Gear transferring, another topic on shared banks!

[Fuzzi]

So last night I was on my brother's account to consolidate gear and money. Now, yesterday I was caught by Derubael, and I am not going to complain cause this guy helped me out a few days ago, and I got the hammer. I know a lot of people do what I am describing and I am sure the GMs know as well, but what are our options?

Sure, we can continue to try and pull the wool over the eyes of the GMs and possibly get caught and lose everything. They are completely justified to do it too, it is against the rules to box. This is obviously a no-go.

We can ask a friend to hold our stuff. Completely legal, no mess unless your friend turns into a jerk all the sudden. So why don't we all just do this?! It is great, right? Well what if we didn't come to p99 with a friend to play with? Or you are like me and you are not social enough/play intermittently? This just isn't an option that is available to everyone. . like me. ='(

Oh well.

Or we can take the route that is EVERYONE'S favorite, ask a complete stranger! Yaaaaay I love to lose all my money and gear! Yeah, I am not going to dwell on this, it is simply not an option.

We can also do the good old drop trading. Much classic, so ease. Except you lose the option to give an alt some start up capital and you risk losing all your stuff. We all remember the days of coin dropping and why it was removed, but in case you don't here is a reminder.

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/story.html?story=304

It was never because they hated the mechanic, it was because of scammers and trolls dropping copper coins all over the place. I agree with the inability to drop coins on this server cause this server has a tendency to contain a few trolls. all in all this option isn't an awful one. If I really wanted to drop come coin on the toon, I could buy a gem, drop that with the gear and voila! Money and gear! My complaint is that it just isn't safe.

We can also look at the completely non-classic feature of varied raid spawn time- oops wrong mechanic, I meant to say shared banks. I don't see an issue with this becoming an option other than people becoming red in the face as they explain that it is a non-classic feature. But on live I could use a second account when this was still being thought up. I know it is probably one of those very buggy things that the higher powers haven't wanted to touch and I would understand that if that is in fact what the real issue was. From what I understand and have read though, the issue is just that they don't want to implement the feature on the moral high ground of classic features. The way I see it is it would be a benefit to the server, it is a safe way to transfer both money and gear that isn't breaking the rules.


Now, I want to add that while I probably sound like a whiny person who just got caught, I don't intend it to. Like I said at the beginning the GM that got me, Derubael, helped me out the other day by getting a rotted corpse recovered. He was a very nice guy and I am glad it was him that got me.