Celtic Heroes

One other thing in many cases a player reports a scammer or account selling or buying to support in game waits weeks nothing happens decideds to make a message on the forums and gets tons of support from the other players. After this happens within days its dealt with usually the scammer or the account sold is banned now this could be a coincidence but this happens a lot which lowers the chances of being a coincedence. Community already stated banning is the last thing they do and usually just warns a player so this is probably what happens after someone reports others for scamming or the bigger problem the buying or selling of an account but after posting on the forums and it gets many posts wanting players to ban them OTM finally deals with it. Again this could be a coincidence but im inclined to think that i have a better chance of getting these problems dealt with on the forums then through the in game support.

Yea this is a bit ridiculous. On Epona there was a scammer using the fake plat website, reported by half the server scamming over 100 accounts and didn't get banned for over a month. If OTM doesn't police their game in any sort of professional manner, it is a good thing that the community warns others on forums. Doing so in that situation saved many accounts, likely many paying customers. If you guys don't have the resources to keep up, assign 14 player mods (1 to each world) that can temporarily freeze an account until the proper admin can be contacted.

Having a player mod on each world would be risky in terms of favouritism, bribing, clan arguments etc

It would be hard to find the proper people, however if their duties are very specific I don't think it would be an issue. Such as temp freeze only admitted scammers, people trying to sell their accounts, and those shouting profanities in a game riddled with children. If they go beyond their scope admin will be able to see and strip their powers immediately. I think it is easier for admin to police the player mod than to police the whole server. No mod would risk their power to freeze an annoying opposing clanny for 24 hours...

Naming someone allows people to target abuse towards that person

This is the whole point, the other players know who to outcast and who to KS and who to not group with and who to not allow in clan. This is the only form of punishment these people receive, OTM does nothing to scammers. They openly admit it on forums and nothing is done. We have taken it into our own hands.

I personally will not follow this rule until OTM enforces their own policies.

With the new forum ' rules' ( wich i dont agree with ) its like i post someones name and this topic ' is now locked'.
Check lugh forum for more info...u ll get my point....

The forum rules have been put in place for a reason, and should be abided to. If you have any issues, please post it in the thread and don't create a new topic. I'm merging this with Community's thread.

Putting a post that says "I've been scammed" is just an invitation to be ridiculed and laughed at. I understand the reasoning why you want to keep the forums friendly, but making them so strict because OTM assumes that everything will turn into a flame war. That's usually what happens in forums, and that's why you have moderators, but some of these rules borders on censorship and suppresses free speech. Clan competition is already being killed in-game, now you can't even call out a clan's bad behavior in here.

Let's say I was scammed by someone pretending to be someone else with a similar username, I would post:

"I got scammed today by a user that's username is very similar to someone who is trusted [in our clan]. Please watch out. If you would like to know the user, please PM me".

I don't see how this will suppress freedom of speech.

Let's just all talk about bunnies and unicorns, shall we?

No, you can see I have left the vast majority of posts untouched. It's a bit of an exaggeration in my opinion.

Voldemort ik what u are talking about with your first post. But plz explain y it is easier to pm u? Yes might make forums less of a issue for some. But honestly i dont wanna answer 100 pm for same issue. This is getting completly silly with the new rules.

Voldemort ik what u are talking about with your first post. But plz explain y it is easier to pm u? Yes might make forums less of a issue for some. But honestly i dont wanna answer 100 pm for same issue. This is getting completly silly with the new rules.

Announcing a suspected scammer or something similar on the forums can get them into trouble with others that they might not want. By sending a PM, those who are interested will be aware of this person without topics becoming arguments. Community has made most of these rules with the rest of the team because 90% of the topics that are about scammers will end up coming off-topic insult topics which no one wants. A scammer will learn their lesson through OTM's discretion, not ours.

The "100 PM" issue is just a side-effect that you will get for posting the details on the forum. Call it a doctrine of double effect if you will.

I totally disagree with the scammers thing. How can we inform our server?

I now I will not post as much as I did before.