Just a question.

crenshaw198 wrote: »

Is altering the looks of the class/character and using the looks of another class bannable?
what i mean is, for example having an Elf with Earthguard eyes and hair bannable?

Some people may say it obviously is, but i ask this because remember the character costumization contest a while ago where players had to submit a good looking character preset which would be looked at and voted for winner, and well some "altered" presets won, for example for the Barbarians there is a preset of a slim body barb with huge head and huge bulb Earthguard Eyes.. so i thought maybe GMs and Developers do not concider this as bannable.

So tonight i'm asking if it is or not already.

frankieraye wrote: »

The reasoning behind the multi-client rule change was not "to be more like China", but to account for the fact that modifying game files was no longer necessary to multi-client.

Editing game files has always been against the rules, and I don't foresee that changing anytime soon-

seitori wrote: »

But as for the specific reasons as to why!? Only {Frankie} the {GMs} or the {ADMINs} "Maybe some of the {MODs} aswell??" Can link you the Exact Specifics, as to why..........

frankieraye wrote: »

Gonna re-open this because that forum rule is really referring to people posting about specific bans to specific players.

Discussion about ban lengths in general should be ok.

So as to your questions--


1) for .ini edits, the character is banned until they ticket in, at which point they are given a choice between either agreeing to use a Makeover Scroll to go back to within what is possible in-game, or they can move all items to a different character before being re-banned for good.

2) Goons punishment was not at all how we wanted it to go. As I stated in the thread about it, we weren't confident enough in our information to severely ban people. When it became obvious that some of the worst offenders were not picked up by our tools, we felt that we had no choice but to unban everyone, in the effort to be fair across the board.

3) the punishment for fake bidding can vary, based on whether or not the player has had prior rule violations.


I hope that clears things up, and let me now if you have other questions.

frankieraye wrote: »

I agree with you, changing an eye color is not damaging to the game in any way, and it's unfortunate that so many Customer Service hours are spent on enforcing the rule in this way. The thing is, the rule exists because such changes are covered in the whole "You're not allowed to modify any game files" rule. There have been exploits in the past that involved editing other client-side game files, so that's why the rule exists in the first place, and unfortunately purely cosmetic changes fall under it as well. Another part of it is the possibility that modifying certain game files will keep you from being able to log in to the game.

Honestly, we'd love to allow the harmless cosmetic .ini changes, since it would one allow our GM team to focus on far more important issues like **** accounts etc, and two it would let players achieve higher levels of customization to their own characters, which they obviously are interested in doing. Doing so, though, would require a re-wording of that "modifying game files" rule, along with further clarification into its various shades of grey. Still it's definitely something that's being looked at right now.