M4sterm1nd
DarkStar 1
Ascendant Frontier
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Posted - 2006.10.15 09:33:00 -
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Maybe extending the no-isk-transfer rules of the trial accounts to a no-transfer rule altogether might help. Trial accounts could still receive isk/modules/ships from corps that want to help them, so that the introduction would not be spoiled for the honest players, but they couldn't transfer anything back. Not escrow, not isk, not mods, nothing. That would open the possibility of monitoring accounts with a certain isk transferred to isk spent ratio, and question those that are suspect. Accounts found to be trading is could be banned, and IP-banned on repeated offense.
Although, realistically speaking, implementing such an algorithm over the 120K players in eve would lag the [expletive deleted] out of the game, I suspect. Not to mention it would contradict the very premise of the game : absolute freedom to choose your own path.
Personally, I'd say stuff em. If certain people feel good about cheating the game by abuse of game mechanics, let them. No skin off my nose. I dont talk to them, I dont deal with them, and I dont help them. I have no problem with farmers and maphackers. I feel I am above such practises myself, but I'm not about to impose my high morals on others.
But if accountability and lynching are your thing, go for those that buy the isk, not those that sell it. The drug dealer will always find a way to peddle his wares, and has the motivation to work around any measure you may take to block him. It's the junks you can hunt down. Them you can grief right out of the game. It is completely possible to make buying isk so detrimental to a character, that only VERY few would dare try it. That would collapse the isk selling market to a level where it is so unprofitable to buy isk at all, that noone would eve bother starting an isk-selling scheme, and eventually only very few sellers would remain.
Here comes the invisible hand tho, because said collapse would make the price for isk so low as to make it very tempting to buy isk. If you can keep pressure on the witch hunt for isk-buyers, you're set. If not, the whole thing blows up in your face and you're back at square one.
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