Obvious RMT is Obvious

[Szeth]

Do you understand how sales work? Rich girl could have bought 40k worth of stuff and sold it for 60k. That is still 60k worth of sales.

[bylbob]

that's 100k worth of sales. and still 20 bucks per player average regardless.

[Szeth]

Well you have retards who are willing to spend upwards of 500 for a single item. That negates 25 of your people. Also food for thought is that afaik there aren't any items going for $20 or less. Maybe a small amount of platinum. Therefore your $20 avg is a bit of a misnomer, because the SMALLEST sales are likely near 75-100 bucks

[somnia]

This is like one of the those situations where something wrong is obviously happening and the people in charge are either:

a) oblivious to it
b) in on it
c) don't know what to do about it

In order to act we need to know which one it is otherwise we're going nowhere fast.

[somnia]

[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[somnia]

[IMG][You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.][/IMG]

[rmackner]

You even have people in the forum asking for help with gear when they see how high prices are. Then 3 days later they are in the EC tunnel forum looking to buy pretty high priced items. So most people just put out the $50 on 10k plat to get a jump start. Since leveling is a pain in the ass from scratch and most people don't wanna grind on a 12 year old game they put out the money for leveling gear. This is the norm on the server and I don't think it will change any time soon. I don't know why they just dont open a cash shop lol.

[somnia]

Step by Step Guide to Catching RMT Characters

Step 1:
For every account offered on the RMT site, manually query database of characters that fit description (level, race, class, items). Should be relatively few characters that match exactly.

Step 2:
Of the few characters in the query, see which ones are played frequently. If character isn't played often then likely suspect

Step 3:
Look at IP addresses that the character's account logs in from. If the account has a long history of logging in from a single IP then suddenly changes to another IP then likely suspect.

How hard is this guys?

[inyane]

The amount of pp that is being bought and sold on that forum is truly staggering.
Millions of pp.

Really makes me want to stop playing here.

[rmackner]

Lol this one guy calls him self the platlord. He gives you a AIM, email and phone number to contact him on. Selling plat on p99 must be his full time job haha.