seems to ban fairly common behavior with alts. Quote:You may not engage in any conduct that results in an Account containing items, objects, currency, character attributes, rank, or status that are inappropriate for the level or rank of the character contained in the Account, including without limitation arranging, making or accepting transfers of items to a character without adequate consideration, thereby augmenting or aggregating items in an Account and increasing its value for an Account sale. This paragraph is rather perplexing to me. Eve doesn't really have levels or ranks anyway, so it seems almost as if this paragraph was lifted from some other game's EULA (SWOR maybe?) without thinking it through. I'd love some clarification on how this paragraph is supposed to function in practice.
It reads to me like a prohibition on using macros or power levelling services. Might have been lifted from other MMO EULAs, but it is applicable in EvE so best to have it there. Normally in other MMOs power levellers will boost your character through levels, here they could just log into your account and grind missions until you have access to loads of high level agents or factions.
The second part looks like a ban on those who would create accounts for the express purpose of selling them with massive amounts of isk/assets attached (think 'biro' with a free 1m sp alt with 100b isk - this is how they used to be listed on ebay). Even if the character sale was done legitimately through the forums, there are sneaky ways to leave assets on the account which could be done to systematically RMT.
Frostys Virpio wrote:If you are selling off the forum, it probably isn't a legit trade anyway so you would NOT post on the forum. There is no reason at all to not post a legit character sale on the forum anyway.
This is likely not targeted at legit character sales since the rules already prevent this from happening (no items of any kind can be packaged with the character being sold.
Last time I petitioned this and asked whether character sales had to be documented on the forum, the GM replied that it wasn't mandatory but was advised in case of a dispute. You still have to drop the character from corp and clear all assets etc. It's best to petition and ask the GMs in each instance. There are legit reasons why people might prefer to do private sales, but with the impersonation ruling you do have to be very careful and use some common sense. At the least creating a trail of emails confirming the exchange to protect both parties in case anything goes wrong is worthwhile.
Some character trades still go through with assets and ISK. GMs wil reverse ISK balances but not assets from what I've seen. People frequently leave more hilarious (and potentially valuable) items on their characters when they sell them - like bookmarks to every personal/corp/alliance POS/JB & tacticals. Or all of their emails, contacts & notifications.
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote: TO THE PITCHFORKMOBILE!
Benny Ohu wrote: fire up the argument calibrators set phasers to outraged overheat keyboards reinforce the thread
ISD Ezwal wrote: Nope, no one will get banned for 'rubbing'
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