Account Selling

[yaeger]

I'm assuming that each account has an IP address associated with it. Just lock each account to that IP address. Bam! No account switching/selling.

[username17]

Originally Posted by loneless999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

X rmt account seller website here already has a load of project 1999 accounts up for sale on there forum for RMT

basically you wont be able to stop it if people want to sell the accounts for plat / items / real money they will regardless of who says they cant

best you let them do it here where you can monitor it rather than other MMO trading forums

Way to advertise Loneless. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[loneless999]

Originally Posted by username17 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Way to advertise Loneless. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

sorry i know stupid of me

[Muzyn]

Originally Posted by yaeger [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm assuming that each account has an IP address associated with it. Just lock each account to that IP address. Bam! No account switching/selling.

Sure, won't affect me any, but atleast 98% of the population has a dynamic IP from their internet provider and won't be too happy.

[KilyenaMage]

Yeah it's pretty hilarious. And VERY clear that some players are in the GMs pockets.

I got suspended last night for "KSing" a mob....that I didn't even get the kill on. Couldn't loot the mob. It was Dvin in crushbone and some lvl 50 shammy (that i didnt see) was PLing a group of lowbies.

No questions asked....instant suspension. Hmmmmmmm.

[KilyenaMage]

Originally Posted by Noselacri [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The reason, I'm guessing, is that they don't have dozens of professionally hired GMs to deal with this sort of thing. It's not exactly hard to get away with buying a character, especially if you buy one that isn't well known (one of these hypothetical PL-to-50 deals), so they would have a lot of trouble policing it. Thus, instead of having the inevitable drama of everyone accusing everyone of being a purchased character, they allow it. Most of us, and I'm assuming the admins included, would prefer if it didn't happen at all, but it's unavoidable.

RMT has to be disallowed because it compromises the server since it operates on the sole premise of SOE not crushing EQEmu, something that hasn't happened because there isn't a real-world currency business involved. However, there hasn't been a server as hugely popular as this one before, and if RMT was to become widespread, SOE might start to take an interest. It would be hard for Nilbog to prove in court that they're not the ones making money off of character sales, especially because they very easily could. A private WoW server recently got sued for $80mil because the operator was offering in-game services of some kind for real money, and another classic EQ project (unrelated to EQEmu) was ordered to cease and desist by Sony one or two years ago despite not involving any kind of profit at all and not even being launched yet. I'm sure the p1999 guys want to avoid that sort of thing, even if they can't stop the much more common and more easily accessible plat-for-toons trades.

It doesn't matter if they're well known or not. Just get your hands in a GMs pocket then have them change the name of the toon you bought.

[KilyenaMage]

Originally Posted by Noselacri [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Hard to say unless they make a rule about it. I wouldn't mind if they do, but I also don't have as big of a problem with toon-buying as some seem to. I suspect it'll decline considerably in Kunark, though, because the 50s take so long that PLing through them is barely an option. By then, character selling might be reduced to people who want to actually reroll, and not people making a business out of PLing characters to sell them, if that in fact happens.

Actually it's going to INCREASE in kunark. The zones offer even faster xp from PLing, and the population is likely to increase as well.

Kunark makes many more classes top-tier, so classes like rogues, rangers, bards will be getting PLed.

Sure PLing 51-60 isn't gonan be viable. But 1-50 will be just that much faster -- as will gearing toons in planar gear.

[nilbog]

Originally Posted by KilyenaMage [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah it's pretty hilarious. And VERY clear that some players are in the GMs pockets.

Just get your hands in a GMs pocket then have them change the name of the toon you bought.

As ridiculous as your statements are, trolling GMs is a no-no. I wouldn't recommend you do it in the future.