Personaly i drop trade all the time, I find it most efficant wen i need to trade things between me and the TBH bank. (Mainly give stuff to it) But when im in PvP i usualy like to cary around a card so that the winner can have some sort of reward:)
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However handy this is, Servers are starting to make this a bannable offence, two many players are creating new characters, droping the Card, tractoring then they do a new Character same name just with all new cash. it's farming, and although has it's good points, also has it's bad ones.
Question is, do the good points out weight the bad? On a good day
a player buys a freighter and works there way up, on the normal day the spend an hour farming for three times the profit, they would have made trading in a day. Ya all judge, Just giving ya my take on what Iv'e witnessed.
' Wrote:However handy this is, Servers are starting to make this a bannable offence, two many players are creating new characters, droping the Card, tractoring then they do a new Character same name just with all new cash. it's farming, and although has it's good points, also has it's bad ones.
Question is, do the good points out weight the bad? On a good day
a player buys a freighter and works there way up, on the normal day the spend an hour farming for three times the profit, they would have made trading in a day. Ya all judge, Just giving ya my take on what Iv'e witnessed.
Praetorian
XD This is funny, you get 8500 credits to start, and you can only make 5 chars. per server reset.
People make like 10 million in one trade run in many places... There isn't any point to it. Ah, it's called cloning by the way >.>
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Quote:XD This is funny, you get 8500 credits to start, and you can only make 5 chars. per server reset.
People make like 10 million in one trade run in many places... There isn't any point to it. Ah, it's called cloning by the way >.>
8500? what server dp you play on? if you look at the disco servers most range from 10 to 500 mill starting credits. yes the server only allowes five diff characters, however all need to make are two. For exapmle: "Player_one" and "PLayer" two diff characters. PLayer sits just off the docking ring at Manhatten.
Player_one is the cash getter, they start the Character, buy the card for example 100 mill, launch drop it, F1 out come in with PLayer, tracter and sell, ok no prob, the prob is they take the Character "Player_one" go to the change character menu, Delete the Character ok, select New Character use same name, load character and wa la, a brand new Character with 100 mill. as you see this is a big problem, the server does not reconize this as more then 5 characters, I have screenies of a player doing this, going from a level 4 to a level 80 in less them 30 minuets. depends on how much starting credits the server starts with, to make this profitable. there for the "Farming" this is one of the easest ways I have seen peeps use a bug since I started playing FL and that was several years and many mods ago. if there is a way to re work the code to prevent this from being abused like it is, Great. If not then peeps will continue to use this as an extreamly viable source of vast income with out haveing to earn a red Credit.
I can provide the screen shots to any who would like to see them. just send me a PM.
' Wrote:8500? what server dp you play on? if you look at the disco servers most range from 10 to 500 mill starting credits. yes the server only allowes five diff characters, however all need to make are two. For exapmle: "Player_one" and "PLayer" two diff characters. PLayer sits just off the docking ring at Manhatten.
Player_one is the cash getter, they start the Character, buy the card for example 100 mill, launch drop it, F1 out come in with PLayer, tracter and sell, ok no prob, the prob is they take the Character "Player_one" go to the change character menu, Delete the Character ok, select New Character use same name, load character and wa la, a brand new Character with 100 mill. as you see this is a big problem, the server does not reconize this as more then 5 characters, I have screenies of a player doing this, going from a level 4 to a level 80 in less them 30 minuets. depends on how much starting credits the server starts with, to make this profitable. there for the "Farming" this is one of the easest ways I have seen peeps use a bug since I started playing FL and that was several years and many mods ago. if there is a way to re work the code to prevent this from being abused like it is, Great. If not then peeps will continue to use this as an extreamly viable source of vast income with out haveing to earn a red Credit.
I can provide the screen shots to any who would like to see them. just send me a PM.
Praetorian
The Discovery RP server starts you out with 8500 credits, so that isn't really a problem. People aren't supposed to start out with enough cash to buy a cruiser or battleship... Which is the problem I see with drop-trading cash between characters.
' Wrote:8500? what server dp you play on? if you look at the disco servers most range from 10 to 500 mill starting credits. yes the server only allowes five diff characters, however all need to make are two. For exapmle: "Player_one" and "PLayer" two diff characters. PLayer sits just off the docking ring at Manhatten.
Player_one is the cash getter, they start the Character, buy the card for example 100 mill, launch drop it, F1 out come in with PLayer, tracter and sell, ok no prob, the prob is they take the Character "Player_one" go to the change character menu, Delete the Character ok, select New Character use same name, load character and wa la, a brand new Character with 100 mill. as you see this is a big problem, the server does not reconize this as more then 5 characters, I have screenies of a player doing this, going from a level 4 to a level 80 in less them 30 minuets. depends on how much starting credits the server starts with, to make this profitable. there for the "Farming" this is one of the easest ways I have seen peeps use a bug since I started playing FL and that was several years and many mods ago. if there is a way to re work the code to prevent this from being abused like it is, Great. If not then peeps will continue to use this as an extreamly viable source of vast income with out haveing to earn a red Credit.
I can provide the screen shots to any who would like to see them. just send me a PM.
Praetorian
Also, the admins here don't police other servers...
........Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;..........But when the blast of war blows in our ears,.....
........Or close the wall up with our English dead...........................Then imitate the action of the tiger;.................
........In peace there's nothing so becomes a man........................Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,.........
........As modest stillness and humility:........................................Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage!....
Dasher
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"Oh come on, slow and steady doesn't win any races, fast and steady does."
' Wrote:The Discovery RP server starts you out with 8500 credits, so that isn't really a problem. People aren't supposed to start out with enough cash to buy a cruiser or battleship... Which is the problem I see with drop-trading cash between characters.
-Drake
I think that the 2 character drop is perfectly OK...sure, there are those that DO abuse it, but it's the nature of the beast. I'm really getting into the whole RP thing, & my logic is: If one person has two characters, then that person has to take the tedious time to make the $$$, & if they RP the trader character as an investor proxy or something, then, well, there you go.
I figure my character has earned the money, & the right by now to shadow-finance a small trading company & recieve a small but regular pecentage.
' Wrote:However handy this is, Servers are starting to make this a bannable offence, two many players are creating new characters, droping the Card, tractoring then they do a new Character same name just with all new cash. it's farming, and although has it's good points, also has it's bad ones.
Question is, do the good points out weight the bad? On a good day
a player buys a freighter and works there way up, on the normal day the spend an hour farming for three times the profit, they would have made trading in a day. Ya all judge, Just giving ya my take on what Iv'e witnessed.
Praetorian
This is only a problem if the "said" server starts players with stupid amounts of cash, here on discovery you start with little and have to work your way up, like it should be.