Admin Notice: New in-game user commands allowed

[Baltar]

a non char based bank account would have an advantage and a disadvantage...

the current sanction system is mostly based on the one character that is affected. - so when a trader F1, he is sanctioned by having his money taken away from this char.

when a simple command can "store" the cash on a virtual char, - any trader might simply always put ALL his money onto that account, - its safe there... AND he would have a REAL excuse not to pay up pirates.... cause he would really not have cash at that time, on that char. ( or the other way round, pirates might demand a trader to draw cash from the shared account, which they "suspect" exists - even if the char might not have such a shared bank account ) - a lot of uncertainties there.

so - whos cash would be removed in the case of a sanction?
how can pirates pirate traders that have no cash on their char?

Answer to #1: Simple ... if they F1 in space take their ship and put them back in a starflea. Then they gotta spend the cash they woulda lost to buy their ship and equipment back. Not cheap ... the Whale is what ... 65,000 credits? Then add 15,000 for the armor upgrade and then the other miscellaneous mil or so for other equipment (shields, bats/bots, guns). Solution!

Answer to #2: Another simple one ... everybody's been complaining about pirates and their "2 mil or die" ... right? Well if there's no cash to be taken ... that leaves the cargo. So now pirates will start demanding enough to fill their holds. This me thinks will solve the OORP pirates out there. And by the way ... I typically only ask for 500k when its cash ... and on occasion I actually demand cargo. Solution!

have to second this, i got a trader or had one, whats trading if you got no pirates to entertain you or take revenge on or place bountys on

You'll have real pirates with the bank command cause they'll be demanding the cargo. :D

Another drawback of the bank command I can think of straight away:
traders might not actually HAVE that cash on them.
Or they do a quick transfer when they see a pirate coming.
It's gonna make pirates lives harder than it already is.

Edit: I didnt read the above four posts beforehand, but they say the same things.

MOST traders claim they don't have the cash anyway ... so how is this gonna change that. When traders make the "I don't have enough money" excuse ... I go for the cargo. NPCs demand 100% of the cargo anyway. I may just ask for what can fit my my cargo holds. But if you make me mad ... I'll demand the whole 100%.

Givecash, Bounty and Bank are all easily exploited.

A starflier docks with it's rules commodity and after editing the sell price, sells it for 1 billion. That starflier can use the givecash,bounty or bank command to transfer the cash to another character or account. While the server might detect this and kick the starflier when it undocks, taking away all the money it made and giving it back the commodity, the other characters will have the cash OR the starflier will have the cash it transfered. Odd how it works like that but it does.
Yes the server might detect this and the admins consequently ban the characters involved but that starflier could transfer cash to other characters manually etc and so break the papertrail as such. (Save for the logs showing some characters increasing in cash, which could be planned with a merc event next to it so to disguise it)

So yes, ye have been warned.
..God I could've been so rich..

The game as it is now is exploitable. Traders traveling through Sigma 13, Chugoku and Hokkaido with no NPC pirates/terrorists attacking them? There's your exploit. From the way I understand it ... a lot of modders get caught by the admins reviewing the logs anyway.

EDIT: Forgot to mention the traders who also have Bounty Hunter battle cruisers and battleships. Yeah ... they tend to camp in Sigma 13 when my Black.Pearl is about. Then when I'm gone ... they swap back to their trader and go about making their millions.