So I'll preface this thread as saying I got the ban lifted in under two hours and my primary intention is to get some more information going on this topic.
***Notice of Account Closure***
Account Name: *****
Reason for Closure: Terms of Use Violation -- Exploitative Activity: Abuse of the Economy
This account was closed because one or more characters were identified exchanging, or contributing to the exchange of, in-game property (items or gold) for "real-world" currency. This exchange process negatively impacts the World of Warcraft game environment by detracting from the value of the in-game economy.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the message both my friend and I received within 7 minutes of each other on Tuesday. I've had HB/GB for about a week and hes had it for a couple of months. We both had been using gather buddy quite extensively (rather stupidly I know, I didn't put too much research into it until tuesday night
)
3)What profile were you using?:
Zuabro's Uldum Mining Only 3.1 (did have herbalisim enabled though so it nabed herbs while doing the mining path)
Woots twilight highlands m/h
An abysall depths profile i cannot recall the name
4)What combat class were you using? if None Just put Default then the Classname:
Default
5)What plugins are you using?:
Prospecting
6)How many hours per day did you bot for?:
8-12 hours per day depends
6.5)What honest percentage of time did you supervise your bot?
10-50% varied greatly
7)How many auctions per day did you have?:
0-on that character on my bank anywhere between 50-100.
8)Did you Use Any Other Bots, Hacks, or Mods?
No
9)Was your account involved in gold selling?
No
10)EU or US realm?
US realm
So what we were both doing (separate accounts, separate bots, separate ip's) was farming for ore and doing the shuffle.
After receiving this ban, I contacted blizzard twice and affirmed them that I had never sold gold on my account. When i was on the phone I feel like I extracted some valuable information from him on the topics of these -SPECIFIC- bans as these in particular are automated.
-What happens: there are multiple flags which players 'trip' the biggest ones being;
-The amount of goods which are being transfered from one character to another (EVEN ON THE SAME ACCOUNT) *
-The amount of time spent online (not necessarily farming, but how much up time does your account actually have.) **
* This means mailing and trading etc. I loosely quote him "5 - 10 stacks of something isn't going to get any attention but when you mail 100-200 ( i think he meant stacks) elementium over the course of a day that might raise some eye brows."
**Any form of activity that makes you look not like a human- again another loose quote "just get up and take a break, walk around get some fresh air, I know I have some friends who all they do is spend their time farming all day when they're online, but my advice to you is like I said; take a break because farming for 10 hours a day every day looks a little suspicious."
In our opinion we think that our accounts were nailed strictly by sheer volume of mail we were sending from our farmers to our bankers. This was done automatically with the built in function of the bot.
The conversation I had with the blizzard rep did spur some questions I would like to ask the community;
1. How do you transfer your goods between your farmer-->prospector--> Enchanter
2. I would like to start botting again, is there a cooldown period that i should adhere too? I manually farmed after i got my account back for quite a while to just make the appearance that i farmed extensively. ( I KNOW this is personal preference, and I'm just looking for advice from more experienced botters)
3. I hear talk of people suggesting to create their own profiles, are there any tutorials on doing this?
I also thought I might add, this didn't feel your run of the mill call to blizzard I poked and prodded through his comments to extract more information while trying to seem inconspicuous and genuinely oblivious.
I hope this post is helpful, because as I see it, as individuals with independent knowledge bases we are weak against combating the ban hammer, but with sharing useful information (or what i perceived to be useful) makes the community that much more secure.
Any advice would be wonderful and thanks in advance,
~Z~
***Notice of Account Closure***
Account Name: *****
Reason for Closure: Terms of Use Violation -- Exploitative Activity: Abuse of the Economy
This account was closed because one or more characters were identified exchanging, or contributing to the exchange of, in-game property (items or gold) for "real-world" currency. This exchange process negatively impacts the World of Warcraft game environment by detracting from the value of the in-game economy.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the message both my friend and I received within 7 minutes of each other on Tuesday. I've had HB/GB for about a week and hes had it for a couple of months. We both had been using gather buddy quite extensively (rather stupidly I know, I didn't put too much research into it until tuesday night
) 3)What profile were you using?:
Zuabro's Uldum Mining Only 3.1 (did have herbalisim enabled though so it nabed herbs while doing the mining path)
Woots twilight highlands m/h
An abysall depths profile i cannot recall the name
4)What combat class were you using? if None Just put Default then the Classname:
Default
5)What plugins are you using?:
Prospecting
6)How many hours per day did you bot for?:
8-12 hours per day depends
6.5)What honest percentage of time did you supervise your bot?
10-50% varied greatly
7)How many auctions per day did you have?:
0-on that character on my bank anywhere between 50-100.
8)Did you Use Any Other Bots, Hacks, or Mods?
No
9)Was your account involved in gold selling?
No
10)EU or US realm?
US realm
So what we were both doing (separate accounts, separate bots, separate ip's) was farming for ore and doing the shuffle.
After receiving this ban, I contacted blizzard twice and affirmed them that I had never sold gold on my account. When i was on the phone I feel like I extracted some valuable information from him on the topics of these -SPECIFIC- bans as these in particular are automated.
-What happens: there are multiple flags which players 'trip' the biggest ones being;
-The amount of goods which are being transfered from one character to another (EVEN ON THE SAME ACCOUNT) *
-The amount of time spent online (not necessarily farming, but how much up time does your account actually have.) **
* This means mailing and trading etc. I loosely quote him "5 - 10 stacks of something isn't going to get any attention but when you mail 100-200 ( i think he meant stacks) elementium over the course of a day that might raise some eye brows."
**Any form of activity that makes you look not like a human- again another loose quote "just get up and take a break, walk around get some fresh air, I know I have some friends who all they do is spend their time farming all day when they're online, but my advice to you is like I said; take a break because farming for 10 hours a day every day looks a little suspicious."
In our opinion we think that our accounts were nailed strictly by sheer volume of mail we were sending from our farmers to our bankers. This was done automatically with the built in function of the bot.
The conversation I had with the blizzard rep did spur some questions I would like to ask the community;
1. How do you transfer your goods between your farmer-->prospector--> Enchanter
2. I would like to start botting again, is there a cooldown period that i should adhere too? I manually farmed after i got my account back for quite a while to just make the appearance that i farmed extensively. ( I KNOW this is personal preference, and I'm just looking for advice from more experienced botters)
3. I hear talk of people suggesting to create their own profiles, are there any tutorials on doing this?
I also thought I might add, this didn't feel your run of the mill call to blizzard I poked and prodded through his comments to extract more information while trying to seem inconspicuous and genuinely oblivious.
I hope this post is helpful, because as I see it, as individuals with independent knowledge bases we are weak against combating the ban hammer, but with sharing useful information (or what i perceived to be useful) makes the community that much more secure.
Any advice would be wonderful and thanks in advance,
~Z~
