New Measurements against Monetary Trades

Started 31 Jul 2019
by gruenesschaf
in Tavern
Over the last few weeks we banned a couple gold sellers, including an especially stupid specimen that actually went ahead and bought other accounts that is now a bit salty after having those accounts closed not once but multiple times.

Trades involving real currency in exchange for ingame currency / items / accounts are endangering this project, we are therefore forced to make it harder for gold sellers and to that end introduce the following changes:

Tomorrow (done):
You need to be level 7 to use /region, /trade, /lfg, /advice
Characters below level 10 can no longer trade gold with other players
Characters below level 10 can no longer participate in trades with other players that contain items that vendor for more than 1 gold

Over the weekend:
Edit: Here comes teh ban wave
Expect a huge ban wave as we will now automate the detection of duplicate accounts and realm timer circumvention covering all existing accounts instead of only doing sporadic dual log checks of connected clients or as part of working on appeals.
If you have a second account that you haven't logged in for a long time you can report yourself until Friday and the only thing that will happen is a closure of the other account, to report yourself message uthred or vivien in discord.
The announced bans for people who buy gold will be enforced for this particular gold seller. We hope the buyer were at least smart enough to buy via some payment method that supports refunds, we suggest issuing a charge back if possible. Sending proof of the refund will turn the perma ban into a 7 day ban and the removal of all gold.

Sometime between now and next weekend:
Gold will be shared for all characters per account per realm
Gold exchange coins will be removed
Items with a 100% sell back value (primarily housing items) that don't have to be tradeable (transfer deeds etc.) will become untradeable, those that must be tradeable will either see alternatives or also just sell for 50%.
The exchange coin / 100% sell back value item change will come either together with or after gold is shared between all characters on an account per realm.

Sometime next week:
Logins from Virtual Machines will be rejected
Logins from Linux, including Wine / PlayOnLinux will be rejected
Logins from machines that do not produce enough data to uniquely identify them will be rejected

About another week later:
New commands will be added to facilitate gold trade between realms
Gold trades between realms using other methods will be forbidden
Thu 1 Aug 2019 2:20 PM by gruenesschaf
Linux logins will be rejected by default, however, there will be a way for us to set exceptions to this rule and for existing users we will add those exceptions to one account per user (meaning no account sharing except with other linux users). At this time we are unsure if we will make these exceptions for new users or if it's something only to grandfather existing users.
Thu 1 Aug 2019 2:36 PM by gruenesschaf
Some more information regarding the gold trade between realms with the command, please note that this change will come after gold is shared for all characters per account and realm:

There will be zero interaction between players, the command will match trade orders automatically, there will be no indicator with whom you trade or what the current trade volume is. All gold you receive in a given realm will be made by a player in the given realm, that also means if there is nobody willing to fulfill your trade order it can take a while.

Players will be able to place trade orders, e. g. 10p from albion to midgard, doing so would instantly substract the 10 albion platin from your account.

Orders will be fulfilled automatically and also partially, in the above case if you are the only one with an alb -> midgard trade order and there weren't any midgard -> albion trade orders and now someone comes along and wants to trade 2 platin from midgard to albion your order would be partially fulfilled adding 2 migard platin to your account and reducing the offered albion platin according to the conversion rate.

On that note, there will be an automatic conversion rate in place that will update on server start and daily when the tasks reset and be based on the entire economy value of the realms, if for example hibernia contains 1.5x the gold of midgard then the conversion rate midgard -> hibernia would be 1.5 and hibernia -> midgard would be 0.6667. Yay for currency speculation in daoc.

You can cancel active trade orders at any time, but note that they may already have been fulfilled partially in which case you would receive only the remainder back.
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