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[Iterative]

For those of you who don't AB on your mains, how much effort do you put into your ABing accounts to make it appear legit? Is it worth it to improve your chances of not getting frozen? I seem to see enough people getting frozen without unreasonable buy times that I do wonder what else on an account sets red flags for TNT when it comes to freezing.

[Yung]

My AB accounts can easily pass for legit mains. My actually mains do put them to shame but only barely. I put a lot of effort into making them appear to be legit not for the sake of TNT but for other Neopians as I normally find it relatively easy to spot cheaters I do my best to disassociate myself with the things that make that stand out.

As far as what red flags TNT seriously... no one knows... could be a bad burrito from Taco Bell, putting Name: Abrosia ABer, Having a two day old account and 14 Gold Trophies, but hey... what do I know.

[L33T]

What if you're mad good at games? TNT gonna freeze you for just being good at games? I'm no lawyer, but you could probably sue them for that if you spent money on your account and got it confiscated unfairly. Of course it's probably somewhere in their Terms and Conditions that they can freeze you whenever, for whatever reason at any time but a good lawyer could probably argue otherwise.

Edited by L33T, 07 March 2012 - 02:27 PM.

[Yung]

...you're seriously going to take TNT to court for SSing and AoBing? That is my point. There is virtually < 0.1% of players that can go on and get legit golds in two days in that magnitude that have never played the games before. Having played similar games doesn't constitute as the same since TNT has always been pretty good about throwing variations in there. If it is obviously a cheater then I am leaning more towards the fact that it is more likely to get iced, not that it will but from my experience that account would stand a higher chance of it.

[Bone]

TNT doesn't care how your account looks if you're triggered their flags.

The only benefit in making your shells look more legit is to prevent other users from being afraid to buy from you.

[Honey]

What if you're mad good at games? TNT gonna freeze you for just being good at games?

Damn TNT :c
There are so many stupid stupid stupid SS user... why you freeze people who just are good gamers??

[James]

Being an extremely good gamer, I find this topic supportive of me and my species. I thank you.

[Yung]

I am a good gamer myself but that doesn't mean that someone who just started playing should have golds across the board. This raises suspicion and that was my only point to that

[Iterative]

Yeah, I hadn't thought about other users reporting my accounts, especially if I'm selling UBs. I'm just too lazy to set everything up to look legit, especially going for a higher games played number and game avvies.

And for me, I think I look at which games the trophies come from. Once you get past the "Everyone gets gold for getting into the top 100!" trophies, it looks a bit suspicious to me if someone has trophies in a huge variety of different games. I could buy someone being really good at twitch reflex games, or puzzle games, or platforming games, but to get trophies in all of those? Especially so if the account is new. With so much SSing and cheating on the flash games these days, I feel like a genuinely good gamer gets bronze realistically within their first couple of tries on a game they've already done. Older accounts that go for trophies on the 1st make a bit more sense, but even so, I wonder about the ones that have literally 100 trophies on them.

[Harlow]

None whatsoever. They probably look like shells, but eh. People are gonna accuse anyway.

[Graz]

Yeah, I hadn't thought about other users reporting my accounts, especially if I'm selling UBs. I'm just too lazy to set everything up to look legit, especially going for a higher games played number and game avvies.

And for me, I think I look at which games the trophies come from. Once you get past the "Everyone gets gold for getting into the top 100!" trophies, it looks a bit suspicious to me if someone has trophies in a huge variety of different games. I could buy someone being really good at twitch reflex games, or puzzle games, or platforming games, but to get trophies in all of those? Especially so if the account is new. With so much SSing and cheating on the flash games these days, I feel like a genuinely good gamer gets bronze realistically within their first couple of tries on a game they've already done. Older accounts that go for trophies on the 1st make a bit more sense, but even so, I wonder about the ones that have literally 100 trophies on them.

Get ~175 avatars, whatever rank trophy for cellblock, cheat and snow wars, send decent scores for avatar and sponsor games and low scores for the rest, add the keyquest stamps and the two cards from anchor management then slap a premade user lookup layout and BAM! you are one of the AC sheep.

No need to advertise your UB whatever is >150k put in your shop and wait rest put in your SDB and offer 100k over with HTS on PB lots.

[Sunset]

I put efforts into all my accounts I use, legit and non legit. The only accounts that are bare are shells which are aging. As was stated above I feel it really may not matter how much you may make account look legit if TNT suspects you are cheating they will freeze you, even if you were legit lol. I rather do what I can to look legit regardless if it don't help oh well but it can't hurt A new account will probably send out red flags if as stated above there are gold trophies across the board or even many, its the other reason is when i amd starting with a fresh shell i slowly climb keeping it under the radar so to say.

[Spirited]

As much effort as to use a premade layout for shop/userlookup and collecting from the anchor management & forgotten shore everyday.

I usually feel that a userlookup with a nice layout is trustworthy enough for trade. :x But I don't look at UL when I'm at the trading post anyway.

[Arkidas]

Without having made any research, I like to believe that using a (premade) user lookup layout and even a shop layout is the tiniest effort you can make to make your account look legit. It just doesn't seem like something a cheater would bother doing.

Edited by Arkidas, 09 March 2012 - 07:03 PM.

[Waterfall]

My accounts always get iced when I AB so I just gave up.

[daj0sephz]

my shells are very plain, i dont need it to look legit because all UBs i send to my main to sell.

[burner]

i am starting to ab and i am going to make them look kind of mainy

[fimend]

I think having a nice user lookup, a decent avvie count, and trophies for easy things like cheat and snow wars makes your account look legit enough. They're all pretty easy things to do. Avvie count is the biggest one though because it's such a pain that most shells probably have less than 200 avatars. Another one is having a lab pet. No one who just ABs on an account would bother labbing a pet/petpet. The only real reason to make an account look legit is so assholes on the trading boards don't make cheater alert boards when you're trying to sell stuff because people will report you just because you don't "seem legit".

[Keil]

minimal effort. 70 avatars + Cheat + Snow Wars + Mystery Pic + Lenny conundrum + GOGOGO! + UggaDrop/dungeonDash/Bruno Avatar

[Leaf]

None... because the last time i put a lot of effort into one of my shells... it turned into one of my mains ahahaha.... so screw it. I just leave them all blank now. That way there is no emotional attachment when they get frozen.

[daj0sephz]

honestly i dont see the point of pimping up your sides if you do low profit high quantity sells

[turnon]

Mine is pretty shitty, but it has one painted pet and I haven't abed anything TOO unbelievable so far

[Turkeyducks]

I put minimal effort into them... I make sure not to just have a blank newbie account while selling high profit items, but I feel like it's a waste to put a ton of work in an account that might end up frozen at any time.

[Dirgus]

I just grab some avatars using the auto-programs, the get the easy trophies and a decent lookup.

[NapisaurusRex]

Minimal effort. I'd put more into it, but I don't have time.