what you say makes no sense
because the same scammers you name
are the same as I see them now
There is only one way of preventing scammers, consisting of two things.
1) Limit the amount of simultanous trades one can setup to 2 or 3 at any given time
2) Observe the trades people setup and whenever someone sets up something fishy, ban them from further trading, on first attempt for a day or two, 2nd attempt a week or two, third attempt permanent
#1 is no problem at all, the current version already has that although the number is too high
#2 will be a problem for jamboom, because he doesn't have the time to do that
The biggest problem in this might be that the site itself is offering the biggest scams, giving unexperienced users the impression that crystals and cards might be worth way more than they are.
In the shop there's an offer to buy 1000 crystals for 6,500 sat, while in the market 1000 crystals for 50 sat is already overpriced.
In the shop there's an offer to buy 10 gold cards for 3,200 sat, while in the market 10 gold cards for 50 sat is already overpriced.
Either way a trade token isn't the solution, because that only prevents new users from trading as soon as most of the tokens have been picked off the map, while specifically new users will want to trade right on start, to get some crystals and cards.
Hi Thomasio,
Logical and Cartesian, as usual
So, about what I can answer now:
1. Yer trade token has been set for limiting abuse in the market. For now it's certainly clumsy, but it works. I rather prefer a market with small amount, but fair offers, than a market overloaded of scam and ridiculous offers. OK, it's not perfect, but I think its a good start to work with.
2. I've worked some hours yesterday on something I should have done since a while; start of a moderation system in CMG. Until now, I was moderating EVERYTHING with me and myself. And, like you said, I don't have the time... I might take it, but during this time, who's gonna improve the game etc etc.
Now what I've set up allow me to delegate to moderators the possibility to 1) Check the market for unconsistent offers, cancel it and eventually ban the player is necessary. 2) Moderate the ingame support and provide answers to users in a better and faster way. This second point also mean that soon enough, ingame support will be open back to other demands than purchase issues, like bug report, help, etc.
I will also add more way to get trade tokens. The necessity to use something rare to create an offer is a psychological need to have quality offer into the market place. I agree that it might not be necessary for the reverse side - Complete an existing offer - I'm still thinking about it.
3. Shop offers might be adjusted to a lower price soon. I still need to redesign almost all of it to fit the new design version, as you certainly have noticed.
I think I can use this post as News on CMG if you don't mind
Best regards,
Jamboom, CMG owner.