Banned for buying and selling character

[PenguinJoe]

In Soviet Canada - Tax Beat You...

[bosshunt]

I wonder though, if I were to log in on EM just at the moment you submitted the sale - who would hesitate to buy that? Not necessarily to blackmail, but to put to own use? All I have to do is check the checkbox, autofill pw and press confirm and it's mine.
What if I buy something for 100 RPs and sell it for 1000 RPs?

Depends whether the seller wanted to transfer his character to another account or not. If he did - you are a cheater, EM sniper! The poor man can barely afford 10RPs for a transfer and you TOOK his character. You stole it you nasty scammer and hacker! Guilty! To the gallows!
If however he just wanted to get rid of it, then all is good. Thank you for your purchase.

[brujohechizero]

I told this **** yesterday I saw the 1111 char and resold for 35000 ecash, emila1985 always sniping EM but.... he bought the fate char legally, I bet if this **** happen to me GMs will not do any **** to help me.... $$$$$$$$ always talk

[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.

[CPG215]

Sooo.. if i leave sz to go buff a friend and someone kills me, can i report the player who killed me and get them banned? Same concept...

[White Arctic Fox]

Sooo.. if i leave sz to go buff a friend and someone kills me, can i report the player who killed me and get them banned? Same concept...

Were you dropped on your head as a child?

[lordzymeth27]

Possible Solution:

1. Unban the "innocent player" who was accused of sniping a char
2. Remove the 35000 RPS from the "innocent player" account and give back his 1111 rps
3. Dont give the "victim player" his 35000 RPS and let this as his lesson learned the hard way

[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

[CPG215]

Were you dropped on your head as a child?

Going off of the content of about 95% of your posts, no more than you were. I can assure you.

Let me attempt to break this down into a grade school level of understanding for you.
Putting your char on EM is like leaving the SZ. You are no longer protected by game mechanics.
When you leave SZ, if you dont want to die, you protect yourself with armor, DD, weap, rings, etc... on EM you would protect your assets by setting a reasonable price.
Setting price at 1,111 is like leaving sz with no weap, no rings, and wearing only E.Fro armor. Sure, some people wont be able to kill you... but there will still be people who can.
Leaving SZ to buff someone would equate to putting it on EM for sole purpose of transferring. Since leaving to buff you would have no intention of PvP. So it would be unfair if someone attacks you, according to your logic.

But, hey, w/e. I guess bending rules and favoritism is a perk of being a GM.
So, because of the outcome of this, if I were to simply place a 115+50 char on EM for 100 RPs with the title as "Transferring accts, dont buy" and someone buys it, they would then be banned and i would get my char back?
I'd be fine with that. Will save me a few RPs next time i want to transfer beze/rulers/chars to other accts.

[knuffl88]

I was also quite surprised the GMs interfered. It's good for Syndicate for sure - BUT I do remember a lot of people losing their chars this way and they got no help at all. Time is changing rules obviously.