OK, it doesn't take a genius or someone with 20/20 vision to be aware of the adena sellers in game right now. In fact, all you have to do is stand by any gatekeeper and you can normally spot 2-3 without even trying.
1 will be advertising via a package "sale" with the website details in the sale message and 1-2 will be doing the same via normal sales.
And then all 3 toons will be spamming white chat about it.
I used to report all these toons but ask myself "why bother?".
1 or even 2 days later the same toons are still in place advertising their website.
So much for reporting adena sellers.
And, to be quite frank, NCSoft should be being proactive about it. All they need do is port between towns and they will be able to identify and ban 30 toons a day without much effort.
Yeah, I know - pigs will be flying first. :rolleyes:
take a few screenshots and you 'll realize it's not the same toons. They ban them but since accounts are free it takes them 20 seconds to create a new account and get right back to advertising their site.
That's the problem with f2p, they need low level GMs online 24/7 taking care of those sell/buy shops, shouts, friend messaging ads ... and it's painfully obvious NCWest were woefully unprepared for what Free to play would bring
Also what they do is see who the spammer interacts with, part of finding who actually is running the adena selling operation, then they can ban the whole network instead of one account
i remember way back in the day when i started playin L1 with the Heine expansion, i got a 7 day ban for jus sayin "WTF" on the TI message board. Now ppl getting away with bots and adena selling, and i'm like WTF happened? lol.
@ Zuff : No they are not unprepared.
I quit Lineage 2 or 3 years ago cause of one reason:
Bots....bots.....bots........bots and even more bots + Gold Seller. I suppose 2/3 of the server population were bots. They destroyed the whole economy......and guess what NC Soft did....almost nothing.
Forget about the sellers...anybody who bots and or buys delete their account no and ifs or buts.
If the buyers lose everything and have to start again then either they will quit or stop buying either one is good.
As for the bots pvp or clan if they get deleted and lose their clan nobody will join them so they will stay legit and enforce their members to be legit.
Starting the new servers & ftp is opportunity to kill buying & botting before it takes hold and destroys this game like it did before!
The problem begins with botting. Stop the botting, and the gold selling won't be so widespread. Or at the very least adena will become more expensive and less attractive. The shouts by themselves, aren't a problem (to me at least).
The problem begins with botting. Stop the botting, and the gold selling won't be so widespread. Or at the very least adena will become more expensive and less attractive. The shouts by themselves, aren't a problem (to me at least).