Gridania Surveyors Trouble

[yuyevonffx]

Greetings all, This is Ariku Yuran. Some may know of the RPFC known as Gridania Surveyors on the Balmung server, originally led by Gilbert La'pine. Well as of 7a.m. PST on January 10, 2014, Gilbert stripped all the FC chest and gil put towards our FC house and switched servers to Hyperion. We are currently rebuilding what we can through a LS name The Gridania Salvagers and are doing very well. However, with 8.5m gone and also all the philo items taken and any way to contact Gilbert to have him return our hard earned materials, we have come to our fellow RPers asking for aid. A lot of us don't have hardly a thing now, we used what we put to the FC for repairs, relic requirements, money making, etc. Any and all help would be so much appreciated and would be returned as soon as we can get our FC back on its feet. Thank you all so much for reading this and have a blessed day (: If you wish to help in any way please send me a /tell in game or comment info so that I may contact you.

[Aldotsk]

You can count me in for any assistance. I'll do what I can to help you guys out. I am sorry to hear that this happened.

[Kismet]

I am deeply sorry to hear that. I thought it was odd when I looked at his post on the Linkshell page and saw that he changed the title to closed... Two of my buddies are in your guild, so if you need support in contacting/reporting him or just help in passing the message along, I'll do what I can.

[LiadansWhisper]

That's terrible.  I am so sorry to hear that.    What a creep.

[Lyraciilee]

You may be able to contact Square Enix and get something back. I've heard of people like needing on loot rolls and shit and stealing stuff but then the people submitted a ticket and got it back for distribution. I don't know if that could work the same for this, but it might be worth a try!

[Whittledown]

Definately get in touch with Square Enix about it.  If they can get you part or even all of what you lost back that would help a lot.

[Rosekitten]

as others have said report him, even if he switched servers report him and explain the situation. Pretty sure they have something they can do against that. at the least return the items to the FC chest and the gil  

 

I hope for the best for you all though... if i had spare mats or wasn't dirt poor myself i'd help try to do something for you and your group. 3

[C'kayah Polaali]

That's terrible! I'm sorry this happened to you. With my gil balance usually hovering around 30k, I can't really help you guys out, but my thoughts are with you and I hope Square Enix can do something to get at least part of what you lost back to you.

[Fulcrum]

I am going to also strongly suggest everyone who was a part of the Gridania Surveyors that remains on Balmung and active submit a ticket to Square-Enix as soon as they possibly can, explaining the situation and giving Gilbert La'pine's full character name in the ticket - even if he changed his character's name in the server move, they'll still be able to find him with their logging system, since that's all tracked even on the Lodestone.

 

 

Yoshi-P has been a huge supporter of fair play and playing nice, and I get the feeling that Squeenix is not going to let someone get away with this sort of bullocks. They'll be able to compare the logged member list of Surveyors against the current roster for Salvagers, and I'm sure when they match up, they'll give back at least some of what was taken, likely all of it less what Gilbert originally put in there himself.

 

 

However, note that this kind of restoration takes a lot of time, even though all of these transactions are likely logged even back before they made them visible to us in game with 2.1's changes. I used to work for SOE as a GM for EQ1, and while we could see all kinds of transactions, going through those records could take days, depending upon how "smart" someone got with moving things around; even basic situations, where someone just straight up took everything out of a bank and moved it to another bank, could take time because we usually had to trace things to their original source - so if they do decide to give back everything but what Gilbert himself originally put in...even that is a long bit of log reading. It's also not just as easy as moving him back over and moving those items back - likely, they're probably going to have to remake all those items on Balmung without moving him back over, then delete everything over on Hyperion...which also will take a bit of time.

 

 

So don't get too frustrated if they say they're going to refund stuff, and then it takes a few days to actually do it! It's a process, it really is, in any MMO. I personally had one character restoration that took me six or seven work days to complete because the hacker was a total wanker and dropped the items all over the ground with the hacked character on one computer, and picked them up with another hacked character on another computer...then did it three more times with three more sets of characters, all but one of which were also hacked accounts. You have no idea how much I love MMOs that don't allow for dropping items on the ground. X.x

[Aysun]

OH wow that is just terrible. Definitely report him to SE. That's got to be punishable.

[ansemaru]

Talk about a dick move. Now all of the advertisements I've seen for the FC in-game have taken on a rather sinister tone in retrospect- was that jerk just trying to collect as many resources as he could before jumping ship?

 

My heart goes out to those screwed over by his actions. Definitely report him to SE- and with any luck, he'll get caught and punished for them.

[yuyevonffx]

Thank you all so much for your support, we appreciate more than words can explain. We have managed to bring a total of 28 of us back together thus far and are continuing to get everyone back together as we see them on. It is going to be a long work in progress to get things back to where they were originally so we are being patient and moving one step at a time. We have also reported him and a few of us have heard from a GM so things will begin rolling the way they need to. So it's technically under investigation at the moment. Thanks again all (:

[Tla]

I can't believe it, this is terrible Hope you get everything back from Square Enix, it was really an hefty sum...

 

Talk about a dick move. Now all of the advertisements I've seen for the FC in-game have taken on a rather sinister tone in retrospect- was that jerk just trying to collect as many resources as he could before jumping ship?

That's what I thought, I was thinking of joining that guild but his eccessive want for new members and for money scared me quite a bit. He was really insisting.

[Therese Villefort]

Seems like you had the right feeling about him. which is sad... I wanted to join too, but he was really strange from the beginning when i talked to him. I am sorry to hear this, this is a big shame.

[Rinh Hallani]

Wow, that's...really awful. I'm so sorry for you all. I'm glad you're getting a GM response on it and hope you get it all sorted out.

[Rosekitten]

That is good to hear that you all are getting together and trying to recover, even better that the GMs are already looking into the issue. The FC I'm in was just talking about this on mumble the other day about how horrible it was given that all of our members knew the FC's name

 

May your future be brighter though~

[yuyevonffx]

Hi all! Ariku Yuran here again, but this time with great news. We have now re-established the FC with who we could, which is about 25 members and are now named Ashes of the Pheonix (And we are aware that 'phoenix' is spelt incorrectly...) and hope to hear from you all in game if interested in RP with us (: Some of the members could definitely use the stress reliever, so feel free to send me a /tell in game any time, and thanks again for everyones support and god bless you all :3

[Dat Oni]

Threads like these, where the community opens its arms to embrace those in need, just put a big goddamned smile on my face.

 

:lol:

 

Well done, everyone.

[Zedden]

Hello all, I am Anhur/Zeak. I was with GS. I would like to say think you guys for all the support and love. This is what make our community so great! Even tho we found our selfs in a bad spot I have faith in my fellow FC members on rebuilding. I feel that this will make us stronger and more caring then ever before! And together there is no goal we can not accomplish. I wish no ill will to Gilbert, Karma has a way of taking care of that. I hope to RP with you all soon! And once again thank you very much for the support in these hard times.

 

 

 

 

 "From the ashes we will rise!"

-Ashes of the Phoenix-

                                                             -Anhur Abydos, Zeak Meak-

[Tla]

I'm happy you're back to shape already! Did you get your money back? I wish Ashes of the Phoenix (or Pheonix in this case ehehe ) all the good you guys could have, you deserve it after going through this mess!!