
Shadowsword
COLSUP Tau Ceti Federation
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Posted - 2008.05.11 14:24:00 -
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Originally by: CCP Atropos I really hate this kind of disinformation that people spread. Please, please, please report every instance of isk selling or macro mining you find. The reason people always reply with some off the cuff remark of "Thats good in theory but CCP never do anything!" or "Our logs don't show anything" is because they want immediate results.
Unfortunately for them there are paper trails to follow and procedures to be gone through before we ban people for macromining, RMT, etc. The best analogy is to imagine it as a giant jigsaw; each time someone reports a seller or bot it allows us to put another piece of the puzzle in place. Sometimes it's a side piece allowing you to track down a whole slew of other pieces, sometimes it's just a bit out in the middle of nowhere that has no connection to the rest, as yet. Needless to say, all the reports are pieces in the jigsaw, and if some people weren't so stupid as to constantly tell people that CCP does nothing about them, the jigsaw would be completed a lot sooner.
Of course, it's an ongoing battle, so once this jigsaw is complete, there's another to be finished, but such is the way of the world.
/rant
Two days ago I petitioned a group of probable macro-miners. I don't expect results already.
However, those characters were all more than 5 months old, and it's only probable they've been petitioned quite a few times already.
How many more billions will they make before you start acting?
But banning them all would only slow things, not stop RMT. For that there's only one solution, and that's to inspire the fear of the all-mighty CCP in every potential buyer. And in that respect, just reversing the transaction is ridiculously unscary, imho. Same for the threat of bans. If you say someone tempted to buy isks that bans are only for the most extrem cases, even if he get caught, you just undermined the threat to the point that said player will think he's just too lucky, or there always more extremes cases, and that finally, risks are worth taking, since it's another one that will be banned.
If you just ban every single isk-buyer you find, then the threat is "really scary" in the eyes of the potential offenders, and will act as a real deterrent. ------------------------------------------
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