[2019] DE we need to talk about Apothic shares and trade bans

First off I want to say that I love Apothic shares, I've run hundreds before and after the plant scanning buff and most of my plat has been made selling Growing Powers.

The standard team composition we've been running forever is 1 Pilfdroid and 3 Nekros. With this setup, we consistently get 21-24 unidentified drops. This has been running fine for some time.

However with a recent patch, you changed Chesa Kubrow's unique precept to something akin to Nekros' Desecrate. We decided to try using this during an Apothic share, and to our surprise it helped increase the drops. We received up to 30 unidentified drops with this method. Neat, it seems like DE buffed Apothic shares. Not exactly.

I ran this setup with 5 or 6 other members of my clan. All of us received a 2 week trade ban the day after. What seems to be the case is this is an automatic ban for exceeding the (previous) maximum drop amount of 24. Punishing players for using the new mod for what it's intended (increasing drops) seems entirely unfair. Especially when I could just join a random pub apothic share, bring a Chesa, and cause the entire squad to receive a trade ban.

I'm coming to Reddit with this as we have receieved no response to any of our tickets after 5 days. I feel like this automatic ban system needs to be overhauled as I heard reports during the double resource weekend of players receiving bans for lucky Smeeta drops. /u/rebulast I hope I can get some attention to this issue before the weekend.

Thanks

edit: Tickets are #1665683, #1668392, and #1668493