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Here's a screen shot of what I believe is gold spamming, I logged off about two hours ago on a new alt and logged back, the same two figures were standing there "scanning"

Thought this might help cryptic with showing the tactics used by the gold spammers.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Here's a screen shot of what I believe is gold spamming, I logged off about two hours ago on a new alt and logged back, the same two figures were standing there "scanning"

    Thought this might help cryptic great down on the tractics used by the gold spammers.

    Hey, they are doing important scientific studies on how many hot-pockets a typical user eats in a given hour...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    You'll have much better results if you report this using the in-game system.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Rekhan wrote:
    You'll have much better results if you report this using the in-game system.

    Ok I posted a GM report about one of them and added that theres loads doing it.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Here's a screen shot of what I believe is gold spamming, I logged off about two hours ago on a new alt and logged back, the same two figures were standing there "scanning"

    Thought this might help cryptic with showing the tactics used by the gold spammers.

    they dont look like they are spamming or maybe it how they are signalling people who have bought already from them.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    I checked a few of them that were doing this, and they have all been chat banned, with account bans pending review. They can sit there all day spamming email, but since they are chat banned, the emails go to the bit-bucket.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Rehpic wrote:
    I checked a few of them that were doing this, and they have all been chat banned, with account bans pending review. They can sit there all day spamming email, but since they are chat banned, the emails go to the bit-bucket.


    I love you man............
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    MauserG43 wrote:
    they dont look like they are spamming or maybe it how they are signalling people who have bought already from them.

    I see this quite often going through your tutorial. It looks like a bot program. They just sit there and scan over and over and over and over again.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Here's a screen shot of what I believe is gold spamming, I logged off about two hours ago on a new alt and logged back, the same two figures were standing there "scanning"

    Thought this might help cryptic with showing the tactics used by the gold spammers.

    give this man a medel :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Happy to help :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Rehpic wrote:
    I checked a few of them that were doing this, and they have all been chat banned, with account bans pending review. They can sit there all day spamming email, but since they are chat banned, the emails go to the bit-bucket.

    That's awesome. Wish we could spot them in Starbase 1 and Sirius Sector. They gather user names from zone chat and use them to spam emails and tells.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    I see this quite often going through your tutorial. It looks like a bot program. They just sit there and scan over and over and over and over again.

    Probably a macro to avoid the idle logout timer. Kudos on the quick action Cryptic.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Rehpic wrote:
    I checked a few of them that were doing this, and they have all been chat banned, with account bans pending review. They can sit there all day spamming email, but since they are chat banned, the emails go to the bit-bucket.

    Just to clarify, I did not ban them. They had already been silenced by the automated system based on player spam reports.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Rehpic wrote:
    Just to clarify, I did not ban them. They had already been silenced by the automated system based on player spam reports.

    Think I said somthing to this effect Repic in IRC chat. They was sitting there for hour or so about a month ago.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Those are garbage accounts. They spam on accounts they are prepared to lose.

    I'm pretty sure the actual farmers are quite silent. I suspect that by now most of them are just constantly killing Borg in deep space, with ship and player names generated by pressing "random" at character creation.

    Really, that's all they need to do. Hit random twice, get out of the tutorial, and hit up the first deepspace encounter, and spam ship kills. Level up until they rank up, then switch areas, and go back to it. Repeat until they hit RA 5. I noticed a guy in sol once, bog-standard alien face, looked like he was still using the standard-issue phaser pistol. At RA 5.

    Then, they probably just spamkill in deep space, vendoring everything instantly to their replicator.

    Having transferred credits from fed to klink, it's not hard, but the only ways are direct trade, or auction.

    (The only person silly enough to buy a TRIBBLE item for 500,000 credits is me, you see. Just pick something that there aren't many of on auction.)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    I think ive seem it in a DSE too... they sit in the DSE an somehow avoid going afk. They have target the guy that attacks you (autotarget) on and autoattack on, so when they get ttacked, they only attack the guy attacking them, and just ride the sucesses of other ppl in the DSEs to win them over an over. Ive seen at least one guy doing this in every dse ive been in in sol so far. I HAVE GM ticketted them as well.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    give this man a medel :D

    I second the medal motion.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    I usually see one or two people at the point that you beam into Sol Starbase. They blatantly repeat the same thing over and over in local.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Rehpic wrote:
    I checked a few of them that were doing this, and they have all been chat banned, with account bans pending review. They can sit there all day spamming email, but since they are chat banned, the emails go to the bit-bucket.

    A++++++++++++++
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    In my days as a moderator on a forum that will remain nameless here (forevermore) we played with a thing called a Hellban.

    Essentially, anything that the banned person posted appeared to them as a usual post. It was threaded properly and they could see it as part of the forum complete with a legit post number.

    The thing was, nobody else saw it. It never appeared anywhere. The regulars never even saw a name as a placeholder saying this person is ignored/banned. They were essentially talking to people that didn't know that they existed anymore.

    The main admin finally called it off because they considered it cruel and inhuman punishment.

    You decide. :D

    Edit: Love the Zappa avatar. Nice. :cool:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    There at least one or two almost always at Earth Spacedock spamming, unless a GM cleared the area.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Rehpic wrote:
    I checked a few of them that were doing this, and they have all been chat banned, with account bans pending review. They can sit there all day spamming email, but since they are chat banned, the emails go to the bit-bucket.

    Awesome. Thanks. NOW WORK ON KLINGON CONTENT!!!!!!!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    It's complicated why, but the reason they're scanning is cause they probably have a script that times them to hit "v" repeatedly. To keep them from timing out of the server.
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