Aloha Community,
With « Patch 4.0.3 – The Mighty Shield », some important changes were implemented by the developer, with, amongst others, the blocking of some macros, to help our perpetual fight against botters. Many add-ons are relying on those same macros to work and allow players to “play” the game in a way that, in our opinion, hasn’t much to do with real gaming.
Runes of Magic has always allowed its players to use Add-ons to help improve their individual gameplay. However, the goal never was to allow the game to be played without a real person controlling his character.
We already have made several statements in the past, about how seriously the matter of botting, just like any other kind of cheating or bug exploiting, was taken by both Frogster & Runewaker. Never will we stand by idly in this kind of situation, but instead will do our best to find the appropriate solutions to fight against this kind of disease, regardless of the extent of the technical or human resource constraints.
From time to time a certain measure taken to address against an important issue does not work as intended, and may miss the mark on the target, causing us to reconsider. In this case, even if the decision of blocking certain macros functions was justified, it had a too strong of an impact on legitimate players and too little influence on stopping the botters.
We have therefore decided those macros will be re-activated with the arrival of the next patch.
True to the motto: Players who truly want to achieve great things and claim to be among the best generally do so without additional tools or only using a few that are absolutely necessary.
Finally, please be informed that the Community Management team has started a new program, with the help of additional reinforcement, who are connected to the servers on a daily basis to keep an eye on and chase gold & paysafe card sellers. This special task force operates independently of our own internal teams who are working on these issues.
So next patch will have our macro but @.@ they have special task force to monitor the botters
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Ladies & Gentlemen,
They have been a thorn in the side of many of us for years; gold sellers. They infest our virtual worlds like a plague, unconcerned by the damage they cause. Regularly players are spammed with messages encouraging them purchase gold. Profitable zones in the game world are under siege 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and in the worst cases, player's accounts are sold. The latter is often due to false confidence given to gold sellers resulting in the handing over of confidential data. It's like a fight against an incurable disease, which is propagating like cancer despite ever more advanced and sophisticated prevention techniques.
With the help of our internal anti-fraud department and the energetic support team, we have managed to have some success against this epidemic in the past up to the present day. Masses of accounts belonging to gold sellers and botters are banned every day. While these departments have highly efficient tools at their disposal and professional know-how, no matter how many accounts are locked, new accounts are created. This problem reveals a vulnerability with F2P (Free 2 Play) games. It's simple and easy to get into the game and immediately begin playing.
Frogster Online Gaming is aware that the gold-selling plague has intensified on the Runes of Magic servers and is distressing the community. Regardless of the struggle thus far, we have decided to take it to the next level. The gloves are coming off!
At this point, we've spent several weeks working tirelessly on internal plans to determine how we can use technology to make life harder for the virtual bloodsuckers. These plans are discussed together with our developer Runewaker and we're analysing how they can be implemented effectively. It's important for us that while these technical barricades will put more pressure on potential goldsellers, they also do not hinder or impede our players, old or new alike.
While the technical implementation will require time and resources, the community management team have forged several plans to help you – our community - even further. A portion of our team will soon be hidden on different servers during work hours to monitor, silence and prohibit gold sellers. Of course, these colleagues cannot work 24/7 simultaneously on all servers, but we can build and contribute further assistance in addition to other measures.
Game Masters are active on the English-speaking servers on a daily basis. Although you may not see results immediately, there's a simple reason for this. All discussions and actions must be carefully noted in order to later produce a report. In most cases, GM's operate in hidden mode. Included in these reports are information about PSC (PaySafeCard) sales, as well as gold-seller spam, abuse and insults. After leaving the server and completing the report, the listed offenses are processed one by one and rules are imposed in accordance with our internal guidelines for penalties. This will often (when appropriate) lead to permanent bans.
It's important to understand that no matter which methods we use - regardless of manpower or technical resources- it's almost impossible to remove goldsellers forever. A F2P game will always find it difficult to be entirely clear of gold sellers. Our motto still remains constant: Frogster will give everything it can to remain rock solid and ride out the storm.
Finally, a few well-intentioned pieces of advice:
If you find gold in your in-game mailbox without knowing who the sender is: do not accept it. In some cases this gold might originate from Goldsellers. Should this be the case, both accounts (sender & receiver) will be banned. In such cases it's important to write a ticket containing all the facts to our support team. Only this way is it possible to investigate fast and effectively. If gold is taken from your mailbox and then reported a few days afterwards, it's often difficult or impossible for support to understand the facts completely.
Those who purchase gold from a gold seller risk being permanently banned for violating the provisions in our user agreement. Furthermore, every purchase of gold is supporting the gold sellers and the defacement of the in-game economy. Supply and demand determine the market and gold sellers can potentially cause an influx of gold into the econmy, making life difficult for decent players.
We are confident that through our tireless efforts we can ensure that players are able to spend their time in Runes of Magic as undisturbed as possible.
Lead Community Manager Silberfuchs
Last edited by Zalmah; 19.08.2011 at 17:09.
but never belive them they sayed zs/ds/hos hm too. 
but let me guess..nothing stilll 
and moa items.. ( i have farmed whole days in hoto 
