RMT and the Market

[Tupsi]

Locking the market board does nothing - If RMT vendors all of the items they get from botting, the amount of this + the unmanned nature of botting = Tons of gil, so you'd have to lock selling to NPCs as well and you pretty much hinder everyone at that point.

[Riko_113]

Locking the market board does nothing - If RMT vendors all of the items they get from botting, the amount of this + the unmanned nature of botting = Tons of gil, so you'd have to lock selling to NPCs as well and you pretty much hinder everyone at that point.

I appreciate you actually giving input.

But if it was as lucrative as the Market, why would they bother giving up 5% of their money on each transaction instead of just vendoring in the first place. Also, it completely cuts out a major method of transfering the money through the Market as well as all of the people who got caught up in it by unknowingly buying/selling to them. Normal Vendors don't provide any of those options.

@Astralen "R M T" Real Money Traders. The people that are spamming chat all day and botting to sell gil to players for real money on their websites as well as hacking player accounts.

[Tupsi]

I appreciate you actually giving input.
But if it was as lucrative as the Market, why would they bother giving up 5% of their money on each transaction instead of just vendoring in the first place.

Market Boards are just the fastest way to do it even if you lose a portion of it - Even being unmanned it would take quite awhile to get the same sum of gil through NPC that you could get from 1 set of shards on markets. A lot of RMT from what I seen either asks you to friend them so they can mail money or they buy certain item(s) from you, so it does get rid of a way for SE to see who is doing RMT but you can't really stop em from making gil since like in 1.0, they can easily create numerous characters (or hacks :\) to run initial quests and low level crafting rewards ad infinitum.

[Riko_113]

Market Boards are just the fastest way to do it

Every MMO i've played over the past 10 years has created lesser solutions to RMTs by SLOWING them down. Which is why there are level caps and friend request requirements. As others have said, there may be no permanent solution but slowing them down is a damn good place to start and very effective.