Unintended Updates (and a note on froob forums access)

**Liwa** · Mar 28th, 2012, 02:26:54

Unintended Updates

The GMS market has been disabled... we have plans to address this with a new market - I will give more details in the march newsletter ...
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I assume there is no plan to disable GMS on the Live servers until the 'New Market' is also released to the Live servers ...

Kinnik

**Ekarona** · Mar 28th, 2012, 02:32:19

Yeah, the 18.5 won't hit live for some time. They are laying ground work for new features I think.

**Leadbelly** · Mar 28th, 2012, 02:32:27

You have got to be kidding me

**drainbamage** · Mar 28th, 2012, 03:06:46

"New market"? Are they finally implementing the ability to purchase over GMS?

**Traderjill** · Mar 28th, 2012, 04:09:33

Originally Posted by drainbamage

"New market"? Are they finally implementing the ability to purchase over GMS?

if you mean purchase via mail... yeah.. it was part of the interview that got posted today.

**drainbamage** · Mar 28th, 2012, 04:12:45

Originally Posted by Traderjill

if you mean purchase via mail... yeah.. it was part of the interview that got posted today.

Didn't see that interview. That's good news.

**Antinoos** · Mar 28th, 2012, 09:11:52

I smell "server merge" here.

No more need for non-instanced cities?

**cybertron** · Mar 28th, 2012, 10:33:36

Wonder if this means that the Portable GMS buyable from item shop or the equivalent Trader item is now less useful...

**Gridpain** · Mar 28th, 2012, 10:37:41

possibly...

**lindelu** · Mar 28th, 2012, 10:43:34

To access the market you need to travel to a GMS terminal. I'm including more detailed specifications in the next newsletter so hopefully that will clear things out.

**edherbs147** · Mar 28th, 2012, 10:45:57

Originally Posted by cybertron

Wonder if this means that the Portable GMS buyable from item shop or the equivalent Trader item is now less useful...

Useful for lazy people who don't want to leave SL to go shopping?

**Dragocze** · Mar 28th, 2012, 11:14:55

Originally Posted by lindelu

To access the market you need to travel to a GMS terminal. I'm including more detailed specifications in the next newsletter so hopefully that will clear things out.

This market model is great change. What about froobs access. Means planed to give them access to GMS. Is this still true? Looking forward to newsletter.

**Cogline** · Mar 28th, 2012, 14:30:41

Froob access to GMS? Can it be? Will I finally be able to tell how much something is actually worth or even (gasp!) buy that Mass Relocation Robot (Shape Hard Armor) I've been pleading for for months? Sweet Lady Eris, let it be so!

**Kintaii** · Mar 28th, 2012, 18:49:19

Originally Posted by People

Lots of Folks Talking About Forums Stuff That Has Since Been Moderated

This thread has derailed pretty hard from the original post onto the topic of froobs having access to the AO forums, and in line with that I'll be shutting the discussion down as not really relevant to the 18.4 forums/discussing moderation/exploit discussion. That said, though, I feel it's worth commenting here and settling down exactly what's up in regards to froob forums access.

There was a point a couple of years back where froobs could sign up on and register for the forums without a paid game account; we discovered this and shut it down fairly quickly, but not before plenty of people had taken advantage of the loophole. To further complicate matters, there's no good, discernible way of doing a database-wide check for "which accounts have a paid account attached and which ones do not", meaning that we couldn't remove all of the free-made accounts in one go. To that end we decided that as long as they weren't hurting anyone or causing any fuss, and so long as they kept it relatively quiet, we would allow the froobs who made an account during that period to continue posting - If they were infracted multiple times their accounts would be permanently suspended without recourse for having their forums account reinstated, and if we suspended someone on a paid forums account then their free forums accounts would also be locked without chance for reopening. Otherwise, though, once we had the workaround closed off, we felt there was little *harm* in letting the people who had managed to snag an account continue to post so long as they didn't do anything over the line.

That said, for folks with non-froob game accounts, if said account is not active and being paid, you shouldn't be posting on the forums, plain and simple. I'm not pointing at anyone in particular, nor am I naming names, but if for some reason you have a 'real' forums account and an unpaid game account and are still posting here? I recommend for your own sake and posting career that you keep it quiet and otherwise follow the forums rules, lest someone decides to remove that burden from you.

Closing thread. If there are any questions, feel free to PM me personally. Do not repost topics on this subject. =)

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