Should scamming be cheating?

[SÅTÅN 666]

Should it?..Vote...and post a reply why you voted it.

[Tivadar]

i voted yes cuz scammin is as bad/unfair as cheating and vice versa, so yeah

[[SGC_ReplicÅtors]]

i call it legal cheating cause forum even said you your judgement

[BELISKNER]

Scamming is not cheating and shouldn't be simply because it will make Admin's job 10 times harder.

Just be more vigilant.

[[DDE] Bastion]

Scamming isnt like hacking.... its not illegal

[[SGC_ReplicÅtors]]

Note that the function is to GIVE - not lend. If you GIVE resources to someone, the game administration has NO ability to return them to you. Place your trust wisely, or risk learning one of the lessons the cosmos can teach the hard way.


Note: This functionality was added because of many many many reports of 'scamming' on trades. Goods promised, not delivered. Payments sent, later canceled. Promises of future actions never taken, and so on. ALL official trades are made WITHIN the game. If you make trades outside of this market, the game administration takes NO responsibility for the results. All trades outside of this market are now considered 'black market' trades, and are protected by nothing - you open yourself up to the above mentioned scams that some people work very hard to lure other players into. Please use your judgement, and - if you take a risk and try to trade outside the game - be prepared to lose everything and accept it.


Buy From Black Market
This is the official black market. It is called such, since the trades involve an external to game resource ($$). The trades, here, though - are of course guananteed to be delivered.
The market is restocked from the regular market monthly, with limits per player on each resource.
This added feature is a further protection against 'scamming' on the unofficial black market, and once again it is stated that the game administration can and will do NOTHING against being scammed if you are trading outside the official markets.
You can buy any amount of one resource, or combination of resources, but the total amount of USD must be 10,20,30,40 or 50.
NOTE: prices rise and fall, as with any market.

[RobinInDaHood]

If you trade outside of official game channels, you run the risk of being scammed. It's unfortunate that people pray on the gullibility of others but I don't see how it's the game administration's problem to deal with it.

[Saber]

I voted no yes in ways it is like cheating but to enforce such a rule would only mean for to much work for the forum and that just isn't worth it.

[spasticinformation]

Its not cheating.

[Munchy]

I remember when I first started buying market turns, I was never scammed. I bought them for around 5-6 consecutive months, and I think I was scammed once. This was with people I had never met, and me being a newb.

Now, it seems that every person I trade with for mt's that doesn't have a million man army is a multi/scammer. (I know they are multies, because they only exist for a few days before deletion...) It is a shame, but is part of the game. I am just glad that they were not as common when I was smaller, and getting scammed would have actually hurt me.

The multi part is cheating, the scamming part is just dirty playing, and I would quickly mass several times over any player who did it to me(if they ever built up).

[timex]

Its not technically cheating, but could be a form off it...I don't like people the scam others though.

[da31fox]

Well I think it should be.
Its like lieing by omission, you dont techinaclly lie, but you dont tell the whole truth or story, you just leave out the part that would catch your lie.

[bryan]

no..... it was once.... but admin was just spending his entire day solving scamming issues

[[DDE] Bastion]

The multi part is cheating, the scamming part is just dirty playing, and I would quickly mass several times over any player who did it to me(if they ever built up).

You put it the best way

Cheating? No. Dirty? Yes

[Bad Wolf]

Its not cheating.

BW