A Word of Warning to the New (and Naive)

[nilbog]

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

[letsallkillandy]

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

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

Frowned upon is such an ambiguous term. Why do the staff dance around this subject? This isnt meant as a jab on the staff, I'm merely curious.

[Samoht]

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

Frowned upon is such an ambiguous term. Why do the staff dance around this subject? This isnt meant as a jab on the staff, I'm merely curious.

you give them a relatively safe place to do it, and you can prevent it from transforming into RMT

[Lyra]

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

Frowned upon is such an ambiguous term. Why do the staff dance around this subject? This isnt meant as a jab on the staff, I'm merely curious.

Because they have no way to stop it.

If you have suggestions, I'm sure they would love to hear them. Some ideas have already been researched, but a workable solution has not been found.

[nilbog]

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

Frowned upon is such an ambiguous term. Why do the staff dance around this subject? This isnt meant as a jab on the staff, I'm merely curious.

'Frowned upon' was the classic term for cases like this, if I remember correctly.

I'm not dancing.

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

I have always been opposed to characters being sold or traded. Alas, opposed is not the equivalent of condemned; at least not yet. My official stance to date has been these instances are 'frowned upon'.

When I initially launched the server, there were far more pressing matters on which to attend than policing trades. However, cases of players petitioning they were cheated on deals involving shared or traded accounts, I have declined to offer my assistance. Character sales or trades currently fall under 'at your own risk' situations.

That being said, there will come a time where this is against server rules. I hope that time is sooner than later, but heed this warning. Do not have your account in escrow, trade, or consignment for extended periods of time.

You might ask, how can we stop this? Whether it be through linked forum accounts, access codes, etc, I would prefer to prevent these situations than to seemingly condone them.

[Uggme]

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

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.

[Uggme]

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.

[Samoht]

this is already stickied in the EC forum

[SamwiseRed]

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

[Systolic]

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.