shard yeilding

[Simurgi]

Create a server tool which propagates a player in every zone. Any tells this player receives goes to a GM, or SE employee. As this player is not in the world, the only tells they will get is from BOTS cycling through the player list in each zone.

At this point, the GM or SE employee can right click their name in the chat box. They will have the option to BAN that account. A screen capture, or log of the offending RMT message will then emailed to the player showing why his account was banned.

This takes care of tells for RMT. Shouts could work similarly, except the players would have a right-click option to submit for RMT review that would then be forwarded to the GM, or SE employee.

The bot problem would still exist, albeit temporarily. With the outlets to sell the RMT transactions eradicated, there would eventually be no incentive to BOT for RMT.

[Mortechai]

Hello everyone,

Here's a slightly more in-depth follow-up regarding the shards and RMT activity.

We are not planning to address the RMT activity related to shards by making adjustments to game balance, instead we will be individually tracking RMT activity and handling them.

Right. And yet legitimate players must remain paranoid about making any money at all for fear of having all their gil taken and their accounts swept. A friend of mine whom I've been playing SE MMO's with for 12 years just had his account swept clean by SE because they THOUGHT he might have been engaging in RMT activity. I can say with 100% certainty that he would never engage in such behaviour and the continual persecution and punishment of honest players for simply playing the market and making smart economic decisions is only going to drive people away from the game.

[Mikedizzy]

I'd have to agree with the above posts. Nodes should give more than one. Or at least, we should have an alternate way of getting shards. Shards given from leves are much too sporadic. I don't mind farming up mats while crafting, however, if I can avoid spending 5 hrs farming shards I would like that very much. And yes I have the option of buying them, but I would rather save my money for other things.

There is an alternate way and that if fighting the mobs that drop them and then you can get up to 5 I think per drop and even some crystals depending on the level of the mob. They have to keep it at 1 per node or people could not make any money on the boards for them and that would not be good for the gatherers who count on them for income.

[Shallowdeep]

On Topic
With the way that we gather shards.
I would like to see implemented, that if you are gathering shards you get more shards if you hit an HQ. Depending on you gear you can get more shards if you have more perception and like other nodes you get HQ mat..
With Shards you should be able to get more shards if you can hit it as HQ.

I still would like to see other ways to get shards besides gathering. It is a tidiest way of getting way of getting shards for crafting.

[ShinkuTachi]

On Topic
With the way that we gather shards.
I would like to see implemented, that if you are gathering shards you get more shards if you hit an HQ. Depending on you gear you can get more shards if you have more perception and like other nodes you get HQ mat..

With Shards you should be able to get more shards if you can hit it as HQ.

I still would like to see other ways to get shards besides gathering. It is a tidiest way of getting way of getting shards for crafting.

That is a great idea, and I added it to the list of suggestions that can be found HERE, at my question for Live Letter X.

Please everyone, click the link to the question and 'like' the question to let the devs know that you would like to see some changes concerning shard gathering.

Thank you, everyone ^_^

[AnimaAnimus]

SE should just set up a few bogus gil-seller websites that they can change the name of periodically and advertise via /sh here and there (not spam like we see today but if they do it mildly its fine) then when someone goes to buy gil BAM account banned!

This would get rid of the gil buyers and sellers in one swoop. Buyers because of the insta-ban and sellers because it would create fear in buyers of an insta-ban so ppl would be less likely to buy. 2 birds with 1 stone.

As for shards, they should make them standard mob drops like in xi and v1 anyway. Forcing a crafter to not only farm items but also 10 shards for 1 synth is pretty nasty

[Maku]

SE should just set up a few bogus gil-seller websites that they can change the name of periodically and advertise via /sh here and there (not spam like we see today but if they do it mildly its fine) then when someone goes to buy gil BAM account banned!

In the states I believe you call it "entrapment" and thus it would be maybe not illegal but unethical for sure.

[Cegiana]

Right. And yet legitimate players must remain paranoid about making any money at all for fear of having all their gil taken and their accounts swept. A friend of mine whom I've been playing SE MMO's with for 12 years just had his account swept clean by SE because they THOUGHT he might have been engaging in RMT activity. I can say with 100% certainty that he would never engage in such behaviour and the continual persecution and punishment of honest players for simply playing the market and making smart economic decisions is only going to drive people away from the game.

I agree completely, my wife and I put a TON of time into 10-1.23, 60+ hours per week combined (give or take) while it was out. We didn't do any synthing what-so-ever, not even 1 synth in the whole time that the game was out, so as a result, we ended up with 30-40 thousand of each type of shard, around a thousand of each crystal and a small amount of clusters (across 4 characters total.) We were afraid to sell the shards because we thought we would get banned since SE doesn't actually look at the individuals before banning, it's a software that looks at your actions and bans you, no human brain involved so we were afraid that we would be seen as RMT because of our high amount of shards. We finally caved in and made more gil that we thought shards would ever make us. Now we play the waiting game, will our legacy accounts be banned for playing 1.0 and selling the drops? Only time will tell...

[CianaIezuborn]

SE should just set up a few bogus gil-seller websites that they can change the name of periodically and advertise via /sh here and there (not spam like we see today but if they do it mildly its fine) then when someone goes to buy gil BAM account banned!

Hi NotSonyBogusGilSeller, I'd like to purchase $1 dollar worth of gil. My character name? Yes, it's Lynara Zerrshia. Oh no you banned me! You've outsmarted me again Yoshi with your superior wits! When will I learn

[AnimaAnimus]

Hi NotSonyBogusGilSeller, I'd like to purchase $1 dollar worth of gil. My character name? Yes, it's Lynara Zerrshia. Oh no you banned me! You've outsmarted me again Yoshi with your superior wits! When will I learn

yeah that could be an issue lol

since I have never purchased gil or gold in any game Im not exactly sure how it works, but I guess all they need is your char name. Ok I rescind my idea lol