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    Default Gambling Nerf

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    Hi All,

    As mentioned in the BTS article this month, I’ve been keen to chat with you about flower games and the similar “game of chance” activities that some players host in the grand exchange. So far I’ve had some great conversations live in game, with all sorts of clans and individual players, and I thought it about time to start up a forum conversation about it too.

    The question is simple: What should we do about these games? Right now, they can be very disruptive – leading to spamming and scamming. Several of the clans associated with the games are also directly linked to gold farmers, botters and real world trading – which are all against our rules.

    However, there is clearly a desire from some players for this type of gameplay; otherwise there wouldn’t be any of it going on. It certainly dominates the grand exchange in many worlds, and that’s just not what the place was designed for.

    I’m really keen to know your opinions on this. There are a range of different options available to us, and I am sure there are several more that we haven’t considered yet. If you’ve got any of your own thoughts on this matter, we’d love to hear them.

    Feel free to reply to this post with your own ideas on what we should (or shouldn’t) do about this growing issue.

    We could, for example, do any number of the following things:

    Make any involvement in player run “games of chance” against our rules – creating a new rule to allow the pmods and ourselves to mute the people advertising these games and allow us to issue bans to anyone actually participating in flower games etc.


    Change the content itself to remove the “random chance” element of things like flowers, classic capes, seal emotes, egg emotes etc. This would mean that players couldn’t use those sorts of items to play these games with


    Add “safe” alternative games, run by NPC’s, to allow players to engage with this sort of gameplay without the risk of being scammed.


    Do nothing at all!


    Something else…


    What do you think? I look forward to reading your ideas and responses over the weekend and I’ll make some more posts on Monday.

    Mod Mark
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    Intresting. Thanks for posting was confused on skype xD.

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    Ready for it, be ready for rares to crash guys..

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    Would be a good source of gp sink if they make npcs do the hosting. Unless it's 50/50 then it will just suck players' time with zero net money flow.

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    Interesting.
    Sin why would rares crash?

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    Dicers are going to try to liquidate their assets and sell all their cash.
    This is what people on the HLF are saying anyhow.

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    I want gambling to be against that rules, which means that anybody that participates and advertizes, should get hit like those spammers that used to be in the grand exchange trying to sell you some of their GP.

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    Yeah i want it to be against the rules. im tired of people who know nothing about RS being rich in game

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sin View Post
    Dicers are going to try to liquidate their assets and sell all their cash.
    This is what people on the HLF are saying anyhow.
    Cool, sadly I still probably wont be able to afford a purple.

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    Im ok with gambling in games but in runescape it has gone way too far and I think they should just make it agaisnt the rules, get new pmods thats actively going through ingame reports and hunt down dicers.

    Otherwise I think it would be best to move all this gambling to an instanced area with NPC's praticing it so normal players wouldnt have to notice the activity. If they move dicing to said area then make advertising for dicing fall under advertising goldfarmer sites etc

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    Ready to see gambling gone
    - Remember that the sword of Karma swings both ways

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    I would love to see it gone i bet a lot of people have formed some sort of gambling addiction due to this in runescape. I liked the game when it had no free trade to be honest.

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    Well they already started muting people, I was hosting and then got a temp mute for 2 days, without any reason posted/:

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    Quote Originally Posted by SRLKing View Post
    Well they already started muting people, I was hosting and then got a temp mute for 2 days, without any reason posted/:
    looks like anyone who says "H/C x2" gets auto muted
    http://villavu.com/forum/showthread.php?t=98340

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    Quote Originally Posted by tristen8878 View Post
    I would love to see it gone i bet a lot of people have formed some sort of gambling addiction due to this in runescape. I liked the game when it had no free trade to be honest.
    I agree with no free trade. When it came back goldfarming shot through the roof
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