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^ This!

I've read the entire thread and see nothing at all in any of Sreegs' answers that reassures me I won't get flagged for buying/selling something on the market from/to an RMT. One moment he is telling us it never happens then almost in the same breath telling us that when it happens (wait... what?) that the solution is to go sit in a petition queue for weeks. That is not an acceptable answer.

Also I'd like to point out that being a member of your company's customer service department has nothing at all to do with the basic level of courtesy and professionalism you should show while representing that company. Especially to customers.

Let's just say that all of the choice criteria I've seen for identifying a 'bot operation in-game are more likely to flag a perfectly legitimate multi-boxing operation.

Unless you are talking about a case where you were IRL shoulder surfing a fellow player, saw them botting that way, and reported them for it *you were probably wrong*.

And even if you were right, there are reasons (like an ongoing investigation to track down the members of an RMT operation) where a banning for a legitimately identified bot might be delayed for weeks.

Yes it does, you just can't accept the answer. That's your problem not the rest of the communities and we are, quiet frankly, getting sick of your whining.



You've had the info you asked for, you're just too immature to accept the answer because it's not the answer you want.



And there, in a nutshell, is all we need to know about you. Dismissing me as a "fanboy" while making snide remarks about Sreeg being a former Goon with the clear intention of dissing him and of being unimpartial without having the balls to come out and say it. Why else bring up Sreeg's being a former Goon?

And I am no fanboy. I despise the Goons - check my thread calling for their disbanding - and have criticised CCP when I felt they deserved it but am getting, quite frankly, sick of your incessant whining and refusal to accept the answer given to you while claiming you have had "no answer" because you haven't got the answer you want.

PAN

Only because people like you refused to accept his answer of "we will deal with it when it happens if it happens" no matter how many times he said it.



PAN

If you think answers have been given as opposed to empty responses then you clearly don't understand the issues at hand and should stop 'contributing'.

Why bring up Sreegs being a goon? a) Because he is posting like a goon rather than like the representative of a company that takes the money of the people he is responding to in exchange for services. b) Because you are threatening wardecs in response to forum posting that is critical of him and that is deeply, deeply, deeply funny given his background.

Sreegs was polite enough until people like you started going on and on and on and on and I am not threatening war decs because you are critical of him, just because I am sick of your whining.

PAN

While obviously I can not post them here, I have seen what this route looks like and it is not pretty.... there is not much you can do against 'we have proof' over and over. But I am willing to believe that the system has been improved since then.

Really Par'..... What surprises me is that you didn't get that one from the start..

Sreegs is a security analyst, not a customer support officer.
His primary job is to Keep Things Safe, not play nice with forum pedants.
One very important part of his job is not to give anything away about the way he Does Things when he has to interact with players, like in this thread. Which makes for..unsatisfactory answers.., especially for those who try to get details or answers to speculation.

As far as "flagging" is concerned, If you regularly deal with large amounts of ISK, either directly or as proxy, any form of analysis will flag you initially. Not necessarily because you have had interaction with RMT, but simply because your toon(s) come into contact with large amounts of ISK, which is what RMT is about to be "successful" in any way.
Sreegs has obviously found a decent way to Do His VooDoo on that little dataset, and also obviously Other Info to get a picture of Whodunnit to have done a royal swing with the Banhammer with very little collateral damage as far as I can tell.
(There's simply not enough screaming and moaning)

Assuming the positive side of Murphy's Law here: Yes, you probably have been flagged, as was Chribba and all the others who deal in large amounts of ISK. You obviously also are still here, are not screaming about Unfair Ban, and are able to fluff this thread, even after that Royal Swing, so you're "safe" , for a given value of [Safe].

Go Sreegs Go!!

You should totally make a special police force in EVE to represent these actions. It would be GMs roll playing a special concord task force designed to bring the characters of the cheaters to justice. They would be flying special fancy ships like the yacht. They would be kind of like the tv shows were the police all wear expensive suits and drive exotic cars.

So if you caught a cheater with a ton of plex you could have a couple of these celebrity police show up were that character last docked and then undock with the plex and the character in their cargo. And take them back to concord headquarters. They could stop outside the station and give a "press conference" with Eve News or New Eden Radio. lol