Devil's Sunrise Wrote:A more efficient approach on this is removing the meso sites. (Check FM every 30 mins) From there on, there are only hackers doing it for fun left. Remove the fun by banning the hackers.
This is dumb. You wont get rid of meso selling sites by banning their FM botters. They are not complete idiots. it take me 15 min to get off of maple island. Just make a new char and spam in FM. They send their meso farmers out to collect, and every so often have then send mesos, and possibly items to an unrelated account(s). That account(s) store(s) the mesos, and maybe that one will give the players mesos after they pay, or maybe it will go through one more layer of additional characters. Who knows exactly.
All banning the FM botters will do it make it less annoying in FM, and make the people who want to buy mesos less knowledgeable about prices, which isnt hard to find out about, just search "maplestory mesos" in goolge for christ sake. They need to look around, filter through reports, and try to catch large numbers of farmers, or regular hackers by banning them before they get the money sent over. If they have the data, they need to track who these char send money to, and try to determine a good way to get rid of most of the meso sellers inventory. If they do that, the sellers are forced to either raise costs, or fire their farmers, which they likely dont have many of anyway. So they raise costs, and as this continues, they end up, in most peoples eyes, being too risky to buy from, because they wont be that much cheaper then buying from nexon themselves. It's be nice if nexon could go one step further, and track who the meso sellers sell the mesos to, and temp ban them(meso buyers wouldnt deserve full ban, no matter what you say). The temp ban would dissuade them from ever buying mesos again.
Oh, and they need to search in places people might not train, but has solid equip/meso drops, like the various Kents, and Vikings, Birks, etc. This is of course after taking care of more visable hackers, like himes and WS. This really requires more show of force.