Alright I understand its supposedly to combat rmt, but do you guys at IMC have any clue at all how much it screws over new players? Do you? I don’t think you do. I made a new acct and I got some silver from lving and wanted to buy some gear, WHOOPS your blocked for 7 days. My first thought was “Wow this is stupid how am I supposed to get gear?” Right now there is the new player event. but after its over, its probally the number 1 cause why we never get any new players. They see this and are just like NOPE, and uninstall due to how limiting it is. I’ve personally had more than one friend just quit the game because of this, since they needed better gear to level with, and there was literally no way for them to get it. Not with the horrid drop rates, the lack of spawn to hunt for it, and the fact they can’t even buy stuff off the market.
I’ve played alot of mmorpgs, and ToS is the only single game I have played that does stuff like this. You wanna combat rmt heres how" Watch market for weird items normally worth like nothing suddendly selling for 1 mil a piece, that right there is pretty much guarnteed someone buying silver from a rmt seller. Next, once you confirm it, ban them, announce it publicly in game with their team name, as well as keep a ban list on the website that says Server-Team name-Reason for ban. Once people see and have proof people are actually getting banned for this stuff, alot of them won’t dare try it. I’ve seen another game start to use this method and it drastically droped the amount of people buying stuff from rmts.
You want even less rmt? price control stuff on the market more tightly, for example battle bracelet should not be worth like 6 mil for a level 40 items. I don’t care what it is used to make its just stupid. If anything the battle bracelet req for sissel bracelet should be changed to something closer to the items level to use which I Think is 220, or have it drop from more monsters closer to level 220 insted of off a level 40 monster in a low level dungeon.
ToS has some of the msot messed up design decisions with certan things that just make me shake my head and ask why they thought this was a good idea, and the 7 day lockout to use market or trade is one of those, and like I said, its probally the main reason the game never got any new players till this event. They will dry up once the event is over as well, since it’ll go back to 7 days of being unable to get new gear.