I am going to poke holes in your holes.
While true, those low level players can simply save the rare item until they increase their silver trade cap. It is a mild inconvenience, but I wouldn’t say it completely ruins the idea.
The cap should be fairly high, @ridleyco’s numbers seem a bit too low to work. Although over time the numbers might need to be adjusted for inflation, hopefully that would only be at most one a year and should be easy for devs to do during a maintenance. There should also be no limit once you reach max silver cap. If a bot can reach that level, it will hurt like hell when they get banned.
This I completely agree with. It could be just as easy as adding that info to your inventory below your current silver
This is probably the only hole that I don’t think can be fixed. The game already tries to force you down a linear story line though… it would be nice if there was a way to fix this hole, but I can’t think of any.
And what is to stop gold-sellers from selling potions instead? Restricting silver trading won’t solve that problem.