Gold Sellers

[QT_Melon]

Actually, SE could have a case. I'm not so sure on Japanese/EU law, but SE owns all the digital stuff even though it doesn't exist physically. That's why you aren't allowed to sell your character. SE owns your characters, items, gil, everything. You don't own anything. Gil is not the gil sellers to sell. That's theft. Even though the item is digital. Anyone buying gil can be charged with "Receiving Stolen Property". SE prolly doesn't take action against violators other than a temp/perma ban because can you imagine the articles that would come out? "SE sues customer(s)!"

You don't understand it at all.

China doesn't recognize international copyright laws. If they aren't part of the Berne treaty, there is no case. Plain and simple. Berne is an international treaty for groups to sign copyright laws and recognize it. Another problematic region is also Iran.



On the subject of capping /tells on a level. That's not a good solution given that RMT bots have been known to level 50, and you'd see them queueing in various zones or hang around Mor Dhona in clusters.

What would be best is editing the filter settings on searches. I also think this would be good for privacy, although this is rated Teen, parents could have a lock if their kid is searchable to begin with. If people could set themselves to invisible on the search filter than just /busy. It can also cut down on abuse and spam. It should be a player's choice even if this an MMO whether or not people can search for them in general in case of issues with harassment. This would also kill bots from using a wide filter result to spam people given that /busy is the only choice people have from being searchable.

Busy prevents all tells. Whereas if someone is invisible a person on the friend's list could still send a tell to see if the player will respond.
Busy also prevents ready checks from being done properly. It's interfering with gameplay because someone is forced to be /busy to avoid tell spam.
Busy makes it hard for players to invite another as well.

So the status filters need to be adjusted. Invisible, Away, Busy, Online.

[Lucke]

You don't understand it at all.
China doesn't recognize international copyright laws. If they aren't part of the Berne treaty, there is no case. Plain and simple. Berne is an international treaty for groups to sign copyright laws and recognize it. Another problematic region is also Iran.

No, I understand perfectly. Since most sellers are untouchable, you gotta go after the buyers. SE could ban all Chinese IPs from accessing the servers, but then they'll just get proxies. SE have to do everything it can to make gilsellers access to the game as tedious as possible.

I do like the idea of account banning and not just character banning.

[KisaiTenshi]

So the status filters need to be adjusted. Invisible, Away, Busy, Online.

Busy needs to be auto-disabled when "commence" is clicked on DF. In practice, the "busy" is meant for Do-not-disturb, eg "I'm busy crafting right now", as opposed to the current mechanism which is self-defeating and breaking intended communication mechanics.

Perhaps another mechanic is in order, on the order of "invisible" but just disables /tells from search options/right-click menus.