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Posted - 2013.01.13 19:30:00 -
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Lovely Dumplings wrote:The main problem I have with the MT scam, is that it requires someone to perform a certain specific set of actions, in order to cause the market to fail. It's a really iffy grey area, and there's past history with CCP not liking that sort of thing. If you're aware of the "tracking exploit", it falls in the same book to me. Players perform a specific set of actions to cause the system to fail, for their benefit. To continue the analogy, there's no reason anyone should die from people using the tracking exploit, because it's really obvious if you see someone using it, so you can just avoid them.
The easy solution to it already exists in game, just allow a wallet to go negative on margin trades.
That doesn't make much sense. Pretty much everything requires you to perform a specific set of actions to cause something to happen. Sometimes it's to succeed at something and sometimes it's to cause a failure. It's a terrible thing to use to judge things, since it's incapable of making any meaningful demarkation lines between the actions you want to include and the actions you want to exclude. The tracking exploit allowed infinite tracking, which shouldn't be possible in any circumstance. With margin trading you have a market order failing due to insufficient funds, which is exactly what is supposed to happen in such situations. It's a clever use of a working as intended mechanic, which causes issues to people who don't know the proper value of the items they are trading in.
Your easy solution is like most easy solutions. Absolutely god awful and would make the situation much worse then the marging trading scam ever even theoretically could. A negative wallet isn't like having some debt. It's practical incapability to do almost anything in the game and would mean the system creates ISK out of nothing to pay the seller. You could easily manipulate that free payout to be huge, which means infinite free money for anyone who does it. You would be risking breaking the entire game for everyone in order to address a minor inconvenience in the market system. |