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Glengrant
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Posted - 2009.09.10 10:47:00 -
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The following is based on the assumption that RMTers and account hijackers often use throw-away Trial accounts.
Impose several isk transfer limits on trial accounts.
* Individual transfers max (a few million)
* Daily transfer max (a few million more)
* After a total isk threshold is reached further limit daily transactions.
Let's say the limits are 5, 10, 50 and 3 respectively.
Then a trial player could not send or receive more than 5m isk per individual transfer. Could not send/receive more than 10m isk per day total. And after a total of 50m have been send/received would be limited to 3m isk per day util the end of the trial period.
A polite message informs the new player about this anti-abuse measure first when the account gets created and then when any thresholds have been reached.
The numbers above are purely meant as an example. Final numbers would be based on analysis of what new players typically make during those 2 weeks.
I assume CCP already has internal thresholds that get triggered to find suspicious activities.
With reasonable limits this should rarely affect real new players, but raise the cost of business for account hijackers.
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Glengrant
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Posted - 2009.09.10 11:27:00 -
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 Originally by: David Grogan
trial account already cannot send isk or create contracts
Cool (you can see that I never had a trial acccount :-) ).
No isk sending at *all*?
But they can send isk via buying and it would be very easy to "buy" a 1 trit contract for 500m.
What about receiving isk? No limit on that - right?
Here's a scenario that seems not unlikely to me:
Evil bastard hijacks your account and monetizes all your assets. Sends all isk to a few trial accounts. Trial accounts buy/trade 1 trit or cheap frig for 100m a piece.
Trial accounts get deleted to obscure money trail.
Rinse repeat.
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Glengrant
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Posted - 2009.09.10 11:40:00 -
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Originally by: David Grogan
trial accounts can recieve isk but cannot send isk
trial accounts cannot create or accept contracts
Trades?
Originally by: David Grogan
isk that is sold for real money is sent to the purchaser using paid accounts not trials.
Where did you get that information?
Originally by: David Grogan
there is no limit to how much isk a trial can recieve,
If trades are possible the money can still flow out.
Originally by: David Grogan
however i believe ccp do have monitoring measures, that alert them if a trial/noob accounts suddenly get a huge wallet balance increase.
I certainly would hope so - way too obvious not to do. :-)
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