Radar Rat
SPECTRE Ops
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Posted - 2007.07.20 15:59:00 -
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This is just my personal opinion, but the isk-farmers wouldn't bother unless they were making cash, so there are obviously alot of people buying isk, probably the players that are saving for expensive skillbooks or ships but don't play enough to make the isk for them..
I have always been against isk selling/buying because it destroys the economy of mmo's and is a complete nuisance when all you see in channels are people trying to sell isk all the time, plus its completely unfair to all those who put the time in to the game and earn their ships and skillbooks..
There was one mmo where the gold farmers caused so much inflation within the game that it became almost impossible for anyone to afford items without actually buying gold, it became a spiral getting worse and worse, and the way the farmers made their gold was by camping high-end raid mobs, they would camp them 24hrs a day ,making it almost impossible for a normal player to achieve anything.
as a result a lot of people simply left the game.
After 3+ years of playing eve-online my skills and ships are now very expensive, and its often a struggle to afford them, but when i buy a ship or skill ive saved for, its very satisfying, ..however thats destroyed when i see someone who's only been playing 3 or 4 days using a 3 or 4 year old char they've bought online or someone who simply used their bank account to pay for isk, that ive spent weeks saving for.
changes i would make to eve are:
1. stop character buying/selling
2. when an isk farmer is caught, check all their transactions and perma-ban anyone who recieved large sums of isk from them.
3. set up another eve server and have ccp selling isk and items on that server, casual players would then be able to transfer to that server and buy whatever they wanted from ccp, however once on that server the char would never be able to come back to the tranquility server.
4. people shouldnt have to petition farmers who advertise isk for sale, any char that is put on block by 3 or more players within a short amount of time should automatically be flagged for review by a GM.
5. put limits on trial accounts to prevent isk transfers to and from a trial account from other players, and put a value in the registry on peoples pc's when a trial account is accessed by the eve client, that would prevent any other trial account being used on that machine after the first one.
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The early bird may catch the worm, but its the second rat that gets the cheese !!!
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