Crafting Signatures

[Archadius]

Hello,

Is there a way to remove crafting signatures from an item? (be it crafted by your own hand, or by someone else's)

As far as I've seen there is not an option to turn these off or remove them.

Thanks!

[MilesSaintboroguh]

There is no way.

[Lukha]

If it's a stackable item, you can change the signature by stacking it with items created by someone else, but I'm not sure how the dominant name is determined.

[Archadius]

If it's a stackable item, you can change the signature by stacking it with items created by someone else, but I'm not sure how the dominant name is determined.

That's interesting, thank you!

I wonder if there is some way to do the same for items that don't stack (like equipment) though... Some friends of mine are running into a serious abuse problem (thanks to the craft signature feature) that I'm pretty sure is a violation of the ToS.

[Garlyle]

That's interesting, thank you!

I wonder if there is some way to do the same for items that don't stack (like equipment) though... Some friends of mine are running into a serious abuse problem (thanks to the craft signature feature) that I'm pretty sure is a violation of the ToS.

If someone's harassing them for being part of a market, your friends should report those players to GMs, as harassment is absolutely against the ToS.

[Archadius]

If someone's harassing them for being part of a market, your friends should report those players to GMs, as harassment is absolutely against the ToS.

I completely agree, but the problem is that we can't pin-point the player(s) doing the griefing and causing the issue in the first place. All we can see are people who send angry tells, but these people are just fellow crafters getting screwed over by the griefer(s). They think it's my friends doing the griefing since their signatures appear on the items, but someone else is buying items and re-listing them in attempts to tarnish my friends' reputations...

[StouterTaru]

So these angry tells are coming from people being "harassed" by your friend's gear undercutting them on the MB? The tells are the greifing, not the undercutting.

[Devils_Lawyer]

I completely agree, but the problem is that we can't pin-point the player(s) doing the griefing and causing the issue in the first place. All we can see are people who send angry tells, but these people are just fellow crafters getting screwed over by the griefer(s). They think it's my friends doing the griefing since their signatures appear on the items, but someone else is buying items and re-listing them in attempts to tarnish my friends' reputations...

Wait so people who craft in this game gets griefed by a person that has a item with your friend(s) name on it and they think its his/her fault?

Sounds like a completely new level of stupidity in my oppinion.

[Archadius]

I have some more information to make the issue clearer as it's not as simple as "player(s) buy stuff then re-list and undercut" (though that would be stupid anyways as you'd never make any money...).

Basically there is this... "faction" let's call it, that own a bunch of retainers between them, and work together to not only undercut, but also target specific individuals and attempt to drive them out of the market by using the craft sig feature to tarnish that crafter's rep. Essentially some of my crafter friends are now being associated with this "faction" when in reality they hate them just as much as everyone else. Other players don't see that though, they see "items crafted by XYZ, therefore XYZ is part of the problem", and as you can imagine... it's extremely bad for business.

I'm not really sure what to suggest for them. Blacklisting everyone doesn't solve the problem, and there's not much sense in reporting a player who's just upset either (unless they get into extremes and harassment, then by all means). If there truly isn't a way to remove craft signatures, then SE should really look into implementing a way to make it optional. Maybe the use of a special item that acts like a "Terebinth" for items, erasing the signature instead of the dye colour.

[Shneibel]

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excalibur have a group like that too and there is nothing you can do against them but wait until they get bored and stop. Report solve nothing , sadly.