what was the purpose of gem codes?

Saint-14 · 2017-11-12 21:56:16

i like the idea, but how would it be implemented?

drunkbnu · 2017-11-12 21:58:32

People were able to buy gem codes from the shop, to transfer gems to alternate accounts and/or friends. But they were removed thanks to famous ex-moderator JaWapa.

Now you can only request gem codes by contacting administrators.

John · 2017-11-12 22:28:40

HG wrote:

But they were removed thanks to famous ex-moderator JaWapa.

Uh, no. They were removed because of gem farming.

hummerz5, mrjawapa

drunkbnu · 2017-11-12 22:36:57

They were removed few days after JaWapa was caught building an external gem market, because of all other possible methods to abuse gem codes.

While gem farming was the main one, it isn't the literal reason of the service removal.

John · 2017-12-22 06:22:03

HG wrote:

because of all other possible methods to abuse gem codes.

I'm curious - what other methods are / were there?
I am not aware of any.

Minimania · 2017-12-22 06:26:15

Emalton wrote:

HG wrote:
because of all other possible methods to abuse gem codes.
I'm curious - what other methods are / were there?
I am not aware of any.

besides bot farming for daily gems, there's campaign farming (technically)

mrjawapa · 2017-12-22 06:33:04

HG wrote:

They were removed few days after JaWapa was caught building an external gem market, because of all other possible methods to abuse gem codes.

They were not removed because of me.

They were removed because of Jesse and Atilla.

Joeyc · 2017-12-22 07:18:53

Damn, wish I could've gem farmed to get big spender for free.

John · 2017-12-22 14:10:10

minimania wrote:

besides bot farming for daily gems, there's campaign farming (technically)

That's what I said but HG said there are other reasons and I am curious

MrJaWapa wrote:

They were removed because of Jesse and Atilla.

For gem farming, right?

mrjawapa · 2017-12-23 01:16:16

Emalton wrote:

For gem farming, right?

Atilla was farming.
Both were stealing gems from people's accounts.

John · 2017-12-23 01:26:29

Woah... That's interesting.

XxAtillaxX · 2017-12-23 02:58:18

MrJaWapa wrote:

Emalton wrote:
For gem farming, right?
Atilla was farming.
Both were stealing gems from people's accounts.

I didn't steal any gems from people's accounts. I wasn't the only one farming either, and I didn't create a black market to sell them as you have - I only bought classics personally.
If you combine in-game reward gems with purchased gems you're creating an incredibly messy system and a large potential for abuse impacting the in-game economy, and people will create bots to take advantage of it as well.

mrjawapa · 2017-12-23 04:53:49

XxAtillaxX wrote:

I didn't steal any gems from people's accounts.

I remember a user contacting us about gems disappearing. We ruled it out to be a weird bug in the DB. We reissued the gems, and the user came back a bit later saying they were gone again.

After some digging it was found that you had access to their account and were taking the gems. You moved the gems from alt to alt, making it a **** nightmare to trace.

Saint-14

hummerz5 · 2017-12-23 06:35:13

MrJaWapa wrote:

XxAtillaxX wrote:
I didn't steal any gems from people's accounts.
I remember a user contacting us about gems disappearing. We ruled it out to be a weird bug in the DB. We reissued the gems, and the user came back a bit later saying they were gone again.
After some digging it was found that you had access to their account and were taking the gems. You moved the gems from alt to alt, making it a **** nightmare to trace.

was that before captcha requirements? Even then, that'd be kinda interesting, writing a script to generate alts to transfer via gem codes ad nauseum. Especially efficient if you guys were doing things manually. (Not that I approve, but this seems fittingly atilla-esque)

edit: though that method would suggest you'd never actually find the real culprit, only guesses

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