I noticed a lack of bot topics so I’m doing god’s work here boys. El Jeffe should be paying me for this answer, but I’ll give him a freebie since he’s down in the markets:
AGS is failing to beat the bots technologically and strategically. That’s ok, so does everyone else. How about this though, and I know this is unique and never been thought of: permaban the buyers. BUT hear me out.
No slaps on the wrist. Permaban every single time. AND, this is key, make it public. We need public hangings people. You can whip up a little web widget in 30 minutes tops that displays the latest bannings for RMT.
BANNED: Walletchad - 1490 Berserker - Azena - 10 minutes ago. BANNED: Mommiespurseslayer - 1415 Sorceress - Zosma - 15 minutes ago.
Live scroll that sucker. Let us all breathe and bask in the righteous glory of these spergs that bought $100 of RMT gold just to be banned the next day forever and remind these bot lovers that there are consequences and Daddy Amazon is watching with one eye open.
Quit being quiet, vague and inconsistent with your punishments. How do we detect who is buying RMT? The low hanging fruit is people with sus iLvls. Take a peekie poo at where they got their gold. Next, let’s take some extra advantage to all that bot banning. Run a script against the bots you’ve already banned. Who did they send their gold to? There’s your bot wallet to ban. Who did the wallet send gold to or list whatever on the auction house? BANNED. We got all sorts of juicy relational transactions to hammer, don’t we?