Not that I'd buy as it is really easy to make but I'm still curious about something.

How would Turbine actually know that you bought plat?

I can see if you suddenly have a couple of plat capped characters but if you don't buy that much, how do they actually know.

I've bought items before when I first started playing. Both times are noted in my 'reports' section of the help menu. Idk how they knew, but they did. No bans yet, but they are definitely aware of it.

stainer wrote on Jun 10^th, 2011 at 3:23pm:


Exactly. I had been playing for maybe a few months when I did it. If I remember, ill post a screenie of the reports.

Fuck Off wrote on Jun 10^th, 2011 at 3:38pm:


That thread here or the other forums?

Fuck Off wrote on Jun 10^th, 2011 at 3:40pm:


I am not sure how we would roll, but I would probably lock it if happened here, at least until Strakeln got a chance to look at it. AFAIK we don't have a defined Plat Farmer policy. Our resident one, Aranticus, isn't playing right now.

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BURN HIM!! BURN THE WITCH!!

stainer wrote on Jun 10^th, 2011 at 3:51pm:



I haven't seen a FRDS in the last 20 E-Vons I have done.  I have been killing that bitch a lot too.

As for plat farmers, never been enticed by them too much like aimbots on an FPS takes the fun out of it.  Besides I'm a cheap prick....

stainer wrote on Jun 10^th, 2011 at 3:51pm:

Oh yeah, I know that, and do 95% of the time.  I'm just sayin'...if the DDO store had a 1 hour sale of all you can buy epic scrolls and they stay BtA or BtC, I'd throw down a little money...

...but then again with no grind, I'd probably lose interest in the game.  That's what has pretty much kept me interested.

Strakeln wrote on Jun 10^th, 2011 at 7:31pm:

Now I know.

My guess is there must some sort of flag if someone trades a high amount of plat. What's the most you can trade? 2 Mill at one time? I'll bet that's the threshold. Once a flag's raised, I'll bet a DM can look at the tranaction closely and if they see nothing or nothing of substantial value was traded back in return, they conclude you're buying plat.

Arkat wrote on Jun 11^th, 2011 at 3:56am:



In my case, I was trading many items I was farming on various characters with a guy who was known as a plat farmer.  Except, in my naivety on the subject, I was clueless.  I was trading things I'd pull in quests on my toons for stuff I was having trouble pulling.  Or just selling items for plat at the time and buying things from the AH that I wanted.

I got a warning the first time, and when I responded a conversation ensued with a senior GM.  I walked away from the conversation more confused than anything but knowing to avoid 'plat farmers'  Was trading with I think 5 different people at that time.  Cut ties with them all because I could not figure out who the person might have been.

Second time I was infracted, I was given a two week vacation from the game.  About 6 months had passed, and I had a slew of people I was trading with for shroud mats to get my toons equipped faster.  I learned who the person was by way of Turbines responses to my inquiries.  Their responses included timestamps and party chat snippets that accompanied my trades with one person. 

I'm still bitter about that as I haven't bought things from plat farmers with cash I really don't have.  I am guilty apparently of enabling the plat farming problem by trading with that guy at all.  At the time, I was livid.  Now I am just bitter.  And I only trade now with guildies or people I've come to know over time in the game.

To better address the original question however; timestamps and snippets appeared to me to suggest that it's flagged by plat amount trades.  However, once you enter that zone... you stay there.  I believe that any trades I do are looked at to some degree by at least an automated system on my main account.

My advice would be to be mindful of who you trade 'high end pixels' with.  You never know whom is watching and what they might be thinking.

Fuck Off wrote on Jun 11^th, 2011 at 8:16am:


My feeling has been this:

If I have absolutely no way of knowing if the person I am trading with is a 'known plat farmer'  How in the flying sam hill am I supposed to avoid trouble?

It's why I am much more careful with trading these days.  And any non guild trades I do off of a disposable account for similar reasons to what you mentioned.  I also feel better about doing the little trading I do these days that way as it avoids generating a potential flag for anyone else.  I'll be damned if my search for epic items causes problems for someone else.

Suffice to say, yeah just be careful in how you are trading.  Large plat amounts/rare items in quantities exceeding one or two can garner unwanted attention.

Sad part is I have to admit I'd rather have them do this than what I heard things were like before they cracked down on plat farming.