However, it seems that with the merit requirements, users have stopped caring and have decided to farm Jr. Member accounts. A lot of them.
People were already really just farming Juniors because that's all they needed to join bounties. To maximise profits they just created dozens of them and this was big business hence why we needed some merit requirement to stop this abuse. It's been made a little harder now but one merit still isn't much and is too easy to abuse, hence why I think we should make it ten.
And this is essentially a form of merit selling (users wait 2 to 4 weeks in this case).
I believe that the account-trading community/market isn't actually too interested in Hero/Legendary accounts (for now).
I believe that the account-trading community/market isn't actually too interested in Hero/Legendary accounts (for now).
Well they don't really have a choice. 'Farming' high ranked accounts in any significant number has become practically impossible. Nobody is going to waste 1.4 years trying to farm Heroes, especially when the chances of them getting the merit is going to be incredibly difficult. The only people who will become Heroes now are those that are committed to just one or two accounts and can make great posts. Prior to the merit system any shitposter who had the time and energy could farm as many accounts as they liked because as long as you made the shitposts over time then you'd hit the rank eventually. Farming accounts industrially is out of the question now really, but shitposting with Juniors and Member ranks isn't.
