JusFooling Around
JusFooling Around Corp
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Posted - 2012.03.31 23:50:00 -
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Before fanfest, CCP memtioned in the news that about 1500 accounts were being investigated related to bot activity.
I think it was a neat move to not announce any action until after they collected the money from so many perps at fanfest!
Sreegs, I am going to trust you will properly place your loyalty with the one who signs your paycheck and your employer will provide the leadership and management necessary to be sure all employees eho have left behind their game loyalties as they moved into the more adult world of work. It would be a shame for a player with a previous in game player relationship with you to believe you would let a rule get bent a little and you ended up being fired and losing your paycheck.
CCP, thank you for moving against rule breakers!
Please make this a daily activity instead of a grandstanding action every few years. I forget how long ago it was was when you banned 3000 accounts at once and we've barely heard anything since then as we all have seen and reported obvious BOT activities.
Please set up stings with fake sites offering to buy (most important) and sell isk/ships /mods. Crush the bogus accounts set up to buy large amounts of ISK, mods and ships for resale and search it out to find the related accounts and crush them. Smack the accounts of players who are just wanting to puff up their accounts buying ISK , mods or a ship or two. Keep an eye on them for a renewal of such bad behavior later on, then eventually crush those who cannot learn from their mistakes.
Use your ability to create a year old account to sell them ISK which has an identifier embedded which will turn the ISK into melted snowballs the first time it's transfered from the illegal seller.
Bite the bullet and drop your prices below their break-even point until the ISK sellers go out of business. Or drop the price a little and throw in some bonus ammo, or one off shuttles, or Cheat Busters t-shirts for avatars. Put something with the purchase of a plex which the cheaters cannot match while making it uncomfortable for anyone buying illegal plex.
Tie down isk transfers from new accounts, like a max per a set period of time which increases each month for a the first year, but make any amount possible with a fast track petition where legit transfers can be vetted and happen in seconds.
It is just so hard to believe we players can see so much cheating and also see so little done about it. Turn that around, will ya!?!?
These are just some quick ideas which may be full of issues, but your team of people being paid to come up with good ideas transparent and seamless to players, but which could establish a pattern of rule breaking are quite possible to develop. Make the players feel the rulles are a level playing ground for all to follow. The rest of the game is horribly skewed to those with an advantage of more skills, larger corps/alliances - but at least make who has to follow the rules a level playing field. |