Many players have been reporting receiving anything from 1 to 4 week suspensions and being very unclear as to why, since the message only vaguely tells them they were exploiting.
The answer to this short-lived mystery came quickly as a lot of the confused players mentioned that it might possibly have to do with using the Chronocloth Bolt and Azureweave Bolt bug, where their cooldown wasn’t resetting properly and players were making many more of them a day than the intended amount. The cooldown resets would happen from random activities, even something as simple as joining a group, so it wasn’t exactly a pre-planned exploit.
Now the discussion is an interesting one, as there was no explicit indication what the intended amount of crafts/intended cooldown is (as some players even had plenty of points in the Chronocloth specialization), although there was a general consensus going around about it being a bug. There are those that abused it fully and just spammed every single cooldown they could, and those that only used it a little over the intended amount (which wasn’t clear to begin with), so the large amount of bans going out is a tricky subject (although the duration of the suspension may be related to the amount of cloth made – or it may be the usual, based on number of previous infractions).
And there’s more:
Wrongfully banned for a month, with no explanation.
Luckily a few players are seeing some humor in it as well:
So… fair or unfair bans?
