Over the last few weeks we banned a couple gold sellers, including an especially stupid specimen that actually went ahead and bought other accounts that is now a bit salty after having those accounts closed not once but multiple times.
Trades involving real currency in exchange for ingame currency / items / accounts are endangering this project, we are therefore forced to make it harder for gold sellers and to that end introduce the following changes:
Tomorrow (done):
You need to be level 7 to use /region, /trade, /lfg, /advice
Characters below level 10 can no longer trade gold with other players
Characters below level 10 can no longer participate in trades with other players that contain items that vendor for more than 1 gold
Over the weekend:
Edit: Here comes teh ban wave
Expect a huge ban wave as we will now automate the detection of duplicate accounts and realm timer circumvention covering all existing accounts instead of only doing sporadic dual log checks of connected clients or as part of working on appeals.
If you have a second account that you haven't logged in for a long time you can report yourself until Friday and the only thing that will happen is a closure of the other account, to report yourself message uthred or vivien in discord.
The announced bans for people who buy gold will be enforced for this particular gold seller. We hope the buyer were at least smart enough to buy via some payment method that supports refunds, we suggest issuing a charge back if possible. Sending proof of the refund will turn the perma ban into a 7 day ban and the removal of all gold.
Sometime between now and next weekend:
Gold will be shared for all characters per account per realm
Gold exchange coins will be removed
Items with a 100% sell back value (primarily housing items) that don't have to be tradeable (transfer deeds etc.) will become untradeable, those that must be tradeable will either see alternatives or also just sell for 50%.
The exchange coin / 100% sell back value item change will come either together with or after gold is shared between all characters on an account per realm.
Sometime next week:
Logins from Virtual Machines will be rejected
Logins from Linux, including Wine / PlayOnLinux will be rejected
Logins from machines that do not produce enough data to uniquely identify them will be rejected
About another week later:
New commands will be added to facilitate gold trade between realms
Gold trades between realms using other methods will be forbidden
Trades involving real currency in exchange for ingame currency / items / accounts are endangering this project, we are therefore forced to make it harder for gold sellers and to that end introduce the following changes:
Tomorrow (done):
You need to be level 7 to use /region, /trade, /lfg, /advice
Characters below level 10 can no longer trade gold with other players
Characters below level 10 can no longer participate in trades with other players that contain items that vendor for more than 1 gold
Over the weekend:
Edit: Here comes teh ban wave
Expect a huge ban wave as we will now automate the detection of duplicate accounts and realm timer circumvention covering all existing accounts instead of only doing sporadic dual log checks of connected clients or as part of working on appeals.
If you have a second account that you haven't logged in for a long time you can report yourself until Friday and the only thing that will happen is a closure of the other account, to report yourself message uthred or vivien in discord.
The announced bans for people who buy gold will be enforced for this particular gold seller. We hope the buyer were at least smart enough to buy via some payment method that supports refunds, we suggest issuing a charge back if possible. Sending proof of the refund will turn the perma ban into a 7 day ban and the removal of all gold.
Sometime between now and next weekend:
Gold will be shared for all characters per account per realm
Gold exchange coins will be removed
Items with a 100% sell back value (primarily housing items) that don't have to be tradeable (transfer deeds etc.) will become untradeable, those that must be tradeable will either see alternatives or also just sell for 50%.
The exchange coin / 100% sell back value item change will come either together with or after gold is shared between all characters on an account per realm.
Sometime next week:
Logins from Virtual Machines will be rejected
Logins from Linux, including Wine / PlayOnLinux will be rejected
Logins from machines that do not produce enough data to uniquely identify them will be rejected
About another week later:
New commands will be added to facilitate gold trade between realms
Gold trades between realms using other methods will be forbidden