Trades should go into the log file.

[WarpathEQ]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Definitely untrue by late 1999. As CSR on live I definitely remember punishments being handed out for scamming, etc. It took a little longer since you're dealing with hundreds of thousands of players (that's a lot of logs and petitions) across all servers rather than ~less than 1,000. But scammers were dealt with.

Yeah I didn't mean to imply that there were no punishments at all more that it was like a 1:100 ratio on live versus a 1:1 ratio here. It was very clear that the staff were outmanned and that you could get away with a lot. I did eat a 1 week ban after making ~$350k on the fungi scam (including my loss from being scammed up front that taught me the tactic). That's where the immediate camp out in the strategy came up, the only time I got confronted by CSR was when I didn't camp out and remained in game. When they were already under-resourced the chances of you getting in trouble if you weren't online when they reviewed the petition was extremely minimal.