Loaning credits idea

[Thyrzul]

Wait what? I thought scamming people ingame was sanctionable.

If player A gives player B money, and player B never returns it, there's nothing to do. Player A sent the cash. Trying to prove that B was scamming is just as hard as trying to prove that A sent the cash by accident. Hard to sanction something like that.

Ehh, not really. It's not that hard to screenshot visual evidence about the agreement, just like it's not that hard to screenshot visual evidence about the /givecash commands and their results (commonly used practice for transaction confirmation since like always). If you want to make sure there is plenty of publically visible evidence of the deal, you conduct it on the Marketplace. Furthermore, if you can do a search for the "scam" keyword in the sanction subforum, you can see a not too long list of matches of sanction and warning history, including even decade old sanctions and warnings related to scams and scam attempts.

To me it looks like scams aren't a too common, nor too rare occurrence to justify the existence of such anti-scam staff policies without adding too much extra work. That policy is also a guarantee/safety measure for loan providers dealing with unknown customers, such as starter players. Getting rid of that policy removes a scan deterrent and increases the risk of loans to unknown people, including newbies.

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