Free Accounts Restrictions and Suggestion

Can we have some sort of way to identify paying vs. non-paying accounts then, Jeff. I would really hate to expose a PK from blend and put him at risk for absolutely no reward at all.

wait a minute spartan dont u want to steal there pride?

That too, but whats the fun in just taking at?
I want them to lose something really valuble. like a 10 stack of gates. Or a boss drop.

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seems as though i am on a roll tonight posting things.

would it be possible to enable free accs to trade certain items.

eg. gate potions.
basic resources eg.twigs not planks

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or even grant us the ability to purchase resources for crafting

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i agree free accounts should be able to trade resources so that there is an actual point in them getting better at the skills used for it

free accounts can sell their resources to the shops then you can goto the shops and buy them. or has that been pointed out already? i always seem to point something out that was said already because i skimmed the thread.

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not all resources are freely available in the shops for crafting. if you lucky u might find something usefull.

as the shops have limited space(could increase this Jeff) every time you sell something to the shop it replaces something already there.

How about free accounts being able to trade with other free accounts?

The restrictions on free accounts is to avoid someone making a thousand free accounts and hiring a bunch of 12 year old Chinese kids to play those frees for 18 hour shifts harvesting gold and then selling it to players and both A) ****ing up the value of gold, making more gold worth less cash, which drives the gold prices of time cards up making it impossible for most people to get stuff without paying, and B) increasing the risk for scamming over real money.

Here's how it works if frees can trade limited items on auction.

Gold Buyer puts a resource, such as Citrine Ore or even House Spider Silk, on the market for, oh.... 100,000 gold. Who the hell would pay that much for a damn silk?

Chinese Goldfarmer would. Because CG here told GB to put the silk on auction for 100k after receiving $5 from the player for gold.

Wait wait wait, $5 for 100k?! No way! Time cards are $5 and they only go for around 40 to 50k! There's no way they would DOUBLE, right?

They used to be 8k. Then people started getting more levels and more gold per kill. Thus more gold came into the economy. Bam, people can pay more for TC's, thus cheapening the gold. What happens if there's 2500 characters owned by the same person forcing 20 Chinese teenagers to play these free accounts, 3 at a time, all on accel, 18 hours a day? And each of those chars gets 2k gold per day... that's FIVE MILLION GOLD DAILY going into the economy!

Thus, letting frees buy resources = death of the economy.

Trading between frees, well... same thing would happen, but only frees can buy the gold. And yeah, what self-respecting non-paying player would pay for stuff?

The guy that runs out of standard/premium time and wants to grab some gold before he goes paid again.

Bam. As above, economy is ruined, 5 million gold a day.

What about free accounts being able to buy but not sell? This would also help paying members.






~Mara~

I think the point of free accounts is to level .. if free accounts want all the bells and whistles sink 5 bucks a month into the game and buy a 4 week standard account.. if however... you cant afford that save your Gold and purchase a TC to do the same... else wise.. why should Jeff give free accounts anything when they are not paying for it like the rest of us are!

How about making free trading after your lvl 20 or 40?

Noone is going to make a farm company for a browser game :| they would be too busy making real money in WoW or other games of the like.

Or how about Jeff actually just impliments a monitoring system to watch for people transfering obscenely large amounts of funds for a 'low value' item, as given in the above case of the spider silk for 100K. And extend it to accounts that recieve/deal an enormous amount of trades at all times of the day. WoW does it, and it's pretty much killed off gold-selling there, after all.

Greed. :P Why do anything when you get more money not to?

ok well i'm new and just thought maybe if you put a restriction on how many account you can have to like 2-3 then that would stop the massive tradeing you could even just make it one the only thing that i think would be good though is not to trade but for free accounts to beable to atleast buy from the auction and not sell or trade cause with a free account when you find something good in the store but your 200 gold away so you try and get 200 gold and by the time you do its gone and you just lost a good weapon or armour it would not only be nice for the free accounts to buy say 1 item a week from the auction but for the other players that have paid for the game cause they get the gold and the free account gets the good item that they needed wanted or was looking for just my sugestion on this subject

I support this thread! }}:O

How about a block on isp's of paid account holders that way you free up noobs to trade a certin amount and no farming problem solved and yes my spelling sucks

y stop there jeff remove the whole paying system entirely give everyone the game for free, plz give everyone unlimited rt gold and epics as well, and let us gain 1million xp at a time by typing /+1 skill name....


why bump an old thread that doesnt make sense in the first place free accounts will not get to trade. pony up 5$ for a timecard of save your gold to get one. there are plenty players out there who do not pay to play but can still trade