Originally by: GM Nova

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Hello everyone, senior GM Nova here.

If you feel that you have received an inappropriate reply from a GM regarding a petition, please file a complaint and I or those of us concerned with quality control will have a look at it.

In regards to ISK selling spam and how to deal with it. ISK selling spam can be likened to a skin rash. Dealing with only the spammers is akin to constantly applying cosmetics on the rash to hide it instead of doing something about the cause of the rash and finding a cure.

So, while we ban the trial accounts (logged on modified clients) used to spam, we prefer to directly attack the root of the problem, which is ISK buying. In most cases we can trace the sellers through the spammers with IP searches and other goody tools we have. When we catch the seller, we ban him/her and reverse all donations made from his character/s. This means that the ISK buyers will have their bought ISK removed, and they will have paid real money for nothing.

As far as we can tell, this is working. A month ago we removed 380 billion ISK from the economy. This is not a typo, 380 BILLION ISK. This we removed from hundreds players which had bought the ISK for real money, and in many cases landed them in a negative balance. We banned well over 100 accounts. (ISK sellers all of them) You will not hear this from the buyers who were cought as they will never admit to buying ISK and thus I am telling you now. Nor will we name and shame anyone.

To achieve final victory over Real Money Trade (ISK buying and the spam that follows) we need YOUR help. We can not do this alone. If you, the players lend us a hand in this by, first of all, not buying ISK and second of all discourage anyone from doing it, we can eventually beat this.

Together we can do this. This community is the most mature one any MMO can boast of, and we at CCP are damn proud of you. I fully believe that in unity we shall liquidate the rash and throw all cosmetics out the window.

WICTORY WILL BE OURS.

All the best,

GM Nova
Senior Game Master

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