Account buying, selling, or trading has always been frowned upon. Safest bet is to always play your own character.

i cant stand playing toons i didnt level and gear myself. yall are weirdos.

I understand that now.

The whole reason I made the thread was to give a real example of the kinds of things that happen when you buy accounts. I'm trying to be helpful, please don't jump down my throat about it. The realization that I have to start from scratch again is bad enough.

starting from scratch is the best part.

I disagree, but that's another subject for another thread.

That sucks, Systolic. :(

As a new player hanging out in EC collecting pelts last night, I saw a few people post that they were selling accounts for plat. I was pretty surprised by it, thinking "Is this even OK?"

The answer is no, apparently.

Well the sale isn't technically against the rules, but RMT clearly is, and the prior owner was involved in it so he was flagged to be banned and tried to dump the account off (which he did).

Aye, the true moral of this story is this: DO NOT BUY ACCOUNTS!

Roll a character, play it. It's easy. Remember, it's supposed to be fun doing this. If the "leveling" aspect of playing the game is not longer fun then you might want to consider doing something else seeing as that's the main means of getting entertainment out of this server :)

The end game content currently is an overall shitfest devoid of any enjoyment for the most part.

Anywho, good luck! If you're a true fan of EQ I hope you play again on a brand new account. I've never played on P99 before so I was literally flat broke to start with. It's been about a month ago and thus far it's been a blast! Plat and twinking =/= fun.

There are threads on this forum indicating that the staff does NOT condone the sale of accounts. It IS against the rules, they simply have no legitimate means of preventing it. Staff has also gone on record indicating that as soon as they do have a means to prevent account sales, they will.

So it's best to just go with the rules of the server and not buy accounts. Period.

It's a shame that happened, but you shouldn't be trying to buy or sell accounts in the first place. It's not in the true spirit of EQ, and I think it's even a little immoral.