zoumau
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Posted - 2007.12.29 05:43:00 -
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in the end it will ruin the game.
Once you get a few 100 evemails a day, see local scroll like crazy with isk selling advertisements, you know something is wrong and CCP gave up trying to counter.
So far that is not happening yet.
For CCP it's a choice:
Free trial accounts without CC info needed for every1. It makes the game easy to try for whomever wants. As result some might start payment and that's what's it all about.
So where does CCP have to choose?
- Stop trials? will never happen.
- Ask cc info for trial accounts, doubt it will happen.
- Limit trial accounts? Been done a bit already, but more to prevent an endless row of trial scouts etc.
- Limit the game, regional acces for trial and non trials, doubt it will happen, will give a protected small view of the game.
- Limit mail and channel acces for trials? doubt it.
So we had the private mails, local spams, channel spams. Now the corp applications (directors get the isk spam) what to do about it?
ISD should handle the channel spams, they mostly do, but not many of them around, the ones missed seem to be petitioned and get booted within 10 minutes. Solution, more ISD. Or maybe more assistant ISD, who can give channel bans and that ban creates automatically a file towards isd/gm so they can ban.
Mail spams.. Set you mail tax to 5000-50000 isk it will scare of the spammers, the higher the better.
Local spam, again the support isd, same options as the channel support isd. Only needed for empire and the busy systems in there.
Corp application spam. Give corps an option to block all applications automatically. Applications forms can only be given from corp to player, after the player sets: accept application form corp XXX. This will result in more player interaction, either by chat, vocal, mail or forum and stop the spam completely.
Other than that. More communication about ISK sales. I know for a fact that loadsa people get caught and end up with a nice negative isk balance. This will punish the player and prevent that player from doing it again, the penaltys are severe. If CCP would be more open about it, it might prevent other players from buying isk for cash.
Would love to see a little topic on the forums with some nice stats.
Today 89 players have been cought buying isk, in total we reclaimed 14 billion isk, on top we fined another 7 billion isk. As result 20 players got a permaban, 40 players have a temp ban.
This week stats: 412 players cought buying isk. etc etc..
Pretty sure being more open about the ban and isk reclaiming will give people a better idea that they are wasting money when buying isk. And the presented stats will drop in numbers. (unless of course the chance of getting caught is so low that it's better to keep away from public)
Remember the legal way to buy isk is simple. GTC are invented for that.
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