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Ramaiding is working as intended. There's no such thing as free money in APB. Ramraiding is a bonus to get some extra money for both crim and enforcer with a risk factor. If it's such a big deal to crims getting witnessed and risking losing 'their' money then there's always the safe way to get money: do misions like the rest of the community does. Besides that, crims can easely collect their ramraiding money under the $2500 cap and lower the chance of getting witnessed. But as we all know, crims won't do that because it takes to much time, they just want free money fast without doing the extra mile. Not gonna happen...

If abuse means not willing to pay for extra character slots then yes. I strongly believe that if character slots where free: · Less new accounts would be made wich would ‘improve’ database accessability. · Players would play more due to account bound related items, IE weapons and premium. · Griefing/cheating might go down due to more then 2 high ranked characters on an account. · It makes LO look good/better by not grabbing cash. If character slots remain a payed item then it would be nice for LO to concider a 1 time account merge (per account) and charge a small amount of G1C to make it happen. It would make so many people happy.

That has just been confirmed by Matt on the official LO stream.

I'm sure they're really looking forward to play vs the large amount of closets in the silver and gold districts.

I bet they uninstalled by now.

I'm sure LO can work something out. I have 5k G1C on my Russian 'merged' account and I have no intention of spending it.

Me too but probably not going to happen because 2 accounts is an opportunity for an extra LO cashgrab (premium, guns etc).

Account merging would be awesome, I wasn't planning on spending any cash on APB no more so 'free Jericho' character slots on my Citadel main is profitable in a way.

Horseman with new never seen before rewards would be nice, otherwise it will be boring af.

If he's not griefing or acting like a twat in chat he won't be banned. That's how it has been for a months.

Title. /w IGN: iShoarmaboer

So LO lost 1 player by not banning a possible 50+ marco players. Ok, seems like a good deal from a business perspective.

OPGL, definitely.

He's is getting a penalty for it, he loses P5 and will make less money then when he had P5.

Woot! Another 15 legendaries to move to my Citadel pile then. First 3 pages on marketplace will be mine, e-peen contest incoming

They had (and still have) a full database, they know exactely what we had. Most guns are the same as on Citadel, the only had slightly differend stats (like the duck, r&d3 etc). Not having financial records of a differend company is just a cheap trick of saying 'We still want you as a customer but we prefer you rebuying the legendaries we denied you of keeping'. I'm one of the lucky ones who have loads of legendaries on my main Citadel account from the OBT era so I can tranfer some if I wanted to. Instead of doing that I chose to spend my money on items of a differend game. And this all because some people prefer lazyness over keeping paying customers. You can't expect those who got screwed over to keep paying, it's not rocket science.

N5/P5 is working fine as it is, no need to change.

Can't do, that account changed ownership so the cheater who made the 255 possible has no control over that account no more. I'm working on his new one tho.

Without getting into to much detail, if they use a simple macro is very easy to tell besause of the constant consistency. Experienced users 'screw up' once in a while, simple macro's don't. Now, if you would use a more advanced macro then it will be harder for a GM/spectator/stream watcher to spot, IE: if you add a randomised factor to it looks more humanised. I've seen a guy using his own advanced macro and combined it with a semi-randomised/non-autoshoot aimbot, he went from rank 9 to 255 and that account is still not banned. We all know that AC's are a joke these days so it's up to other factors to get people like this banned and there is where the problem is. It's not what GM/spectators/stream watchers see, it's what cheaters wants them to see. Sidenote to your streaming refference: there's still streamers who are blatantly using marcros and bots so catching those is not that hard, and yet they're still playing. It's a bit frustrating to say the least.

I know you don't want to hear it but using a macro on an Ntec is highly beneficial according to some people. Holding the trigger or tapping with macro mimicking max fire rate does magic to recoil. In other words, it's a bit more accurate.

LO bought APB, they where fully aware of what they where buying so that's no excuse.

True, I remember that as well. But now the excuse was that weapons with differend then Citadel stats would not be transfered. Instead of adjusting the exisiting Nekrova weapons to Citadel standards and then merge, they chose the easy way out. Now after the merge almost every Nekrova player who owned a Sitting duck, nano, contact nano, R&D3, True ogre etc basicly got absolutely screwed over since their weapons didn't get merged as promised. Instead of that, a maximum of 5k G1C was offered to those who had over 1k play time, wich makes absolutely no sense at all, IE a player who spent $500 and played 100 hours gets less G1C then a player who spent $5 with 1k+ hours. Lazyness or 'smart' business? I'm wondering how many of the screwed over Nekrova players are still willing to spent real money on APB...

I think I know who you mean, he was unbanned. After the unban his skill dropped massively wich was very strange to say the least.