Ryzom

Well I was playing LastChaos but ive just been Perma Banned :/

This ban is permanent.
The account has been banned for Third Party Purchases.

This account was found receiving gold from a third party gold-seller. If
you wish to have the gold/items removed from your account, and a
suitable arrangement can be made with the GM staff, this account can
then be unlocked.

-Totaly untrue , its a free game and id not risk spending the little cash I do have on some bogus Internet Site , even if I do get the account restored I wont feel safe using it/playing there again , whats to stop the same thing happening again ? , doesnt matter if its their system wrongly accusing me or someone hacking my account , its not my doing but im feeling the consequences

*feeling vulnerable n fed up -sulks*

petej wrote:Well I was playing LastChaos but ive just been Perma Banned :/



-Totaly untrue , its a free game and id not risk spending the little cash I do have on some bogus Internet Site , even if I do get the account restored I wont feel safe using it/playing there again , whats to stop the same thing happening again ? , doesnt matter if its their system wrongly accusing me or someone hacking my account , its not my doing but im feeling the consequences

*feeling vulnerable n fed up -sulks*

Did you have an unusual amount of gold in your account?, I have about 150 mill in mine from levelling pets for sale, if they looked at mine they would think there was foulplay going on as my pet leveller is on a different account and dumps the money on the ground in a secret place and logs in with my main account and picks it up.

Umm not more than about 3mil , I had been Trading heavily on the precceding week -ive just bought two Crest_of_Rainbow's (35mil and 40mil) , only one at a time tho so I didnt have more than 50mil or so , bought with Gold earned by sitting AFK in Randol on C1 in "Merchant" mode , selling off HS/ES/TA/IDB's n other stuff id been hoarding at the StoreKeeper for that purpose.

Still thats no reason to accuse n Ban ppl they must have Logs that they shouldve checked n seen how id got that Gold , Trading's a big part of the game (im sure you know this lol) ludicros to have a system that bans ppl because of it and thats not how thier Emails read...

Email_1 wrote: Dear XXXXXX, This is a notice of a ban placed on the Aeria Games account assigned to this e-mail address. It was found that a character under the account was 'associated with third party selling of goods'. With this behavior confirmed we have placed a 'permanent' ban on the account starting on Thu, 2008-01-31 15:47. If you wish to discuss this ban further please contact us at XXXXXXXXXXXX to receive a request ticket. -- Aeria Games Team

I asked for confirmation/more details n got-

Email_2 wrote:Dear Player,

We regret to inform you that service to your your Aeria Games account
has been removed.

Account: XXXXXX
This ban is permanent.
The account has been banned for Third Party Purchases.

This account was found receiving gold from a third party gold-seller. If
you wish to have the gold/items removed from your account, and a
suitable arrangement can be made with the GM staff, this account can
then be unlocked.

Furthermore, if you have AP on the account, we can delete all characters
and items on the account, and unlock it so that you may access the AP.

If/when access to this account has been restored, you will receive an
email with instructions on how to proceed. If you wish to dispute this
ban, or inquire further. Please respond to this email.

Sincerely,

Team Aeria

Ive again asked for more information as ive done nothing wrong , seriously annoying how they can just ban you on a whim out of the blue like that , first thing I knew of it was not being able to log onto their Forum (uses the same Account Name n Pass as the Game) , checked my Email n found Email_1

I seem to remember a few people back when I played regularly complaining of been banned unfairly, including a guildie, who IMO would never have done anything like that.

If you want to start over, I have a level 26 horse you can have and will start you off with a million gold, to make the restart a bit more comfortable, if you like, other than that, all I can offer is my comisseration

Man, even reading such accounts of "sitting afk in merchand mode" and "farming on pets" makes me so NOT want to try this game.
Guys how could you even think of something like that being a replavement for Ryzom? Oô

Unbelivable.... *shakes head*

Ah, and what about this little therory:
You were "sitting AFK in merchant mode", so some "third party" steps up and dumps illegaly claimed gold on your charakter, while you weren´t looking. Tadaaa, you´ve got illegal gold. - result = "unfair Ban".

CU
Acridiel

No acridiel, its not like that, Merchant Mode is a system where, you leave your character in town with a goods for sale sign over their head, people who click on you can see what goods you have for sale and their price. They can only buy goods that you have for sale, not "dump" money into your characters inventory. At least gold has a function in LC as opposed to Ryzom, where dappers are redundant and making money is part of the gameplay, I loved wheeling and dealing there in the marketplace.

LC is a good game, regardless of the detractors that will most likely contradict me here, it has lots of innovative ideas to keep you interested in playing, like Treasure Chests that you get opened for you every few levels as a gift, Pandora Boxes that will spawn great loot, or a huge monster that you must kill for a ton of XP.

You can have two pets, one to mount and one to play by your side, the mounts are Flying Dragons or Horses, these provide incredible buffs. Why is raising a pet called farming? You have to train them by fighting along side them, they dont get XP unless you are fighting too. You also need to mine ore and harvest plants to feed and heal them.

Why play it instead of Ryzom? There is more to do there apart from just grind mobs, there are 1+ million players last I heard, so a very vibrant population, there are PvE only and Open PvP servers. Also i was lucky enough to have a bunch of quality Ryzom players there too from a social aspect.

So, please dont scorn a game just because it doesn't suit your taste, 1 mill+ minimum players vs 4k in Ryzom, they cant all be wrong surely?

fiach wrote:So, please dont scorn a game just because it doesn't suit your taste, 1 mill+ minimum players vs 4k in Ryzom, they cant all be wrong surely?

A lot of people eat at McDonald's, too.

I wouldn't play a game with that many players, anyway. At that number you have cacophony, not community.

Great, one person less in the cachophony

Mmmmm... McDonalds..... I'm lovin it

Comparing a game and a restaurant (I use the term loosely) though isn't a great analogy tbh, but on the other hand they are both incredibly successful, lots of diners and lots of players, they are both going strong

fiach wrote:Comparing a game and a restaurant (I use the term loosely) though isn't a great analogy tbh, but on the other hand they are both incredibly successful, lots of diners and lots of players, they are both going strong

True, it isn't a good analogy. But here's a closer one, something in the entertainment realm: reality TV is incredibly successful too.

Meh whatever, you evidently want to play a game with only 4k people that isn't financially viable and use silly analogies to justtify it. You just wind up looking like a game snob.

I was just trying to inject a bit of humour into it, but you keep trying to belittle other games of which you either have no knowledge/interest, using disparaging terms like McDonalds/Reality TV.

They are all games, thats it, games, end of story.

Games are something you do to while away a bit of spare time, not a way of life, if its the latter for you, it says alot more about you than you evidently realise.

Persoanlly I got sick of looking for a plod team endlessly spamming "Healer 239 LFG" to no avail, I only play for OP's now cos there is bugger all else to do in Ryzom, at least in other games I can get a team together.