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#1 Sep 01 2006 at 3:16 PM Rating: Good
From todays patch:
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*** Trial of the Isle Changes ***

The Trial of the Isle is a free demo of EverQuest II that gives players a chance to try out the game. Unfortunately, some unscrupulous individuals have been using the Trial to perform actions that break the End User License Agreement, such as spamming legitimate players.

In order to prevent many of these abuses, Trial accounts now have certain limitations placed upon their ability to interact with other players. These limitations go away when the Trial player subscribes to the game.

Trial of the Isle players:
- Cannot send /tells to players on other servers or games
- Must be on someone's friends list in order to send /tells to them
- Cannot trade with other players
- Cannot be invited into guilds
- Cannot create a guild or assist in the creation of a guild
- Cannot purchase items from the broker or from consignment vendors
- Cannot list items for sale on the broker
- Cannot send or receive in-game mail
- Cannot talk in server-wide chat channels (level channels, class channels, etc.)


*** User Interface ***

- There is now a Report Spam button in the mail window. Using this button will delete the message, any attachments it has, and will report it to Customer Service for investigation.

That should be the end of that!
#2 Sep 01 2006 at 3:31 PM Rating: Good
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crosses fingers. Alhtough lately I have been having fun with the PP tells, by either replying in binary code ro telling them (in english) I dont read english and can not understand a word they're saying. The responses are amusing.

#3 Sep 01 2006 at 3:37 PM Rating: Decent
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nice changes, TOI probably should have been this way to begin
#4 Sep 02 2006 at 10:32 AM Rating: Good
Will take care of the spammers. But not the actual selling. Though this certainly hurts their business. Hard for them to advertise.

But they transfer the plat on the mainland right? So they have paid accounts already then. But hopefully this plus some more bans should really decrease the amount of plat they are selling.
#5 Sep 02 2006 at 12:06 PM Rating: Decent
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That will definately not dissipate all plat selling, but that will definately help ! Theres been plat selling in every game ive played and sadly enough they will always exist.
#6 Sep 02 2006 at 3:40 PM Rating: Decent
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This morning someone sent me a group invite from Queens Colony and I declined it thinking it was a new method that gold sellers might be using to find new buyers. Anyone else getting random group invites from the TOI? SOE might need to disable non-subscriber /whois commands as well.



Edited, Sep 2nd 2006 at 4:53pm EDT by Trappin
#7 Sep 03 2006 at 12:12 AM Rating: Decent
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Yes! i got a group invite from OotO and i thought it was a newbie who needed some advice...there where 5 others in group and they where all higher level then the plat seller...and he spammed us...so i reported his butt lol
#8REDACTED, Posted: Sep 05 2006 at 5:33 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Still dont see why everyone is against plat selling on eq2 ... Sony still offers the service themselves. Same thing.
#9 Sep 05 2006 at 8:10 AM Rating: Decent
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Spre, Eater of Souls wrote:
Still dont see why everyone is against plat selling on eq2 ... Sony still offers the service themselves. Same thing.


Don't you think it's hypocritical for them to say its against their ToS yet offer it at the same time?


You are quite ignorant, aren't you? Sony only offers this on their Station Exchange servers where RMT is allowed and encouraged. Outside of those two servers, the trading and/or selling of plat is strictly prohibited because it destroys in-game economies. Anyone who has played FFXI can attest to this.
#11 Sep 05 2006 at 12:43 PM Rating: Good
Nimrod #1 postulated:
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Still dont see why everyone is against plat selling on eq2 ... Sony still offers the service themselves. Same thing.

Don't you think it's hypocritical for them to say its against their ToS yet offer it at the same time?

No, not at all. Hospitals keep a ward for contagious folks but that doesn't mean they endorse you going out and catching something! In this case, Sony is providing a location where people can play this way in a safe enviornment if they choose to. At the same time, the folks that choose to play this way are being kept completely isolated from the gen pop! That tells me they don't want it to infect everyone else's playtime.

Nimrod #2 managed:
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I find it amusing that talk like this is finding place on a forum owned by IGE.

HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHARHGARHGAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

How nice for you. I find it amusing that you have managed to string several words together in a seemingly cohearent message while still remaining an abject moron.

Fact is we have had the whole "who owns this site" debate ad nausium and there is still no proof one way or the other... unless you count the fact that in the elapsed time since the merger, NOTHING here has changed for the worse...

Now, go play with yourself, troll!
#12 Sep 05 2006 at 12:54 PM Rating: Good
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Anyone else getting random group invites from the TOI? SOE might need to disable non-subscriber /whois commands as well.


I did. I figured it was a spammer based on the name so I declined.

You can always tell the spammers because their names are randomized by the character creator. Apparently the non-english speakers think those names approximate anything an actual player would use. hehe.

It's amazing how fast these slugs find loopholes in the methods SOE uses to deal with them :(

Edited, Sep 5th 2006 at 1:57pm EDT by Lydiaele
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