ViciousCycle
Dark One Inc.
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Posted - 2014.03.10 15:41:00 -
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as older players know, wildly high buy orders [esp. for obscure or rare items] in the markets are frequently part of a scam -- any attempt to sell to one fails because the 'buyer' doesn't have and never had the isk required to complete the sale.
this mostly impacts newer players who aren't aware of the mechanism involved -- that some skills permit a buy order to be placed without having 100% of the isk to back it up and therefore trying to sell to it always fails -- meanwhile, the scammer is selling a few units at less wildly overpriced values -- usually via contract or five jumps away.
I think this violates the EULA -- it takes advantage of game mechanics to do something that ordinarily shouldn't be possible.
It also takes advantage of the new players that ccp so needs to join and continue playing. [games that lose player numbers over years die off and ccp's entire business is based on EVE.]
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my proposed change -- keep the skills as they are. change the market mechanics so that when a buy order fails because the 'buyer' hasn't the isk to back it up two things happen:
first, his deposit is irretrievably lost. [sure, maybe it was only 20% of the buy price in actual isk -- but lost is lost].
second, such incidents are logged and any 'toon that appears more than a very few times over months is investigated for EULA violation.
{seems to me that any one 'toon acting as the 'buyer' can't have very many of these going at once, or his total deposits would be enough that the first one to be tried would actually work -- which the scammer can't have happen.}
a possible replacement for the third change would be to force the 'toon's account balance to negative -- thus seizing any funds transferred in for any reason -- and the scammer would then have to abandon that 'toon and go to the trouble and isk of using a different one for scamming. [still have the 'sale' fail -- some risk to unwary players is appropriate.]
{My two cents' worth after over ten years ingame. I was in Earth 'N Beyond before EVE and watched that game die due to lack of new content and thus lack of new players. of course, being bought by EA didn't help EnB either since EA's purpose was to get the programmers for their other games.}
Yes, the scammers and their representatives will dislike this idea. Behaving like a 12 year old should have consequences in games just as in RL. |