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Old 03-20-2008, 11:53 PM   #232 (permalink)
Karukan
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there is no way i'm rereeadin through 16 pages of this but here are my views on this issue.

The only way you can keep things like this from or at least reduce it is by setting up the game to where it makes buying gold not worth it. A big way to do that is by having binding equipment and having the best equipment in game only available by earning it through some means other than buying it. This is one of the reasons Lineage 2 had such bad bot problems. They made drop rates for equipment way too low and all equipment had to be bought or crafted. So the farmers would set up bot trains running 24/7 which would get them lots of drops and gold, then they would sell you the gold on ebay so you could turn around and buy the equipment from their shops.

The only other option would be to actively seek out and stop people who are buying /selling as well as actively banning accounts involved in both buying/selling as well as botting, but no game has done this well so I have no expectations of this one doing it either.

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