I'm starting this thread to gather the links on the forum of others that have been banned and to explain what it appears to be a pattern for those that were banned.
So far it appears all bans are being caused by at least one or more of the following reasons:
1.) An account with multiple chars up to 16 that are have pots growing items to be vendored for gil.
2.) A fake chargeback initated by SE themselves in which they force returning your funds to your CC and then cite that you requested it banning you with an LM-17 due to "irregular play" and "rmt activities." Their own GM's and Information Services Center have been scratching thier heads as they don't understand why most accounts have been banned.
3.) If you lose your Credit Card and have multiple accounts attached to it, upon reactivation with a different card you'll find that you cannot activate more then 1 account on the same card without a 24 hour waiting period. Should you try and activate a 2nd account with the same card and get the UCS-XXXXX error and then try again the next day with that very card, you will be banned with LM-17 "RMT activities".
4.) If you have an account with all characters under level 5 up to 16 mules with more gil 5 million gil on it and their auto-tool RMT-PWNER 1.337 is somehow triggered on your account, another auto tool called "Gilded Tomb" will come online and deem you are RMT for just having gil stored on a mule. Most players did this to keep from being too impulsive on buying or making those huge AH mistakes by adding extra zeros on purchases.
5.) If you camp on a specific spot for long periods over a period of at least 2 days and vendor some of the drops you are banned with LM-17 and deemed an account with "RMT Activities". Players banned with this have been told that they are perma-banned after review of their account. Subsequent ban complaints has resulted on deaf ears. To my knowledge this has happened in Den of Rancor and Sea Serpent Grotto.
6.) If you're account had a chargeback in the past and you reactivated recently, even with approval from POL Information Center you will be banned with LM-17 and told you're involved in "RMT Activities."
7.) Theortical: If you use any method of making gil besides doing quests or getting drops from NMs (and you may not camp the nm too much) you will be banned with LM-17 for "RMT Activities".
8.) If you have multiple mules with the same prefix, in my case I had Gummynet, Gummycat, Gummyfish, Gummyslave, Gummyelf, Gummylion, Gummyworm, and Gummycola. My friends ls was called Shield of Heaven and their mules all began with SOH.
9.) If you play FFXI from more then one ip they will accuse you of having more then one person having access to your account. For example, charter internet at home, at&t at work, and sprint aircard while travelling.
10.) More then one trial on the same ip will cause an autoban on both accounts.
I'll add to this thread when we find more instances. I really hope the rest of you choosing to continue to play are safe... So many good friends and linkshells have dissolved over this. Why is it so important to destroy Final Fantasy 11 to force everyone to Final Fantasy 14?
I'd like to give SE my congratz on destroying their playerbase on their witch hunt.
The most recent account to my knowledge banned was August 19, 2009, the Friday that just passed.
The most recent un-banning of an account occured on August 17, 2009.
Administrator here on these forums have begun collecting information regarding bans in an effort to help us make sense of it all. Please do e-mail him with anything you can provide to assist us in this matter.
Thayos wrote:
My email is Thayos.rdm@gmail.com. E-mail me anything you have. Even if nothing is actually used in print, any correspondence will give us a more clear idea of what's going on.
Article representing us:
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/story.html?story=19095
Edited, Aug 19th 2009 5:50pm by GummybearOdin