(edited by Dark.1208)
Need for a Trial System
I approve of this idea. The game should have a trial for friend’s of players.
- If person referred is banned for gold spamming during trial, so is referee
No. Just. Don’t.
Collective punishment is not a good approach to deter this behavior as your friends or whosoever can try to get you banned out of spite. Instead, permanently remove the referral privileges.
Trial Accounts will come, see reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2aryqt/datamining_upcoming_features_from_entanglement/
- If person referred is banned for gold spamming during trial, so is referee
No. Just. Don’t.
Collective punishment is not a good approach to deter this behavior as your friends or whosoever can try to get you banned out of spite. Instead, permanently remove the referral privileges.
Hmm.. I guess that’s a good point.
Trial Accounts will come, see reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2aryqt/datamining_upcoming_features_from_entanglement/
Thanks for that info. I don’t follow reddit and didn’t find anything off a quick Google search. Surprised they already put the text into the game already. Is the no team part supposed mean they can’t join a party or something else?
Anyways… if the trial system they’re planning is really coming then I guess it really defeats the purpose of this thread unless they want to take some of my ideas and combine it with what they already have to improve it.
(edited by Dark.1208)
- If person referred is banned for gold spamming during trial, so is referee
No. Just. Don’t.
Collective punishment is not a good approach to deter this behavior as your friends or whosoever can try to get you banned out of spite. Instead, permanently remove the referral privileges.
What kind of friend do you have ?
What kind of friend do you have ?
I suppose he may have one who may be clueless, or careless or otherwise just plain dumb. He may be a friend of a friend, or a clan-mate from another game or a friend on some social media site, as in not a real-life friend but someone you kinda know who asks you for a trial invite.
Anyway, that’s not the point; the point is that people shouldn’t be held responsible for other people’s actions.
Problem with trial is that Gold Sellers use them also.
People will see an uptick in gold spamming.
Another problem is a trial person can be hacked and the account used to sell gold. That gold seller can then get the account banned, leading to the original referring person being sanctioned.
Trial accounts are usually limited in their interaction with full members. Often times, they can’t trade/mail, as a way to hedge out their influence on the economy.
Problem is, goldspammers can use free accounts to whisper/map chat against TOS with very little consequence.
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Trial accounts are usually limited in their interaction with full members. Often times, they can’t trade/mail, as a way to hedge out their influence on the economy.
Problem is, goldspammers can use free accounts to whisper/map chat against TOS with very little consequence.
You could deny them map chat privileges, and even deny them whisper priveleges to accounts that haven’t added them or something. Its a trial account, so some restrictions are normal i suppose, especially to avoid active problems like this.
I don’t care about gold sellers, they are easily blocked.
However, I do think trial accounts should not be allowed to enter WvW. Too much griefing occurs during trial weekends by actual players getting trial accounts on enemy servers and making WvW a mess.
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OP, +100 to the whole idea!
To avoid the gold sellers problem, you can do that trial accounts can’t send pms to anyone besides their referer, and that can’t use map chat. Party chat and guild chat are ok.
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