Should I not Death level? (Fear of ban)

I recently saw a post that someone was banned by a.net because a.net though they where a bot.. for death leveling.

Ok well I have a level 16 Necro in Pre and I'm working on the title for level 20 in pre.. and I've been death leveling on charr there for awhile... but I stoped doing it about a month ago to go play Oblivion.. got burned out on that and im getting back into guild wars again.. so am I to assume that going for the title in Pre seering is impossible now because if you sit afk for charr to death level you.. then you get banned?

what do I do?

I DL'd this weekend on charr. DL'd on spiders/striders since then - have one going right now in fact. *shrug* You're mileage may vary, but I have yet to have any problems because of it other than frustration due to disconnects.

Well, you might get banned, you might not. With how things are going right now, with the increasingly random bans and whatnot, it's hard to say.

My advice would be to wait a bit longer, and if you haven't gotten it yet to get the Shivering Isles, hehe.

If LDOA didn't require death leveling, you might have some reason to be worried about it. As it is, DLing is the only way to achieve this title. Don't worry about it. Anet specifically put death leveling back into the game (after removing it), and added the title.

As for that other thread about the person that banned "for death leveling", we really don't know the whole story.

This is sad when people are scared of being banned for just playing the game legitimately lol.

It is! I'd like to see Anet make some sort of a statement too, as well as encouraging more forum regulars to shoot liquids out of their nose.

I suppose you could always force them to play their hand. Send in a support ticket with a link to the death level guide or a description of what it is you are doing. Tell them that obviously that is the only way to get the Pre-Searing title. Then ask them outright if being banned is something you need to worry about. Get the reply and then go from there. In that case you have insurance in case you got banned - you did after all ask if it was ok to be afk and there would at least be precedent to reverse the decision on banning you if they ok'd what you were doing in the first place. They have to be aware of it. Sounds like from that other thread posted to which the OP refers, there is a system in place that simply autobans and it isnt monitored. Someone only looks into it once the ban happens and the player submits a support ticket. It'd be a good idea in that case to get an "ok" from support in advance so if you do get banned you can point to it as grounds for unbanning.

I don't mean that Anet should list exactly what players can and cannot do for the botters to use against them...
But perhaps a simple statement that death levelling is ok even while afk and that nobody will be banned from presearing? Since as far as I know who the hell would bot there?

but I suppose that wont work because then they would bot there, but something.

I'm working on my Survivor title by killing the same mob repeatedly. Every time I log on, I'm fearful of seeing some notice from ANet informing me that my account has been banned. Maybe I shouldn't pick up any of the drops...

Who cares. If you go into a store and get tackled and dragged back to the security office, and they say they didn't see you shoplifting but said you looked like a shoplifter, how would feel? Something's a bit off in Anet's banning practice right now, in that profiling does not equal evidence yet that's how they're doing it.

Wait there is a title for death level?

what title do you get?

It seems kinda random if you are gonna get banned or not by the reaction of all these "my account got banned!" people.

Best bet may be to not play Guild Wars pve until the problem is resolved. :]

dont think it will get solved in the near future lol

I honestly think that 99.99% of the time Anet does it right, and 90% of those failures are corrected. That's not really my worry. What gets me is that we're (those of us on the forums who farm or death level) all a little nervous about getting banned regardless of whether or not Anet actually would ban us.
The bot banning thing is like the war on drugs here in the USA, it's one they can't win (not that they shouldn't try) as long as people still buy gold online. But stepping up the fight too much so that innocents get steamrolled means you lose anyways. It's a sucky fine line that Anet has to walk and I don't envy them the job, but they're stuck with it and I just think we all need to give them feedback to help them to make this a fun game for all of us.

Edit: I made up those statistics by the way and I am under no illusion that they are accurate.

The increasing number of them is a little concerning, though. Unless a lot of friends are trying to "team up" or something because one of their buddies got banned (unlikely), the increased number of complaints - by forums and friends - is concerning.

anet in courages you to death level......LDoA for example..... thats the only example really...so if you get ban for that id be stunned

QFT

Do you even get any drops while doing this? Don't you only kill the monster once every few hours or something?

Seriously, stop worrying and have fun in presearing. I wish I had a free character slot so I could go back and spend some time there dye farming, checking out the scenery and maybe play with the idea of going for LDOA myself.

I wish A-Net will lighten up their programs about catching bots!

And you can have one for only $9.95!!

I was the one that posted the story about the thread from a person on another forum who claimed that they were banned for death leveling.

I never heard anything else about it after telling him to get a support ticket going and engage in a polite request to get the account back.

Then I engaged in idle speculation that if one of the paramaters regarding bot-screening was number of hours online makes you a bot candidate based on the response that the poster in the other forum stated that his hours online convinced Anet that he was a bot. These are claims by someone that stated something and could be full of crap, fabricating the whole thing to curry sympathy.

Frankly, I don't know the truth of this. I do know that when I am death leveling I take advantage of every opportunity to log on and death level for precious experience points and can find myself logged on for 20+ hours before I close out and start over again. I have probably been logged in for some weeks in excess of 100 hours, 90+ of which are strictly death leveling.

I am being cautious now, staying logged in for less time to avoid this possible risk. This will cause me to take another month or so to get my LDOA title, but I can tolerate that a lot better than the risk, however slight, that I will be banned and have to wrestle with Anet to get my account back.

If someone from Anet would hop on here and reassure everyone that death leveling will not get you banned, then we can all stop talking about this.