Baron Von WeisenCracker Posted April 13, 2016 Posted April 13, 2016 ok, I have looked for a few hours now, through all these threads and posts regarding rules, and violations and what not --sheesh .. yall have issues! lol anyhow... no where do I find a rule stating that a player CANNOT post a ship or Product for sale on the forum, for a particular server for IN-game trades/purchase. EXCEPT that it cannot be for REAL WORLD MONEY. The Rules under Developers Notes > Forum and Sea Trial rules .. lists several obvious rules .. but NONE pertaining to sales of ships in ports. The LAST POST on that thread eludes to posting or advertising the sale of ships or other items for REAL WORLD currency as being banned. I would not do that anyhow. But it does NOT state that legitimate "in-game" currency cannot be used. Seriously, this is how trades and business are conducted. You have a product... you advertise it as best you can ... someone comes to your port to check it out, and then .. HOEPFULLY they will purchase it. Well, my only "message-in-a-bottle" methodology to get word out of a particular item is through the forums. I am not asking for money (real world) I simply want to let people know where to find ships that are built (especially mine) and hopefully get them sold. Again, for IN-GAME currency. Which does NOT seem to be violating any posted rules I can find. So, why are the Mod's enforcing a bad interpretation of that final post on that thread? OR ... have I missed another post somewhere else that dictates that you can NEVER EVER promote a sale anywhere on anything? Simply just confused, because it seems pretty counter-productive to make the players "Craft" and build, but cant advertise their wares. That cannot be seen by anyone, UNLESS the other players come by their port (hap-hazardly) and notice that they are there. Respectfully, -Yank
SteelSandwich Posted April 13, 2016 Posted April 13, 2016 I seem to recall that the intent was to create a trade subforum dedicated to that in the future, but don't quote me on that since im not sure. The main reason was to reduce spam so the topics regarding that have been removed or locked.
maturin Posted April 13, 2016 Posted April 13, 2016 The Econ forum is for discussing the economy in order to aid development. Advertisements and announcements are not forbidden by the specific rules you mention; they are merely off-topic. 1
Baron Von WeisenCracker Posted April 13, 2016 Author Posted April 13, 2016 The Econ forum is for discussing the economy in order to aid development. Advertisements and announcements are not forbidden by the specific rules you mention; they are merely off-topic. off-topic? ... does that mean they cannot be discussed or posted? Not trying to cause a stir ... just disappointed, I guess, would be the best descriptor. I got one ship building facility, and a few ships to sell .. guess I will have to ferry ships to other Points of sale. Thanks, -Yank
Henry d'Esterre Darby Posted April 13, 2016 Posted April 13, 2016 You can imagine how useless that forum would be with 4,000 players posting buy, sale, and trade messages every day. Hopefully we'll be able to get a Bazaar area set up for this purpose, and if not, maybe some enterprising Captain will set up a separate forum to use for that. If they do, I'll be happy to sticky a thread with the link.
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