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Originally Posted by Gallenite For EQ2, unless it's a purchase on an Exchange server via the Exchange service, we do remove it from buyers as the rest of the chain from farmer/botter->mule->seller gets banned.
"The integrity of the game" can manifest itself in lots of different ways.
To a gaming purist, it has one meaning.
To others, it can just mean, "I'm not going to support those idiots training the dungeons and trying to swipe nameds from others, so they can fill the coffers of (insert site name here)." That's exactly where the majority of the external coin comes from.
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I dunno about that in EQ2. Obviously you have acces to more information that don't but it doesn't match my obervations in game as a player. The biggest time sink players face in EQ2 is tradeskill related. Raiders and casuals alike all want their adept 3 spells and pre T7 they wanted the top crafted gear. So many players are faced with spending hours farming the rares or buying gold online to get all adept 3s so they could go raid full power.
As a result of that, most of the known farmers will harvest the rares and most people know who these farmers are. As a player of the game with multiple level 60+ I have earned a ton of plat myself. Even with a full group or solo I can't farm named for a good profit. If I want to earn money I would go harvest moonstones on fear isle or something like that.
This was a big reason why T7 harvesting was designed so it couldn't be botted/easily farmed like T6 was.
Sure harvesting doesn't produce the coin but it accumulates the coin, and fast. Rare item dropsalso don't produce gold at all. And you don't get enough tradeable ones to actully make good money from it. Farming aviaks for gold on the other hand does produce coin, as does vendoring other junk. Which is also a very good way to 'farm' gold.
The last means of accumulating gold which is popular amung farmers is farming collection items which can be done at the same time as the 2 previous mentioned methods(TS items and just mass grinding solo mobs for coin drops). It is a way to accumulate the coin on the server.
I'd say the secondary market has very little to do with people stealing named in EQ2, which is a nice thing.
