Is it against the code of conduct in the game to spam asking for hand outs? If not, it should be. It truly takes away from the game world charm when you pass through the commons ( which you do 100,000,000 times in the course of leveling to level 60 :) and you are forced to hear from the same character 6-8 times in a row them begging for a free gift. It's even worse when they start sending them directly to you in private chat. I know you can ignore them but still it is truly annoying.
Where does KI stand on this issue, I have searched the boards and I do not see a direct answer from you.
They've answered this indirectly many times, although indirectly. The bottom line is this: If it isn't forbidden in the rules, it's cool.
The problem with disciplining begging is that it treads a line that can be redrawn by the abusers. If begging is made illegal, the beggars would just resort to: "Gee it would be nice if I had a (insert your favorite Crowns Item) gifted to me," or "I sure wish I had a (items), maybe somebody is feeling generous today," etc. Where is the line drawn?
You're not forced to listen to more than one of them, nor do I bother to. As soon as I see "would somebody gift me....", I put that person on ignore, because I know that I'll never see anything of interest from that person. Once a week, I clear my ignore list.
Scamming is another matter. That's also not against the rules, although it should be. I imagine that KingsIsle doesn't want to deal with the rash of complaints they'd get if that were added.
I try to annoy the rude little trolls when they beg me for gifts. A favorite response of mine is " How about I gift you some manners so you will stop begging and annoying people?" Another favorite is " Do everyone a favor and delete your account." Responses like these usually quiet them. If not, I also use the mute button liberally. Hope this helps. :D
They should Be able to take away the ability to accept Any gifts not sent to them by kingsisle as a punishment. it makes it so if they do scam someone into sending them a gift it will still do them absolutley no good if they cant accept it.
Is it against the code of conduct in the game to spam asking for hand outs? If not, it should be. It truly takes away from the game world charm when you pass through the commons ( which you do 100,000,000 times in the course of leveling to level 60 :) and you are forced to hear from the same character 6-8 times in a row them begging for a free gift. It's even worse when they start sending them directly to you in private chat. I know you can ignore them but still it is truly annoying.
Where does KI stand on this issue, I have searched the boards and I do not see a direct answer from you.
Please and thank you very kindly.
As I know, and have read, code of conduct and understand it is not forbidden, I still think it should be. I get friend requests from level 50's and I say yes to help them but all I hear is, 'Will you gift me?' and I delete them and walk away.
One of my favorite replies is "I'm not a crowns player". That way, they know that even if you wanted to gift them, you couldn't. William Crowthistle Legendary Pyromancer 8)
