TOP 10 dupe / RMT solution by [Urza] ✅

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Duping is ruining the economy of the game. No bosses matter except Belial right now because husks are so cheap. We need DRASTIC action.

I present these 10 steps to solve the issue and improve trading and make it harder on RMT.
Please post your thoughts for or against these steps.

1] All runes, gems, boss materials, elixirs, incense go to the materials tab. Players can no longer interact with these in inventory. This frees up storage too. Clicking a socket opens an interface to put in a gem or rune. Use elixir and incense with emote system and each lasts 1 hour now.

2] Auction house is added to game for all trading and all trades are in gold. AH is accessible anywhere (its magic!). You can sell gems and runes and boss mats in AH through AH functions. You still never interact with them directly. All items sold on AH bind on purchase and gain the AH tag. This also solves having to use third party sites where RMT, scammers, advertisement, and flippers run rampant.

3] All gold trading between players is banned. AH is only way to use gold.

4] Items earned while in a party lets you send these items through AH directly to your friends who were in the party. These items are bound on pickup. The timer on this is 24 hours. Items earned in a party means dropped by enemy.

5] Other players cant see or pick up items you drop on the ground. You must use AH to trade.

6] Trade channel eliminated. No longer needed. General channel created. AI helps monitor and eliminate RMT ads in general.

7] You must be character level 60 to use AH. This will help a bit on RMT as they are still going to be hired to buy peoples overpriced common items as a means to sell gold. You can never get rid of all RMT but you can make it harder.

8] Players can forgo access to AH for a permanent 15% magic and goblin find buff. This locks their character from using items with AH tag. This is permanent for that character and cannot be undone.

9] If a dupe is found, then the servers are shut down until it is fixed. Perpetrators are permanently banned from D4 and all other Bliz products. Rollback instituted if required. Compensation given to players in free cosmetics.

10] Diablo.trade is no longer needed and will shut down.

This is drastic but it should eliminate duping and make it harder on RMT.

Thoughts? :exploding_head:

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Blizzard wont stop duping because they are they ones supporting the dupers. You don’t think they can see when some player suddenly gets 9999 husks? They could easily put a stop to it but refuse because it brings them extra revenue. They secretly run the RMT.

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Top duping solution.

#1 Disable trading, make people find their own gear in a game literally about finding gear. Shut down Market Simulator 2025.

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11 - Make the game enjoyable on loot hunt , so the players dont need to go buy materials online.

12 - Take all the summon materials out of game and make the bosses on lair with sub bosses that actually drops something usefull on end game

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12 I agree with, but 11 will never work because no matter how good the system people will still abuse it to shortcut the system. People suck.

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RMT can still sell gold through the AH system. WoW, EQ, DaoC, FFXI & FFXIV, etc. have had and some still have these problems today. Just about any Auction House can be abused by RMT, it’s really easy.

#9 would require more manpower than they want to invest. The issue is the code needs to be fixed first, and at the moment that doesn’t sound plausible without rewriting the entire game.

I do agree with #1 though. More stuff needs to be put into the materials tab.

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Gold laundering would be a thing still, but to what end would it be needed if the in-game economy is regulating from something costing billions to only costing under 10 million?

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Just do like Black desert.

Blizzard decides the Highest & lowest price for each item and you can’t see the name of the people selling

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Make runes and boss materials acc bound.

You weren’t supposed to have all the mythic items 2 days into season release anyway…

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Remove trade from the game entirely. Just like we all said when the D4 team asked years ago.

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It would still cause inflation. Too much gold and prices hike up again. Also what’s to stop the RMT from botting the AH, buying out all the ‘good’ items and setting the prices? 4 GA uniques for example, or 3 GA legendaries.

Your average player might undercut the price a little bit for their one item they’re selling, but it wouldn’t solve the issue of the many buyers who want that same item or one similar to it for example. I’m just not convinced an AH would solve the problem is all.

Even assuming the items are BoA once bought from the AH, they could have bots running 24-7 to get the more sought after items and set whatever price they want. Then sell that gold back to the player base.

It sucks don’t get me wrong, there’s just no easy solution here.

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Statements like this are pure drivel. Is that two days of playing 20 hours a day or two days of 30 minutes a day.

The tryhards I know want everything to be super rare so they can gatekeep everything from those damned dirty casuals.

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If they want people to stop buying husk make them easier to get in game

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If they made boss summoning materials like husk untradeable there would be a lot less players. Idc about buying husk for gold he is the only boss worth farming. If they made the husk easier to obtain or even better made other boss loot drop more GA items then there would be no need to buy husk. As of right now though if i couldnt buy husk i woukdnt even really play because the grind to upgrade your character would be even more aids

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Or make loot drop from something besides one boss.

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Uh what economy? Unless I missed something they removed the Auction House in … Diablo THREE. I wish people would stop trying to make this an MMO.

The wife and I group and trade things to one another if needed … the end of economy. We play as a gear grinder well a trash loot grinder since loot is awesome these days. They should address that … it would resolve the need to have an “economy” and bots at the same time.

If they wanted there to be an economy they wouldn’t have taken the AUCTION HOUSE out of the game and left it out <— the point most seem to miss.

With that said, I wish they’d bring it back. It gets old forever looking for an item and I’d rather shave with jagged glass than go to a third party site. Before someone says “trade channel” … ROFL I’m shocked to see even one other player while playing much less a thriving trade channel.

Let’s be honest, suggesting major changes when we still have the same 4 face choices 2 years later … they’re phoning this turd in so don’t get your hopes up.

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If you want to discourage RMT then the drop rate needs to go through the roof. People look at it as time vs money. Some other post mentioned you can get full gear and 1000s of husks for $20 USD. It takes an hour or less to earn $20 or a couple hundred hours to farm the equivalent.
I don’t support RMT and think boss mats should just go to the resources tab. I am just giving a realistic take on the situation.

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An auction house will ruin D4 forever imho. People already complain that they have nothing to do in D4 (often because they actually get their items from trade), if they can easily buy stuff it gets even worse. Personally I think SSF in D4 is in an OK shape, you just need more activities to target-farm stuff and lair bosses in T4 feel a bit underwhelming when it comes to ancestral drop-rates.

What I definitely would do is make boss mats account bound!

I’d also keep runes the way they are. Its just more fun to collect them like this and trade them with friends. I would make a separate, extra stash tab for them though.

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Seriously, why do you even care?
If someone’s out here dropping real cash on a half-dead game with the competitive depth of a puddle — let ‘em! It’s their money, their clown show. Sit back, grab some popcorn, and watch them speedrun their own disappointment.

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There are several ways to prevent this: 1. Max and min. Avoid passing gold.

  1. Purchased items are guaranteed, avoid reselling items.
  2. Another currency or token to be spent on each transaction. Avoid buying all the necessary items at level 60.
  3. Perform a 1:1 exchange of runes and bosses in the game.
    5 Government boss keys.
    Mercantis
    6mode and merchant mode.
  4. Create a rune and gold sink.