Hello everyone,
there is one person in the game, who repeatedly makes "wrong trade"- he is selling Crystal Energy, or so he says. His name is [Redacted]. Please, be carefull, because he has already scamed a lot of people. He changes the trade on last moment, hoping you will not notice. If you do, he cancel and try again. Best luck!
P.S. If anyone has anything to say, please fell free to do it.
EDIT: Please see our forum rules regarding "naming and shaming". Thank you.
I appreciate the warning and shrinkshootr is right.
But unless I'm mistaken, you can't list peoples
names on the forums.
I actually appreciate it when people make the community aware of these things. Maybe its common sense to most people, but there is a younger, less experienced demographic that can be easily fooled and taken advantage of these things.
However, the best course would be to report these people to GMs in-game. They discourage posting these things on the forums.
Somewhere out there, there is a player whose user name is "[Redacted]", and his trading business just dried up.
> Somewhere out there, there is a player whose user name is "[Redacted]", and his trading business just dried up.
I just laughed out loud. If I had the time, I would create a knight named Redacted and storyboard his tale of undeserved woe.
> Somewhere out there, there is a player whose user name is "[Redacted]", and his trading business just dried up.
Slightly off topic, but that reminds me of another story I read while browsing teh internets.
just wondering, is that kind of trading bannable?
if yes:is the guy banned ?
if no:what the..
Most likely he will not be banned, why? Cause the game has a horrible horrible system for banning players. They rely solely on chat logs, which is just plain idiotic. So all the guy does is type in trade channel selling CE and when trade happens don't say a word, just attempt to scam during the trade. You report him, they look at chat log and see nothing besides him trying to sell CE and then they blame us for sending in bad complaints.
If that happen only me, i would admit its just my fault. But it it was not. And repeatedly wrong trade is a theft.
And yes, i send a complain. That person with 4 star stuff was kind enough to answer my email with "I am just a newbie!!!" excuse. I'm not buying it. But nothing happened:-(
Somewhere out there, there is a player whose user name is "[Redacted]", and his trading business just dried up.
I was about to make that joke. Curses! You win this time...
It doesn't matter if this happened only to you or to everyone on the entire server. Maybe you didn't catch this the first time, so I'll go through it again.
There is NO POSSIBLE WAY to change a trade without the trade button needing to be pressed a second time. You CANNOT change the trade at the last second and thereby scam someone without both a delay AND the requirement of hitting "trade" again. THEREFORE, if a fair trade is changed "last second" to become a "scammed" trade, and you go through with it, you are either 1) NOT PAYING ATTENTION, or 2) STILL NOT PAYING ATTENTION. Both reasons of which are entirely YOUR FAULT ONLY.
Am I condoning what this guy is doing? No. But trying to lay all the blame on him is ridiculous. If he changes the trade out of nowhere, and you not ONLY wait out the delay that kicks in but ALSO click "trade" a second time, then I'm sorry, but you're either an idiot or you have no idea what you're doing. And anyone who clicked trade one time should ask themselves why they would need to click it again when they've already done it, assuming they have a few brain cells knocking together.
Long story short, you can't get scammed by this guy unless you let him.
Anytime the deal is changed, the "trade" button is disabled until the timer countdown has finished. In a game where rising CE costs are stonewalling new players, some of these new ones and some of the older ones looking to take advantage of the new ones will try scamming people. This is not one of them. If you press trade, and you see your arrow light up, and suddenly the arrow empties of white and you need to press trade again, you know the deal has been changed.
There's no way to change a deal at the last second without the other person knowing unless the other person is not paying attention, which is the fault of the other player for being stupid.