I'm sure the staff wants to keep track of what every pirate trades with another... I don't think you all see the DRAMA effect it will have. >_>
"Oh he's cheating they know each other! How do you know it's not an alt!"
"I did not mean to trade that! Give it back!"
"Was that a fair deal, what is the value of weapons!?
I gave my Skullbone Repeat for Admiral's Cutlass"
So on and so forth...
I feel the need to say this, as it applies to any aspect of the game. When it comes to this game, we take moderation seriously. If trading was to be implemented, I'm sure we'd discuss the moderation aspects as we would with anything.
That being said, let's try not to bash something because of the potential moderation aspects. That's for us to worry about, and is something we can take care of easily.
Alright so since the staff are actually hanging out in this thread I want you to consider something very important. Open trade would be cool. I'll admit that. What wouldn't be cool is people farming Famed and Legendaries as well as gold to sell them for IRL $. This happen in EVERY MMO WITH TRADE. Give an open trade system and it will happen to TLOPO. What happens then, you might ask. The whole project gets shut down because people are making money off of Disney's assets. You've stated this will be free forever, and have made good on that promise, but the problem that you're inviting isn't solved simply. People in WoW have been doing it for years, because who's to discern what a legitimate transaction is. Instead of thinking about pleasing the players short term with the trading system, you should be focusing on the long term goal of keeping the game up and running so people can enjoy it to begin with. I'm not saying scrap trading entirely, but for open trade to happen would be an atrocity.
Instead I propose a system in which you can trade items of the same rarity and that's it. Your friend got a duplicate Vipers Den and you have a duplicate Scoundrels pistol? Go ahead and trade. Don't let gold be traded, this just promotes people selling in game currency for cash. Just keep it on a rarity to rarity level and not much can go wrong. Anything else could lead to nothing short of total disaster.
TLOPO will never charge a fee, subscription, or any other form of monetary value to have access to the full games experience. Anyone who tries to charge for anything related to TLOPO is a scam, and any loss or damage accrued by use of such services is the responsibility of the user and not TLOPO.
https://tlopo.com/help/terms/
The Terms of Service specifically say that anyone who tries to charge you for anything related to TLOPO, is scamming you.
I highly doubt Disney would shut a game down because of people unaffiliated with us doing something like that. We have stated it would be free forever, and it will be, because
WE ARE NOT CHARGING ANYONE. If someone is asking you to give them money for anything in this game, IT IS A SCAM.
If people wish to sell things for real-life money, they should be aware this violates the Terms of Service and will always be a scam in TLOPO's eyes. We do not affiliate with those who sell ANYTHING for real-life money.
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I'm largely staying out of the debate, but when it comes to moderation you guys should not worry. As for trading, if it were to be implemented, it's not really worth getting upset over. It's standard practice for an MMO to have trading, simple as that - and as anyone who's in game design can tell you, there's a reason game genres have standard models that most everyone follows.
In other words, chill, we know nothing about this other than a random
6 second video. We don't even know if it's happening! There's no reason to get so riled up.
Although, I would like to point out that there were a lot of complaints about The Queue as well, but that turned out to be pretty great after small tweaks were made. The same thing happened with Ship AI, the complaints rolled in too early, and died down once everyone adjusted. Not to be a broken record, but this has become a common trend -
give something a chance to breath a bit before trying to smother it at the very least. It is rarely as bad as you think, give yourself time to adjust first.
That being said, I personally would love to see this in the game, and hope it is implemented.