is twinking bannable

People are always claiming to have been banned for one completely innocent thing or another, because surely it couldn't possibly be the bot they were running overnight, or the 20,000,000 credits they bought from a Chinese website.

I really wish a dev would answer on this, I would just like to clarify if its a bannable offence or working as intended

Why would it be a bannable offense to give your character the best gear he can wear for that level? Is it a bannable offense to wear all Dread Guard or all Elite War Hero gear at 50? Is it a bannable offense to give your ship all the new grade 7 gear?

If it's not it should be IMO. They are trying to augment their lack of skill by essentially exploiting a loophole in the game (that low levels can't get expertise and that you can remod the weapon multiples times at level 45) to pad their stats heavily.

Thats not the issue. ITs people that pvp @ 49 then always quit before the end so they dont lvl to 50. Has nothing to do with gear

There was talk for the longest time of implementing a "lockout" for people that left warzones. If you quit a wz, you'd be locked out of reqeueing for an hour or whatever. They did not implement that prohibition.

Considering the fact that specifically decided against punishing leavers in any way whatsoever, I'd be hard pressed to believe that leaving a wz early is in any way against the TOS.

IF there was some kind of bug where you could lock your level and prevent yourself from gaining any more experience but still got credits comms and you EXPLOITED that bug, then sure, that would probably be bannable, but there is a huge difference between exploiting an obvious bug and simply clicking "leave warzone."

The fact that there is a button in game to let them do what you are saying whenever they want, seems to indicate that BW isn't going to ban them, otherwise they'd disable the "leave warzone" button... lol

Well I would like to say this much about it, They have a leave warzone option so its not like they are useing some kind of exploit to acyually leave the game. I do not agree with anyone getting banned for doing this because reguardless of how you feel about it, its working as intended. I would also like to point out that as far as being over geared.... a full warhero/ elite warhero can do alot more damage to a recruit than a twink can do to another pre-50.

Then it has nothing to do with twinking. I don't think a lot of you know what twinking actually is.

Twinking is just over gearing lower level toons in an effort to be more powerful than one at that level would normally be. This is usually accomplished by sending over gear, credits, etc from a more accomplished character with more resources.

If you scroll through the thread, you will see that the term. for twinking has changed.
( I was confused as well about it. It is not just over gearing your toon now)

And I don't think you understand that pre-50 WZ makes everyone's stats = making gear pointless while in the WZ