yes you appear to have read and understood what i said. i was unsure as to the legality and certainly did not beleive i was doing something illegal so i wished to ensure i was not doing something illegal so i called a gm. the gm appeared and asked me what i paged about so i showed him. and asked if it was illegal. he would not say it was illegal but suggested i stop which i subsequently did. i have no material in store.
i did not know it was illegal when i paged the gm and wanted to clarify if it was or wasnt. im sure a dishonest player would not have bothered paging to check?
and yes i did keep asking if it was illegal as i wanted a definitive answer so i could warn other people off if they were going to do it
So, you found a way to make some sort of cloth ingame, then as you were doing it, the thought struck you that it might not be entirely legal, so you paged a GM to check.
This was probably a crucial mistake really, and if you think about it it's not difficult to work out why. Let's make a real world comparison:
Mr X finds a small quantity of cannabis in a bag in the street. He picks it up, and, upon realising what he's found, heads straight to the police station and hands it in. I think everyone would agree that this is (from a legal standpoint
) the right thing to do, and Mr X would be unlikely to find himself in any trouble over this.
Mr Y happens to make a similar discovery. A straight-laced and law-abiding citizen, Mr Y is usually content with a little baccy in his pipe, and has no idea what he's found, but he can't resist the temptation of the unknown, so he smokes a few bowls of the weed. Soon Mr Y is off his face, but a sudden pang of conscience hits him, and he quickly makes his way to the police station to hand in his find. He explains the situation to the police, they give him a drugs test, and he gets a conviction for drug use and possession.
If you thought what you were doing might be illegal, you shouldn't have done it. If you didn't think before you started doing it, then you should have done. I'm not saying it's at all fair that you would be banned over a small slip when many others get away with far worse, but as far as EA's codes of conduct are concerned, banning your account would be fully justified.
You did pretty much put your foot in it by paging the GM and showing him to his face what you were doing. I can believe pretty much without doubt that you were acting in all innocence, but innocence of mind doesn't equate to innocence of wrong-doing, and although you say the cloth is no longer in your possession, if you did anything other than chuck it in the trash then the proceeds of the exploit were kept.
It's all the luck of the draw with these things, and it seems in recent years that EA have been seriously cracking down on everything and everyone that it's in their power to catch. This may not be the FAIR way to handle crime in UO, but it's no different to
how things are handled in real life.
If you break the ToS, and they catch you at it, they're going to hit you hard, so you've basically got to either a) follow the ToS like a bible, b) use common sense and if you're not sure if what you're doing is legal, then stop doing it until you can
confirm that it is legal. You can ask a GM about it of course, but not after you've already done it!
Edit: You could also consider a third person, Mr Z, he takes it home and smokes it with his mates, and gets away scott free! Life isn't fair, unfortunately, and the same inequalities from real life's justice system exist in UO too
RELAX it is just a game,not a freaking fight against communism.
you seem to be a nice person and jsu got caught doing something wrong and too embarassed to admit it.
