Quote Originally Posted by LYK08 View Post
Another issue that may not have been highlighted is that scams were prevalent and many admins could not do anything about it. I'd suggest that we make scamming illegal, and impose a duty tax on goods with a base price value of more than 100k gralats to discourage exchange of such goods so as to minimise scams. If say a brella costs 1.2 million gralats, a tax of 0.25 percent of the value can be levied on the buyer, so the buyer has to pay whatever the price that is being sold to him at, and the tax of 3k gralats at the trade tables, as well as the 21 gralat trading fee.

Scammers who have been discovered should be permanently barred from trading and they should be fined 10k gralats, or if they do not have them, 10k gralats worth of their assets will be taken away, say maybe , 1 ak47 gun, trochus and sandollars worth up to 10k gralats. We need to take a strict stance on this matter as well if we want to gain thee trust of the trading community.
In regards to this specific trade table tax you’re talking about - this would be impossible to regulate since players determine the prices of items, not the staff team. Prices are always changing, and sometimes people trade items for items instead of through trochus or other sellable items. Sometimes people are carrying no gralats when they trade, how do they get taxed if they don’t have any? If someone is trading say an umbrella for an umbrella, do both players just lose a bunch of gralats sitting around in their inventory, or can they just do a trade plain and simple?

Yeah, scamming sucks. But there’s a reason it’s legal. It is absolutely impossible to regulate every single trade. It’s up to the players to determine what they want to trade for what, so we can’t go around saying “Hey, you sold your umbrella for a stun gun? BANNED!” when the player agreed to the trade in the first place. There are plenty of warnings for players to make sure that they are certain about completing trades. As for the cheap tricks, like blocking item names and whatever - these suck, not gonna lie. But it’s getting harder to do as new ways pop up (for example, I think the item name text was pushed forward in priority recently?). It also helps to find an empty room to trade in so there isn’t as much commotion around you.

I don’t believe in any taxation system for the game, it limits people ability to play similar to mobile games with a stamina or energy system. Makes people effectively have to wait to do what they want to do or pay to keep playing. I don’t believe in daily or weekly caps of any sort, if you’re good enough to work for it, then you should be able to. It’s a competitive game, so compete for top spots and rewards. The monopoly sucks, sure, but the proposed new basing system (don’t ask me about it, I don’t know what progress has been made or anything of that sort) will keep the monopolists in one area, leaving the other gangs to compete against each other while the “top” gangs fight it out in a smaller area.

But yeah, that’s enough with the personal attacks everyone. I’m going to start handing out infractions if this continues, I’ve already told y’all that it was enough. Don’t attack each other, just present your opinions and counter opinions.