EDIT FROM LATER DEBATE IN THIS THREAD:
Illegitimate Silver sellers are just asking buyers to sell random, unattractive equips on the market at abnormally high prices. This works for moving silver by the millions. They’re probably using this technique to move Silver to their “sales” accounts, too. This defeats almost all of the trading restrictions and is a problem that will need to be solved or we’re all suffering for nothing.
The following is a highly detailed explanation of a system I think could defeat the current exploit while possibly eliminating some of the other, less effective restrictions currently on players:
Original post:
You’ll have no problems affording these at high levels, or at lower ones if you farm up extremely choice single items like Arde Daggers or individual stacks of super high demand crafting mats. Yeah, you’ll only have one slot to work with, so make it count.
This part of the game isn’t truly p2w, although if you want to cry about how it takes you 20% longer to level (it doesn’t affect cards), feel free. No one will be impressed.
More importantly, Tokens cut deep into gold seller profits. How does it do this, exactly? Read on!
Tokens restrict illegitimate sellers in the following ways:
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They must pay $ to move goods from their bots to the character/account they wish to trade with illegitimate buyers on
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They (or illegitimate buyers) must pay $ to have a Token on the buyer’s end, as both players must have tokens to 1 to 1 trade
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If they don’t want that, they must sell accounts directly with the Silver on them, which reduces their potential buyers drastically by eliminating people who want the Silver on their main account as customers
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Most importantly of all, tokens sharply curtail illegitimate seller profits because it makes them unnecessary for people wishing to buy Silver. Buy a token support the game, and legitimately sell it to a player on the market.
You can’t even 1 to 1 trade Silver anymore so the seller has to provide goods that the buyer has to sell on the market. And did you know tokens have a 30 (last I checked) item trade limit?
Every single bot account will need a Token to move items to sell, and they will be competing in bid wars with actual players for these legitimately purchased tokens. So they won’t be cheap.
Now consider that, no matter how many bot accounts the illegitimate seller has, none of the individual accounts can use market slots to turn what they farm into Silver, because the Silver can’t be traded. So they have to trade items to the seller account, and because the Tokens have a 30 item 1 to 1 trade limit, suddenly the seller account has to buy 420249429 tokens.
Finally, it’s worth mentioning that there is a hard cap on what you can market things for. It is not possible to, for example, list a level 3 monster part for 9,000,000 Silver, so the seller cannot instruct the buyer to do this and avoid transaction restrictions that way.
The effect all of this has on profitability is quite dramatic!