125227-carbine-read-please

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Let me start with my biggest issue, my name （which appears to be jumbled letters ） is actually the initials of all the people I care about. This is just like my e-mail I use for my account name, those are my pets.
 
Now I want to know where in the user agreement or code of conduct it says I cannot use consonants jumbled together in no profane or meaningful way to any one else.  I have done the name change you requested, with the same letters but added a duplicate of the last one. This is atrocious and silly.
 
Onto another point, my last post I made about botting(should of said afking- as i dont think bots exist atm) in pbg got closed for "shaming" when not a single person was named, not only that I specifically asked a responder to remove the name he had put（that he did ）in light of the no shaming policy.
 
afking is getting worse and worse, now there is a medic on the exile side extricating players off nodes, and there is NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT. If you aren't going to do anything about player reports in pbg, atleast let the player base deal with it. Put in a vote kick, this way if half the team votes to kick, out the player goes.  People are openly, and blatantly saying they afk in chat channels and laughing it up.
 
I'd like a serious response to my first issue, if you want to comment on the second part- or close it for shaming with not a soul vilified in sight then so be it. At least tell me why my name of initials of loved ones is inappropriate.	
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			This is what happens since the devs made pvp the easiest/ quickest way to get amp/ ability points.  Tbh, they need to just remove the elder gem caps at this point and let the pve crowd grind their amp/ abilities that way.	
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Hello!
 
I'm guessing the first portion of your post is in regards to in-game names and not forum ones? Those rule sets do differ than our forum ones, and you'll need to discuss that one with CS rather than here on the forums as we cannot provide any additional information to your specific case. Sometimes it's as simple as having a jumble of letters behaving as a short form for something offensive, but again this is something you would need to discuss with CS. 
 
As far as the second portion goes - name & shame doesn't have to specifically name a character. It can elude to a character by guild, faction, or any other number of things. As I mentioned in that thread if you do suspect someone of cheating, then please don't hesitate to report it in game, or email theredphone@carbinestudios.com - if you want to have a discussion about how to prevent these sorts of things from happening then that is also fine, so long as it's not singling out a specific player. Discussion about the game is always encouraged, but when it turns personal (ie: there's this one person from xyz guild who keeps doing blank, rather than.. hey what can we do about blank) we have to use a bit of caution. 
 
I hope this answered your questions for you, at least somewhat. :)
 
- Team WildStar 	
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Unfortunately, your name probably fell under what they deem "gibberish" according to the User Agreement:
 
http://us.ncsoft.com/en/legal/user-agreements/wildstar-user-agreement.php#section-5-e
 
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You may not select an Account ID, Account Display Name, Carbine Message Board ID, Character ID and/or Team designation, or provide any communication or information on any Message Board, that Carbine, in its reasonable discretion, deems to be confusing, gibberish or slang (e.g., Asdf, ROFL, InYourFace)
 
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This is what happens since the devs made pvp the easiest/ quickest way to get amp/ ability points.  Tbh, they need to just remove the elder gem caps at this point and let the pve crowd grind their amp/ abilities that way.
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It's really not too fast. before the additions were put in to speed things up a little we  had done the math and it  was going to take 8 months to get all of your amps/ability points. thats a little rediculous so they added more daily quests for  them.. granted most ppl don't do the defile or blightheaven anymore so those will take you twice as long if not more.
 
Right now you can mindlessly grind PVP to your hearts content to get your amp/ability points. they are a bit expensive sure but it's a way and if you sit down and just do it you can  get them all in like a week i am told. I don't doubt that at all either.
 
Why would it not be a reasonable option to remove the elder gem cap and allow us to do the same thing the pvp community can. The pvp community could get an entire set of pvp gear in a day and all your amps/ability points within a week if they really wanted to there are no time gates... but for pve there is. 
 
I understand that some of that is due to the fact there are only 2 raids so once you get everything if you have a well coordinated group that can learn quickly, have flawless execution, and extremely reliable internet for every player then ya you are gonna cruise right through that and get bored.. but honestly, there is so much RNG in this game i just dont understand why we have so many time gates. Malgrave trail is a perfect example of something fun turned bad. There was a specific path to minimize failure and carbine broke that so we had to find new routes. you can literally get 20 feet from the end and people die or go missing. go from gold to bronze in seconds, its just ridiculous to spend an hour or longer in an adventure with poo gear just to have that happen at the last second. When I was getting attuned, that left a really sour taste in my mouth to this game at launch. I think I had to run malgrave like 10x to get attuned  and I was lucky I knew ppl who spent a lot longer in there than I did getting unlucky with pugs and even guildies. It only takes 1 person to not understand that cactus fruit is not good to ruin your entire run.
 
Point being, stop the gates no one likes them, no one has ever liked them, and most games don't use them anymore... the only time gate in wow is the legendary and thats fine by me because it is an extremely valuable piece of gear that is supposed to follow the story and progress with your toon through the content rather than some blatant grind	
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This is far too fast and would make points trivial as well as removing the incentive to grind reputation and dailies. It's supposed to be about progression.
 
Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but can't you sell elder gem amp/AP points on the AH?
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This is far too fast and would make points trivial as well as removing the incentive to grind reputation and dailies. It's supposed to be about progression.
 
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You talk as if grinding repetitive content is a privilege and engaging gameplay.
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It's a retaining and slowing mechanism used in all MMOs for good reason. If the game is too fast, it's not fun. If the game is too slow, it's not fun. If there's nothing to do, it's not fun.
 
A daily goal to achieve and/or incentive is one way to ensure people will play the game nearly every day rather than simply get bored.
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This is far too fast and would make points trivial as well as removing the incentive to grind reputation and dailies. It's supposed to be about progression.
 
Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but can't you sell elder gem amp/AP points on the AH?
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But you can already grind unlimited amp/ ability points through pvp, which has already trivialized the rep grinds and elder gem caps, hence the OPs frustration. Removing the Elder Gem cap would at least allow pve players to obtain amp/ ability points quickly through their preferred playstyle rather than forcing them to pvp (which is what people will do if it's the quickest way to achieve a reward; game theory 101).
 
Btw, Elder Gem amp/ ability points are BoP just like the pvp ones.
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