TOPIC: Suggestion Reallowing Scamming

Has Zarp always been like this?
Everything always gets this kind of reaction and try to make this biased stuff?

Just the "Potential Issues/Exploits: Newbies complain" part says it all. I was a newbie, you were a newbie, the SAs were once newbies... If you understand that new players will not like a rule, it means older players just eventually grew used to it. More than 50% of who's online on the server right now is not on the forums and we never required them to be, pretty sure 80% of those online right now would vote to keep this rule.

It's not RP, it's abusing someone. Just because it can happen in real life, doesn't mean it's allowed as RP, that's such a basic argument... I mean, I can kill someone on the street, doesn't mean we allow RDM.

Those who say this happens in real life so it's RP don't even give 10 seconds of consideration into the matter to ull understand how they are shooting their own point down. If someone says they want to pay 100 for X and they pay 10 and leave, that's illegal. You can go to the proper authorities, so in Zarp, it makes sense you can make a F1 about it. Mugging happens IRL and also happens in game, but you can't go "/me Mugging you for 10m, drop it or die". There must be limit to the RP situations and scamming isn't a job, it's not a function of a job, in Gangster description does it say "Raid/mug: Yes, Print: Yes, Scam: Yes"?, it should've been a rule from the beginning.

Everyone here keeps saying "they were dumb if they got scammed" and that's what's wrong with virtuality, I'd love to see someone here just go up to someone IRL who lost it all and say those same words instead of trying and helping them.


(inb4 someone comes creating unnecessary drama, no, I've never been scammed, people can have opinions without saltiness)

Archick wrote:
Yes I think scamming has been a thing ever since Zarp was born as I can recall it.

Either way I won't reply to everything you say cause it's more about personal preference in the end but you're comparing scamming to killing someone which is kinda stupid. It's nothing like shoting someone. The world isn't a dance on flowers and you should be careful with what you do that's all i'm trying to say.

I don't agree scamming with the use of exploits but for example giving 1m instead of 10m and the other tradesman not paying attention should be his fault. Why would you ever make a rule about that? It's a game mechanic and if we are making rules about such a minor thing why not add rules against everything else that's annoying about ssrp?

No-one is scared to lend items any more, no-one is afraid to gamble because they know that it will be fair (atleast in the case of /roll) and it just seems like a rule that protects people for no real reason; if they get scammed they get scammed, its part of RP.