We are not playing the real thing, be it SoD or WotlK or whatever, we are playing a thing where hackers do what they want, where botters farm everything, where gold buyers can buy anything for $.
You can’t detect their software, okay, and it’s difficult to detect a well randomized bot, alright. But what is not difficult is to detect RMT, it is not difficult at all. All these botters mail their gold, if an account mails gold to at least 3 other accounts connecting from a different IP and a different machine - 99.(9)% it’s a gold selling mule. Ban the mule, see how he got his gold, ban his farming bots. And it’s not difficult to separate gdkp raid gold from farmed gold. Took me 5 minutes to come up with that, imagine if it’s a fulltime job
They wont do this … and with good reason. I send all kinds of gold to multiple accounts on multiple machines with different IP addresses (wife, kids, friends). I know many people who do the same. By your logic we would all get banned.
If you think that you cam up with an idea, in 5 mins, that they haven’t thought of then you need an ego check.
it took you 5 minutes to come up with a frickin’ mistake?
you’d rather see gold mailed between accounts connecting on the SAME ip? Because it seems like that’s gonna be a lot easier. Also there are other ways for them to transfer gold than the mail system.
and you haven’t devised a method of distinguishing a legit transaction from one that is not.
I can’t imagine how many legit players would get a ban if this were done. This is classic dunning-kruger starter thinking. Like you just got on the ride and haven’t even started moving up the slope yet.
Really? How many legit players farm gold all day every day and then mail it to random people?
How would an american gold buyer and his gold seller from south asia have the same IP? They’re gonna coordinate with each other? And it will be a lot easier?
Mail is used because it requires no action from the buyer, they will have to stick to mail
Not one transaction but a pattern, based on the source of gold and botlike qualities of that source