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I think that one feedback about making APRs be available in stacks of 10/100 might make more and more sense.

I know telling people to not drop trade is something we all 'consciously know' we should do, but when it comes to the 1 minute per 9 you might need 20 times for the 180 APRs you might be buying. That's a solid 15-20 minutes of time "wasted" doing a tedious task.

Yes good intentions are always nice, but I think looking into why people want to drop trade in the first is a good thought as well.

 

Thank you Heidi for letting us know. You don’t have to so I appreciate you for letting us know

 

By no means was that a blame at staff, they know a lot more than I possibly could about the inner workings of the game and it's code and I know things aren't a simple lift.

My point was more instead of blaming people, blame the problem and try to solve the problem. It's not an easy one to solve of course as you shared

But falling for a scam doesn't make someone a bad person, and yes you could do things better, and it doesn't give permission to scam because you can get away with it.


That said, maybe a new item like a B coin, that let's people trade it to an NPC that can be traded back for APRs? No clue how easy that might be....

 

Couldnt we add in a middle man currency similar to how we did with B coins to combat the need to drop aprs? Like say Person A wants to sell aprs. They buy 100 from the cash shop and take those to an npc and exchange the apr for a 100 coins/rocks/gems w/e currency that can only be bought with aprs. They can only be traded to another player or exchanged back to the npc and cannot be dropped or sold in a shop. Player b buys the 100 coins/rocks/gems with meso or B coins from Player A. Player A got their money they go off to live happily ever after not getting scammed. Player B goes to the same npc and exchanges those 100 coins/rocks/gems for aprs. Player B gets 100 aprs. No drop trading, no risk of scam.

Unless you want aprs to be hard to transfer because they're super common rwt'd items and you wanna be able to keep track of them easier. I may be overly simplifying a more complicated issue than I think it is. But i cant help but feel like there's gotta be something simple to solve the issue here

 

dude should just play a different game @_@

 

It's not really related to the blacklist tbh but I just wanna show appreciation to @Heidi for these comments and information.

Kudos to you, ma'am.

Pls accept this pepe of appreciation -

 

Maybe he played GMS and just enjoyed scamming that much in GMS (nostalgia). Hopefully this little irritating gnat moves on to another place where the consequences of luck testing this type of activity (scamming people) is a bit higher than "oops try again".

 

I would like to compile a sticky of a list of known scams. I see this with travelers around the world, common scams: i.e. the shoe-shine scam in a few countries, etc. So in Maple type games, you could have a sticky of current known scams somewhere: i.e. Do not drop trade with someone unless they can can demonstrate job 4 character (red flag). If scamming is persistent in Royals, this would be something to look into. I would enjoy it, I'm sure others would too.

On the other hand...
One would assume that no one scams, because if they do, they're completely bjorked. But if that's simply not the case due to this guy's depraved psychology, if the persistence extends, then it is not the case anymore. I think that's probably the information being intimated by the scammer: you're weird if you believe someone in the game, which has this invincible reputation against bad-actors, would possibly allow for this scamming, so why would you inconvenience us? Maybe the issue is just the awareness that while scams are almost impossible to happen, because of a depraved certain set of interests, it is still possible, even in Royals. That's possibly why this pattern is so effective. Maybe that's all that's needed to be known by everyone, rather than a compiled list of scams.

 

Third and final message: ip address bans, tracking the same person to make a ban on a person, is quite effective, given the goal of the person being building up "wealth" in MapleRoyals: given enough time, they will get caught. It's not effective, if a person gets a kick out of scamming rather than this other goal: not enough time could pass.

 

> So what do you do in your free time?
> Oh I swindle people in a private Maple server.
> Oh how long?
> The last ten years.
> Oh wow that's pretty neat. Wanna hang out?

 

@Fakemage deadbeat neverwas loser

 

Guess he's playing a whole different game from the rest of the community?

 

i said hello cake boss if he remembered it doesnt seem like he did lol

 

1. IGN: iviapleryan
2. REASON: leaving apq after 1st round
3. DETAILS: hit my boxes. told him to google elie map apq, didn't respond, just said im good thanks and left.

 

Alright, added.