Would it be against the rules...

[Cars]

To do a draw on my account that people pay into with platinum for a chance to win my characters if I then did another draw for free to give away the platinum? Totally done here but I figured I could have some fun with getting rid of my characters.

[baalzy]

You could just give your characters to me. :P

[Ambrotos]

You're asking people to give you plat in order to have a chance to win an account from you due to quitting?

[baalzy]

But in seriousness, I think the first part draws too close to 'selling' your account. The new rule on account ownership is that the original owner is always considered the only owner. Others can use your account with your permission (and you're responsible for whatever actions they perform with your account) but ownership is no longer 'transferable'.

I will say you should carefully consider giving away your accounts and stuff. I did this 2 years ago and regret it a bit. I'm lucky and was able to recover my accounts from the people I left them with but I kinda regret the amount of gear I used to have being gone.

I'll make you this promise, if you leave your accounts in my stewardship I'll return them to you whenever you want in the same (or better) condition that you left them to me :P.

[myriverse]

If you're done here, then why bother with plat?

[baalzy]

You're asking people to give you plat in order to have a chance to win an account from you due to quitting?

Looks like he wants to
1) Hold a raffle to win his characters
2) Hold another raffle (with free entry) to then give the platinum gained in raffle 1 away.
Edit: 3) Quit.

[Cars]

Looks like he wants to
1) Hold a raffle to win his characters
2) Hold another raffle (with free entry) to then give the platinum gained in raffle 1 away.

Bingo, just to transfer some plat around to potentially new and broke players. If its illegal I will just give the account away.

[Ambrotos]

Sounds like a pretty cool yet fishy sounding idea. It doesn't break any rules that I can tell, but raises a lot of red flags imo.

[Cars]

Hey ambrotos, sending you a message.

[SirAlvarex]

If the GM's know and can act as a broker for the PP, then I think that gets rid of a lot of the red flags.

It just takes their time, so you'd have to try and broker a deal with them (which it sounds like you're doing).

[Cars]

Yeah thats pretty much the message I sent to ambrotos, to see if GM's wanted to get involved in getting rid of the plat.

Account has on Blue:
54 Human Pally, full planar, sky haste, fiery avenger, blah blah blah.
47 epic barb rogue, naked cept planar helm, boots,bp and epic.
Bunch of lvl 20's stripped Wizard, Iksar Monk etc.

and On red it has a 46 or 47 Wizard but I didn't go back to get his corpse so I would probably need some GM help there too.

[arsenalpow]

you should just give me your account, i was thinking about leveling a rogue anyways

[radditsu]

you should just give me your account, i was thinking about leveling a rogue anyways

Ditto

[webrunner5]

Yeah that works for me also lol.

[Swish]

Sounds like a pretty cool yet fishy sounding idea.

[Sirken]

sounds like account trading / selling

sounds illegal

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bWQVl0-3SCU/TvTs1BrHI2I/AAAAAAAAAss/sdZmhK1_MxQ/s1600/motivator04b3e205d94b117eed0033d9f51d6fc6040b1146. jpg

[BlkCamel]

Sounds like a pretty cool yet fishy sounding idea. It doesn't break any rules that I can tell, but raises a lot of red flags imo.

sounds like account trading / selling

sounds illegal

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bWQVl0-3SCU/TvTs1BrHI2I/AAAAAAAAAss/sdZmhK1_MxQ/s1600/motivator04b3e205d94b117eed0033d9f51d6fc6040b1146. jpg

Who has authority over who? I am confused.

[BlkCamel]

Just curious because now OP won't know what to do.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

If this is your idea of having fun, man, you need to get with the program like the rest of us and start taking a few tabs of acid with your morning coffee.

If I wanted to quit the game and create "fun," I would turn into Sadre's free absurd leveling service. Run around to lower level camps. Like, go to an orc camp, stand there and just hold aggro. Let people at camp wail away and get the kills as spawn after spawn slowly beats down my health. Die. Run to new camp. Repeat.

Continue until you are back to level 1.

As in most things in life, I always ask myself, what would Captain Nero do, if instead of being this chronic rage-aholic, he actually just had a sense of humor about the whole deal.

I mean, if I was actually Captain Nero, I would inject red matter into a black hole.

That shit would be epic.

[Skittlez]

Sounds like a pretty cool yet fishy sounding idea. It doesn't break any rules that I can tell, but raises a lot of red flags imo.

[Fjolvar]

Christmas giveaway for the plat!

[Autotune]

Carso least fishy guy I know.

[baalzy]

Who has authority over who? I am confused.

Sirken is lead GM if I'm not mistaken.

Pretty sure his word is final unless Rog or Nilbog wants to chime in.

[Khaleesi]

Sirken is lead GM if I'm not mistaken.

Pretty sure his word is final unless Rog or Nilbog wants to chime in.

How did Sirken get lead GM? Is it simply because of activity levels e.g. being consistently available to work on the server?


I would give permission to one of the GMs to hold a small server event and give away items and plat in a mixture of games.
For items that were no trade, the GM could give a copy of that item to the game winner(s) at a 1:1 ratio. Ultimately if Cars account data is removed, then there won't be any synthetic injection of items into the market.

[Cars]

Alright so I am getting a few PM's asking for the account, not really how I want to do it. Ambrotos was going to talk to Sirken to see, and Sirken hath spoken. No big deal, just going to decide if I give it away to a random newbie or do a free draw. Will update soon, toon give away probably on monday.

Also clean as a whistle here folks, literally no interest in playing.

[ctechguy]

Back in the live days, I had a friend who was hunting near the bridge to South Karana, when someone announced to the zone that the first player to meet them on the bridge would receive 4 thousand platinum. As he was fairly lowbie at the time, he made haste to run for the bridge.

He had the bridge, and the player conducting the giveaway clearly in sight, and confirmed he would arrive shortly to the bridge first, to collect this fantastic prize!

That's when EQ suddenly crashed on him, a mere few seconds away from victory, and it is also when the shouting and throwing of things began.

He attempted to log back in as quickly as possible, just in time to see the sponsor of the platinum prize congratulating another player for being first to the bridge. I found this endlessly amusing but had to pretend that I was concerned for his "loss", as the anger was palpable.

Your thread reminded me of this, and brought back a chuckle or two!

[Ahldagor]

Back in the live days, I had a friend who was hunting near the bridge to South Karana, when someone announced to the zone that the first player to meet them on the bridge would receive 4 thousand platinum. As he was fairly lowbie at the time, he made haste to run for the bridge.

He had the bridge, and the player conducting the giveaway clearly in sight, and confirmed he would arrive shortly to the bridge first, to collect this fantastic prize!

That's when EQ suddenly crashed on him, a mere few seconds away from victory, and it is also when the shouting and throwing of things began.

He attempted to log back in as quickly as possible, just in time to see the sponsor of the platinum prize congratulating another player for being first to the bridge. I found this endlessly amusing but had to pretend that I was concerned for his "loss", as the anger was palpable.


lulz

[Sirken]

If the GM's know and can act as a broker for the PP, then I think that gets rid of a lot of the red flags.
It just takes their time, so you'd have to try and broker a deal with them (which it sounds like you're doing).
this is not a feature the staff is allowed to offer

Who has authority over who? I am confused.
Nilbog & Rogean have authority over everyone, and I have authority over the CSR Guides. so if u have a problem with a guide, you should come to me. if you have a problem with me, i encourage you to bring it to Nilbog and Rogean

How did Sirken get lead GM? Is it simply because of activity levels e.g. being consistently available to work on the server?
i believe it was a combo of 1)having previous GM experience before p99 existed, 2)being the longest standing staff member when Amelinda was removed, 3) Nilbog and Rogean trust me as a human being, and trust in my ability to make fair unbiased decisions, and 4)I have compromising photos of Rogean and Nilbog performing blood rituals.