spikeJay Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 I hope the color of 100 Reward Point Voucher and 1000 Reward Point Voucher can be clearly distinguished to avoid being cheated FighterChamp, Biqueta, EricRasp and 6 others 9 Link to comment
0 awkways Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 (edited) I fully agree that 100RP vouchers should have an entirely different color than the 1,000 RP vouchers. As of right now, an absurd numbers of players are taking blatant advantage of the similar colors & text. As of right now, the colors and text are too similar and many RP sellers are just straight up taking advantage of that fact by listing 100 RP vouchers for slightly less than the value of a 1,000RP voucher, knowing that there's a 25%+ chance that a GTL sniper might accidentally buy it, thinking it's a great deal by mistaking a 100RP voucher for a 1,000RP voucher. This is becoming more and more of a problem each day. Now we're starting to even see the people who got tricked into buying overpriced 100RP vouchers seek to make up SOME of their lost money by relisting the 100RP voucher for an overpriced value (slightly less than a 1,000 RP voucher) again, and hoping some other player makes the exact same mistake they did. At the moment there's a rip-off cycle happening in GTL because of a simple color / text similarity. To illustrate the point, this is an image a friend of mine captured the other night - they changed the text of these 2 items (via strings), and then did a quick GTL search: Keep in mind, these are just the ones that no one got tricked into buying. Many more 100 RP vouchers get instantly bought. I've even recently seen a few screenshots of players selling 100 RP vouchers for ~1.7m instantly. It may not be a noticeable issue at this time to most players/staff, but it's pretty gross to know that this is happening so frequently. Make no mistake, the players who list 100 RP vouchers for 1.5-1.7m know exactly what they're doing. They're hoping to trick someone out of their money by abusing the likeness of the 2 items. Players shouldn't have to edit strings just to quickly know if they should buy something (before the bots/other snipers buy it), or if it's a dumb attempt to rip someone off. GTL flippers know that they have to be VERY fast to get any kind of significant purchase and a little oversight like this causes a shady trick to become extremely common - since it works, and it works very well. They can sell 1,000 RP for 17m if they trick enough players. The issue here is that it works, and players are getting away with it constantly. I'm sure the devs didn't intend for this to happen at all, and they likely just wanted the color schemes to match with the other recently added icons for a universal feel. On mobile & even using the desktop client it's pretty hard to tell the difference in color / text for these particular 2 items in any meaningful time frame. Just changing the 100RP ticket to purple for example (or any other color) would help slow down or even potentially fully stop this cycle of overpricing & intentionally tricking other players and getting away with it. Edited June 18, 2021 by awkways Grammar Imperial, HumongousNoodle, JorgeFirebolt and 12 others 13 2 Link to comment
0 Imperial Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 +1 and fully agree with what Awkways says. This issue was able to be resolved with the teddy ears, however as RP should 100% be tradable I think the solution would be to change the colour. Link to comment
0 Gilan Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Agreed, and should also probably keep in mind colorblindness when choosing the colors for the tickets to distinguish them. I think like Orange, Blue, and Gray is colorblind friendly? Not entirely sure. EricRasp, Servor5555, JohntheJester and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment
0 EricRasp Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 I agree. I've been seeing these scams happen almost every time I open up GTL. Link to comment
0 awkways Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 Seems pretty relevant now razimove, EssDeeCee, FighterChamp and 1 other 4 Link to comment
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