Ceodore I believe you and I might be on the same page about reporting retainers being a bad move for SE to implement. But then I believe you are saying would be good to give more ability to the player to report gather bots? I mean don't the players already have a means to that? You can call GM and report the suspicious activity. So if that is said then what else could the players have? The ability to temp ban a player if enough reports are put in? This was brought up in another thread about RMT tells and friend requests. The problem with something like that is that it becomes a harassment liability when a group of FC mates who don't like another player for whatever reason decide to mass report that player giving them a temp-ban. Now that player is locked in gaol and cannot play even though he may or may not be guilty.

I mean you don't come out and directly say that but ultimately that is where the conversation would go. And its a place I personally don't want to be in. Not because I'm doing something illegal (because I certainly am not) but because I don't trust the majority judgment of players on this game based on what I've read on this thread and others to boot.