question for GM's

I agree that a lot of AH activity could use a look by GMs, but a lot of other things in this thread seem to be pure opinion.
On a side note; why is that gilselling website still around, I thought SE could just send a notice to the host/registrar and have the whole thing shut down in a matter of days.

Different jurisdictions and laws etc.

You can't just make someone in X country take down a site if you're in Y country yourself. You *might* be able to if your country has certain agreements put in place with the other country, but that might not always be the case. What's illegal one country might not be illegal in others, especially when it comes to something relatively new like selling series of 0s and 1s in a video game.

I'm pretty sure SE has used legal channels to shut down various RMT websites in the past, but these things are like hydras. Chop off one head and two new ones grow out in its place.

The other thing that bugs me are the people who abyssea a job to the top and then use 3rd party programs to level the skills. I've seen people in the area before shinryu spamming magic for hours nonstop at perfect intervals and even them outside jeuno. Its easy to tell they are bots since they don't talk and everything is perfectly in sync. Again where is the STF or GM's while this is going on?

I don't think they are always bots/scripts though, admittedly I have seen a WHM in the area you fight Shinryu and he was spamming cure, yet when people needed a raise he popped out and raised them, and went back his corner after, to keep on skilling.

Funny, I started the grind of getting my Enhancing skill up recently and figured that with a good macro and while paying attention I could cast roughly 800 enhancing spells per hour. If you have the ability to concentrate its VERY possible to get the timing right. You are making accusations with literally no actual proof, just the belief that because you can't (or won't) do it no one else can either.

I also suspect that the "hours non-stop" claim is hyperbole. If you actually stood there for hours watching them why weren't you actually accomplishing something instead of getting worked up over something that hurts no one.

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Originally Posted by Demon6324236

I don't think they are always bots/scripts though, admittedly I have seen a WHM in the area you fight Shinryu and he was spamming cure, yet when people needed a raise he popped out and raised them, and went back his corner after, to keep on skilling.

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Maybe you shouldn't be wiping to Shin in the first place?
I don't remember where it was written in the ToS that a person with raise has to cast it on someone else.

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Originally Posted by Plasticleg

Maybe you shouldn't be wiping to Shin in the first place?
I don't remember where it was written in the ToS that a person with raise has to cast it on someone else.

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What? What I was saying is that apparently that person was actually there, because they were doing something besides skilling. That means not everyone skilling in a corner spamming spells for hours are botters or using 3rd party programs, some are people actually doing it themselves, so you cant just label everyone who does skill like that, as cheaters and ban them.

Did a representative or GM respond to this topic yet? It's been so long I forgot and don't feel like checking the old post. Anyway they'd probably just say go here.

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Originally Posted by Nakts

Easy way to fix RMT is for SE to sell currency themselves, or for idiot players to stop buying gil, just a thought.

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THIS^^It would be like the marketplace that SOE is currently raking in money from on EQ2. Smart game plan imo. thankfully i am one of the lucky ones i played through the gil boom n levi then had to stop playing for quite a few years and boom i can buy anything i want. who knew that selling SH+1 for obscene amounts back when would be my retirement today :P

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Originally Posted by Romulis

THIS^^It would be like the marketplace that SOE is currently raking in money from on EQ2. Smart game plan imo. thankfully i am one of the lucky ones i played through the gil boom n levi then had to stop playing for quite a few years and boom i can buy anything i want. who knew that selling SH+1 for obscene amounts back when would be my retirement today :P

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Just put (LOCK) the known RMT etc. on the chaos server.