Just a reminder for new and old players regarding Real Money Transactions (RMT)

[Man0warr]

Originally Posted by paulgiamatti [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I mean I understand this is well-intentioned, but I'd really rather people not listen to this advice. It's true that it can get you flagged if the person giving you the platinum happens to be an RMTer, or if you happen to be an RMTer, but I really don't see the purpose in taking extreme measures like avoiding certain transactions altogether.

This will lead to chilling effects. I don't think it's a coincidence that people are much more reluctant to help with item and plat transfers after the last banwave, but I also think people's concerns are largely unfounded. I just want to stress that you can rely on the staff to do their job - you're not gonna get permabanned if you've done nothing wrong.

Not stressing out over the safety of certain transactions and keeping the willingness to help other people and trade freely alive is much more important than saving yourself a few days of playtime in the unlikely event that you get caught in a banwave. I have done twice as many transactions that will scan as highly suspicious if they happened to have involved an RMTer as I had done when my account was banned in the last banwave. And you know what? I'm not worried about it. I turned on logging. I don't RMT. It doesn't need to be more complicated than that.

Literally everyone in my guild falsely banned last time was either due to 1) getting money from RMTers for Chardok AE PL or other PL types or 2) Epic MQs to RMTers.

It takes weeks to get yourself unbanned even if you have logs of the transactions proving it was for PLing or MQing and you had no knowledge of where the plat was from. If you don't keep logs you may never get unbanned.

I personally don't do plat transfers for non-guildies anymore because of this. It's not worth the risk.

This. It's an amazing tradition on this server for higher-level players to give massive gifts to lower-level players. Once, an incredibly nice player that I had literally just met that night gave me the JBB (25k value) off his back (er wrist). And I've heard of many similar stories of random generosity.

Someday, when I no longer need it anymore, I plan on doing the exact same thing, and it would be tragic if a lower-level shaman turned me down because they were afraid of an RMT ban. Blue is a really special place; let's not let RMTers and fear ruin it.

There is a difference between giving out items to lowbies and large sums of plat.

It's not fear - it's literally something Sirken warned off in his post. They don't discriminate on banning people. If you don't keep logs and you get flagged for some reason, they are not going to unban you.