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Character transfers and employment history idea
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Blastcaps Madullier
Handsome Millionaire Playboys
Sedition.
#1 - 2012-02-19 22:11:29 UTC
one thing thats been bothering me for a while, is when you look at someones employment history there's nothing to show you that the char has at any stage changed hands via the char- bazzar. and well some people buy use and then sell chars after doing somewhat unsavory things ie scamming, corp theft etc etc, then sell the alt on the char bazzar, new owner then gets it in neck from others beliving it to still be the same PLAYER etc.

the suggestion is for on the employment history every time the char gets sold have something like "Concord mental reeducation Bureau" as an entry to show ingame that the char has been sold on the character bazzar, cause lets face it if you've just lost 2 bil+ of assets/isk etc to a "assets relocation expert" aka scammer, are you really going to them when they say "I bought the char on the character bazzar..." having a simple entry on the employment history shows straight off the bat the char HAS BEEN sold on the char bazzar but doesn't reveal from who to who etc and saves anyone who does buy a char thats been used in that kinda scheme/purpose a lot of grief from the last players actions with that character.
mxzf
Shovel Bros
#2 - 2012-02-19 22:42:18 UTC
I will admit that some indicator of the fact that it was sold and the date of the transfer definitely wouldn't be a bad thing at all. Sounds like a simple and fairly clean way to indicate that.
Blastcaps Madullier
Handsome Millionaire Playboys
Sedition.
#3 - 2012-02-19 23:58:37 UTC
plus with it in the employment history like that it's in keeping with the idea of the employment history
Blastcaps Madullier
Handsome Millionaire Playboys
Sedition.
#4 - 2012-02-22 13:12:25 UTC
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Jint Hikaru
OffWorld Exploration Inc
#5 - 2012-02-22 17:16:47 UTC
If you believe that an entry in the characters history saying it has been transfered means the char is now 'safe' then you are seriouisly going to be scammed a lot more often.

All your proposal would mean is that scammers could 'launder' their characters, and claim they are now inocent.


I guess I dont really oppose your idea, would be interesting to see how often and when a char is transfered, but a known scammer will always be a known scammer to me, however many times it is 'sold'.

If an innocent player buys a scamming character, then it sucks to be them for not doing enough research before buying!

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Shandir
EVE University
Ivy League
#6 - 2012-02-22 20:42:25 UTC
Whilst it doesn't in any way clear the character's negative reputation - it does allow someone to check if a known positive reputation is still valid.
Also it would let you see how much character trade is going on, etc. Interesting information and useful for a corp to know.
Buzzy Warstl
Quantum Flux Foundry
#7 - 2012-02-23 12:14:54 UTC
I can't "Like" this more than once, so have some more visibility.

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Blastcaps Madullier
Handsome Millionaire Playboys
Sedition.
#8 - 2012-02-26 18:46:29 UTC
Jint Hikaru wrote:
If you believe that an entry in the characters history saying it has been transfered means the char is now 'safe' then you are seriouisly going to be scammed a lot more often.

All your proposal would mean is that scammers could 'launder' their characters, and claim they are now inocent.


I guess I dont really oppose your idea, would be interesting to see how often and when a char is transfered, but a known scammer will always be a known scammer to me, however many times it is 'sold'.

If an innocent player buys a scamming character, then it sucks to be them for not doing enough research before buying!



ideas so in game you can see a chars been sold and the entry on the employment history is still in keeping with the employment history as well, ofc it's no guarenty etc, it just shows 1 the char been sold and 2 means you can doing a lot more digging fast web wise, sometimes its knowing the questions to ask more than anything else :)
Tidurious
Blatant Alt Corp
#9 - 2012-02-26 22:23:10 UTC
Remove character bazaar. Problem solved. Really, it's just pay-to-win, which is ******** and will slowly kill the meaning of having a well trained char...
Tekashi Kovacs
Golfclap Inc
#10 - 2012-02-26 22:57:37 UTC
Tidurious wrote:
Remove character bazaar. Problem solved. Really, it's just pay-to-win, which is ******** and will slowly kill the meaning of having a well trained char...


Lol, first time ever I agree with Tidurious. At the same time I agree with OP, wtf?