11-25-2005, 04:55 AM
Electo-lanterns are a bad example.
Casual players were earning gold for horses with them just as much a "ebay/chinese" farmers were trying to earn gold to sell. The problem with the laterns was that they were way to valuable for the ease with which you could get them.
There is a bit bit of sematics issue with simply using the word "farmer'.
A guy earning gold every day to resell is a very different animal than a guy spending his afternoons for a week killing easy stuff so he can buy a new sword or a horse.
Both could be called a farmer but one is impacting the the game world in a persistant manner directed by out of game forces(money) while the other is simply playing the game - but both could be called a farmer.
Casual players were earning gold for horses with them just as much a "ebay/chinese" farmers were trying to earn gold to sell. The problem with the laterns was that they were way to valuable for the ease with which you could get them.
There is a bit bit of sematics issue with simply using the word "farmer'.
A guy earning gold every day to resell is a very different animal than a guy spending his afternoons for a week killing easy stuff so he can buy a new sword or a horse.
Both could be called a farmer but one is impacting the the game world in a persistant manner directed by out of game forces(money) while the other is simply playing the game - but both could be called a farmer.