I would like to thank (finally) NCSoft for taking a little care of boters. I have been playing lineage since 2004 however moved to GW2 three year ago, but was thinking about coming for Helios and to have a look about bot situation, I see this. I do hope to be able to return to this very addictive game, but at least mostly bot free. I do strongly suggest to put adena penalty on boters too. At GW2 if you been buying/boting gold/items from RMT's you have all your gold confiscated and warning, it scares buyers. Why not to confiscate appropriate amount of adena from people who were banned as a warning? If the person doesn't have that amount of penalty to put his wallet to minus. It should be possible to implement it technically.
However great job, looking towards future and maybe I will be able to enjoy L2 again.
+1. The people who actually bought adena they were greedy and lazy in the first place.
.1st you can buy high demand items from Nstore Events which will be bought in minutes if the price is adjusted right so you have your adena even without killing a single mob or entering a single instance.
2nd the people didn`t wanted to buy anything fro NCstore cause they think they`re above the law and can get away with it buy buying overpriced items - cause you don`t put any effort anyway.
The best way to fight lobbyist is to strip of the illegal material(in this case virtual fortune) and giving a warning.
Same situation if a crook which gained all his wealth by illegal activity gets into prison - he knows in case hes out the stuff will be there. And even the sentence is minor compared that the person would never earn legally the rightful amount of income. (So at the end was totally worth it)
The same people also scammed NCWest all the time by not addressing that the issue with bots exist cause they were the ones who paid actually for all the bot activity in the first place for such long time and they financed the wrong side all the time.