Virg, I know you dislike my legalese so I'll keep it short: a law isn't a law unless enforced; enforcing is either a decision of The Powers That Be (on their own because of their own reasons), or comes from community pressure. Neither is happening right now. Despite the fact that it's written in the Code of Conduct, that does not make it a law.
We know keystrokes and a lot of data can be watched server-side. We know monitoring could be done, if GMs considered it an activity worth their time. This is not happening, at least not on a consistent basis.
I've seen alts openly selling crystals in the Universe chat (hi Helgah) with no repercussion. I've asked them if they consider it legal, and I received the same response: the CoC leaves the "exploit" part open to interpretation.
You say one GM called it "sort of exploit", that's neither here nor there. If it is an exploit (definitely, with no shade of doubt), then I expect the gaming company to fix said exploit (like they did with buying sap crystals with pvp points) -- not to outsource CoC enforcing to the community. Not to mention we've seen cases where GM interpretations of the CoC conflict with each other.
Further problem: you couldn't easily define an exhaustive rule that would cover everyone's use cases and that simultaneously won't trigger for actual, non-exploitative pvp. The best I can suggest is a decision that significantly curbs the behaviour: forbid f2p chars from accruing pvp points off subbed chars, and cap pvp points at 10 kills of the same character in a row. More than 10 kills and it would easily be called harassment anyway ;)
tl;dr : Farming is allowed unless explicitly forbidden, tyvm.
(edit: I tried to be short. Didn't work out. Sorry.)
We know keystrokes and a lot of data can be watched server-side. We know monitoring could be done, if GMs considered it an activity worth their time. This is not happening, at least not on a consistent basis.
I've seen alts openly selling crystals in the Universe chat (hi Helgah) with no repercussion. I've asked them if they consider it legal, and I received the same response: the CoC leaves the "exploit" part open to interpretation.
You say one GM called it "sort of exploit", that's neither here nor there. If it is an exploit (definitely, with no shade of doubt), then I expect the gaming company to fix said exploit (like they did with buying sap crystals with pvp points) -- not to outsource CoC enforcing to the community. Not to mention we've seen cases where GM interpretations of the CoC conflict with each other.
Further problem: you couldn't easily define an exhaustive rule that would cover everyone's use cases and that simultaneously won't trigger for actual, non-exploitative pvp. The best I can suggest is a decision that significantly curbs the behaviour: forbid f2p chars from accruing pvp points off subbed chars, and cap pvp points at 10 kills of the same character in a row. More than 10 kills and it would easily be called harassment anyway ;)
tl;dr : Farming is allowed unless explicitly forbidden, tyvm.
(edit: I tried to be short. Didn't work out. Sorry.)
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