I would more than an appreciate it if a dev could come and answer this: With the newly-instituted consequences of a 7-day ban and reboot to BR1, an event my outfit and an enemy outfit is contemplating may not be possible. We want to have a shoot-out with each other using masks and candy cannons, as a fun Outfit activity. Now, would this fall under stat padding, or are we safe?
You could all hop on the Test Server and play for fun all you want. I doubt that would be stat padding (and if it was, just make new free characters). But if you're doing it in a way that even smells like Directive farming, then that's a no-no.
It's discussed here: https://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/index.php?threads/statpadding-br-reset-and-ban.204394/ Anyway, a scrim with only candycannon and masks is definitely considered padding since you are doing it to farm event directives. Use the test server if you want to mess around.