My friend is known among my group of friends, to be notoriously good at making money in mmos. All the way from eve online to spiral knights. To put it simply, he got TONS of crowns through pure skill, and an admin suspected him of cheating and took them away. He petitioned, and was ignored. (I am not going to mention his name because admins will probably take this down out of bias.) Is it right for them to compleatly ignore someone just because they are suspected of cheating with no actual proof?
AN ADMIN TOOK AWAY ALL MY FREIND'S CROUNS
Mon, 05/26/2014 - 20:33
Mon, 05/26/2014 - 20:46
#2
No
I witnessed his merchanting skills, hes amazing.
Mon, 05/26/2014 - 21:14
#3
being a good merchant does not constitute pure innocence
I don't care how good someone is.
If they are so good at a game, then loss is able to be recouped.
And, if I recall correctly, SK and SEGA essentially have the right to deny content to players. Be that quatloos in their account, or radiants in their pocket.
So if he really wants to make his case.... I suggest you try signal boosting elsewhere, for example, Tumblr.
These forums only net you (rare) GM activity and plenty of killer trolls.
Mon, 05/26/2014 - 21:26
#4
FWIW the GMs can see where the crowns/E come from
If they are saying they are received illegitimately, they very likely were. Also, if your friend had crowns removed for shady business, he should consider himself very lucky not to have received a perma-ban.
Mon, 05/26/2014 - 21:54
#5
Scamming isn't skill.
Mon, 05/26/2014 - 22:08
#6
Scamming is considered against ToS just to note.
Tue, 05/27/2014 - 02:37
#7
Royal Jelly elite shadow lair no getting hit solo run. #YOU CAN DO IT
Tue, 05/27/2014 - 05:22
#8
Notoriously good at making money? Tch I've seen merchants who try to scam noobs of their hard earned currencies because noobs just don't know the value of whatever stuff they are buying. So maybe some guy decided to think he got scammed and booped that report button on your little friend here... and there you go a case gets sent to the higher Spiral court of game master justice.
Tue, 05/27/2014 - 09:01
#9
All i can say is..
Sucks to be your friend. Scamming people isn't nice y'know, if that's really what your friend did, then they deserve it.
If it's not. Well, again. Sucks to be that person.
/Shrug
Tue, 05/27/2014 - 09:30
#10
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... I was an apprentice
Long ago, when I was a 'prentice, I asked what the value of parrying blades were. Someone immediately said 2Kcr and asked to trade. Then they realized I didn't have one, and told me the actual value. Lol
The end. I knew parrying blades were worth 40-50Kcr though, even more depending on the type ^_^
Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:03
#11
Not what it seems.
I wouldn't be surprised if he got his crowns through illegitimate or exploitative means. It seems very unlikely that an admin would confiscate his crowns with no real justification. And, if he got his crowns through legitimate means, he'd certainly be able to replace those lost crowns, yes?
Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:29
#12
Merchantry
I know for a fact that EVE Online allows players to scam each other for currency (no real money that's stealing :P) but not Spiral Knights cause it's considered malicious thievery but if he didn't scam or even pay for energy using real currency that was converted into crowns he can as said before, get it back. 999,999,999,999,999 (hyperbole) crowns? NO PROBLEM :P Also scamming can be considered good merchant skills since one is persuading the consumer to purchase an item with excessively ridiculous mark-up. 50% off on store brand clothing and it's still 200% markup? DEAL! (Woooo capitalism[Is it capitalism? I dunno maybe]) :P
Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:46
#13
Meep - I don't believe you know the actual means of scamming.
@Thunderskull Scamming doesn't have to do with real money. It can be a virtual currency. Most cases of scamming are seen as scamming as the one scamming isn't paying really anything / the right amount and through exploitation (some cases due to ignorance) or lying, can be a serious case. For example, you wanted to buy a crown of summer for 1 million crowns however the sellers says ''I will get the accessory in a couple of days. Pay me now and it'll be yours. Trust me, I've done a lot of trades.'' You pay him 1 million crowns and he deletes you off his friends list and ignores you. He scammed you out of 1million crowns - a lot of the currency you spent a long time trying to get. Simply getting something 'free / almost free by the means of stealing or lying is scamming , which is against the Terms of Service.
Any who, I'd actually like to know the person's name and hopefully this situation can get sorted out if he didn't do anything wrong.
@OP You somewhat made 'your friend' seem a bit too on the negative side due to your language. 'Notorious' :|
Tue, 05/27/2014 - 17:29
#14
Thunderskull
Yeah... EVE is awesome. :)
luv dat game
"Snarbykiller post #0:
"he got TONS of crowns through pure skill"
Or hacking.