
Originally Posted by
CSM_River
Hello, I’m River, Customer Service Manager at Turbine.
For some time now, the Customer Service team has been reading your comments and thoughts regarding “rank farming’. Together with the Developers, Community team, and players council we have come up with a clear, official definition and policy regarding “rank farming” in the Ettenmoors.
“Rank Farming” is officially defined as the intentional surrender of your character to an enemy; resulting in a purposeful defeat and a gain of Infamy or Glory to increase rank. Rank Farming is specific to Ettenmoors PvMP (Freep vs. Monster Player). The enemy can be controlled by any player - either the same player controlling the surrendering character, or someone else.
Participation in Rank Farming is an abuse of our game mechanics, and against our rules. Customer Service can identify this behavior and will take the appropriate action on both accounts involved, based on our findings. This activity can also be reported to the in-game staff for review.
This policy is effective immediately and is *not retroactive*. We will not be taking action on previous potential violations. Any reports filed should be of actions witnessed after the publication of this policy.
Please remember that we have multiple ways to verify players are participating in this behavior. Additionally, players who frequently report others falsely may also be subject to disciplinary action for harassment.
Rank farming in general is a hard thing to prove and our kin/tribe, we are heavily pvmp and it is strictly against our rules of our kin/tribe. Meaning can result in a kick if caught. Yet there is a lot of hearsay of who rank farms and who doesn't. Leader boards, which you took down were one way to see who is rank farming . When you know there is no action prime time and just 1vs1 circles or small skirmishes around , you see a person with 10k renown/infamy gain in 1 day you know something's up. Our community has been policing/tagging people who rank farm. Common rank farmer signs, kinless for no reason/tribe. Some people drop kin /tribe suddenly and only want to solo. Also people who seem to like to stir up a lot of drama/confusion tend to be rank farmers. While with the state of the pvp at the moment rank farming is pointless you gain nothing and if you were to do anything about rank farming which I'm glad you're looking into it.. You would probably have to accuse/deal w/ half the major pvmp kin tribes in the game. Most have been caught doing it at one point or another. If you need any ideas, ask your vets. We have been dealing with most of your things you are just now seeing for a while. It's caused nothing but drama and heartache and caused a lack of interest in what most of us love about the ettenmoors.
Thank you ;
Alzie aka alzeria
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