EVE General Discussion

Just looking for some form of support regarding this matter...

As titled, Paid for a character (Regina Certamen) with ISK from PLEXing, i got from Shattered Crystal, a Day or so after the transaction was completed, i received an email from someone saying the character was advertised on ebay and to avoid it if poss, at this point i had already paid for and was in control of the char and some time has passed at this point, then yesterday the account was banned for RMT, pending an investigation.

Im somewhat annoyed at this, ok sure i understand that to fight these things there has to be a ban etc but im a victim of whatever the original owner has done, now on my only day off for the next 14 days i cant enjoy EVE!

Surely it can be seen via the sales post and via transaction history of ISK that this was not a RMT Sale..

Ive put in a petition earlier on to try and rebuke this, but so far ive had no responses, what sort of time-frame am i looking at for a response, does anyone know?

Something fishy was going on, or someone thought something fishy was going on.

If no fish was involved, just wait.

This issue is getting more and more common. A petition is the only way to solve it, but the system needs a serious overhaul.

Try contacting security@ccpgames.com directly

So what should be done in your estimation if Accrecia is innocent and has no connections to RMT at all, except that she legitimately bought a character that had, unbeknownst to her, participated in RMT?

yeah what this guy said.

Simply buying isk off ebay one time i dont think gets your banned, just a warning.

so its very likley that the account the char was on, or the char was used to launder isk from RMT or something equally shady.

I feel sorry you OP, booking off some time to play with your new awesome char only to have it ganked by CCP on day one must suck major expletives.

just to clear this up, RMT always is a permanent ban offense. even on the very first offense. so buying isk off ebay even just once and even just 1 million isk will result in a permanent ban for all of the accounts of that person, source: http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/begun-the-bot-war-has/
(edit: and i think even if it was a year or longer ago you can still get a ban for it when they find out a year later)


@OP: all you can do is wait for a response on your petition now. these kind of petitions usually take some time before they are resolved because ccp has to be sure you aren't involved in RMT yourself and that the original account of that char wasnt hacked or anything for that sale. my guess is you won't see the char or your money during this week. it will probably take till sometime next week.

Character Trading via Bazaar neds no "overhaul". There are rules to be followed, if you don't do that, CCP will fix you or your problem.
In this case, it's annoying because of your only day left to play.
But you can be sure, that you won't be banned for long.

Apparently you have other characters to play in the meantime.

This will be a productive thread.