Michael Ignis Archangel
NovaTech Academy
Against ALL Anomalies
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Posted - 2014.02.16 21:55:00 -
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Again, there is no way to read everything here, so apologies for repeats here.
How would the group feel about the failed buy order mechanic working as follows:
1) Scammer sets up fake buy order.
2) Mark attempts to deliver goods, order fails.
Currently, the game stops here, scammer wins. This is not necessarily bad, however, nearly every other trap in the game can be wiggled out of (except those PLEX contracts in Jita local... there's no fixing stupid. But I digress).
I propose the following result of a failed sale into a buy order (hereafter, a "fail" for short as in RL market parlance). A "fail" should produce an "escrow deficiency" on the part of the buyer, which would have the following results:
a) the buyer's wallet is emptied and placed in escrow to cover the fail, and the deficiency is held as a "debt" to the station's corporation
b) the deficiency also "locks up" the items the seller was attempting to sell (basically "freezing" the transaction).
c) the seller can release buyer from this fail at will. The order, deficiency, and fail goes away, and items are returned to the seller.
d) a buyer with an open deficiency cannot place new orders on the market in any stations of the same corporation for 3 months.
e)... not sure of this one's technically nightmarish complexity, but it'd also be cool if sales proceeds at same-NPC-corp stations were also seized.
TL;DR this would be somewhat like bankruptcy in RL. You can do it once in a long while, but not everyday. Also of note this does nothing to prevent the "minimum quantity" method of scammer from continuing to function as normal, although it would add risk to them - I'm comfortable with the position that, scam complete, the scammer should have to remember to cancel the buy in order to de-risk in that situation.
I think this would still allow what I believe to be a brilliant scam. I just think this gives the mark a chance to fight back in a new and interesting way. Just imagine the mark and scammer, forced to meet and arrive at a "settlement" (awesome pastebins in 5...4...3...). |