Charging taxes in Lakeshire

[Evertx]

Ingenious! Can we have clarification on whether this is permissible or not?

[Membraniac]

I encourage "third faction" partnerships in all of their forms, so long as they are controlled by different people. In retail TBC (I mention this because there are no flying mounts in Azeroth) I played a hunter and through my adventures met 3 alliance guys who were eventually able to communicate their vent info to me. We had a great time, especially in STV, where I would use my track humanoids ability to gank alliance lowbies as well as lead my friends to the horde. Some of the best times I've ever had playing the game that sadly I don't think I'll relive.

[saintfire]

also the famous Boom the scourge of menethil harbor, who used to mc people and ask for extortion money.

[danker]

Angwe did the same thing on Dethecus, not so much the extorting but he had an ally alt to talk shit to ppl while he ganked them.

[saintfire]

Angwe did the same thing on Dethecus, not so much the extorting but he had an ally alt to talk shit to ppl while he ganked them.

did blizzard make an npc for him?

http://wow.gamepedia.com/Booms

[Eyeful]

Main is ganking while alt is parked, and doing no actions besides banking.

bank·ing : the business conducted or services offered by a bank.

The MB rules clearly state transferring items, enchanting, and banking are allowed on the 2 accounts. Since the alt is banking, it is breaking no rules by being online. The main is there to collect, aka transfer goods [gold] between the alt and the main. It was also not provided if the main and the alt were on at the same time. Given this info, it could sway heavily in favor of the player if the 2 were not on simultaneously. If they were, this post is acting as if they were.

The 2 are also not breaking any rules by using the banking alt to talk with its own faction. The main, being horde, is not using a script to talk to alliance on that character, being opposite faction. While as the alliance alt, being alliance, is not talking to any horde members, but talking to its own faction, alliance. The rules state you are not allowed to talk to opposite faction, in accordance they can understand what you are saying, while being from opposite factions.

In short, he's not breaking any current rules given by the staff on the server. Players might misinterpret the rules to benefit their own agendas, but really, he's not doing anything outside of anything someone playing live retail can do. As posted above, others used MC to control opposite factions to extort gold, using an alt as cash collection.

This doesn't mean however, this server is exactly like retail. The devs can sanction in any rules they want to, because well, it's their server. This doesn't mean players can, because after all, it's not their server.

Enjoy.

[Gazelle]

From the post on multi-boxing:

- Spying on the enemy faction to know where X player is about to gank him.
- Power leveling a character (I.e. using a higher level character to help the lower level one).

so I guess it depends on if these characters were being controlled by the same person or not. If so, I could see them getting dinged for spying and/or power leveling. but if it's two friends I don't think there's anything that can be done.

[Eyeful]

It can't be powerleveling, since horde can't help alliance via party (mob tagging is the only way, and he said it was parked in town). It's also not spying locations, since again, he parked the alt in 1 spot for money transactions.

The only loophole in the case I can see, is if they [devs] curve what "banking" means. Since the ally alt can't "directly" transfer gold or anything between his main, being horde, it would put him into a more grey area in the rules. The alt is still used for banking, since he is using the character for the sole purpose to collect and send money to his main (which I assume is using the neutral AH to transfer), which is still under banking terms.

In all, I think it's a huge bout of rubbish that ganked lowbies are using in a way to remove a creative ganker in game. If he is asked to stop the extortion, it doesn't mean the ganks will stop. Not sure what people are expecting from this at all, expect the fact they didn't think of it first.

[Zaft]

Sorry, but this is hilarious.

[Bezawit]

I also find it amusing but I have a level60 main who was able to gank the hell out of Warrior there.

If I was new on the server and having to deal with this I would probably say f*ck it and go back to where-ever I came from. I completely expect 60s to be ganking lowbies, especially on such a high pop server. But tax-extortion on lowbies? Seriously?