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Old 08-21-2014, 12:24 PM
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Is consideration being given to a scenario like the Casinos in Luclin where you could win a Gold Ticket and turn it in for a chance at a guise or other (mostly worthless) items?
No, not at this time. I believe even items which provide aesthetic effects are not worthless.
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Old 08-21-2014, 12:58 PM
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I believe even items which provide aesthetic effects are not worthless.
I don't believe they're worthless either. I'd pay a million for the fireworks staff, too!
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Old 08-21-2014, 01:22 PM
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Old 08-21-2014, 02:54 PM
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lol typical american style rulemaking, people too dumb to take care of themselves so big brother needs to step in. sad.
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Due to numerous issues resulting from player run casinos and to reflect similar policies enacted on Live during classic, as well as other MMORPG's, we have decided to prohibit the operation, advertisement, or use of "casinos", including, but not limited to, dice rolls, card games, "guessing" games, and any other form of gambling. Please use your best discretion when determining what constitutes "gambling".

We hope that this change will make for a safer trading community and help protect the players on our server. In the future we may add gambling NPC's to provide a safe, server friendly way to gamble here on Project 1999, but for the time being there will be no sanctioned gambling on either server.

Violation of these rules will result in immediate account discipline. There will be no exceptions and no second chances. We will provide a 24 hour grace period from the creation of this post to allow our players to adjust to the new rules.
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Old 08-21-2014, 03:26 PM
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ya but GM this is leik rosa park n congris n holokoss rapped n 1!!

u cant do this u FUKKS u wil RIGRET
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Old 08-21-2014, 04:16 PM
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Umm I have to disagree.... as someone put if the risk is greater than the reward people probably wont be on either end of the curb. What is giving the real life value to plat? The LIMITED access to resource plat. If you make plat worth $5 per every 100k or 1 million plat.. I highly doubt someone is going to be buying or selling plat (or items) anytime soon.. Risk is greater than the reward... so it's possible..
This makes me irrationally angry that someone could think that changing the supply of plat will have ANY effect on the amount of RMT transactions taking place. The GM's dont *MAKE* plat worth a certain dollar value, players do that. Pretend you can buy 1k plat for $1, and with that 1k plat you can buy a.... I don't know, a bone chip. Now say the devs do something to make plat 10x easier to obtain. In Silly-Logic-Land that would discourage plat buyers because that 1k plat only goes 10% as far as it did before the change, so they would not want to spend $10 on it to buy that same bone chip. In Reality-Land, where Derubael lives, people would now charge 10k plat for the bone chip, and plat sellers would now sell 10k plat for $1 (having absolutely NO EFFECT on the illegal activities the GMs are seeking to eliminate.)
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Old 08-21-2014, 04:31 PM
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In Reality-Land, where Derubael lives, people would now charge 10k plat for the bone chip, and plat sellers would now sell 10k plat for $1 (having absolutely NO EFFECT on the illegal activities the GMs are seeking to eliminate.)
This put a smile on my face and made me snicker on a day where smiles have been hard to find [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] thank you.

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"Can someone tell me what the big issue with RMT? Is it a legality issue, fear the server might get shut down, because people are making money, or is it just a GM rule that strongly enforce? I'm guessing it's fear that SOE will come shut down the server".
This question has been answered many times in the past. No one is calling you an idiot, though if you are interested in finding your answers there was a massive RMT ban wave back in March, with a news an announcement post to go along with it, that should have some answers. There's a bunch of reasons why we don't allow it (and why every MMORPG ever has made the buying and trading of in-game items for real world currency against the rules - some just enforce it more than others).

As an aside, I'm still not sure what this petition you are referring to is. There was never, to my knowledge, any kind of petition or poll. This was something we decided privately in a GM meeting the night the ruling came down.
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Old 08-21-2014, 04:44 PM
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ya but GM this is leik rosa park n congris n holokoss rapped n 1!!

u cant do this u FUKKS u wil RIGRET
You've been red too long Yums, that yellow chat spam constantly pissing on your head has turned your brain into artificially-flavored banana jello.

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Old 08-21-2014, 04:58 PM
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my brian is broken

BROKEN

Seriously though I'd be all over these people regardless of degradation to my pea-sized brain. Rosa Parks. LOL
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Old 08-21-2014, 05:09 PM
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Ha ha i rage quit after i lost my 2nd CoF and 3rd Fungi in under 2 months.... i payed out over 380k in prizes before that.. I attempt to log back in next day after i cooled off. I appologized to the guy and arranged to pay him his reward in a PM. I see my account is banned. I read all the threads about it and see that my ban is due to defrauding another player... I totally agree with that decision... I was a mental wreck when i /q'ed on that guy and I deserve what happened... i didnt "scam" anyone but him.. i didnt attempt to "scam" anyone before him... it was just a moment of weakness.

Im sorry to all involved if i had a hand in ending the EQ gambling scene...

ALTHOUGH... everything i have read about this leads me to conclude that my specific scenario is being used by staff to take your gambling privilege away... NOT because gambling, in and of itself, has caused grief to the community beyond the annoyance of having to filter your chat window. But, because it has made it harder to detect RMT.. taking away a beautiful layer of the game for no reason other than that they are understaffed and over worked.

I guess i can understand that to some degree... and in other ways i cant understand that at all.

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