I have been having the same problem as the OP. Yesterday in EC I asked a good 8 or 9 people of they could transfer a small amount of plat and everyone said no way they don't want to get banned... its just a bummer that everyone is on pins and needles.

The P1999 team should change their warning. It should be "if you RMT you may be banned. If someone you know RMTs and uses you in the process you may be banned. If you have been very careful, but still do something we think may be RMT, you may be banned."

Buy gems (peridots, or rubies if you're a baller), fill up a bag and drop transfer to yourself if you're worried.

Reported for RMT.

Where do I get on this list? :D

lol? :confused: Why would an RMT player drop transfer gems from a main to an alt on same account?

Do NOT do this.

I did this ... probably a year and a half or two years ago (the cause of my first time quitting the game) and lost everything in 3 bags because the server decided to crash. It was probably 40k worth of gear. While that's laughable to some of the people here, that was the product of over a year of playing.

Do NOT drop trade. Find someone you trust and use them.

Was about 4 weeks to be unbanned for my friends situation, though as of yesterday he's been freed =) They suggested making a petition in the forums stating that you're doing trades that might seem suspicious, but explain the scenario. One of the gm's will set it to resolved, and allow you to update the thread with future trades. I'd assume this is intended for like, transferring a Fungi to a friend or alt, transferring thousands of pp, etc. Also having logging turned on is advised so if you are ever banned you can help expedite the process, we didn't know about that which extended the ban duration.

sirken basically said on his podcast that people shouldnt transfer unless its someone you know because you could be aiding rmt plat laundering

not saying i agree with his statement, but he did put it out implying they might get popped for rmt if they do

Maybe it was just bad timing then I guess? I probably asked probably 15 different people that had been moving around recently (trying to avoid people who were sitting afk) and I didn't get a response from anyone, not even a no. I asked in OOC and didn't get anyone to offer for like 5 min after that. Maybe I'm the minority sample in this instance but I've had it happen on a few chars only within the last few weeks.

RMT'ers have been using random people to transfer RMT plat lately which has been leading to a lot of innocent people catching bans, that's where some of it may be coming from. I mean Sirken specifically said on his stream that if someone asks you to hold plat for them and you don't know them to just tell them no or ignore them, period. Again this is also a very recent thing as far as I've noticed, so citing when you made your account is kind of a moot point.

Even if it's a small amount of people ignoring pleas of help for transferring money when before they would normally help, it's still a change whether or not everyone notices.