Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
An interesting suggestion. I wonder if SE could successfully program the system to work that way, though. Attempts to purchase would have to be tracked server side or PC users who cheat could just log out, change the code on their local client so their attempts are reset to 0 and log back in to try again. Still opens small windows where others could potentially get the plot while the cheater is resetting their attempts.
Of course it would be tracked on the server side. Why would that be even remotely a problem? There's plenty of other state tracked server side already, including various kinds of timers. The leve allowance timer is actually pretty close to what's needed here; just add another timer like that but change the parameters so it charges by 1 attempt every 8 hours, up to 3 stored attempts max.

I know bashing SE is a popular pastime on the forums, but really, the developers can't possibly be that inept.