Thatoneguy wrote:You got banned for buying and you think that sellers should get caught.
I agree, but I disagree that buyers should go free. Gold trafficking requires 2 people, not one. Both people should be permanently banned.
You got me wrong. I said that banning an account of a goldseller is like a drop in an ocean. Hell, you don't even need to pay to create account here. Set 100 more bots and you are done. In this case toon would be leveled again and gold farmed from scratch. As for gold buyers you are right too, but that is a second queue, because eventually there will be less people who will have balls to have a gold BUT the gold would cost much less for the same reason meaning the loopy loop and returning players back to their dealers

. And for no mean i said you need to set free gold buyer, again i said that you need to be super sure to know who exaclty you are banning.
I believe there are a lot of bans for botting, especially chineese guys got reported a alot. The reason i think this is thats the loop. Online of about 13k people, you can't quest, you are made to go grind, and there is no communication between chineese people and english speaking guys, so eventually that poor grinding dude will got a lot of reports, and when gm comes to check this guy, he won't be able to respone too fast cause he was making a tea and ran into a mount with numlock pressed. And vice versa, the bot wont be reported as ppl would this it is just another one non communicative chineese guy(ofc its exaggerated and look like a dumb
justification, tho even situations like this could be happen and taken in count)
That is indeed a loop. Loopy loop.
As i stated in my first message i'm not saying whoever nostalrius should ban or not, i just said that the way the chose is far from being efficiently. The simple example is that now i'm leaving (not trying to say i mean smth big for server/commynity) and my buddy made to leave with me

(However i'm sure he'll calm down and got back)
Nevertheless i realise that its pretty hard to drive a community of so much people and you are no way without any semi automatic systems. All i said is that it should be optimized.
Here is an example of huge hole of this system nostalrius currently have: lets say you got huge load of gold (it could be from a friend to motivate you play/guildies to loan you or helping getting mats for legendaries or you just bought it) on this moment you aren't getting banned, as gms are not wizards to see why the hell you got it. After that you triggering that anti gold buying system somehow (mailing several mails with gold, trading to your 1st level friends, or whatever it works). Now you are banned. You log in into forums, asking for apealing, and yet review of a case showing that someone indeed gave you gold. On this point it won't even matter who gave gold to you. It just happened. So according to review of case ,indeed, you received gold "from nowhere" meaning you didnt traded something priceful enough for it in game. The case is now closed, you are free to create new account.
Sorry for my English btw.