For those complaining about how this is causing inflation: It's not. It's removing an artificial source of deflation and the prices are returning to the levels they are supposed to be at. All is well, especially if you're an ethical miner or producer, since you no longer have to compete with cheating smacktards.

We might have higher mineral prices, but I'd rather see a bunch of cheating smacktards cry and have to pay more for ships than the game go into a downward spiral because prices are artificially low, we're all paying the same prices effectively and industry has been given a shot in the arm after being bled dry by entitled little cliff dwellers who don't even play the game.

In the short term it's painful on the wallet, in the long term it's better for the game.

Unless CCP Sreegs stops, I'm pretty sure there will be more

I hope he has been given a permanent contract and stays with CCP for a long time. His work makes up for so much that I could ... *sniff* ... cry!

There, I said it.

Wow, you have sure changed your tune.

However, since its for the better, I shall join you in a little sniffle.

This is a good move but it will only be effective if the bans are "forever" because 2 week bans wont do crap and all people will forgot about this until next year.

i understand but cheating should not give you a second change.

i understand but cheating should not give you a second change.

Oh, the righteous tears of those who break the rules and get butthurt about being punished.

"rider23: I was botting 20hrs/day, on 4 accounts, all banned (+1 extra!) for 2 weeks. 2 remain. Now, without botting I have no other way to make isk and get plexes for all accounts even for my main. So there is no way to play for FREE. FREE? Hmm, seems that CCP have problems with their funding to support company, servers, etc.

So, I will let them eat my s**t, and on my 2 remaining unblocked accounts I have started the process to return all characters to the virtual biomass, where they virtually came from. Subscriptions already canceled."

Lawl.

Im loving the new Jita prices :)

Say, as someone fairly new to this game, where is this Jita I've heard about? I'm guessing it's the trading center of the game.

With all the bans going out I wonder if some people have been mistakenly banned? Loving the new mineral prices though ^_^. Sucks for people who dont have time mine though.

It is, and a complete cess pool, do yourself a favour and don't look at local if you go there. You might wish to avoid it after the 28th.

Hehe, I will bear that in mind. Being that it's in Caldari space (from what I saw from that link), once I get around to getting marketing up to level 5 (not before I get my retriever though), I'll put stuff up to sell remotely. :)

An advice. If one day you'll go to Jita, NEVER, EVER TRUST OR BELIEVE what you read. ANYTHING said in that chat WILL get your money. ANYONE opening a trade to you there will replace the item you want with a piece of rubbish in 1/100 second while you push the trade button. Whatever happens do NOT trust anybody, anything, anywhere, any *.* in there.

This is a good move but it will only be effective if the bans are "forever" because 2 week bans wont do crap and all people will forgot about this until next year.

I don't know if they realize it but putting wallets into negative is pretty much a 1-strike policy. There is no way people are going to try and work their way out of a 10-20bil negative wallet. And since you can't upgrade your clone, make contracts, or do anything really, that account is essentially dead. I can understand the no trading characters after a ban, but if they want to try and make players good after a ban and keep them, they would take away assets on the 2nd or 3rd strike.

The two week ban by itself may not do anything, but also take away the money made while botting and flag their accounts so they can't transfer characters? That hurts them. Here's a quote from a botter:

With all the bans going out I wonder if some people have been mistakenly banned? Loving the new mineral prices though ^_^. Sucks for people who dont have time mine though.

Can they pay the market fee for a plex sale with negative wallet?

Can they pay the market fee for a plex sale with negative wallet?

\o/ Would love to see some juicy ban stats.

Probably. The tax gets deducted after the amount went into your wallet. But if not, then I am not going to bother about it.

I will make a dev blog with some stats in a few weeks.

We've got a lot of stuff going on at the moment on this front which is taking up a lot of my time. Once that is over and we have some good data, I'll put together a dev blog.