From my understanding it is risky receiving gold directly from another player because in the scenario their gold was acquired through a RMT you might also receive a penalty.
I am however wondering if I risk anything by giving a random player gold, possibly a player whom engaged in RMTs?
The reason I’m asking is because I’m looking to trade a level 9 cooldown gem and gold for a damage one.
I did ask support, but unfortunately the staff member did not bother to read the ticket before answering.
Right. That’s why literally everyone still sells gems in buses rather than accepting gold directly in trade. You should apply for a customer support position at AGS, you seem to be perfect for the role.
the values sent during busses are not enough to trigger any RMT detection systems in place anyway, you would be able to bus only people from your own server if you were using mail / personal trade, his reason is the prime one as to why this is the standard for busses
I can certainly believe it is the prime reason for using gems, however his “stop saying things you don’t understand” comes more from the forum warrior mentality than reasoning. Plenty of people thought or still think it is because of the risk of receiving gold which was obtained with a RMT. How do you think I came by this reason in the first place?
If people mean to say “Look, you got this whole thing wrong, you never get banned by trading with players which might have used RMTs. You can go ahead and give gold to anyone, including players which might have cheated, used RMTs, etc. and as long as you didn’t cheat in any way, you will be fine.” then why don’t they say it in an appropriate manner?
So long as you can confirm that there is no RMTed gold involved in your transaction there is nothing to be concerned about. If you are uneasy about it, be sure to document the transaction with screenshots.
There are a ton of threads about this popping up recently. They may or may not be true. In either case the number of reported cases of this are still very low compared to the total active population. You would either have to have dealt with RMTers or gotten very unlucky to be effected by it.
You can ignore the overly combative/defensive folks… no shortage of them here
It does baffle me that people choose to be like this.
Thank you for your answer, certainly very close to what I was looking for.
Indeed my gold is all obtained from gold activities. My worry was that if I give a random player gold and THEY rmted before or whatever else that breaks TOS, my account might get flagged for contact. You are correct in saying that the chances are low that the player I might trade with is actually an rmter, but if they check that account later and they see they got gold from me, just saying, they could wonder.
Yes, I realise this is a bit of an exaggerated worry, I don’t deny that, but I don’t understand why others are so so sure these issues are carefully checked by a real person and/or you don’t have to worry in these situations.
I won’t lie or try to gaslight you by saying that there is no risk at all, no one on these forums can say with 100% certainty that all reported cases are lying. Some of them do have very convincing cases with a good amount of evidence.
There may well be a risk involved. Though I would advise that people not let fear prevent them from playing the game.
You are not the only one. Many having invested thousands of hours and/or a ton of money into the game do not want to take even the tiniest risk with their accounts. Completely understandable.
It is a very complicated issue. Part of the problem is the massive disconnect between AGS and SGR. SGR being the ones who ultimately are responsible for developing the systems used for detection. But I won’t go into this here.
