Q:
How can buying and selling on the Trading Post be improved for the player, while still combating botters?
The reason I created this thread was due to a lot of complaints I see in these forums about the way the Trading Post works when buying and selling. I would like the community to come up with ideas to improve the functionality of the Trading Post regarding buying and selling of items, but keeping in mind, your idea needs to make it more difficult for botters than the current system.
The goal is to make it easier for the players and more difficult for botters. Please reply using the following format, or discuss other players’ ideas.
Format:
Idea:
How it combats botting:
(edited by Charismatic Harm.9683)
I guess I’ll start….
Idea: Keep the current system in place as it does somewhat combat botting by slowing it down, but add the following systems on top to speed things up for the players.
Buy Side: Give the ability to input user determined quantity up to any amount (as long as they have the gold to cover the buy order in their inventory) and add a CAPTCHA for buy orders over 250.
Sell Side: Give the user the ability to list all of the same item at once, but add a CAPTCHA for sell orders over 250. Also add a random CAPTCHA instead of having the “Error attempting to sell” every 10-15 listings.
How it combats botting: The current system isn’t changed. CAPTCHA is added to further hinder botters adding multiple listings or buy orders and the “Error attempting to sell” is replaced by the CAPTCHA so that it must be answered correctly before another sell listing can be made.
Not to take any attention away from your thread but I have my own thread full of ideas:
Not to take any attention away from your thread but I have my own thread full of ideas:
Your thread is only about improvements to the UI….not about improvements to the systems behind the UI that hinder player buying and selling, but are in place to combat botting.
I would like the community to provide specific examples about how to make these tasks easier or faster for the player, while making it more difficult for botters.
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