Architect Archive
Thread: Lot Swapping: A POV
Perhaps one fair way to do it would be to have a per *account* lot limit of say, 50, that could be used across as many or as few servers as a player wanted. If you wanted all your lots on one server, fine. But there would be no more point to trading.
Dvnce wrote:
sorry it was not intended thus the posts talking about the need to relook at admin (which was started by a rednamed)... Id suggest looking for people you can trust and actually interact with to get the resources you need... and there is nothing wrong with prices rising a bit ... It is way to easy to mass produce the best of the best items and that is because of the abundance of resources out there....
I noticed this since for once I have had some time to read today.
Dvnce, I defy you to present a methodology within this game to guage trustworthiness in a setting that provides zero accountability to the players, or of the players. I can show you example after example of scammers willfully committing fraud in the game and openly in the forums and SOE doing nothing in response.
All it takes is someone's parent to delete/cancel an account and all your trust means nothing. It's happened to me more than once.
Fivo Asia
MurderDAF wrote:
What do you guys think about lot hiring ? Currently I am hiring 30 lots (from someone with lots of accounts) for 35k each (1.05 million a week). Takes some time to manage them, but helps with the business
Honestly, I think it's great. The problem that I have is that you have ZERO assurances of the value of that agreement. The person could decide, or whomever takes over the account tomorrow, that they want your stuff, take it, and you have no recourse whatsoever within the game. CSRs won't help, no one will. Someone can outright break a contract you have set up through ingame emails and CSRs refuse to use them as any form of evidence.
One of the reasons that cross-lot works better than you're own server is you actually place each other in the position of losing something of similar value and you both have a vested interest in staying out of the others hair as much as possible.
This, almost fundamentally, is the reason why there was little coordination on a large scale in this game until people started using remote voice chat services.
I believe in risk for friendship as much as the next guy, but there's not a single resource I own in a structure that is not owned by one of my toons now since I have been burned so many times by either other users or the system errors.
Fivo Asia