Server 3585, There is an emote that was accessible for all the players under my base. My base wasn’t an obstacle for players to learn the emote, they could literally walk in and learn it without being stopped by foundations or thralls on the way! However, my issue to saying this is because we raided a player that is an admin in the server (we didn’t know at the time)
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The public servers do not have admins. Players reported your base, and for good cause.
And I’m sorry I have no sympathy for anyone that knowingly builds over a POI, recipe, or emote and gets banned for it.
If you enclose a POI you have build over the POI period, does not matter if you have a gate and leave it open, you have still build over that POI.
On the server I’m on now I have a list, if I had any reason to believe a funcom admin might investigate I’d report them all. Blocking paths, large villages, bridges to no where for no reason, massive lag inducing kingdoms. It’s like the ToC inspired people. But when I do a report it’s detailed with multiple screen caps, exact map points, specific violations, and you know what happens? 4/5ths the time nothing, so why waste my time?
Yes my pet peeve.
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Greetings,
Please follow the stated in the Official servers guidelines to submit a ticket:
You can read the full version of the Guidelines here:
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Can we talk?
This actually provide no useful information. So I get a time out for land claim abuse, but you all never actually explain how the land claim was abused, so how am I supposed to not break the rule again? I have no idea how I broke it in the first place.
And if you link to that same cooky cutter response I’ll know this is an AI run forum. I’m half convinced of it already.
Full bans aren’t either; I mean once in a blue moon a ban is over turned but you’ll need video proof on youtube to do it. Seems to me most of the time we are not dealing with actual people, appeals are just summarily closed with no explanation.
No one is reading the ToC. Go tour any public PVE server and you’ll see that. If anything the examples of ToC violating builds is just inspiring people to build that way.
The system is a fail from the start, a good portion of players do not want to be your HOA agent, they actually think there is an admin that moderates the servers. And ends in failure because the system is design to punish not teach. So I learn nothing from a suspension.
But we know this is falling on deaf ears, funcom is not going to change this fail of a system, which has become more of a weapon for people holding a grudge then a system to enforce the ToC for the betterment of the servers.
We are just going to go back and forth, my base wasn’t even close to the emote/note, and that shouldn’t be a reason to ban or destroy bases! or at least before doing so give up a warning for the simple fact that my base wasn’t an obstacle to that! All because of people pettiness and rage for getting raided is crazy, I guess that’s one way to destroyed people bases and getting free loot, making up something that isn’t bothering anyone is the server but the people that got raided (lol) and definitely I’m pissed, hopefully I won’t get ban for life because I’ll definitely go back to play and raid them again just because I’m very upset about this situation, and this time I’ll be accused of hacking I can already see that coming, hopefully this time if that happens admins will judge fairly and see that isn’t nothing personal but game related. Have a good one!
Are you sure you are on an actual official server?
Official servers do not have admins. And some unofficial servers are named as if they are official.
If the person you raided was really an admin on that server, there is a good possibility it’s not really an official server.
And if you can talk to an admin who is playing on that server, that is another indicator of a private server, just masquerading as official.
Private server admins can pretty much do as they like.
Talking directly to them would be your best move.
If I am mistaken an you are 100% certain you’re on an actual official server,
then I apologize for this post.
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Unfortunately it is an official server, I’m ban until the 15th of this month, cannot play the game at all, at any server (not sure about pve) so I know for a fact it was an actual admin from the game. I’m unaware if people that have private servers can actually ban you from the game itself too but I don’t think so.
No we are not.
You don’t get banned just because some one reported you. Funcom does investigate; Set knows I’ve gotten enough “so sorry, to busy to check, hope issue solved self”. Ya right that base that enclosed the entire oasis is going to solve it’s self 
There are specific ToC rules, have you read them? You can’t make up a reason for some one to get banned. It has to be a specific violation you are reporting, with proof; screen capes, and more then one report, for funcom to even check.
Not saying they couldn’t use an exploit, but that exploit is easy enough to check; if funcom was motivated to.
As far as I’m aware, FC employees that are monitoring the servers (IE admin authority) do not play on official servers.
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At least not in an official capacity.
Ultimately they don’t even log in to the servers to perform admin actions for land claim violations, a save of the server is loaded up on their console to be reviewed.
It’s easy to think some people are admins though, I’ve been asked multiple times over the years if I am… but I am very chatty.
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True. Multiple times i was delivering “orders” on time and I was making fun of saying, “feel free to lose, i am the admin panel”.
Some people actually started to believe this sh.it so i stopped using this sentence.
The poi policy demands not to build at all, not just accessible.
No you didn’t because official servers do not have Admins. If you have proof that this player speaks for him self that’s an employee of Funcom give them to Funcom so he’ll get a lesson too.
Exactly!!!
In this warning explain the violation too, some people didn’t read the rules and many others although they have read, haven’t completely understand them. So instead of punish try to educate first 
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I am sorry you got banned @OrdinaryKiwi. But i don’t think you cannot play on private servers or single player. If you really cannot play all these then your ban investigation is for hack, not poi block.
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great
This why “but I have open gates” when building doesn’t make a ToC violation ok.
I just do not understand normies. How difficult is to just not build around a POI? You know it’s there just don’t build there 
Or if there is clear path, short cut passage, areas with mass mats; like iron nodes, just don’t build there. Now I am abrasive, I can be rude, but I have enough consideration for my fellow players to not build in a way or where it would infringe on their game play.
Now people on any server I’m on should thank funcom for doing a crap job enforcing the ToC. I have no issue being the server HOA agent. I do full reports just to have my time wasted by funcoms inability or unwillingness to actually investigate a report. So I gave up filing them, not worth my time.
And no, of the 5 times funcom actually investigated 4 got the hammer, and I will continue to argue the entire oasis needs to be a nobuild zone.
Teleth’s island is not a no build zone, building there will get you banned. I know of 5 builders that got the hammer for building there. Yet funcom wont make it a no build zone so people continue to build there and get banned for building there. Seems funcom would rather continue to ban players then fix the issue.
Which kinda seems like funcoms SOP for most things.
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There’s nothing to debate with me here @DeaconElie mostly because except the report part i strongly agree with you.
My only difference with you is that i don’t fancy to do the police officer or report other players for building errors, without saying that you are wrong for doing it. For me, online experience, is very important to be on a friendly smooth environment. If the server i participate begins building contest to the part who has it “bigger”, i delete the server from my favorites and move on.
I stop being a collector many years now, simply because there’s nothing i haven’t collected anyway even if i still find things in the game that surprised me, but mostly because i was storing and never use the collectables.
When i fix again situations either in new servers or old that i abandoned, i target on specifics that i like to use and care less for all the rest.
I like building and populating in this game, i adore some pets and i melt the purge mechanism. But that’s it. Soon i’ll get bored and feel free to loot my abandoned base.
One thing however i never done is to build on places that i might disturb.
It’s not so difficult to understand how you disturb others i believe, all you have to do is to believe that you own the place and with this behavior many mistakes will follow.
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you did not raid an admin. you raided someone who it turn used the ban meta on you because you built over a poi. you gave them the tool they needed to get you admin wiped. now as far as them claiming to be an admin goes, a lot of people have claimed that over the years but i’ve never met an actual adim on a server even though i have been admin wiped myself. if someone claims to be an admin you should screenshot the conversation and report it to funcom where they more than likely wont do anything about it