Banned for buying and selling character

[PenguinJoe]

Hold on here there are some problems with this statement.

1: Moving characters to another account? Why would someone do that? starts with R ends with MT just saying.

I've done that more than a few times. Comes in handy when you multi-client alt accts and need to suffle your chars across those accts. It aint all about RMT. You know as well as I do that most people that RMT do it for whole accounts.

2: 10 seconds? this thing was up for a whole 10 seconds? that throws the em bot script out the window and if it was a guy transferring a character to another account it doesnt take 10 seconds to log in. In fact I can make transfers instantly because we have this thing called private browsing and browser profiles.

A couple things here. Snipe bot scripts are not event driven. They are polled. And not everyone is gonna run run them with a 1 second polling interval. More like 5-10 sec polling. Which could very well make this a snipe bot.
The other thing is not everyone is as browser-savvy as you bouncing between browsers. I am also guessing that Karazy threw that '10 seconds' out there as a generalization TO MAKE A POINT. I doubt he is gonna give you the EXACT time between listing and sale. I would bet it was a lot less then 10 sec.

3: The purchaser didnt "take" anything. He purchased a char from the EM like normal people do seems to me like the system is working as intended.

He did indeed. But think about it. Who in their right mind sells a 115 +50 character for 1.1k rps? Only someone trying to transfer it and beat some EM tax.
4: Bot scripts on the EM dont take 10 seconds to run lets be serious here this sounds to me like a case of OP getting lucky and taking advantage of somebody doing something they shouldn't be doing. The guy that grabbed Fate knew exactly what he was doing.

I have transferred boss drops and characters over the EM and this guy made many mistakes. Most notably putting his 115+50 char which is worth at least 50k rps up for 1k... something that just about everyone should have.

You wana know what would make this story funny? if the 10 seconds was OP charging rps and he still managed to get the char.

These new GMs are so carebear rofl if any of the ye-olde gms were here no action would be taken srsly.

Just guessing here but I suspect Fate's owner was trying to keep from paying the 5000 rps in EM tax and thought he could do it quickly enough not to get sniped. I suppose he learned he can't.

[sunnyangel]

I've done that more than a few times. Comes in handy when you multi-client alt accts and need to suffle your chars across those accts. It aint all about RMT. You know as well as I do that most people that RMT do it for whole accounts.
oh ya old man? did you advertise that you were selling that character days before you sold it? And what possible motive does this guy have to transfer his character anyways? considering how long he spent lvling it why transfer now?
A couple things here. Snipe bot scripts are not event driven. They are polled. And not everyone is gonna run run them with a 1 second polling interval. More like 5-10 sec polling. Which could very well make this a snipe bot.
The other thing is not everyone is as browser-savvy as you bouncing between browsers. I am also guessing that Karazy threw that '10 seconds' out there as a generalization TO MAKE A POINT. I doubt he is gonna give you the EXACT time between listing and sale. I would bet it was a lot less then 10 sec.
Even if it was it doesnt prove that the person used a snipe bot.


He did indeed. But think about it. Who in their right mind sells a 115 +50 character for 1.1k rps? Only someone trying to transfer it and beat some EM tax.
4: Bot scripts on the EM dont take 10 seconds to run lets be serious here this sounds to me like a case of OP getting lucky and taking advantage of somebody doing something they shouldn't be doing. The guy that grabbed Fate knew exactly what he was doing.
Somebody whos transferring characters for cash and in a rush. If he was transferring on his own you would be damn sure that nobody is gonna snipe it. This guy was careless because if the money is in paypal already he can be careless.


Just guessing here but I suspect Fate's owner was trying to keep from paying the 5000 rps in EM tax and thought he could do it quickly enough not to get sniped. I suppose he learned he can't.

The guy grinded thousands of hours and all of a sudden after he hits +50 its time to transfer? come on

At the end of the day old man this guy took a risk by using the EM to do something it is not built to do and it didnt pan out. Instead we are punishing OP who clearly took advantage of the situation like any cut throat rohan player would.

What are you trying to say there is a hidden good samaritan rule?

Lets be serious here the issue resolved itself and didnt require any GM intervention.

1: Fate got sniped because he doesnt know how to xfer
2: OP Sold the character back to fate for 35k rps which is a slap on the wrist considering OP could have kept the char for himself.

Looks like Fate got his char back and OP got his payday reward so why do we need to ban anyone again? oh right EM snipe bot rumors like this is 2009 or something.

[ronaldo01]

The guy grinded thousands of hours and all of a sudden after he hits +50 its time to transfer? come on

At the end of the day old man this guy took a risk by using the EM to do something it is not built to do and it didnt pan out. Instead we are punishing OP who clearly took advantage of the situation like any cut throat rohan player would.

What are you trying to say there is a hidden good samaritan rule?

Lets be serious here the issue resolved itself and didnt require any GM intervention.

1: Fate got sniped because he doesnt know how to xfer
2: OP Sold the character back to fate for 35k rps which is a slap on the wrist considering OP could have kept the char for himself.

Looks like Fate got his char back and OP got his payday reward so why do we need to ban anyone again? oh right EM snipe bot rumors like this is 2009 or something.

GM's tryna fix flaws on EM that THEY created, Just like you said....there is no need for a ban here, If someone is retarded enough to put is +50 char up on em for 1000 rp this should be a lesson well learned for him, Situations like this is probly the ONLY time gms wanna act like the " good guys " and be " caring " about the players,

but when it comes to upgraded weapons,

delayed balance patches,

stupid e-cash system

etc.

then the Gms are all quiet....this whole thing smells so bad, But i guess this is the only time gms can play the nice guys cause on all other aspects of this game they already stopped doing it