Yea, thinking I'm just going to sit these ToTs out for now and wait till we get the account bound fix. They were boring before and even more boring now with them not worth participating in and trying to compete with these bots. They've completely ruined the event and devalued any items. Not worth playing to get something that only sells for 100m. I'll buy the items from legitimate players, if I can find any, even if I have to pay 10x the price.
The shard bound makes me not even able to play the game with the items I've earned. It's 2022, the game is 25 years old, almost everyone I know plays multiple shards, and would like to use THEIR ITEMS THEY EARNED ON MULTIPLE SHARDS, aka, the account bound advantage, among everything else it delivers to legitimate players WHILE screwing bot farms.
Feel sad for anyone trying to play with them running around like an army of ants and GMs completely ignoring them and the staff unwilling to make any sort of obvious fix, the clear one being account bound drops & rewards. Good luck, feel sad for you, the legitimate player, reading this.
The shard bound makes me not even able to play the game with the items I've earned. It's 2022, the game is 25 years old, almost everyone I know plays multiple shards, and would like to use THEIR ITEMS THEY EARNED ON MULTIPLE SHARDS, aka, the account bound advantage, among everything else it delivers to legitimate players WHILE screwing bot farms.
Shard Bound is good, important, and absolutely vital for lower population Shards to help their economies and make sure that items STAY on those Shards and can be purchased/sold by players there and not end up, one way or the other, most always to Atlantic....
What would be necessary, though, and I plea @ Kyronix to make this available to players such a mechanics, is a
SAFE cross-shards Trading mechanics whereas, say, a player who has a Shard Bound item on Shard A, could be able to trade that same Shard Bound item with another players who has it on Shard B, without the risk or fear to get scammed in the process....
This way, the items would still stay on the shards they are generated and thus help their economy but, at the same time, players on different Shards could exchange their respective Shard Bound items whenever they happen to need it on a Shard different from the one on which they have that Shard Bound item...
And, just as an idea, how could such a
SAFE cross-shards Trading mechanics be Designed ?
We know that accounts have a unique ID number and this, is valid across any and all Shards (that number which shows up in Chat).
The Developers could set up NPC "Traders" on Shards and the mechanics could moreless play out this way :
Player X has a Shard Bound Mantle on Shard A while Player Y has the same Shard Bount Mantle on Sharb B.
Both players agree to trade their respective shard bound Mantles on their respective Shards A and B.
Player X gives the Shard Bound Mantle on Shard A indicating that the trade is intended with account number <such and such> on Shard B and player Y does the exact same, reverted, with the Trader NPC on Shard B indicating that the trade is intended for Shard A with player X with account <such and such>.
Once both players have turned in to the Trader NPC their respective item on Shards A and B indicating the fellow player's account which will be permitted to "pick it up", the Trade will be validated and the respective items unlocked for pick up.
NOTE. At this stage, that is, once both items have been deposited on the NPC Traders on both Shards A and B, ONLY the account that the item is being traded to, will be able to pick it up from the NPC Trader, not the original account which deposited the item.
This, is necessary to avoid players to deposit the item on Shard A, pick the item intended for them on Shard B, and then removing the item from the NPC inventory which they deposited on Shard A before the other player was able to retrieve it thus, scamming one of the 2 players of their item.
This is only an idea, a possible way to make it worth, to my opinion, perhaps, better mechanics could be thought up.
Nonetheless, such a
SAFE cross-shards Trading mechanics could solve issues which many players might have with Shard Bound items still keeping those items on the Shard they were generated on, thus avoiding them to eventually end up on Atlantic for sale....