Item Stack Resale Exploit

IPs, regular stronghold use, billing information (if the person is that dumb).

Sigh.......

Hey, just so you know, I log in about twice a week... so on the off-chance that some jerk mails money to me to try and frame me (which would not even remotely surprise me), don't hold it against me if I don't report the jerk immediately. Hopefully you can check my login history to verify this, though.

They'll most likely just look at the average price items go for on each server and look for anything X percent above that rate warrants further investigation.

On a side note I personally would find it rather humorous if those people who list single mats in the millions got caught up in this and had credits removed, poetic justice of sorts.

Ok, that makes sense. I feel a little better. Although I can't figure out how stronghold use factors in.

You've got to look at it relatively really.

Someone exploits and generates a billion credits. This is known so the activity from there can be tracked.

Were they buying random things from random people on the GTN?
If so probably nothing will happen as it would be really hard to track down those credits ( which may in turn have been spent ) and return the items back to the legit sellers. The cheater gets banned, gets credits and everything they brought ( stuff it, take their whole inventory ) removed and then if they sent any purchases to anyone else that person in turn gets red flagged and investigated.

The only way I imagine you run the risk of any action or credit removal via GTN sales is if your activity was significantly above your logged normal activity.
That is if you've played long term and normally you hover around the 100 million mark but in the past 6 weeks you jumped up to 300 million+ then yes you will probably be looked at as to how that happened.

The thing is if you had access to all the data BW will have following trends etc. won't really be that difficult to see things that are out of the norm.

If all you do is sell things for the normal amount you sell them for and maybe you sold things a bit quicker as cheaters tried to launder their credits I think you'd be safe because I can guarantee a large portion of regular GTN sellers would have had cheaters buy their stuff over these 6 weeks ... it's looking at activities outside of the norm is where I imagine BW will focus.

Why regular stronghold use? Because of legacy banks?

And why billing information? To see if alt accounts shared the same details?

Billing information because you would ideally have to make a subscriber mule account for this to work or do it in many chunks of 100K or whatever the f2p limit is which isn't really feasible.

It's a good point actually as I hadn't thought of billing information as tracking.

In saying that they could have made free accounts and just have it sitting in escrow for the future when it dies down then sub those accounts and BOOM rich.

They did a quick temp-ban on anyone they caught in order to start 'locking down' the problem, but that doesn't mean that initial temp ban is the final word for any account they identified.

Eric specifically mentioned they'd continue to look at exploiting accounts and increase the sanctions as they identify which ones were particularly serious violators:
Those Reddit posters' jubilation at only receiving a 'slap on the wrist' may be a bit premature.

I do not know if that means that they are going to go after the credits the egregious offenders might have spent on items from unknowing bystanders or not. But it is concerning me that its a possibility. I have been listing my stuff at whatever the current asking price is for a few weeks now and my stuff has been selling rather quickly. I just hope that doesnt mean the exploiters were buying my stuff and that i might possibly lose the money I've made despite not doing anything wrong other than having piss poor luck if my stuff was bought by exploiters