[Discuss] Abuse of Recommendations

[Tom]

On 02/15/2008 11:30 PM, Dominic wrote:
> >b) abuse of recommendations
> >Make a list of all adventurers around, sell the same item back and 
> >forth. Frankly, how much more obviously can you be abusing a game 
> >function? Do I have to add game-mechanics restrictions now to prevent 
>
> >that? We have a few cases under investigation and their accounts will 
> >probably be locked.
>
> Funny you say that, the issue came to the IRC channel a few days ago. 
> Though it obviously seemed wrong and an abuse to everyone, we came out 
> thinking it was acceptable, since we had reports about Arcane doing 
> *precisely* that, and, hey, if a GM does it, you'd expect it's 
> acceptable, no?

Your information is incomplete. The Daimons have supplied a few(!) 
unique items to adventurers who were of... service. I can't say more 
without ruining several plots.

But, among other things, it wasn't the same item being traded back and 
forth half a dozen times. And it wasn't freebies, the adventurers 
actually had to do something for the honour. In scale, implementation 
and intention, these cases are not identical.