Guild Wars 2

If so, I’m imagining someone in bright colours skipping about the landscape altruistically transforming ambients of all varieties into candy corn for the benefit of others.

That or an organised group of people willing to pay the owner of the beta char afterwards.

(I own less than a single stack of maize balm, and this would probably be considered an exploit if it works.)

remember, the value of the ToT bags is only what other players put on them. ANet has fully supported farming through them in the past, and one weekend of maize farming wouldn’t break the economy wide open – plus you’d have to have acquired all those balms on your main anyway, and any bags you personally get will not be in main circulation since beta characters can’t interact with the TP/non-beta accounts.

You can use anything that’s in your bank, from whenever the snapshot of your bank is created.

What would be the point? You can’t keep any loot you get.

RoseofGilead.8907:

What would be the point? You can’t keep any loot you get.

Maize balm is somewhat unique in that it also gives other people loot at the expense of consuming the item, so you could use however many of them you put in the bank to let other people loot trick-or-treat bags without your maize balm actually getting consumed. This indirectly bypasses the restriction on beta characters of not being able to interact with normal ones.

It don’t imagine it wouldn make much of impact on the economy, but I think something similar happened with wvw blueprints initially, and they temporarily stopped you from dropping them to combat it.