OMGMOREDEBT
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Quote:I concur...As i wrote in an above post it was to a dull roar b4 freedom.Originally Posted by Stormbird
You don't use AE?
Run mission.
Roll for common salvage. Stock up on what you need, dump what you don't.
Get your salvage, and get some cash, while getting XP (if under 50) and more cash. Don't even need to be a farmer to do it.
That said, this was a non-issue (RMTers, that is) until Freedom. F2P (even our "hybrid" model) attracts this sort of scum like flies to a honeywagon. You can thank them for a fair number of the restrictions in place already. -
Quote:makes sense except the investment is 0 on thier end, 3 reported yesterday and iggied and within 4 mins same moron was back in ww's boting. I suppose that the time to get the money is an investment but if theyre selling 1000 million for 14 bucks, I highly doubt their hurting for influence. That is if they really HAVE influence to begin with....Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
The # of RMTers you see in Help varies greatly depending on server population. I primarily play on Justice, and on average, I see maybe one or two a day in the Help Channel anymore. I report them as spammers the second I see them (it's a dropdown function - click on their name, select Report as Spammer, and voila - they are a) added to your ignore list, and b) an automatic notification is sent to the GMs).
The GMs do use these notifications and shut down accounts, plus they continue to improve their own internal filters to catch them or even prevent them forming accounts.
But the single best way to get them to stop?
Stop using their services.
(This is not meant to accuse the OP - this is a blanket statement.)
When the RMTers realize there is no money to be made here in COH, they will go elsewhere, because their ROI (Return on Investment) in COH will suck versus what they could be making elsewhere.
So report them, then ignore them. Teach other new players how to do the same. And before long, we'll be back to our virtually RMT-free environment once more.
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Quote:Never say die. NcSoft is also in Korea and there are such things as International Business Law.Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Try getting jurisdiction over a Chinese gold seller.
Not
Going
To
Happen
Niether here nor there, the original lawsuit started with a Chinese gold vendor that ended up linking back to a us based gold vendor...just saying.
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Quote:I do believe in the past with some game service that they actually drag people into court for this type of thing. Because they're selling what technically is not theirs to begin with.Originally Posted by Scene_EU
if people didn't pay for the services, there wouldn't be any. Only way to stop the advertising/selling of in game currency is to not pay for it. Unfortunately you can't control that on a global scale, it's up to the individual.
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Im just sick of being an inventor and watching prices go up up up and in the meantime the devils advocate standing behind me going 1000 million 14 bucks! Seems like a connection.
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Quote:I do agree with you there. When talking to a GM, about one of the several reports that I made I can't quote them due to TOS, but they did hint to there being something done about them in future updates, whether that happens or not is still debatable since in the last few years, not much really has. I will say however that previous to f2p it wasnt as bad as it is now.Originally Posted by Hopeling
What LFG chat? There's no LFG channel. That's why /help is often used to form teams.
Taking away local chat would be pretty absurd, though.
This is not an easy problem to fix, and there's often a direct tradeoff between how well you prevent gold spammers and how well you drive away new players. I mean, make no mistake, I am in principle all for the removal of gold spammers, but there's no good way I've ever seen to actually do it. -
Quote:and for the record its not just for Tech issues its for Gameplay / Technical Issues & Bugs, and its a game play issue since it inadvertently effect the markets.Originally Posted by OMGMOREDEBT
Ok...I stand corrected.
Then maybe confine f2p to lfg chat? Where there is a will there is a way. And if nothing changes nothing changes.....Stand Stand in any WW any time of day, and you'll see them broadcasting in local to go to thier site.
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Quote:Ok...I stand corrected.Originally Posted by Hopeling
This is a technical issue why?
By the way, free accounts already cannot send tells or emails.
Then maybe confine f2p to lfg chat? Where there is a will there is a way. And if nothing changes nothing changes.....Stand Stand in any WW any time of day, and you'll see them broadcasting in local to go to thier site.
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Quote:But it did decrease when they limited it to lvl ten. Of course.....They made lvl 10 toons instead of lvl two toons, but it did decrease it. And WW prices did slightly decline as well...Originally Posted by afocks
Haha, good luck with that.
I would consider re-upping my subs if the spammers disappeared.
Bear in mind though, in my experience of submitting 30 emails some days on just 1 server, that the powers that be for CoH/CoV have not dealt with this problem for at least 5 years (the length of time I have had both of my accounts). -
I am not going to go as far as to mention company names because that would only be promoting the problem, but some may or may not agree: but they have to go. ON one of their sites it shows hero side as "hot" which means theyre doing ALOT of business.
So lets look at this logically:I don't have a problem with farmers. They actually WORK for their INF. But when lazy people that just buy 1000 million for 15 bucks go into wentworths and go crazy buying rares, and have a lvl 50 in 10 hours because some company PL's them and then gives them that much money, is that actually fair to people that played this game for 1,2,3 -7 years previous to the pointless free to play module? I think not.
IN addition, I understand that the f2p model is what it is: a marketing gimmick and a cash cow for NCSoft. Works the same way for the gold sellers.
They pay nothing. The go through the tutorial, then park a toon in every ww's on every server.
This is where the f2p module is an epic fail.
So heres a suggestion:
The old free trial, pre f2p, you could not email or send tells until lvl 10. Why not do that with f2p? Too easy? It seemed to cut down on the spammers drastically. And if f2p players have something to say about it, they can subscribe.
When the spammer spam was cut down with that free trial limitation, an observation I made personally was that the auction prices declined slightly, not much but slightly.
Just food for thought and thanks for your time.
PS: And for the record before anyone goes "just ignore as spammer" and/or "report them"...epic fail....you reportthem they get kicked and back in 3 minutes on a new lvl 2. Just thought I'd save you some typing. -
A slight off topic question, but have you ever considered doing a MIDWEST convention? In 3 years i havent seen one yet and its not like Chicago doesn't have the largest convention center and airport in the world......seriously, you can do the east coast and the west coat, and oversea...yet miss the whole entire part of the center of america....
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Quote:Now coming from the "Tom Baker" generation of DW, I have to admit that DT was the best Dr who since Tom Baker. Thats quite a stretch of actors in between. If you do look at the two side by side their personalities are very much alike, and granted they are the same doctor, just in dif bodies rightly so.Originally Posted by Dante
DT has pretty much become my favourite doctor, surpassing even those I grew up with as a kid.
Still trying to figure out why one likes jelly babies and the rest didn't, or maybe they just can't find them, yet they always remember k9 and their past travel partners..... weird. -
Quote:*declines witty retort*Originally Posted by Sween
Indeed, Mostly everything I post here is some sort of snarky joke.
Condescension, on the other hand, would look more like: -
Quote:oh...Originally Posted by Warkupo
I don't think it was meant to be condescending; I think he was just making a funny.
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Quote:No need for condescension...Like I was supposed to know that. Thanks for the answer.Originally Posted by Sween
Short Answer: Halloween Event.
Long Answer: uh...Haloween Event. -
I may of missed a page somewhere and not sure if it's an I21 thing or what.....But has it always been night in atlas? And if not why is it always night in atlas now? Anyone?
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How the heck do you find the contact???
I see all this who will die propaganda, but not in one spot does it say who the contact is, or im just not looking right. -
Quote:YEAH....not falling for that one last time they came up, went down came up went down, started to think i was playing elevator action.Originally Posted by Strayth
I'm drawing, it's fun but works the opposite of wonders on my neck.
Edit: looks like they're coming back up! -
Quote:Instability after a new issue release??? Unspeakable. Not like it happens every issue release :\ Which it does. Goes back to my original theory: Rush rush rush, then fall behind til the LEETS piss and moan on the forums, then release it half *** to pacify the masses. I'm used to it.Originally Posted by SolarSentai
Given the choice of playing on an unstable server where trials and zones are crashing left and right versus some server downtime so they (hopefully) fix the problem... I'll take the downtime.
It's no fun going halfway through a trial or a Hami raid and then having everyone disconnect/crash and have their rewards roll back.
Honestly though, this type of stuff shouldn't be unexpected after the first week of a release. It happens almost every time. If it's not one bug, it's another.
Being that the game is a spiderweb of old/new/crazy coding with patches here, there and everywhere, it's no surprise that things don't go super smooth on the initial release. Still, they're working on fixing the problem, and they've acknowledged there is a problem.
However, if this goes on for more than a month... then I'll be singing a different tune
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Quote:Really?Originally Posted by Psycho_Sarah
My 10 year old was watching me play tonight. I was in a pug Lamda. He asked why there were so many heroes needed, when all the other stuff was for a single team (I don't do Hami raids cause I am not usually on when they are going). I thought about my answer for a while, and told him, that this isn't your normal Save the World action. This is war. Wars aren't fought with just teams of 8.
Do I agree that it would be nice to have another method of getting incarnate goodies? Yes, that would be nice. Will it happen? It just might. Cause our Devs rock.
Please be aware that there will be a publish for all live servers on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 starting at 4:00 a.m. Pacific / 7:00 a.m. Eastern for a scheduled end at 6:00 a.m. Pacific / 9:00 a.m. Eastern.
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/e looks at server status that says unknown and types /stuck repeatably
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Quote:I agree completely.Originally Posted by jdogg_NA
I do not like the extended downtimes either, however, would you rather have more downtime or continuing bugs? Personally, id rather them do it at a time thats not so interruptive of gameplay but there is no time to do maint that will keep everyone happy.
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1. Make hot dogs at 7 am.
2. Check server status.
3.play with cat
4. check server status.
5.watch news.(8 am)
6Check server status (8:02 am)
7. Pick nose and look for wild surprise.
8.Check server status.
9. 6 minutes wondering WHY there have been so many server maints, when they said that would be thursday and the servers down
10.check server status
11. Check calendar to make sure its not Thursday
12. confirms then checks server status.
13. makes an egg roll.
14. check server status
15. 10 minutes worrying that it wont be up for 6 hours.
16. checks server status
17. turns on the cape radio.
18. wildly hits f5 to refresh server status
20. starts to shake from withdrawl.
21. franticly screams at monitor.
22. checks server status.
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yeah im getting auto logged out of the servers as well but leads to my comment =)
If there is anyone that wants to cry and moan about the servers being down...please stop.
It happens EVERYTIME a new issue comes out and learn to deal with it. Its funny that alot of the posts about it being down are also from the same people that whined and moaned about i19 not coming out on time then about i20 not coming out on time...so the devs rush it to pacify the whiny little maggots.
In addition when it gets rushed...well accidents and oversights happen. And compensation some above said it perfectly: you're getting new content.
Isnt that compensation enough?
In closing, who saw problems in the foreseeable future such as long server downtimes when it was released yesterday? *raises hand*