Virtual Assets Disabled

I would like to know the specific problems that the GM were seeing. If that were known then it would be avoided by most all players and any transgressors would be few and easy for the GM to deal with individually, instead of depriving everyone of this feature.

Note the complaints of few available GC... well, there would be several thousand more floating around if you could asset transfer them.

Or is the problem bypassing the GMs set price caps...me thinks it must be.

+10

this is just for gc right I can still buy pop when I need it from direct trade?

+10

And yes, as of right now, you can still buy population....through the cash market, not direct trading.

+100

When is this to be re-established damm

When the software to correct the initial unknown problem is written and installed.

and de-bugged and updated and firewalled and child-proofed.

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Why am I whineing an update would be nice.

Three in a row.

We are investigating some cases of fraud using the virtual assets function.
It is unclear what can be done to prevent such cases and as long as this remains unclear, the function cannot be restored.

Would it be possible to have W3C broker any asset trades for the time being, so being able to avoid any fraud? or would the work load be too much. I have no idea of the volume of virtual asset trades before the function was removed.

Just have a use at your own risk policy

An "at your own risk policy" would seem fine.

Or, if it would curb the fraud..How about a temporary solution that would allow players to trade only SC$ or only GC.

Game wide, one or the other. Till you can resolve the problem.

This would at least allow players to help a Fed member or another player with temporary financial aid.

+10 rick

Its Called GREED if at anytime anyone can get their hands on some ones real money then they will take it whether it be virtual or otherwise. Wake up people, anybody will steal anything at anytime if they want it bad enough

Any updates at all on this front. Is private exchange no longer considered a part of the game?

I have not heard or seen anything since July 2nd, I think the "short period" part has passed though...

5 months later:
Any updates at all on this front. Is private exchange no longer considered a part of the game?

For the time being, the feature will not come back.

There was gross misuse of this feature and there is currently no way to prevent it.

when we see a possibility to change it, or create a different feature that might return part of the functionality, we will implement it.

Some small way of gifting money or coins to help others might be nice Andy. I mean you could limit it to maybe 5T or 50GC or some such per real week or month. Gross misuse must mean much larger amounts, and many times I would like to have been able to use the old feature in a small way.

And all of us who didn't 'abuse' it, are being punished along with everyone else. Bring back this option NOW!

Andy, if you explain the specific abuse or fraud, players could suggest remedies and alternatives.

Some games have become popular by having features allowing players to engage in commerce. It's odd that Simcountry can't find a way to do this.

Here we go again, Mr Madoff has some remedies to stop FRAUD and ABUSE!

Just joking Mr Madoff, Im sure you have some good suggestions.