Guideline for bank characters

[Nathrizyr]

Greetings,

Just to chime in here. People on the Support forum tend to lie to cover up their actions. For example, I was drunk or it was my "little brother" if they were caught botting, or "I only sent gold to my alt/friend" if they were banned for buying gold.

As Daemon's post said (that Glenzig quoted): You are allowed to do with your own gold anything you see fit, including giving it to alts, another account, a friend, using the auction house, etc. However, if you buy/sell gold your account will always be banned. It does not matter what Blizzard's policy regarding buying gold was, we do not allow it here. This is how it always has been and always will be.

TL;DR You can make transactions in confidence, as long as they are legitimate. Only you can get your account banned for thinking you will be that one person to get away with buying gold.

Regards, GM Team

[jakeadams]

Greetings,

Just to chime in here. People on the Support forum tend to lie to cover up their actions. For example, I was drunk or it was my "little brother" if they were caught botting, or "I only sent gold to my alt/friend" if they were banned for buying gold.

As Daemon's post said (that Glenzig quoted): You are allowed to do with your own gold anything you see fit, including giving it to alts, another account, a friend, using the auction house, etc. However, if you buy/sell gold your account will always be banned. It does not matter what Blizzard's policy regarding buying gold was, we do not allow it here. This is how it always has been and always will be.

TL;DR You can make transactions in confidence, as long as they are legitimate. Only you can get your account banned for thinking you will be that one person to get away with buying gold.

Regards, GM Team

Thanks alot for the anwer! I just wanted to my account to be safe, so I will go on and make a bank character. I do realize that people will be lying about stuff like this, but there are just so many bans here, it being a private server and all. But I really appreciate the answer, thanks for that.

[irri]

Mails are instant between characters on the same account. I see no reason to make multiple accounts.

But you cant mail interfaction right? If that is the case - and i expect it should be - it is advantageous to have 2 accounts if you wish to move items between factions as it decreases the risk surface for loosing valuable items. The risk faced during cross faction arbitage is large if there is a reasonable chance of another player purchasing the item on the neutral AH - as of course it was priced very low to avoid neutral AH cut.

Having two accounts allows you to decrease the time surface from 45 seconds or so to under a second. If you have a third account and toons parked in the right places then you can quite easily and quickly get the item off 1 factions AH, mail it around and trade it to the first account, so by the time the buyer meets the seller has the item - usually less than a minute. I lived in a house with 3 other people, we all played wow, we made alot of gold doing this - but we also increased economic fluidity by increasing both supply and demand on both factions, driving down shelf prices and decreasing inflationary pressures by increasing volume through AH and thus the AH take, while also creating additional variety for each faction.

What I am worried about is when I move gold around my characters. That might seem to be me buying gold. I was wondering to what extend I can do that without risking triggering some automatic system and risk me getting banned.

Retaining the ability for 1 player to move an item across the neutral AH by using 2 accounts is very healthy for the economy. There was nothing that stopped a player purchasing 2 copies of the game and paying 2 subs, or using a partner/room-mates account, or for 2 players in the same room on 2 different accounts to achieve the same thing. Is there any real substantive difference in these scenarios? How could you police such an issue? You could do some physical paramater detectino bu tthat can never demonstrate who was behind the keyboard at that particular time - though you probably could check hours of play and correllate with mail/trade history and progress vs wealth differences (although there is nothing to stop a player giving gold to another player for any number of ingame products, services or experiences - only external products, services or experience.)

In short, there are a very wide range of legitimate scenarios well within the TOS that have the potential to look suspicious. As such any automated system would that had too high a false positive rate would have banned a lot of people unfairly and you would see it absolutely everywhere on the forums.

Use your gold as you see fit - if you aren't trading real world currency, products, or services for in game currency, products, or services then you should feel as clean as a whistle.