On gold selling.
-I originally thought it would be better through the uog store but coming from existing gold piles as not to create more gold on the server. This would require a live auction house type system(like d3) but at the same time involves the shard itself in the selling. Then the shard takes a cut of the sale. However if something goes wrong the shard would be liable. This is an unrealistic option for selling appearently because lets face it, if staff doesn't have time to code changes, why would they have time to monitor and regulate a system like that.
ILLEGAL
-Gold selling is going to exist no matter what. The negative of it being bannable, is throughout hybrids history sellers got banned and often times they did not return, bringing alot their active friends with them as they left. (think HOT guild). On top of that GMs had more to monitor. On top of that it was still going on and people were still getting scammed. On top of that gold was on the donation store and so much of it was produced over the years from buying it(and farming it) that even after ryan did a massive gold synk we still have WAY to much gold on the shard. All gold selling being illegal did was force the same shit yall bitching about underground.
LEGAL
-With gold selling being legal, the scammers cannot hide. No more new gold is just being "created" out of no where. Alot of people (myself included) have donated to the shard with funds they made from selling gold. However there are 3 "flaws" to gold selling being legal.
1: It makes quiting more appealing for people when they can sell everything they've got.
2: scammers (problem we see here)
3: Less donation money? (not sure if that is true but one can assume). {sidenote}[Those donations belong in the current staffs pockets for keeping the shard up even if there are 1023214 things that can still be done to make it better][im saying at least something has been done]
Still tho the truth of it is if we had a 1000+ server pop this would be such a small problem. The truth is we are all bored and need something we can blow out of proportion like always.