Don't go AFK it's dangerous

[Speeral]

Maybe suspicious activity on the account. Someone could have been trying to hack you. A gm would not just ban for no reason. There's more to this then what the op is letting on in this thread.

[Delsus]

I really don't think someone with a small handful of jobs in the teens could possibly be suspected of botting. You can reach that in a matter of hours. The OP possibly got the account locked out by logging in at a remote location. This happens if you take your laptop to a new wi-fi or log in at a friends hours ect.

I dont think GM's are out and about sending tells to folks to see if they are botting. Even if they did, I don't see anywhere in the ToS that says you owe anyone a response if they send you a tell. And I certainly haven't heard any "Official" statements from the DEV's warning people they need to respond to GM's. Honestly I think they have more important things to do than bot check. Its probably something innocent and routine. Id contact customer service.

They use the method if somone is for example fishing constantly and have been reported, it is part if the investigation on an account that is suspected of botting.

The thinking is that yes you might not reply to a random person, but if you see the [GM] tag on a name you will reply if you arent afk, I know I would, its not random tells its tells directed at people that have already been reported of botting.

Maybe suspicious activity on the account. Someone could have been trying to hack you. A gm would not just ban for no reason. There's more to this then what the op is letting on in this thread.

I would agree with this, or somone who sent the op a tell, then reported them for botting after there was no reply.

[Chocobits]

I afk for days at a time near Aethryte camps, in front of the market wards, and whereever I happen to be when I get bored. This is news to me.

[Nuru]

Its probably a due to some sort of IP lock. Maybe your connection is always reset when you log in, thus, logging in as different IPs each time. I dunno, some connections can be weird like that, just a guess.

[Delsus]

Its probably a due to some sort of IP lock. Maybe your connection is always reset when you log in, thus, logging in as different IPs each time. I dunno, some connections can be weird like that, just a guess.

If the ISP uses Network Address Translation (NAT) this can happen, NAT for anyone that doesnt know translates a local IP to a global IP, it was implemented to prolong the life of IPv4 addresses, its used so all PCs on a network can have a unique IP, which anyone can use, because local IP adresses cannot be used on the internet allowing anyone to use them, the downside is that when you switch your PC on you can get a differant IP address through DHCP from your ISP each time.

This change could trigger SE's IP block system and the only thing you can do is buy a security token which disables the IP block when its activated, its highly unlikely your ISP will reserve an IP address for you if this is how they use DHCP.

Because you have no control over which IP addresses are given through DHCP there isnt much you can do because the ISP has the licences to the address pools which your IP address is chosen from which is why NAT can cause the problems.

If however the ISP is using Port address translation (PAT) which uses ports many people can have the same IP address so the ISP needs a smaller pool of addresses which gives more chance of getting the same IP address.

They will be using some form of address translation because there is not enough IPv4 addresses to go around, most ISPs use PAT because it saves money and is more convinant that NAT, but there will be a few that use NAT for some reason.

Sorry for the technical reply, I just thought I would mention why Nuru's post is relevent.

[Nuru]

If the ISP uses Network Address Translation (NAT) this can happen, NAT for anyone that doesnt know translates a local IP to a global IP, it was implemented to prolong the life of IPv4 addresses, its used so all PCs on a network can have a unique IP, which anyone can use, because local IP adresses cannot be used on the internet allowing anyone to use them, the downside is that when you switch your PC on you can get a differant IP address through DHCP from your ISP each time.

This change could trigger SE's IP block system and the only thing you can do is buy a security token which disables the IP block when its activated, its highly unlikely your ISP will reserve an IP address for you if this is how they use DHCP.

Because you have no control over which IP addresses are given through DHCP there isnt much you can do because the ISP has the licences to the address pools which your IP address is chosen from which is why NAT can cause the problems.

If however the ISP is using Port address translation (PAT) which uses ports many people can have the same IP address so the ISP needs a smaller pool of addresses which gives more chance of getting the same IP address.

They will be using some form of address translation because there is not enough IPv4 addresses to go around, most ISPs use PAT because it saves money and is more convinant that NAT, but there will be a few that use NAT for some reason.

Sorry for the technical reply, I just thought I would mention why Nuru's post is relevent.

lmao, well thank you, i only knew a friend that would log on one of my forums with different IPs all of the time. This sounds familiar but i still don't know what the heck you just said :P <3

Also, to take a wild guess at a solution (if this happens to be the problem), couldn't she just use a proxy?

[Delsus]

lmao, well thank you, i only knew a friend that would log on one of my forums with different IPs all of the time. This sounds familiar but i still don't know what the heck you just said :P <3

Also, to take a wild guess at a solution (if this happens to be the problem), couldn't she just use a proxy?

Lol i tried to make it easy to read but it gets hard, but a proxy could work, the only problem is that they are widely used when people do illegal things on PCs and the internet to throw the police and possible FBI away, so it could look a lil suspicious, but could be worth a try.

[Nuru]

Lol i tried to make it easy to read but it gets hard, but a proxy could work, the only problem is that they are widely used when people do illegal things on PCs and the internet to throw the police and possible FBI away, so it could look a lil suspicious, but could be worth a try.

Oh i see, so how would you know if your ISP was using NAT? Other than having to check your IP every now and then. Probably best for the OP to look into this and figure out a way to change services if this is the case.

[yukikaze_yanagi]

every connection with dinamic ip change ip number every time you turn on/off your modem. that's why usually security system track the raw position of your connection.
The ip block of SE work like that, if it check a connection from a far different place you usually connect, it can be seen like an hack try.
You logged from a different place ?

[Delsus]

every connection with dinamic ip change ip number every time you turn on/off your modem. that's why usually security system track the raw position of your connection.
The ip block of SE work like that, if it check a connection from a far different place you usually connect, it can be seen like an hack try.
You logged from a different place ?

Not necicerrily, if the ISP uess port translation they can run all customers with 10 IP addresses, because the port id is the unique part, which would not trigger an IP block.