I don't think this will do anything to the game's long-term health. And I'd guess Sarlona will be hit by the most bans...god knows our ASAH was a mess before they took it down.

This is (likely) the e-mail you'll get if you're banned for this.

Quote:

It's actually 14 days from 2 days ago.

rest wrote on Oct 9^th, 2013 at 11:13am:


No further "investigations" or actions?
The ban cloud has passed?
I pegged turbine at hotfix Monday +2 days of data review as the time period for issuing punishments.

I don't think they are sending out a mass ban. Its more logical for it to be done in groups and or cases handled one account at a time. Knowing however with limited recources DDO staffing has, its most likely being done in groups. So I personally don't think its over just yet.

By the way thank you for the feed back. I wonder if they will bother to correct and or improve the economy of plat... most likely I think they will just focous on shard exchange or let everything ride itself out.
I personally like that the AH is so cheap. I knew saving all my plat would one day pay off. Time for a good spending spree.

Plat is the new copper. Lol.

Relentless wrote on Oct 9^th, 2013 at 10:19am:


Addressing all the points :
1) Yes, across all servers. Some were more obvious about it ( Sarlona and the stacks of 100 scales in ASAH ) others were less obvious ( Ghallanda with just more Orbs than usual ).
But by Saturday evening it was widespread across all the servers and almost all the guilds.

2) 3 Days and 14 Days Vacation so far from all the information that have been gathered here and there.

3) They can't hit too hard any server unless they want to cripple the game. And I'm quite sure that almost everybody tried the exploit once it was known in the open, so that would mean banning almost everybody. Maban comes to the mind for that, and the damage an auto-ban script gone wonky did to the game.

4) there's an economy ?
Sarlona is probably the one hit the hardest, with all those stacks of scales. But nothing say that there's not the same thing stored somewhere on the other servers... they just didn't show up on the AH/ASAH.

5) No, DDO is not really dying ( or it's been dying since 2006 ) It's a niche game where people come and go. Sure it's starting to show it's age, but overall it still above many other games when it comes to active combat and quests. ( even if the new quests from U19 really reminds me of NWO and other quests with a Boss and waves to trash you have to deal while beating up the boss, it's too obvious compared to older quests )

Older players are moving on for various reasons ( I have a friend that moved back to Civ Simply because he has a child and it's easier to drop Civ for an hour to play with his son than DDO, he will come back eventually )

And last :
Bigjunk wrote on Oct 9^th, 2013 at 11:19am:


This should be put into the rotating list of quotes.

What Flav said.

All mmos die... not sure if this one is.

CanIHazYourStuff wrote on Oct 9^th, 2013 at 11:27am:


Exactly. Go try to run enough Shrouds nowadays to get 5 or so LDSs, or duplicate the 2 you have in your bag?

No-brainer, really.

FakeStrake wrote on Oct 9^th, 2013 at 11:09am:


I see you are using the non standard definition of "enjoy", as in, "I enjoy having my fingernails pulled off, on by one, slowly", or "I really enjoyed my last root canal without any novacaine, I can hardly wait to do that again"

T

Tspoon wrote on Oct 9^th, 2013 at 1:21pm:


"I really enjoy sliding naked down that giant razor blade into a vat of alcohol"

(let that one steep a minute)

Carpone wrote on Oct 9^th, 2013 at 2:43pm:


Viewing the actions of a player is possible.  It appears in a 'textual' version of your actions (Keyboard/Mouse inputs).

karatekid wrote on Oct 9^th, 2013 at 3:17pm:


Duh, been head down in stuff most of the day; problem solving diarrhea of the keyboard.