| Today saw some large changes to the economic workings in ourfree trial areas, Delphi Forums and Commerce City. The ATMs and pawn machineshave been removed and new trial members will now come inworld with only25T in their hand.The NRW News went looking for an explanation and this is whatwe were told.Hundreds of free accounts were being created every night in Delphiand Commerce City for the purpose of token harvesting. As many as 250 fromthe same rolling email address. For example: bob1@hotmail.com bob2 etc.The economy could not tolerate this and the tech time to eliminate the abusers(and their tokens) had gotten out of hand. So now free areas will have limitedTs. All newbies will have 25Ts in hand and 1,000Ts in the ATM but all ATMs(and pawn machines too)will be in paid areas.We were also told that the vendo items in the free areas willhave the prices reduced to 1-5T each item so new trial members will stillhave enough to buy things and test out how things work in WA.It is a sad thing that "cheaters" have made thiscome to pass. As in the real world, people who try to cheat the system usuallyend up hurting everyone else through events such as this or through higherprices for the rest of us.This may come to be a good thing for NRW. Hopefully this willstop those who choose to cheat and will by default give us regular membersa source for a few cheap decorating items. For Delphi members, they willbe less prone to scam artists who prey on newbies. Hopefully, having only25T will make them a less desirable target. Many good and generous membershave toted paint, heads and fun items into Delphi for the Delphi membersfree of charge. I can't imagine that would stop. Perhaps this will inspireeven greater charity. |