I think there’s a missed opportunity here! Think about this…
What if the NW devs found a situation that would result in a character or account rollback/ban? Of course, it’s easy for them to just ban the account or something, but what if someone that had evidence of doing this suddenly saw:
YOU have been found guilty by the ARS and your existence is FORFEIT! The IRS, er…‘ARS’ comes in to confiscate the illicit funds with Captain Thorpe or something. Would be kinda cool to see action being taken. Sure would cause some comments and hype, lol!
Or…alternately, have an icon appear on everyone’s map showing the character location, somewhat like group location, but for everyone…maybe with the same symbol they use to show where you died at on the map. The character becomes perma-flagged for pvp, and every time the community hunts him/her down, they de-level and a new title “Equalizer” or something becomes available to claim by the people punishing the offender. That would be pretty cool, eh?
Instead of us assuming that accounts were getting banned or rolled back, we would actually see it in play! Would be some nifty videos out there. Could even see vigilante bands forming up
What inventive way would you use for getting rid of the cheaters in a unique way?
What an awesome idea! Would be sweet to see Amazon do something like this, but most companies just take the easy way out, if they do anything at all. Wasted opportunity…
Wow! I was reading this thread and kept thinking, “why not!?” Take something tragic and tearing apart the game, spawning all the negative press, and turn it into something great to remember!
Remember when that dude got caught spamming gold in chat and he got flagged? We must have killed him 80 times!
Holy crap! Captain Thorpe spawned right by this guy and zapped him with this fire beam thing!
It was epic!
Heck, I bet they could find a few volunteer monitors on each server to forward characters to have appropriate action taken. Not really much time or effort involved!
And yeah, instead of negative videos, we’d see gameplay footage of vigilante teams chasing down people caught exploiting…walking around proudly with a new title displayed.
When an account got banned and the player was online, an Avatar of Dhuum would appear and swipe em down with a big grom reaper scythe and that was that.
This would serve no point as there would be many flase bans.
For example:
I work and play NW. So I go to node and stand there and when that respawns I press my E key. I’m in meetings most of the day so I can’t play by doing other activities just tabing in and out of game to see if resource is spawned. Of course I put a timer on my phone so I get reminded of the afk timer.
The issue for me is that the entire server hates me and grefs me and calls me bad names because of this.
I don’t blame them but I’ve made several videos and made tickets to the support team because these threats were getting out of hand. At one point an entire guild came after me for days and I felt discouraged to playing the game because some of their members started to dox me.
All they see is someone who is standing there farming and the systems sees a normal person playing the game.
What happens if you were in the same predicament as I am? I have a life, but want to be somewhat ahead in the game.
Yes, sure. Indeed you can get any quality work done if 8 hours a day you have an eye on the other monitor and just sit near a node and press E when it respawns. Test this like you described, it’s almost impossible to get anything else done. So forgive me if I’m sceptical.
I my idea is more pragmatic, use captcha to test players/bots. Systems thinks actions seem bot-like? Send it a captcha. Fail 3 and GM shows up. Use system til bot numbers drop, then turn off. Periodically turn back on. For some, like those who fish, would be a little bothersome. Rather than system noticing, could be on a random timer, shows up as long as not in comabt/expedition/etc.
In FFXI there was GM jail, for 72 hours you were in room couldn’t talk to no one, couldn’t do anything in game and you were verbally tortured by the GMs.
There was someone on Valhalla that was trying to sell x118 void ores and i can only guess that they somehow managed to dupe that with the server transfer issues.
Anyone could come with void ores from another realm then trade and get the character rolled back to eventually login back and trade again.
