Shiamorah

This is an issue that 99% of the playerbase has dealt with.

If it is a wrongful ban, you have nothing to worry about, it was likely just the automated banning system detecting your account incorrectly. Feel free to post a ban appeal here: https://forum.elysium-project.org/forum/351-ban-appeals/ Posting threads like this will not help you get your account unbanned faster.

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You literally said " it sucks but there's nothing the Elysium folks will do". If you don't know how that associates blame, then I don't know what to tell you.

Here you can try this, it is mine: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx6xvVlCL0_5SkNjekJ5VDFISW8

Fault is on the player after staff announce very openly the possibility of account compromise, and players inability to react on it. A more accurate example of this would be the police informing you that there has been a series of breakins in your neighborhood and recommendation to lock your doors, and then you proceed to keep your doors unlocked. They can't force you to take steps to prevent your account from being compromised. They can only suggest to you and provide you with means to prevent this, which they have. Beyond that, there is literally nothing they can do. That is why it is the players fault, the bottom line is that it is 100% not the staffs fault that accounts are compromised. Their database is secure. If you are an IT consultant, you should understand your password is only as secure as much as you trust any website you use it on. In this case, there were websites unaffiliated to Elysium which were compromised, which is how accounts on Elysium are now being compromised. People tend to use the same passwords, which is why this is a problem. To suggest it is Elysium's fault in causing your account to be hacked is ridiculous. It is likely you used the same password as you did in another server. The plain and simple fact here, the basic logic, is that a majority of players go uncompromised, because they take standard and suggested procedures to prevent this. When the staff say "Hey a database has been compromised on an unrelated WoW server, you should change your password and register 2FA so even if your password is compromised, you won't lose anything", you should probably listen to it.

The staff here have been very clear on their pursuit of eliminating these players, to suggest they are allowing spam is ridiculous. The only reason that security is so 'shoddy' here has nothing to do with this server at all, it has to do with servers completely unrelated to this one being compromised and account details leaked, and from there hackers can compromise accounts. They have handled this situation as best as they can, and where they haven't been able to, they rely on the player to either report them, or download an addon which will easily handle the situation.

I understand the frustration involved with losing items or your account temporarily. The issue here is very clear, however. How can you prove to Elysium staff you were actually hacked? With any degree of tolerance that the staff give to the community, there is also a degree of exploitation. Allow me to explain. Say if you can prove your account was compromised and your items were lost, then the staff here would return all of your items. Now, say that I am a malicious player, looking to exploit this. I give my friend my password, he gets rid of all of my gold/items to his level 1 account and changes my password. I claim I was hacked, they return the gold and items..? He could easily from there just continue to send these gold/items to other accounts until it becomes a serious hassle tracking it down. Now, what is there to say I can't just use a VPN and not even have a friend, but do everything myself? While it sucks to lose your items from a compromised account, the rules they have in place are reasonable ones. They provide you with the best possible solution, which is 2-factor authentication. This doesn't prevent your account from being compromised, but it does prevent you from losing your items. They literally cannot take your items unless they somehow have your phone as well. They frequently announce this feature via forums and server messages. At this point, it is no ones fault but the players.

I do not have errors and I alt-tab frequently (I'm actually alt tabbed right this second). This has to be something specific to your computer/wow. Perhaps an addon misbehaving? Maybe a fresh install is necessary?

I understand your frustrations. There is a level of illegal content that you can't avoid, or at least I haven't found how to. This being when they mail you (my hero...) But Erjh8765 is correct, I downloaded the addons spamthrottle and do not get any whispers or anything anymore from gold sellers. You can also configure it to automatically ignore any chat involving certain phrases. I don't have much of a problem anymore with these types of players. You can report them of course to get them banned, they can only whisper once they are level 10, so it is definitely worth it to report them. Take a screenshot of their advertisement, and make a ticket and the GM will deal with it.

Your account can't be hacked if you have 2-factor authentication. Go to the Elysium control panel, and do recover account, if your account is compromised. But they can't log into your account if you have 2FA.

Sorry, there's currently no way of doing that!

There is no way to do this currently. You'd have to roll a new character to play with your friends on Horde.

Elysium is currently offline and Elysium-Project in general is experiencing DDOS attacks -- https://twitter.com/elysium_dev?lang=en If this isn't the reason why you are having issues logging in, let me know.

I am just explaining how you would incredibly similar to someone that is botting, so it wouldn't be a surprise if they were to ban you for botting after testing to see if you were there... If you couldn't reply or function in any way to prove you aren't a botter, then it just goes to say that they'd assume you're botting..

First thing I did in game when I started was go below Stormwind :D

I don't know how fast I am going relative to everyone else, but I am level 31 with 2 days, 20 hours play time

Population is the thing that affects changes made, I can guarantee you that. At my job, we have test servers that apply changes extremely easily and without issue, but when those changes are tested on a massive amount of ingoing and outgoing connections, that is when they break.

My best guess here is that Anathema is the initial server that changes are applied to, and then the changes are applied to the others. If that is true, then it is possible that Anathema gets hit with changes that hurt the server and need to be reverted, and then the other servers are applied the changes that won't negatively affect the server. I'm only guessing this because on an enterprise level, usually people apply changes to one server, and then mimic the successful changes on the rest. Only a guess, though.

In my personal experience, I have been playing with my girlfriend and we have swapped items via mail and trade with no return. And your IP addresses aren't the same, so that is a nonissue. As long as they are two separate accounts used via two separate IP addresses, I doubt any trouble will come your way. And if it does, I believe posting a ban appeal where both parties involved can prove their IP is attached to their account, then I highly doubt this would conclude with a ban. I think the only issue would be if there are increments of gold transfers, which is a typical gold seller scheme, or trading of gold to multiple people without reason.

The largest issue by far is how your program emulates botting. For example, would you be able to prove that your program is run manually by you, or automatically via botting? Because for the GM, it would likely appear the same. You are smart for checking about this ahead of time, because this could potential cause issues or a possible ban. Bottom line is this is something that would need to be assured by a GM.

Well I mean, would you be able to talk using RemoteR? If a GM questioned you, or anyone for that matter

This is very iffy. While I wouldn't say that it would be bannable to RDP into a computer and play WoW from it, I feel like it would be difficult to differentiate your application from botting. For example, if a GM was watching you, would you be able to respond to him using RemoteR? It is more about how similar it seems to botting than anything, IMO.

It's no different with Horde