Posts made by Jetah

@Tuoni said in Anti-Hack/Cheat/Bot:

@Jetah Fractured for example has a lot of different kind payment methods (thanks for Xsolla). Every gaming company has a possibility to take wide range of payment methods for use if they just want to. This is also reasonable, because making payment easier will increase sales. Business engines, like Xsolla, are available for every company so there is no need to have only credit card option. Also PayPal is used very widely as one option.

and you pay 20% more by using gift cards! I know I've used them and it was a pain.

but you need your login info on paypal and it can be tied to your bank account, thus making it prime place to try stolen login info!

@Xzoviac said in Trading, In-game market:

@Jetah said in Trading, In-game market:

it depends on the planet you're on. the Beast planet will no very little pvp so very little removal of gear via full loot pvp. however, there will be a decay of gear over time that'll mean you'll eventually replace your gear.

honestly there's so little information on crafting and the last spotlight was July of last year!

I missed Decaying gear was that in a spotlight?

i thought it was, i'd have to search it.

we need another in depth Spotlight, which we haven't had for 14-ish months! yeah the pills are neat but they don't really give us anything to converse about.

i'm at a point where i'd like to know more details about crafting. or more details about systems.

@Pwnstar

you're right, but to never use a bank in fear of someone taking the encrypted information is pretty stupid. sure you can be a full cash person but you can forget about every buying something online. eventually cash will be removed and it'll be digital all the way.

@Tuoni said in Anti-Hack/Cheat/Bot:

@Jetah Usually in games you have other payment methods available too and credit card is not the only option. If credit cards are a mandatory, scammers then knows about this as well and there will be more credit card info phishers for sure.

sometimes. most big publishes have gift cards but independent dont always get that option. unless that indie is on steam and you're able to use the steam wallet which is a pre-paid system.

people dont get credit cards because of a specific game is out, they're constantly after new card info so they can sell it to those that steal from companies.

it depends on the planet you're on. the Beast planet will no very little pvp so very little removal of gear via full loot pvp. however, there will be a decay of gear over time that'll mean you'll eventually replace your gear.

honestly there's so little information on crafting and the last spotlight was July of last year!

@Thwunk
yet FRACTURED will have a subscription which means the CC info would need to be saved. This happens more than you think because the publishers want easy spending. there are few games where you can not save your info. even Black Desert Online has a KYC system which caused me to not buy the game for 10$.

@Althalus
i dont believe DS or other game (companies) are BANKS. Again, them needing encryption and using it are completely different systems.

@Tuoni
Here in the States, we have prepaid gift cards (some are visa enabled) and prepaid credit cards. usually having one means the account holder is 18+.

How does scamming increase when you're required to show gov ID? Sure you can get a fake card but if the company cant verify the card then the account isnt created and the scammer can't scam. Most fraudulent purchases are done with stolen credit cards anyways.

@Althalus said in Anti-Hack/Cheat/Bot:

@Jetah said in Anti-Hack/Cheat/Bot:

the gov ID would be better but even those can be forged. unless the company does a KYC it's easy to bypass.

the only people asking for credit card info/ gov id would deter are legitimate players... I have NO intention of handing over my credit card details or even worse my Government ID to random game companies tyvm... with all the hacking and identity theft thats been happening no game is worth putting my personal info at risk....

so you'll never buy a game or buy from a cash shop? as long as the info is encrypted it's fine but whether they encrypt is another story.

DAoC had guild crest on capes and shields, which was neat but it wasn't an isometric view game. I'd assume colors and patterns would be better suited for isometric but I could see DS allowing 'custom guild crest' as a cash shop purchase (within the visual of the game/lore).

@Gothix

credit cards are easy to get.

the gov ID would be better but even those can be forged. unless the company does a KYC it's easy to bypass.

@Xzoviac

this is what people dont understand about bots. there isn't a genre they can't handle.

@Gothix said in Anti-Hack/Cheat/Bot:

I always imagined some mmo, where you could only gain in game gold by doing a challenging group content (that includes group tactics and isn't easy to do). Outside of group content, you could still craft and stuff, but you would need mats and gold from group content to do that.

If you were a solo player and didn't wish do a group content, you could still be a crafter, and accept mats and gold from other people (as a fee) to craft for them.

In this way bots couldn't just randomly farm mobs or do automatized mundane tasks to farm gold. Of course, there could still be "live players" that farm gold for living... but at least bots would be dealt with.

so you're saying if you want to solo you have craft? you can't solo chop a tree, you'd need a group. you can't solo pick flowers for potions, you'd need a group. if you wanted cotton, need a 40 person raid for the flowers.

come on.

only true way to stop bots are to prevent trading. then you have to prevent account sharing. there's always a way to pay someone else to get the things you want.

@Gothix

then no magic. got it.

@Kralith

2007 - pre first expansion is called Vanilla.
2019 release of (whichever year) v1.12 vanilla is called Classic.

@Esher

there's paid or free DLC. I can't see a developer deciding to put a whole amount of weapons, knowledge and whatever else behind a paywall.

i believe they'd make more putting in great cosmetics in the shop and allowing free players to obtain them in some way.
IE lets say the VIP is 9.99 a month. have the free user trade gold for a shop token that grants 9.99 (or whatever amount) to the account. the shop token can cost a user 15. limit the sales of the token to a marketplace UI with no seller information. dont allow any gifts of the token. These are the best ways i know to prevent trading items for cash via a token.

I played BDO (Black Desert Online) for 2 weeks and noticed they had a method of putting an offer up on cash shop items. if someone purchased the shop item and sold it the system would randomly pick someone from the preorders to 'win' the item.

@Xzait

it's a game. you create reasons for it. north might be cold. Russian ethnic. middle is hot and lots of sun, African ethnic. etc. there could be islands that introduce new ethnics.

maybe the items were diverse before the Fracture, maybe those items were found buried somewhere. then reproduced.

the humans have lore created that they're inventors. who knows.

@Pluto
I wouldn't mind having a few ethnics, especially those lesser unknown ones.

@Pwnstar said in Anti-Hack/Cheat/Bot:

@Jetah I'm playing an MMO called Arcfall. It doesn't have one.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/623310/Arcfall/

and its pretty easy to find cheats for it, whether they work or not i'm not sure because i refuse to try them.

@00

depends really. WoW has plenty of bots because they know they'll make more than they'll spend. that and they'll use compromised accounts to advertise.

@Specter
If the team can track every time traded then it'd be easy to find the accounts doing the work vs just the trade and advertising accounts. i know you wont admit if you can and that's fine.

So. i'm looking up the history of the hand fan and...

The origin of the hand fan is quite uncertain. Thanks to artistic representations we know that, around 3000 b.C. fans were used by Egyptians. Egyptian fans were big, fixed, and semicircular shaped, made with feathers and with long handles. They had double function: blowing air and scaring away insects. Also it was a sacred instrument, used in religious ceremonies. Greeks and Romans used fans, too. The most famous was the "Flabellum" that in the middle Ages was used during the Christian liturgy.

https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/blogs/history-of-the-hand-fan

Seems the folding hand fan was invented in either China or Japan (maybe both around the same time). In the 1500's the folding hand fan was taking to Europe via trade routes.

Based on that, I don't see any reason to say they're Asian specifically.

Within Fractured, I can see the humans creating them and the Demons stealing the design and Beastkin trading for it. However, I do love the idea of ethnic DLC content that adds different styles of game play and cosmetics. I wouldn't be against an Asian content patch. Being Fractured is a community, maybe the community could vote on which ethnic to release then create lore in how it's added to the game.

name any online game that doesn't have one.

@Kralith said in Fractured Content Pills - Week 37, 2019:

@Jetah Pffff... okay, Vanilla then

right now Classic exist and Retail. so to state the game before TBC then you have to say vanilla other saying classic means the 2019 recreation of the 2007 game.

@Farlander said in Pet system can be based on UO or Daoc?:

Maybe train them to fight with armor or become mounts. Mix of cosmetics and a small defense adjustment

I'd be OK with mounts fighting too. give some risk and reward for them.