How does ArenaNet define "excessive farming"

#1 - Feb. 3, 2014, 6:57 p.m.
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Well, there is nothing to hide.

Linen price has gone from 3 silvers to 7 silvers each, so I decide to farm linens with my friend. Because simply, we just need coins.

We picked up one spot “severed breach waypoint” at fireheart rise, there is a event have many mobs spawns and we can farm linens as planed. at this point, I believe this action does not fall into “exploit game bug” category either.

We didn’t farm a lot, 3 hours maximum and as long as we got 250 linen, we just take off.

Well, 2 days later, both my friend and myself were blocked due to “botting” reason, I got myself unblocked and my friend’s account are still blocked (321651). I am 100% positive that we did not use any botting software or such to assist us to gain any advantage.

I am worried, because both my friend and myself were not using any botting thing, and we also farm within acceptable limit as I believed, yet we were blocked for being suspicious.

Will anyone tell me please, how to farm but not being suspicious and blocked by gw2, what is gw2’s standard for “excessive farming”. I just don’t want to be blocked due to that reason.

And my friend is still under blocked statue, please unblock him (321651), we were together farming and I knew he did not botting as well.

Thank you for your understanding, we are just decent players, and we also like to make progress in game without being troubled.

PS. suggestions: please make GM’s conversation pop out in a separate window and please make it obvious to see.

#16 - Feb. 6, 2014, 2:59 p.m.
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This has been resolved and your friend’s account is back in the game. As far as I can tekkm this issue was handled properly.

In the future, I ask that people not post individual threads for situations of this nature, but instead post the ticket number and a very brief description in the Tickets for Review thread. Please do this only if an issue has gone without response from an agent for more than 3 days because sometimes a complex issue takes more than 3 days to resolve, but if it’s being researched, it doesn’t need a follow-up.