credit duping: what's the deal?

Status_Quo

Can someone explain to me exactly how you can dupe credits?

Is this mainly people that buy credits online or from ebay?

I read that some one bought 10 guild buildings and this has something to do with credit duping.

 

Thank you.

The Status Quo

Cthulhuvong

Duping basically is creating credits from nothing.

Basically, lets say you have 1 million credits. Using duping, this becomes 2 million. Then you take that 2 million, and it become 4 million. Now you've just made 3 million credits from nowhere.

Duping can make you lose your account, as well as having credits that are duped. If someone randomly tips you large sums of money, you may want to put in a CSR ticket about it.

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admriker444

LOL, yeah and after you report it you'll get banned as well. Check the forums over there, hundreds if not thousands of players are getting banned for receiving mysterious tips and reporting them. One player was a prominent Mayor of a town, walked past someone and recieved a 10 million dollar tip. He immediately reported it. Later he was banned like many others.

Enigma

lol  dont listen to the man behind the curtain...

duping exists, but its not as bad as admriker is making it out to sound.  People can easily afford 5 guild halls if theyve been playing for awhile.

Also, I would report any large sums of money to customer service too (and you wont get banned for doing that as Admriker suggested)

digitydarkman

i remember when i used to dupe creds in ao, that was fun, newbs would be buying stuff in the shopping channel for like 20k then i would bid like 10mil on it just to piss him off

TookyG

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Originally posted by admriker444
LOL, yeah and after you report it you'll get banned as well. Check the forums over there, hundreds if not thousands of players are getting banned for receiving mysterious tips and reporting them. One player was a prominent Mayor of a town, walked past someone and recieved a 10 million dollar tip. He immediately reported it. Later he was banned like many others.

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If I'm not mistaken he tipped the money back first.  Bad idea.  Now, not only is he "dirty" for receiving, he's "dirty" for passing it off.

If I slip a bag of drugs into your coat and later you hand that off to me or someone, you're just as guilty.

He simply should have logged off and contacted support, not passing it off and THEN contacting someone.

Unknown

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Originally posted by Status_Quo

Can someone explain to me exactly how you can dupe credits?

 I won't go into details. For 2 reasons. I personally do not want to encourage anyone to do it. Second, I'm very sure it would violate the terms at this here site MMORPG.com .....

  Generally Credit Duping, (or money duping) is just like how counterfitters in real life work. And why they are a big deal. Players in a game find a way to litterally create money from nothing. They find an in game exploit, or abuse normally working parts of the game to do something not ment to be done. (aka they are not taking advantage of a bug, error, or exploit.... but are still doing something not intended to be done.)

  The end result is the same - they are creating new money from thin air. They are counterfitting money.

Is this mainly people that buy credits online or from ebay?

  No. That is simply players sellling in game items for real life money. They make money off of a game. And players using real life money to get a "head start" in a game when they first start out.

I read that some one bought 10 guild buildings and this has something to do with credit duping.

   No one knows if that person who brought 10 guild buildings used his money, the guild's money, or he duped it. Except for him, and SOE. Game companies ALL have a policy of NEVER EVER discussing individuale problems with players, in public. It would violate player privatcy.

 

Thank you.

The Status Quo

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Thanks.

David_Wolfpa

Credit Dupe Update
All persons potentially involved in the dupe have been banned or suspended.
People who have been banned or suspended are going through the appeals process now. Each case is resolved privately between the customer and customer service. The appeals process will be complete by early next week.
Over 75% of the duped credits are being removed from the economy preventing hyper-inflation in the SWG economy.
No vendor owners were suspended for purchases made from their vendor with duped credits, only people that had money directly transferred to them were affected.
We are committed to maintaining a safe and fair playing environment and exploiting will not be tolerated.

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Unknown

  Just to make sure everyone is aware of it,

that picture posted by David Wolfpa above this post of mine is NOT a SWG screenshot! LOL!

It is from an old javascript, free, MMORPG named Runescape.

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Originally posted by xplororor

  Just to make sure everyone is aware of it,
that picture posted by David Wolfpa above this post of mine is NOT a SWG screenshot! LOL!
It is from an old javascript, free, MMORPG named Runescape.

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All Lies!!! That's screenshot is of his Jedi Character taking care of an evil Rat Sith! LOL it would be funny if anyone at a site like mmorpg.com would mistake that screenshot for a screenshot from SWG.

I still remember when the first credit dupe popped up in SWG. Prices went up greatly when that happened. Lots of fuss on the forums about bans being handed out left and right. I quit SWG a few weeks ago so I didn't know about it until a few days ago. Shouldn't be as big of a problem as the first time, since I don't recall anyone getting banned for credit dupe's the first time around.

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