Money related Ideas

[Jessyn]

but how would you do that, as there are no level\'s in PS?  The only major problems i have with bank loans are that they would take away from PvP loans, and they would be difficult to secure.  You can take advantage of a computer time and time again, but you can only fool a human so many times before they get cautious(or run out of money)

Jessyn

[Xaminor]

Originally posted by Jessyn

 but you can only fool a human so many times before they get cautious(or run out of money)

exactly

peace

xam

[Aduin]

Even with the pvp lending, someone could take a loan out on a fake charecter. The only time you\'d lend someone money, would be if you knew and trusted them already, in which case, why have a lending system? There really is no way to avoid exploitation. It\'s a great idea, and would be very nice to see in game, but only if they could figure out how to cut out the exploits.

[Link]

Originally posted by David_HD
Um... If I were to change my MAC address, there\'s no way you could tell that I\'m still the same person...
Banning,  in my case, 169.233.*.* would cut all of the dorms at UCSC off the game. I certainly don\'t want to be denied access because some idiot at my school tried to mule....

Banning entire ISPs, even on occasions entire countries, happens all the times in games, if you have people from a ISP or Country that alot are doing bad things, then you have no other choice.

[Silverblade]

Surely that\'s not the solution though. It would be ridiculous to ban a hundred people just because 10 people that share their internet service cannot behave.
I am sure they wouldnt do that.

[Severed Hope]

And something I just thought of, being a free game, people may start up a new character, borrow heaps of money, give it to another character (also owned by them) then leave the other character and his debt\'s to go to hell.
The solution to this may be that to get a loan, you need credibility. For example, you need to have played the game for a certain amount of time, or you need to be a certain level ( I know there are no levels, but something along that line... maybe a certain amount of experience... however that aspect of the game works.)
 

Solution? One IP address? ONE CHARACTER! Free online game = Too expensive to run for arse-openings to take advantage of the system.

your account should be your character -- you can delete him and start over as a different kind, but you cant make money mules like that.