What to do with report abusers (official server)

[CodeMage]

@CodeMage

Or did you honestly look at those pictures and thought “yeah, but those are big, and mine are small, I’ll be fine”?

@Foggy

I welcome you to go to this thread Land Claim Abuse on Official Servers and show me where a single row of foundations is webbing or even against tos.

Wow. You really did look at that and say “nah, I’ll be fine spamming a row of foundations without building anything on top”.

Here are some quotes from the official posts about rules, but I’ll add some underlining that wasn’t there:

@Umborls

Foundation Webs
Creating webs or arrays of foundation or fencing unfairly restricts other players from building in an area.

@Ignasi

Abuse of the claim system where blocks are placed for no other purpose than to prevent other players’ access to resources and building spots.

At this point, I’m reminded of something @Taemien said recently, something I sort of disagreed with him about:

@Taemien

At some point you all need to understand and accept that Funcom simply doesn’t have the ability to explain it any further down to meet your needs.

And he seems to have been right about at least some of you. Anyone who has actually read the rules and still comes up with the idea that they can put down a row (or any arrangement) of foundations specifically intended to prevent other people from building there and for no other purpose – anyone like that is beyond help when it comes to “clarification of rules”.

@Palm522

So your solution is to have players do funcom job and spend time reporting other players ?

No, my solution is to obey the rules of the servers you’re on. If you’re on a private server and the admin says that you’re gonna get banned from that server if your character doesn’t wear a pink-dyed armor on Wednesdays, then you either wear that armor on Wednesdays, or you don’t play on that server on Wednesdays. Or you get banned.

The rules for official servers are publicly posted. The mechanism for requesting admin action is described in those rules. If someone break the rules and you want that dealt with, you report them. If you don’t report them, there’s no guarantee that they’ll be dealt with. If you break the rules to deal yourself and someone reports you, you’ll get banned.

@Palm522

What i AM supposed to do is to play this Game , not to police other people actions or use the report in a malicious way to get rid of people we don’t like.

You can play the game free of any rules in single-player, co-op, or on any server without rules. Some private servers don’t have rules. Others do. Official servers also have rules. You get what you pay for. More importantly, you get what Funcom is legally obliged to provide you, and the EULA is very, very clear on that.