aquascaper
11-02-2014, 08:31 PM
First off, devs/mods, please do not remove this thread ;) It is a suggestion thread and not a single ign is mentioned throughout the whole post.
With the recent controversy over selling names, STS has made it quite clear that they will not help you if you attempt to buy/sell/trade a name(s) and something happens because there is such a high scam risk. Also, they do not even want mentions of it on forums. This has upset quite a few people who make gold by selling names or want to buy a new, cool name.
The main reason STS does not condone it is that there is such a large scam risk involved with trades not in the auction or the trade window. You guessed it, I'm proposing adding names as an item. You can "liquidate a character" (with confirm screen notifying you that you may have aps, pets, etc) from the character menu. This is only doable after you remove all items/gold and close all auction listings with it. Of course you must have at least one other character for it to work. After liquidating, you would obtain a chest called "Baby Hero [username]" in your stash. This chest would be a legendary item that is tradable, stashable, and listable at auction. One needs 12 plat or an available character slot to open this chest. After opening, the name would be added to their account as a lv1 and they would have to select class/pet/looks.
Overall, this would be a great way to help stimulate the AL economy and help players obtain usernames much more easily without scam risk. I have quite a few possibly valuable names that I would love to sell myself (I won't mention them here xD) and this idea would definitely help buyers be sure that I am not scamming and it would help me feel comfortable selling the name.
Thanks for reading and leave comments below.
With the recent controversy over selling names, STS has made it quite clear that they will not help you if you attempt to buy/sell/trade a name(s) and something happens because there is such a high scam risk. Also, they do not even want mentions of it on forums. This has upset quite a few people who make gold by selling names or want to buy a new, cool name.
The main reason STS does not condone it is that there is such a large scam risk involved with trades not in the auction or the trade window. You guessed it, I'm proposing adding names as an item. You can "liquidate a character" (with confirm screen notifying you that you may have aps, pets, etc) from the character menu. This is only doable after you remove all items/gold and close all auction listings with it. Of course you must have at least one other character for it to work. After liquidating, you would obtain a chest called "Baby Hero [username]" in your stash. This chest would be a legendary item that is tradable, stashable, and listable at auction. One needs 12 plat or an available character slot to open this chest. After opening, the name would be added to their account as a lv1 and they would have to select class/pet/looks.
Overall, this would be a great way to help stimulate the AL economy and help players obtain usernames much more easily without scam risk. I have quite a few possibly valuable names that I would love to sell myself (I won't mention them here xD) and this idea would definitely help buyers be sure that I am not scamming and it would help me feel comfortable selling the name.
Thanks for reading and leave comments below.