I mean most are prob legit, it took 6 days for me to get unbanned and support never contacted me once, I had to contact them and ask everyday, Even when I got unbanned I got no message or anything. I missed 2 wei card spawns that week and all my dailies/weeklies.
the Reason they need friends to type on forums for them is because you cant type on forums if you are “banned”
Everyone is innocent, no one did anything but they magically have level 10 gems while having a roster 100-120 account. Is gear 1490, 90+ grade accessories. I’m sure they obtained the gold by paying amazon instead of getting 2x as much gold for the same x euro via a 3rd party site.
/sarcasm
lot of these friends and friends of these friends rmted and got banned, maybe you don’t know about it.
I can confirm your banning is out of control and is hitting Innocent folks. A friend of mine who I’ve played with since day 1 got hit with a ban and your outlandish appeal process asking for proof you didn’t do something wrong when you don’t even know what you are accused of is insanity.
All fun and games until your account get’s banned…
Since you have let whales get away with murder in the early days with at most a 3 day ban. You all should address how you punish RMT now and in the future.
You set a shitty precedent and while it should have been perma from the get go you all have made this switch without communication (big surprise)
And no i have never RMTd nor been banned just pointing out the ridiculousness of how this has been handled
Yeah… just like the OP said i know someone just like that… all level 10s 1540… RMt’ing. he got banned last week… then somehow 3 days later unbanned… explain that crap.
a 1380 from my guild was banned and the guy was with 1 level 6 gem and 3k gold hahaha
I keep seeing threads like this, I don’t think people realize that actual legit whales exists. You can buy gold from the cash shop, having all level 10 gems at 1540s by buying that. Is it more expensive than RMT? Yeah, but the legit method doesn’t get you banned.
I don’t think some of you realize how much money people spend in this game. There’s a reason there’s a monthly limit to spending in KR, because if people could spend more, they would.
Now, imagine the same story, but in the US, where the 1% has more money than it has air to breathe. Trust me, you’ll see the occasional whale walking around, that isn’t enough to call them a cheater lol
Some people buy expensive cars just to flex on people on the streets, you think people don’t buy gold legit in LOA to flex on F2P players?
occasional… to give you some perspective, if you maxed out RC every day since launch you are at a point where you can have full level 10s… lets not count that +25 weapon @8k gold a tap roughly 180 taps to pity. or all the 100 quality jewelry or the 95+ quality everything… sure man sure.
So glad to hear about RMT bans!!
8k gold per tap? The hell kinda game you’re playing?
+24 to +25
Greater leapstones are 30 per, oreha 9 per (if you don’t craft them yourself), destruction stones are like 5 per 10 at best. With the 870 gold per tap, it’s 3484 gold per tap, shards can run you 100 gold per 1000, so maybe 4k gold if you want to include that.
Whale have confirmed the limit is 1000$ per day. Without taxes, that’s 120k RC per day. Per Day. On my server, that’s 360k gold per day.
Let’s assume that upgrading from +24 to +25 is 6k gold per tap (it’s less than that, but I’m willing to walk with you partway), at 180 taps, like you’re saying, no getting lucky, that’ll run you 1.08M gold. So… 3 days. Let’s even assume it’s the same price from +20 to +25, that’s 15 days.
6 pieces at 95+ quality everything, okay, if I remember properly, the chance to get a 95+ quality is about 0.5% at 800 per try. On average, that’s 160k gold per piece. Or 960k gold total, on average. Let’s assume my boy has the worst luck ever and bump that to 1.5M. That’s… 5 days.
Level 10 gems are… 100k on my server, you need 11 of them, so 1.1M. That’s 4 days.
So, 24 days. LOA released 6 months ago. Assuming the worst luck I’ve ever seen and that the whale actually doesn’t play the game or farm any mats from +20 onward, with the same price as it is going from +24 to +25. Whales have about, what, 150 days margin here?
Look man, I’m not trying to say they’re all good guys, they probably aren’t, but stop pointing fingers and calling people cheaters when you have no other basis. AGS is working on rooting out the bad ones and all it cost you is looking at a person that had a glowing weapon for 5 minutes once in a blue moon.
yea and thats with the gold prices as of here recently. it hasnt even been that long since it jumped to 650. prices rise and fall with the blue crystal costs. those 100k gems? no. thats cooldown gems and thats recent prices. they were 150k each damage gems are 250k-350k each. who runs 11 cd gems man? person im talking bout has had these gems for months. so no im not pointing fingers. but you also forget the initial grind and cost associated with getting from tier 1 to 2 to 3 in early days… it wasnt cheap by any means. GHL were 800g+ a piece. so yea sure with todays prices maybe… but from day 1 til now? no way youre completely disregarding all the cost to get to highest cap before relic gear even released. today? sure they could whale out and be set in a month.
Huh huh. So ignoring the fact that bots also pushed the price of buying gold with RC at 1000 on my server when the problem go really bad, you literally didn’t change a single thing in my points.
Let’s pick your prices then. All of them.
350k per gem, let’s assume they’re all damage. 800 per GHL, all of them. GHL’s amount to 6.9M gold for 180 pity on weapon from +24 to +25, assuming you don’t play the game at all. Gems are 3.85M, so let’s add 10M to the bill, just for show.
Bill before was what, 8M gold? Let’s make it 10 again, so 20M total. That’s way above everything you’ve said, so that should be enough, right? No gaming the system, the person has the worst luck ever, artisan 100 from +20 to +25 on weapon, not earning any mats from gameplay at all at literally the worst market rate in LOA history in the west. 20M gold is good, yes? I’m not “disregarding” anything here, right?
At the current RC price, that’s 56 days. 360k gold per day for 56 days.
Artisan 100 on 5 upgrades that are all the equivalent of +24 to +25, with one of them where GHLs are 800 gold per, and it’s the worst one (at 26x the price of current GHL)
95+ quality with the worst luck you’ll ever see, buying every thing for it with gold, not farming
11 level 10 damage gems (and the previous cost of gems that were all cooldowns apparently)
Not playing the game at all for mats at all, someone that spends 1000$ per day on the game literally doesn’t play the game here
And you’re still not even a third of the way since release. What’s next, I’m not taking into account accessory prices at 100k a piece?
No, I did not forget the prices, my point is they don’t matter. A whale that has spent 1000$ per day since the start of LOA in the West can get 18M RC in 5 months, or what, 54M gold at current prices? Even at the worst price I’ve seen (which is half), that’s still enough. And that’s not counting the time where prices were at 800-1000 gold per trade. That’s beyond anything that’s been in the game since day one. We’re pass the days where those post make sense.
If you had told me all of this 3-4 months ago, yeah, you’d be right. But not anymore.
If that’s not enough to convince you, with how I’ve literally inflated everything by a factor of 10, I… don’t know what to tell you man.
I agree with your reasoning. Its hard for some to agree with the idea that people will spend ridiculous amounts of money on a game. I have friends in KR who’ve spent tens of thousands of dollars. I myself am approaching the $9000 AUD really quickly and I am thinking of chilling now. Getting too much LOL
smh… what im telling you is i KNOW the guy. i know he has rmt’d. hell i know quite a few people actually that RMT 500k to 1 mil a week. ive watched them do it. its not so rare as you seem to think it is.
Im 1500 ilvl with lvl 7 gems (one 8) 5x3 setup good quality accs. Do you know how I made the gold? Not by paying a single euro. I played this game for 1700 hours on 5 characters, not skipping a single chaos dungeon or guardian raid on any of them, selling any decent accs that drop (sold a relic ring with 98 quality for 60.000 gold last week) doing Argos, Valtan, Vykass, selling Argos busses in-game for gold, etc. Not everyone you see with high ilvl and good quality accs has been RMTing or even whaling at all, we just play a lot because we love the game.
That’s not what I’m arguing about. Like at all.
My first post is essentially “Some people do this legit, stop witch hunting”, something I said to OP, not you.
You came in and said it was “impossible”, or by your words: “sure man, sure”, as if there’s no way that’s possible.
I prove to you that it’s very possible, even with the worst data you threw at me.
Now you’re saying that you know a guy that RMT’d, a guy I never talked about.
Back up for a sec, I never said “RMT doesn’t exist”, it’s a thing, it exists, it’s still a problem.
My entire point for this whole post is “Stop Witch hunting, stop calling people cheaters when you have no clue”. If you KNOW the guy, then that doesn’t apply to you, does it?
We’re literally on the same team, why are you going after me? lol
ah our wires got crossed sorry. 
You can most likely tell if its a level 50 roster, 1575 and full level 10 gems with no extra content basically done though