I'm a 2004 original player... here's my thoughts on GDKP

Nobody here is contesting that the Honda can’t pull as much as the Ford, yet it still ranks on the list of vehicles capable of performing that task. If I enter the Boston Marathon and place last (but still completed), I am still a marathon runner… just not a very good one.

This is what it all comes back to… in the context you have defined, both vehicles are apples or oranges, but not different than each other. This is very important and when you say stuff like this…

… it makes me feel like you’ve lost sight of the key areas of this conversation. This has nothing to do with the towing capabilities of these two vehicles. Try to stay on track, Corpse.

GDKP is a great system but people takes the easy way by cheating. Without the cheaters, GDKP is by far the best system.

Im not actually trying to discuss tow vehicles. Its an allegory to expand on the apples to oranges fallacy since people are too biased to apply basic common sense.

Which, by the way, I shouldn’t even have to resort too. It’s not my fault people can’t hang in discussions they’re clearly out of their depth on. Its on them to bow out gracefully or up their game. Either way, its your problem, not mine.

SoD and Era are entirely different games, with two entirely different sets of circumstances. All those differences are too many in number to make any kind of direct comparisons that mean anything.

You cant compare their leveling experiences. You can’t compare their class balance. You definitely cant compare the cost of resources and then conclude its gold buying and GDKP.

If we apply occams razor, we’re probably talking a simple matter of supply and demand. Unless you and Kek want to prove your theory and show who is buying gold and in what quantities, you’re just wasting everyone’s time with the axe you want to grind.

Why not take your own advice and answer the question?

Let me save us all some time before you spin it into some kind of nonsense and tell you that the answer to the question is that GDKPs are not the problem people accuse them of being.

Perma ban gold buyers and sellers rather than ban gdkps.

I know you can never stop it but i know people who bought gold, got caught then got a 3 day ban and just bought more gold and got away with it.

Banning customers will likely never happen, however that doesn’t mean penalties couldn’t be stiffer, for example, a longer ban than 3 days, which I know they can do since I had a guildmate banned for 3 months for software once, it wasn’t being used for batting, but it was on her computer, so she could remote play and trust me she was running around on a slow speed mount so she wasn’t exactly flush with gold, and honestly that was enough. However in addition to just banning that account, they should ban alll related accounts, wipe all gold, high value mats, and epic gear they have on them.