Awry Barux
New Eden Blades Of The Azure
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Posted - 2014.02.15 04:20:00 -
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DUST Fiend wrote:I just figured I'd toss this here while it's on my mind.
Right now, anyone can make any number of alts, throw together three characters with random names, transfer 250k ISK per character to their main, set all characters to biomass, then repeat later on in the day, for each alt they make.
To me, that is a cut and dry exploit.
While I don't know what it would take to program, the fix at least appears simple to me:
When transferring ISK, the menu simply ignores the first 250k ISK given to the account, so in effect you could only spend that ISK on gear or books or save it, but would never be able to transfer it over to another account. This immediately ends free ISK farms, without harming new players in any meaningful way what so ever.
Agreed.
Alternately, they could add a flag that says new accounts cannot transfer ISK for the first week. No real new player is going to, only biomassers. This may be easier than invisible ISK and would slow biomassing down to the point of probably being ignored.
Or, a WP limit before transferring is enabled. Say, 10k, or 20k. |
Awry Barux
New Eden Blades Of The Azure
Zero-Day
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Posted - 2014.02.15 05:26:00 -
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Aeon Amadi wrote:Mobius Kaethis wrote:This does need to happen since players can make hundreds of millions in just a few weeks. I hate to say it but in the mean time CCP should consider banning (at least temporarily) accounts of people who do this. If anything will break the player market, and the NPE it is too much isk for vets. Nah. That's a lot of effort for very little reward. You're talking earning 250k ISK per character, waiting ten or more hours every time, for every character on every account; if you're doing it on multiple accounts it would make it even more difficult to ban people over. That's a lot of time you'd have to invest when you could simply run an ambush match in BPO gear (everyone has at least four suits with nothing but BPO gear) and get that much, if not more, in less than an hour. It's not that big of a problem.
You don't need to ban all the accounts- just the one they're sending the ISK to.  |