After reading this whole thread, forgetting the indervidual circumstances.
If your account personally (To everyone) got locked in this way and you had plenty of ped deposited or earned it fairly and got this message on withdraw, how would you feel about being ignored or not given a time to resolve?
6 to 10 months down the line you have still not got any word from the powers above, would you think everything is fine, or are you being robbed by a dodgy company?
If you had enough PED in Entropia for it to matter, how long would it take before you get a 3rd party involved legally?
People have been bring up real life examples, well here is one: Trial date... the date that you would have your day in court or the legal system. This is the real life example of this situation... locking someone up without a trial date... people in real life have been locked away without a trial for many years, which I'm sure most of you would agree is wrong.
If you are invested in anything that involves real money, you want to know where you stand with your money.
If you lend money to someone and they start avoiding you, more than likely you will feel robbed.
There has to be some basic time of resolution on such matters.
As for the details on "Market manipulation", Mind Ark needs to clear up the details in this very useless "Nugget" of a rule for the general gamer in Entropia, unlike myself, we are not all traders here, and this very small rule has gone over a quite a few people's heads in game when it comes down to trading in Entropia. Like some people here have stated wrongly stated, "I manipulate the market every time I buy and sell something", which is not manipulation of the overall price of a market that can drastically effect others.
You make that 1 good or bad trade and bam your manipulating? The rules do say knowingly or unknowingly, so does that mean 2 noobies on the auction, one places an overpriced item the other sees the item and buys it, does that mean the buy or the seller is in the wrong.
I wouldn't like to know exactly what Mind Ark sees as manipulation... because I bet no one here can say exacly what the rules behind this general rule is...
And if you do not know what the rules are exacly, how does anyone know they are breaking them?
We have a rough idea on what is manipulation of the market is (A few good examples here), but does Mind Ark share your views on it, and do you think there is more to this rule that you know? I'm guessing there is....
I'm just glad there are few people here asking the right questions, because there are a lot on here who would rather bury their heads throw out hate and assume everything is in order.
I care about as much everyone else about this poster, I don't care, I don't know him, and its not my issue.
But what I do care about is procedures and working or Mind Ark as I am highly involved in this game financially and time wise.
Also on a side note: (A question from a personal perspective) Does that also mean if you played for longer than most and traded almost since the start, would that mean you would have to wait even long than 10 months while they check/or put your case on a shelf gathering dust? For some it's a simple as taking a break, for others it's a lot lot more than that...