Monopolizing Scout in WW...

[Thugnuts]

Originally Posted by Lhancelot [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The problem here is the people running the plat camps non-stop can't help it. Their thirst and greed overrides any sense of moral scruples they should have. It's like some sort of weird pixel addiction/disease.

We are certainly dealing with some unhealthy individuals on this server, but there's another form of addiction that many folks here are feeding: $3 USD for 1K on the shitlord RMT market.

When you've got someone with access to ten different max level epic'd characters on six different accounts, who are in or have been in the top raiding guild or guilds for years on end, you're talking about someone who already has access to all the content in the game. Every zone. Every item. They can have any of it.

So why are they farming cash camps, MQ's, and generally cockblocking scruffy newbs who've only been here for a year? $3 USD for 1,000 plat. All day, everyday on multiple websites.

What does that add up to for people who are banging out hundreds of thousands of plat each month? Rent, weed money, the co-pay on their benzos, etc.

Been going on here since the Kunark era when one guild took over pretty much all the endgame content. Heaps of top-end gear that only they had regular, ongoing access to was being RMT'd for a mint on a daily basis... for years.

Most of those folks are still here playing today, and still doing the same thing. Only the guild names and the mule names change. It works like this:

Scumlord sells 50,000 plat for $150 USD to some random schmuck who is locked out of content, but really really wants the Spergy Axe of Sundering.

Scumlord then sells schmuck the Spergy Axe of Sundering MQ in the game for 50,000 plat. Totally legit, just farming MQ's dontcha know?

Scumlord then takes that same 50,000 plat and sells it again for another $150 to a totally different schmuck, who is locked out of content, but really really wants the Illustrious Robe of Incontinence.

Rinse and repeat.

[Alanus]

Originally Posted by Thugnuts [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

We are certainly dealing with some unhealthy individuals on this server, but there's another form of addiction that many folks here are feeding: $3 USD for 1K on the shitlord RMT market.

When you've got someone with access to ten different max level epic'd characters on six different accounts, who are in or have been in the top raiding guild or guilds for years on end, you're talking about someone who already has access to all the content in the game. Every zone. Every item. They can have any of it.

So why are they farming cash camps, MQ's, and generally cockblocking scruffy newbs who've only been here for a year? $3 USD for 1,000 plat. All day, everyday on multiple websites.

What does that add up to for people who are banging out hundreds of thousands of plat each month? Rent, weed money, the co-pay on their benzos, etc.

Been going on here since the Kunark era when one guild took over pretty much all the endgame content. Heaps of top-end gear that only they had regular, ongoing access to was being RMT'd for a mint on a daily basis... for years.

Most of those folks are still here playing today, and still doing the same thing. Only the guild names and the mule names change. It works like this:

Scumlord sells 50,000 plat for $150 USD to some random schmuck who is locked out of content, but really really wants the Spergy Axe of Sundering.

Scumlord then sells schmuck the Spergy Axe of Sundering MQ in the game for 50,000 plat. Totally legit, just farming MQ's dontcha know?

Scumlord then takes that same 50,000 plat and sells it again for another $150 to a totally different schmuck, who is locked out of content, but really really wants the Illustrious Robe of Incontinence.

Rinse and repeat.

I would imagine it'd be easy to catch RMTers. Just set up some code to flag when high amounts of plat get traded for almost nothing. Then investigate them (i.e. check if it was a legit reason, such as transfer or loot rights or whatever, versus RMT)

[Thugnuts]

Originally Posted by Alanus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I would imagine it'd be easy to catch RMTers. Just set up some code to flag when high amounts of plat get traded for almost nothing. Then investigate them (i.e. check if it was a legit reason, such as transfer or loot rights or whatever, versus RMT)

I think they have that already, but it's not very effective. Same folks have been doing it for years. If they slip up and get banned on one account, it's OK.. they just move to the next account and keep going.

The GMs try, but there's only so much they can do. When people are willing to buy, and people are willing to sell, they always find a way.

It's the folks who want to play the game legitimately who get sandwiched between the sewer, and the turd floating down it.

[Whirled]

Pull the plug. That will stop all of this. Maybe come back in 30, 90 180 days or never again. Force the no lifers to get a job, new hobby and make America great again instead of turning them into mindless zombies fighting over imaginary items. Maybe it's too late though. I'd definitely buy any one in charge of this drinks if only for the sheer thought of what they have put up with for years.

[paroxysmal]

Lol. I told them all the night before not to engage a mob that is already aggro on someone. They didn't listen to papa and got rekt. Live and learn.

Schfifty did die to his captain the night before and they got the kill on him.
As long as there are idiots willing to buy the loot rights he's going to keep doing this until it gets fixed.

[Meep]

Wipe it clean, enough is enough

[Whirled]

EQ PvP is pretty pitiful on many levels. Trying to equate it in any manly terms is frightening. I feel sorry for you if that's all you have to prove your manliness with. I pity you.

[Alanus]

Threads like these make me glad I am a casual plat farmer with a life outside of Project 1999 that buys MQs and loot rights and don't have to deal with this crap.

[Lammy]

I believe they're referencing the ones that win time and time again.

[nyclin]

lollin' at the long-winded posts ascribing grandiose Machiavellian schemes to cockblock casuals from loot, when in reality people just want to gear their chars and are willing to put in the time to do it and some aren't able or willing to

don't let this stop you from concern trolling and shitposting your way to forum superstardom though