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#301 AppleEater

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Posted 03 April 2011 - 04:38 PM

I would think that since WP bought out most of Barunson they would be able to make some decisions regarding this game, guess that was a major failed assumption :(
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#302 Nolanvoid

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Posted 03 April 2011 - 05:31 PM

WarpPortal did not buy out Barunson. Gravity HQ Korea purchased a majority share. Barunson is still an entity that is required to create revenue for themselves. I will not go much further into this, but there is a big difference within the chain and within the direction that they must handle their business.
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#303 Eldarath

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Posted 03 April 2011 - 07:19 PM

Seems like Credit Card Fraud Abuse is just an excuse to have a chance to use IM Account bind to encourage everyone to buy IM at least couple times a month.

An effective way to prevent gold buying/selling is to have a system the automatically logs all the mail/trade that exceed certain amount of gold, and the frequency of the mail/trade the same ID and time frame. With the large amount of gold (normally 1k+ gold going/coming from one person to another in frequency of 2+ mails) being loged, GMs can verify and ban any suspicious trading. (Example: Atlantica Online, Wow (not many does mail since log is right next to staffs face lol))

Another method is monitoring the market place to prevent the method of buying gold by putting up an cheap item that cost 8k gold + and the Gold Seller buys the cheap item and succuessfully delievered the gold via market place. It will take only one person to short thru all the item list withing 30 min, or have a system that automaticly notices GM when something cheap but at unrealistic price (i.e. a granite ore cost 2000g BO). (Example: Some GM at wow are realise it now because auction house gold delievery method increased more than simple face to face trade.)

By making the gold buyer/sellers trading methods more risky, you can decrease the demand of gold from third party trade.

When all else failed, just offer IM Points converstion to Gold via IM. If by then there still ALOT of gold sellers then the game is VERY UNDERSTAFFED. :(
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#304 Yurai

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Posted 03 April 2011 - 07:36 PM

Seems like Credit Card Fraud Abuse is just an excuse to have a chance to use IM Account bind to encourage everyone to buy IM at least couple times a month.

An effective way to prevent gold buying/selling is to have a system the automatically logs all the mail/trade that exceed certain amount of gold, and the frequency of the mail/trade the same ID and time frame. With the large amount of gold (normally 1k+ gold going/coming from one person to another in frequency of 2+ mails) being loged, GMs can verify and ban any suspicious trading. (Example: Atlantica Online, Wow (not many does mail since log is right next to staffs face lol))

Another method is monitoring the market place to prevent the method of buying gold by putting up an cheap item that cost 8k gold + and the Gold Seller buys the cheap item and succuessfully delievered the gold via market place. It will take only one person to short thru all the item list withing 30 min, or have a system that automaticly notices GM when something cheap but at unrealistic price (i.e. a granite ore cost 2000g BO). (Example: Some GM at wow are realise it now because auction house gold delievery method increased more than simple face to face trade.)

By making the gold buyer/sellers trading methods more risky, you can decrease the demand of gold from third party trade.

When all else failed, just offer IM Points converstion to Gold via IM. If by then there still ALOT of gold sellers then the game is VERY UNDERSTAFFED. :(


Major flaw of the system would be constantly transferring money between accounts.
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#305 Eldarath

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Posted 03 April 2011 - 08:57 PM

Major flaw of the system would be constantly transferring money between accounts.


Em...that's one of the flag of gold mules, staff can tell same money transfer between alts or just straight gold delivery by IP and Account IDs.

Edited by Eldarath, 03 April 2011 - 09:04 PM.

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Posted 03 April 2011 - 09:05 PM

Another method is monitoring the market place to prevent the method of buying gold by putting up an cheap item that cost 8k gold + and the Gold Seller buys the cheap item and succuessfully delievered the gold via market place. It will take only one person to short thru all the item list withing 30 min, or have a system that automaticly notices GM when something cheap but at unrealistic price (i.e. a granite ore cost 2000g BO). (Example: Some GM at wow are realise it now because auction house gold delievery method increased more than simple face to face trade.)

By making the gold buyer/sellers trading methods more risky, you can decrease the demand of gold from third party trade.


Better yet would be to go through a log of large marketplace transactions. Plenty of people offer stuff at rediculous prices. Many just don't know what it's worth. Others are hoping to trick people (maybe against the rules, maybe not, but a very different issue). Instead, it'd be better to look at stuff that actually gets sold for a large amount and use that as a lead. Transactions are fewer than market postings, and most overpriced stuff doesn't sell, so that cuts out a lot of entries.
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#307 Eldarath

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Posted 03 April 2011 - 09:15 PM

Better yet would be to go through a log of large marketplace transactions. Plenty of people offer stuff at rediculous prices. Many just don't know what it's worth. Others are hoping to trick people (maybe against the rules, maybe not, but a very different issue). Instead, it'd be better to look at stuff that actually gets sold for a large amount and use that as a lead. Transactions are fewer than market postings, and most overpriced stuff doesn't sell, so that cuts out a lot of entries.


That could be possible, consider there is only a small player base compare to Atlantica and WoW and other games that does currency logs. It is true that the system is flawed, because some people will get away if lucky. However, the risk of buying/selling gold increase significantly with improved staff monitoring the logs. The end result would be some people get caught and many are afraid to buy, demand gets low to the point where IM Gifting is more efficient way of getting gold then buying gold from third party.
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