(08-27-2016, 06:14 AM)Valence Wrote: What if someone, say, started to put up PF ads asking to buy a house 'please contact me yadayada'. And then systematically reported the sellers showing up, mh?
Just a thought.
They do this already but there is nothing to report? No one gets banned unless something is relinquished and gil is exchanged. I guess they might get a slap on the wrist but keep this in mind, it is also against the rules to buy as well as sell.
There's a reason the reddit for Balmung is so dry. Everyone tries to bait people. Barely any houses are moving at all but boy when they do.. 175mil for the last medium house in the mist I saw sold. (I actually knew of the fella who bought it. Grabbed my head and went WHY OH GOD WHY to the guy who bought, but it was something he REALLY wanted..) That's what happens when this kind of stuff goes down. It went further into the black market and the prices only went up for the risk. Why haven't they turned the timer back on yet? THAT I do not understand at all.
Here is a reddit thread I found particularly interesting:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/...ts_in_ban/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/...an/d4s52jk
Someone sold a small plot for 6mil. With 4 airships for 6mil and got a 24hr ban? 6mil total for all of that. The gil is gone, but people are somewhat unclear on what happened to the plot. The GM even agreed that it would cost someone far more than 6mil to make those 4 airships. Hilarious.
I think it's kind of cruel to report someone for this kind of stuff if they are selling you a plot for 6mil, which to me, is a completely reasonable price. ESPECIALLY with four airships. There was NO profit made there. For a ridiculously high price, I get it. But if nothing is exchanged, and a GM is in a bad mood? You could get in trouble too. Especially since it seems like they are just TAKING gil away from buyers, not returning it.
