I made an account to post this on here to clear up some misconceptions about the bannings that are flying around everywhere.
My name is Japes - been on ffxi for 3 years (all spent on Carby)I have never bought gil, used 3rd party tools or cheated in any way whatsoever. I have never even had someone call a GM on me. About 1.5 months before the "glitch" was patched in the emerg. maintenance, I found out about the trick people were using in salvage. I brought it to the leader boards of my salvage LS and we proceeded to talk about it for 3 weeks before we even tried using it. Even after all the debate, we tested the glitch on an assault since it works on the same principles as salvage to see if it worked to replicate the ??? item. If this had worked we would have never even tried the glitch in salvage. At first people were worried that it was cheating, but then info came to light that JP and some NA Linkshells had been using it almost since Salvage was released (2 years ago). We thought "how could SE NOT know about this?" It started to make sense why we were seeing people with 5/5 salvage sets all over Carby. We had been at salvage for almost 2 years and only had 1-2 completed pieces each.
I wont go on but we decided after much discussion to start using the glitch/trick. we only ended up duping 2 items and only did 4 runs where we did the party splitting. Then SE patched it and it was gone. We went back to doing salvage with at least the recognition that it was a glitch and not a secret. We felt bad for even using it for those 4 runs , and I personally felt bad for bringing it to my LS. That topic has been beaten to death, but many believed that the only reason it was even fixed was because of people using it on sandworm to make millions and millions of gil (We had no clue that the glitch worked in Nyzul, Sandworm, or other areas)
Today I was permanently banned from ffxi with no recourse. The exact words of the call center supervisor I just got off the phone with was "you have a better chance of getting struck by lightning then of getting this ban reversed" Others in my LS either received temporary bans til monday - and one person (who has never had a warning on ffxi before) was permanently banned also.
Here is the meat and potatos of the conversation with the Supervisor at SE
-People who were alliance leaders during salvage runs in which the glitch was used, or organized the party disbanding were permanently banned
-Everyone who willingly went along on runs where glitch was used were temporary banned
-Everyone who went on runs unwillingly (or didnt say anything about glitch in chat log) were given a warning. People who didnt receive gear and got the e-mail saying they did - it was actually the chest items SE was speaking of.
-The ban complaint function is only there for people's frustration and to give the call center employees an exit when people are hostile. There has only been 1-2 permanent bans in the last 3 years that have ever been reversed.
-The reason some people totally avoided discipline- even after using the glitch for 2 years was because they didnt speak of it in chatlog (vent users I'm assuming)
-The 17 code can mean permanent or temporary bans - the 11 code is a billing or administrative issue
It took 2 hours of verbal judo and being transferred to different supervisors, to get to this guy that told me this stuff- He said the only reason he spoke with me was because of my good track record on game.
So goodbye Carby - I had fun and met some great friends over the years - this info hopefully will clear up some of the wrong info and wild rumours going around.