Possible solution to stop Gil spammers. Please Read.

[Zyeriis]

Making gil and items account bound with a limit on the AH for each item does make them go away.

No it doesn't. And that economy sounds extremely awful. There are still ways around it. That just means more rmt /tell spam because they'll simply up the number of accounts and raise the prices on the gil to make up for it. They won't even "return" they'll simply increase in number rather than disappear and come back.

Blisting and reporting them* thus getting them banned on a server that is full, gets rid of them. They're gone and can't come back due to the server being full. "They'll just buy existing characters!" Well, they won't be able to do that forever.

P.S. It's irritating to have to return to the op just to read responses. I understand adjusting the first post to summarize the thread so people don't have to read every page but, you could make actual responses so there's something to follow.

Edit: Do you work for EA?

[Zyeriis]

I really have to ask. What's the point of making gil unable to be traded? Isn't that worse than the problem caused by RMTs? This is if it would even stop them (which it wouldn't). You should think more about what would be lost in the process versus the manner in which we are apparently suffering at the moment. Trading one evil for another seems silly.

[Krylancelo]

Well that is what i'm wondering. I really don't think so. Like i mentioned i'd rathe rhave my gil locked to my account or request through GM help to trade my large amount of gil rather than the economy be completely mucked up from people buying 1 mil gil at a time.

I'm just posting this to find others thoughts.

I have not seen any decent rebuttal so far.

1: Gil cannot be traded so gil farmers can not sell it through trade.

2: Each craft mat has a individual price so they can not be put up for ridiculous amounts. (still possibly some brain storming to do with selling 99x of a single item.)

3: Gear is mostly account bound and cannot be traded for anything anyway. ( still possible brainstorming to be done with high end gear that is not account bound)

The idea i mentioned is not perfect obviously but i believe it could be a starting point for some really ingenious ideas to prevent these gil farmers from doing anything.

[Zyeriis]

Well that is what i'm wondering. I really don't think so. Like i mentioned i'd rathe rhave my gil locked to my account or request through GM help to trade my large amount of gil rather than the economy be completely mucked up from people buying 1 mil gil at a time.

Have you actually read the gil to real money ratio they're sending in tells? It's like $5 for 10k gil. That's $500 for 1mil.

[Krylancelo]

Have you actually read the gil to real money ratio they're sending in tells? It's like $5 for 10k gil. That's $500 for 1mil.

Game only just launched. Gil will get cheaper. And believe me, people spend that much.