kerzain
5821
The third paragraph of the email makes no sense to me.[I] “We are banning your Account, effective immediately. Continuing to violate our Terms of Service may result in further action, up to and including permanent account closure.” /I
And then they go on to encourage the banned account holder to familiarize themselves with the terms of service? So basically it reads like, “Your account is permanently banned, and if you keep fucking up, well just ban you even harder! It would be smart of you to go read the rules, because uhh, banned people really should know them.” Maybe I’m just missing the part where it states this is a temp ban, or as other services call it, a ‘suspension’?
I mean, I could see it being a screwy form letter, but it doesn’t jive as it reads. There are also many, many punctuation errors. I just can’t see this being a form letter they use to rubber-stamp emails out to customers. Seems amateurish.
What that player most likely got banned for, is participating in objective swapping /farming PvP by creating low level alts on the opposing side and farming them.
Basically what people are doing is, taking their other side alts, taking all of the nodes, then the other side *aka the players “real” characters, flip all the nodes back and get massive PvP points. This exploit has been going a for a while, and it’s similar to the crap that went on in Rift with people farming/cooperating on PvP rifts.
In a game where you can sit on the fleet, and farm level 50 missions with zero risk, that letter is complete and utter BS.
What “could” happen to someone though as this is a pvp flagged area, you take your low level character there to farm (there are no mobs), and you get ganked by a level 50. The GMs see a low level character getting ganked repeatedly by a high level player, and assume they are exploiting the PvP system.
And they spelled Ilum wrong. So there.
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kerzain
5824
I’d like to see where those links in the email point. On the off chance the recipient didn’t just type it up themselves, could be an attempt at phishing.
idrisz
5825
You don’t get massive pvp point for doing that. you just finish daily which reward you with a bag contain 3 centurion badge + random chance at an pvp item.
other than that you don’t gain anything after doing the daily and weekly.
I will leave it to your imagination how that system might be gamed.
Hahaha I look forward to the first EA Lifeban for dropping f-bombs.
Dejin
5830
Any suggestions on which Jedi Knight Guardian tree to mix with Defense? I just picked up the skill at the top of the tree. Do I fill in the rest of the tree, pickup Vigilance, or Focus?
Also for those who have used it is Enure completely useless in Solo play? It says it gives 30% health temporarily for 10 seconds. The main issue is that when you are damaged it doesn’t seem to come out of that extra pool of hit points, so when the timer ends you take a full 30% hit, instead of 30% minus whatever damage you’ve taken. I could be wrong, but it does seem to take a much bigger health drop than I would have expected if it had taken incoming damage.
I can see how this skill would be useful if you have a healer backing you up, but in solo play it just seems like it might give you enough of an edge to beat a boss and then die right after the killing stroke.
The one thing I will say, is that the game is not nearly good enough that people are going to put up with GM/EA shennanigans. If they are actually doing some of the stuff that’s getting put out there…lol…good luck with that.
If ever there was an MMO with a shelf life, I’m beginning to think this is it. The single player stories/voice acting are fairly fun, well, about half of them. Once that wears off…errrrrr…not really sure what this game has.
Nesrie
5832
If they are banning people for entering an area they can actually enter… not good. As for the swear words, is this game different from all the rest where you can choose to filer or not filter words. I mean… really?
So, yeah. Lack of an LFG tool is kind of killing this for me. The first week of release, I could get a group for Black Talon in about two seconds. It’ll take me anywhere from five minutes to half an hour now. Not only that, having to respond to General Chat spam to get a group means that at this point, more often than not, I join up with some level 30 dudes farming it for Social Points. I don’t want to run Flashpoints that way, so I drop, and then have to spend even more time trying to find a legitimate group.
I’ve successfully grouped for Hammer Station twice, and Athiss once. I’ve never been able to get a Mandalorian Raiders group. (I knew I should have played a tank.) The solo play is cool and all, but MMOs are about running instances and killing bosses, not collecting more bear asses.
Bleh.
idrisz
5834
well no one would have to game anything if there were any 50s on republic side willing to do some pvping on ilum.
only thing people was doing was completing a stupid daily where it require participation from both side where one side just isn’t participating.
even without creating alts, I had times where I just run into a republic on ilum where we chat and agree that trading is way faster than doing “real” pvp on ilum.
Aceris
5835
That’s if you can talk in and see party chat in the first place of course. Something is very screwy with their chat system.
I can see the argument for not having a full on automatching tool, but some kind of global LFG channel/searcher would be nice.
Teiman
5836
Theres a LFG tool. The problem is that people is too stupid to use it. Clicking on the top left corner, on the name of the area, It popups a list of players. there you can set yourself “Looking For Group”, and change the mensaje “mandalorians raid”, you can use it to LFM if you already have some members.
Their refusal to implement a real LFG system is something they’ll be backtracking on in short order. Their current position on not wanting to implement one is somewhere between amusingly naive and flat out retarded.
idrisz
5838
just want to point out this crap doesn’t work unless you are 50 and looking for hardmode instance run(you can then just do /who and type in 50 because you can’t tell /who to show a specific level range)you can type in level to search for but not 40-45. it’s only useful unless you plan to just waiting around in fleet and not doing any quest at all.
Teiman
5839
One “problem” of the game is that force the players to play against mobs of his level. If you try to do mobs higuer level than you, it can be too hard, and if you play less than you, is trivial. The range for that is too limited. So the game is very linear.
Some players found a way to insert thenselves in a high level area, and steal some loot.
Seems stealing loot is against the rules of this game.
Some dude on reddit:
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I bet what these guys did was to travel to the oposition area zone, with mobs intended to the enemy faction. theres nodes and loot chest in these areas, since this game has very litte openworld pvp, you can be there for hours looting and harvesting the nodes.
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Other theory of the “exploit”:No… The issue is that you gain XP/refresh nodes by capturing points. People are, at present, using low level characters to capture the nodes, giving them up to the other teams low level characters, and then recapping. This is the exploit in question.
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This reminds me of Age of Conan. Wen a archer got banned in a pvp server for using arrows to kill characters from high places (that are hard to reach). The reason was that this was unfair for mele characters.
nomaar
5840
What it has seems pretty obvious. It’s no different from WoW or any of the other big-budget MMORPGs out there. When you top out your levels, you do endgame raids/instances, endgame pvp, endgame crafting or roll an alt. The question is how good they will be at churning out new endgame content. Out of the gate, it has more endgame content than Wow had when it launched, but we’ll see how good they are at refining the content and adding more.
