Quote Originally Posted by Sicno View Post
but what about legit players wrongfuly being accused? there are 2 possible scenarios:
I don't mean to be curt, but those are not the only two possible scenarios. I would argue that neither of those situations are even very likely.

In your first scenario, why would a GM launch an extensive investigation if there are no cursory signs of illicit activity? If a player gets reported and after a brief look at their activities, nothing big stands out (no huge amount of gil or items trading hands, no crazy amounts of time logged doing a single thing, etc) I don't think they'd have any reason to delve any deeper.

And in your second scenario that policy would hurt their business and drive players away.

the task force would also have to investigate a lot of erroneous reports too
But I do understand this. If a GM has to investigate every single report, even if most of them only take a couple of minutes, it can add up quick. Though its impossible to be perfectly efficient with these sorts of jobs, other MMOs that I've played only have their GMs look into a player if a sufficient amount of complaints were filed, instead of having them investigate every single report. Which means whatever the player was doing had to be bad enough for multiple people to bother reporting them, which cuts out on a lot of the false alarms.