RIP SPARKS!!!

Unity pop items will be too expensive....

Did you do game design at uni, or is it just a hobby you picked up while living unemployed with your mum?

Half of the reason you bother doing UNM is because it gives sparks back.

But yeah, I guess there's no other options. Points are still spendable as pops.

You got humiliated into deleting your account because you tried to be a troll and got intellectually destroyed by Vic. Lasted 2 days before you made a new account and then spammed threads with posts about me when I was gone for months. Please get a grip and get a life.

Regarding Exchange Restrictions on Sparks of Eminence and Unity Accolades

Thank you all for your feedback.

We understand that many players feel that the current restrictions are too low and have run into the current set limit. We’ll continue to examine this. Rather than simply raising the limit and keeping in line with the current structure, we’re considering the addition of more effective methods with future countermeasures.

The development and operations teams are aware of RMT vendors bypassing the restrictions by using multiple accounts or repeatedly creating new characters. While we’d like to completely cut off the gil supply for RMT vendors, I believe it wouldn’t be possible without severely affecting regular players. Instead, our goal is to make the effort of RMT vendors selling gil not worth the real life benefits they would receive. Since the changes, we’ve received reports that RMT vendors have altered their activity patterns, and we’re also constantly penalizing accounts involved in fraudulent activity. Therefore, the changes had some effect but weren’t a decisive blow, and we’ll continue to take countermeasures.

On a related note, Sparks of Eminence are only intended to be a supplemental method for obtaining items such as Rem’s Tale Chapters. We’d like to encourage all players, beginners and veterans alike, to challenge themselves to primarily obtain these items through other means, such as High-Tier Mission Battlefields. Sparks of Eminence aren’t meant to completely replace the other content in that regard, but we’d like to hear your feedback if you encounter any issues with obtaining these items through other content.

We do not believe the issue can be resolved with just a one-time measure. Additionally, we want to make sure that these measures do not heavily affect everyone’s normal gameplay as well.

As always, we look forward to hearing your feedback.

Even Matsui gets it. Farm the content. It's worth just as much. If you don't want to put in the time, and would rather bot sparks.. find a new game?

Special_Task_Force
Support Rep

Report from STF (October 2, 2020)

Hello. This is a special task force.

This time, I would like to report on our efforts from April to September.

Follow-up on Synthetic Cheat From late April to early May, cheating to illegally obtain HQ items was confirmed, and 33 accounts were forcibly withdrawn.
This includes accounts that have been directly cheated, as well as accounts that have been indirectly involved , such as making a profit from buying or selling items . In addition, along with the implementation of the penalty,
we have frozen about 1,500 illegally obtained items and about 35 billion gil that we had.

This cheat was cracked down once in late April, after which it was confirmed that another player had recurred.
The latter is presumed to be a copy of the cheat method obtained on the Internet.
Even if you see the cheat information, please do not try or disseminate it with interest.
Also, to prevent the spread of cheats, we would appreciate it if you could use a dedicated form when reporting.

Regarding this cheat act, measures were introduced in early May, and it is currently not possible.

Eminence Record / Unity Concord Adjustments In
order to prevent RMT vendors from withdrawing gil from the system, the June 10 version upgrade will
set an upper limit on the weekly redeemable Eminence Unity points. Thank you.
Since this change will affect the players, we have carefully considered it with the development team, but
in view of the situation that it is a hotbed of RMT, we decided that we had to put some restrictions on it. It was.
We appreciate your understanding and cooperation.


Finally, I would like to report on the trends in dealing with July and August .
First of all, there is a big decrease in the number of coping accounts. This is a result of the adjustment of the above Eminence Unity Point exchange,
which has reduced the number of RMT companies operating for the purpose of Eminence to about 1/5 to 1/10.
The current situation may be temporary, so we will keep an eye on future trends and take appropriate measures.

On the other hand, the number of coping with other contents such as Dynamis and characters being BOT / nurtured increased slightly.
These include those that have been dealt with based on reports from players.
Thank you very much for your many reports every day.
We would like to thank you again for your cooperation, and we will make use of the report in the crackdown and strive to further expand and speed up the response.


The impact of the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) continues, but since May, the STF staff's work environment at home has been improved,
and it is now possible to crack down on the system as before.
We will work on dealing with RMT and fraudulent activities in order to further improve the playing environment. Thank you for your cooperation.

A JP player, not the STF
Asura is getting into trouble ...
Most of the yell chat and major Jobpo hunting grounds are constantly occupied by traders, which is
more of a hindrance to normal play than Gil and others.

Even if the trader's BAN is difficult, I think that special measures are required for the Jobpo hunting ground and yell problems.

we have carefully considered it with the development team, but
in view of the situation that it is a hotbed of RMT, we decided that we had to put some restrictions on it.

The problem with the Job point sellers is they consume all areas to make it almost impossible to get legit job points, which forces you to buy them. It's hard to grab one apex mob sometimes to get some skillups on, let along kill fast.



This kind of reads as though the STF over-ruled the development team.

The STF report just proves that suspicion i was mentioning in the last ban thread: if there isnt more those dozens obvious bots running in ceizak, that means that quota of 2k ban STF can send every month gonna fall onto players on non "explicit" RMT activities, like JP bots. So, in the end, indeed, spark/accolade indirect effect is increasing the exposition of players that abuses third party tools, despite those abuse not seeming like destructive to the game.

Also, this report corroborate with my second suspicion. That temps/bans are REACTIVE actions, not active, like "autobans". (obviouly there should be some activities that can be caught in a auto-control system like AH bids bot).

I was suspicting about that when i had 6 chars doing "light" JP boting (i mean, never doing over 16h straight), and two of them got temped, being the only difference between those 2 for the others 4 that those 2 were part of a linkshell. So, someone in shell, probably with some personal problem with me, checked the LS members, found me in some gate zone and just proceed to report. While the others, that werent visible to the reporter, were safe.

This enforce that you always need to be careful when dealing with other players, because they are the real risk than the STF, that wont actively research bots. They deal with cheating/boting using systemic solution like the nerf.

Also, while this report shed some lights in the temp/ban process, everyone must be alert that this report is also a motivation for more reports: players now are seeing their reports are working, and people are being dealt so obviously they gonna report MORE. And do notice, players are biased. They will report being correct OR NO. Players like any human can just try reporting just to prejudice the other. Or for some competition advantage like less crafers selling junk. As most players resort to some third party tool, do notice you wont be temp/banned because you use third party tools, but mostly because someone framed you, and the reports concluded that you use something worth to be penalized.

So, all cheaters around the worlds, stay alert and safe. Watchout that they are witch burning now. You gonna be banned not because you cheat but because they want to see you burning in a fire pit in port jeuno...