Petition for permanent IP ban punishment option

[SirAlvarex]

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

Permanent IP bans are not a solution, period. Many have made the reasons quite clear in this thread.

I think people are REALLY overstating the RMT problem on the server. People who think prices are going up everywhere because of RMT are not thinking the situation all the way through.

Honestly, RMT has very little impact on the economy. RMT isn't why Fungis are now 85k.

I don't know what a good solution is for permanent bannings. I just don't think it is possible on an emulated server. At least on live servers you can require the person to pay for the game with each banning, but that never even stopped them.

I just don't think the technology exists to permanently stop a person from creating an account and logging onto the server. The best practice is to probably simply delevel/strip all associated toons on banned accounts, as well as all mule accounts associated with them. At least force them to level up new characters and rebuild their wealth from scratch again.

You make a good point. RMT isn't the reason stuff is more expensive (tons of "old" players that came back had tons of cash due to farming Seafurries when they would drop up to 5k an hour *while being uberly over camped*).

But RMT is the one thing that could shut the server down if Sony were to want to. Right now Sony's only weapon is burying the server owners in legal fees, as they aren't doing anything that is illegal. But if *someone* were to profit off the game via direct "pay for play" rewards, then that is more than enough leg to stand on to shut the server down.

And for what it's worth, Smed loves that this server exists. So I'd prefer it if some D-Bags didn't give him a reason to change his stance...