Invisi wrote:
You have to use common sense...just because you can do something doesn't mean you are supposed to
SE allows us to make storage and crafting mules. They made a vana'diel tribune article about it if I remember correctly. They also know we do it for bonanza marbles. They mentioned it in the most recent census. When nearly 15% of the character population is level 5, obviously there's a lot of people, and a lot of mules, doing this. Were extra characters on accounts meant for this? Who knows? But SE obviously approves of it as they've brought both up and I've never heard of anyone getting banned for either.
So how does it make sense that we can create as many mules as we want for other purposes, but not gardening? Even
if you are correct, and SE shares your thoughts about gardening mules, the bigger issue then would be that we aren't given any warning as to what activities are grounds for a ban. Are we supposed to just guess? Is creating 15 inventory storage mules on one account too much? I'm not sure if SE intended for everyone to have such a large inventory. SE only allows one 100 craft per character, though we can have several with multiple characters. Is having five crafts at 100 due to crafting mules cheating? Who knows what SE really approves of and what they don't?
If SE
really has a problem with gardening on mules, they need to come out and say it. "Hey guys, we know you garden on mules but we don't like it. Stop pls, or we'll ban you," would be enough. Some people might be upset to hear this, but not quite as upset as they'd be when they try to log in and get a surprise ban. Guessing what SE approves of and what they don't isn't good enough, and banning people without telling anyone it was a bannable beforehand offense would be ridiculous. The fact that people were banned and not told why, and that community members had to piece this together themselves
is ridiculous.
I seriously doubt SE disapproves of gardening mules. The way I see it, this was only a way to try and get rid of RMT, though it sounds like they screwed up and hit a wave of innocent gardners. But if by the off chance you are correct (highly unlikely, especially since everyone is being told they've been banned for RMT activity), there would be a ton of things wrong with intentionally banning legitimate players over this without warning.