[salesman]

Even though it's not my call, really, making scamming illegal again would require a lot more work than just an announcement. The reason it was made illegal in the first place was because of all the problems that came out of it were just way too much to handle.

Tracking items on Era is a serious pain in the ass, so a scripted system would need to be made as a few have said in this thread. When a player scammed an item, it would then be traded several times, so not only would we have to return the item to its original owner, we would have to reverse every single trade that took place after the scam. Even trades that come out of trades from that scammed item would have to be reversed -- the chain of trades following ONE SCAM would not stay linear, and more and more trades branch off from the original trade.

That is just problem number one; problem number two comes from people taking advantage of the fact that scamming is illegal to get other people in trouble. It has happened several times when a player would give someone an item, and then pm a staff member that they got scammed. So would scamming be a punishable offence, or would we just return the lost items and leave it at that? If it is not a punishable offence, making scamming illegal would not improve the server's atmosphere at all...but I guess circumstances could be evaluated to determine how the situation would be handled, and the more offences you have, the more severe the punishment.

Finally, more GPs would need to be hired, because I don't think 3 RC GPs would be able to handle the number of scams that Era's players would attempt in a single day. Let's face it, the attitude of Era's playerbase is not the same as it is on other servers.

The problem is not that we're "too lazy" to do all of this, it is that there is NO reason one should be getting scammed...especially when there are several means in place for safe trading.