Short answer: no.
No, and for very good reasons.
One is so the RMT's won't ruin the game's economy <because they wouldn't hesitate>
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Originally Posted by R4ND
Can u trade reward merits between characters on your account or trade with friends
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Reward Merits, Alignment Merits, Vanguard Merits, and the new Incarnate Shards and components are all non-tradeable, and there is no indication that it will ever change.
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately. |
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The long is answer is still no.|
Originally Posted by Sharker_Quint
Short answer: no.
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Though, you can trade almost anything you buy with the merits.
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Considering that pretty much anything that can be bought and sold with both regular and alignment merits can still be earned/purchased with ease in-game as it is, I fail to see how trading merits would ruin the economy. |
Originally Posted by MrHassenpheffer
No, and for very good reasons.
One is so the RMT's won't ruin the game's economy <because they wouldn't hesitate> |
If they were able to be traded, and the market for things was more restricted--I'd agree with you. But since there are about a half-dozen different ways to score a LotG, I don't think the RMT folks are interested.
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Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
The long is answer is still no.
Though, you can trade almost anything you buy with the merits. |
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately. |
Every character I create starts with 11 merits at level 1 due to vet rewards.
... No, you shouldn't be able to trade merits.
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
Considering that pretty much anything that can be bought and sold with both regular and alignment merits can still be earned/purchased with ease in-game as it is, I fail to see how trading merits would ruin the economy.
If they were able to be traded, and the market for things was more restricted--I'd agree with you. But since there are about a half-dozen different ways to score a LotG, I don't think the RMT folks are interested. |
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Just use the merits on the character that earned them and email the purchase to whatever character you want.|
Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
Considering that pretty much anything that can be bought and sold with both regular and alignment merits can still be earned/purchased with ease in-game as it is, I fail to see how trading merits would ruin the economy.
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here is how it would go down.
a team of 4-8 rmt's would take freshly made toons all over the game, tp'ing fresh lvl1's from zone to zone collecting all of the exploration badges, collect the merits on the main, delete the slaves, rinse repeat.
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Only if said player has reached the appropriate vet milestones.
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Originally Posted by Fulmens
Every character I create starts with 11 merits at level 1 due to vet rewards.
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You can only buy purples with alignment merits, and you can only earn alignment merits by completing alignment missions. There is no exploitation there.|
Originally Posted by MrHassenpheffer
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Just use the merits on the character that earned them and email the purchase to whatever character you want.
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True but it would mean being able to easily exploit things if you were of that vet level.|
Originally Posted by Tyger42
Only if said player has reached the appropriate vet milestones.
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Case in point, would be to create 5 characters and get the merits from them over to another charcter. That right there is 55 merits. That would be 2 straight random rolls with 15 merits left over or add some inf with it and change it to a hero or villain merit then buy the 5 random rolls.
As much as I would like to be able to transfer some of them, it is too easy to exploit.
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Because Merits cannot be traded, they cannot be consolidated to buy the higher cost, more desireable items. Thus, 10 characters with 30 merits each will be limited to 1 Random Roll each with a good chance of getting a useless or less desired item. If you could consolidate those merits, 300 merits could buy just about anything available for Reward Merits.|
Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
Considering that pretty much anything that can be bought and sold with both regular and alignment merits can still be earned/purchased with ease in-game as it is, I fail to see how trading merits would ruin the economy.
If they were able to be traded, and the market for things was more restricted--I'd agree with you. But since there are about a half-dozen different ways to score a LotG, I don't think the RMT folks are interested. |
Would it ruin the economy? Probably not, but it would have an effect.
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You can also convert 50 reward merits + 20 million influence into 1 A-Merit every 24hrs.
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
You can only buy purples with alignment merits, and you can only earn alignment merits by completing alignment missions. There is no exploitation there.
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You don't think there have been people selling their accounts after they decided to leave the game? Some of them could easily be accounts of long standing.|
Originally Posted by Tyger42
Only if said player has reached the appropriate vet milestones.
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Heck if they were active long enough I could see an RMT site deciding to hang onto the account just so they could get those merits in 6 months to a year later.
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Even if not RMT there are enough of us who do get the 11 merits per new character who could create a horrible mess by churning them out if we could trade them.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
You don't think there have been people selling their accounts after they decided to leave the game? Some of them could easily be accounts of long standing.
Heck if they were active long enough I could see an RMT site deciding to hang onto the account just so they could get those merits in 6 months to a year later. |
total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
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I'm SHOCKED that you would suggest that regular players would consider abusing the system . . . <choke> <cough> <hack>|
Originally Posted by SwellGuy
Even if not RMT there are enough of us who do get the 11 merits per new character who could create a horrible mess by churning them out if we could trade them.
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*wipes off monitor and keyboard*
Sorry I couldn't even type that with a straight face.
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I did far worse than that. I all but stated that I'd consider being one of the abusers. |
Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
I'm SHOCKED that you would suggest that regular players would consider abusing the system . . . <choke> <cough> <hack>
*wipes off monitor and keyboard* Sorry I couldn't even type that with a straight face. |
total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
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I know that. That is a legitimate game mechanic. In fact, it's a well-known influence sink.|
Originally Posted by SolarSentai
You can also convert 50 reward merits + 20 million influence into 1 A-Merit every 24hrs.
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If the RMTs ultimate plan is to stay paid and subscribed to the game long enough to get free merits, and then consolidate said merits, and then play the game long enough to get enough inf. to convert said merits into a valuable recipe...then...who cares?
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Why would they have to keep an account active for 6 years when there are disreputable ex-players who are willing to sell their accounts to them?
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
I know that. That is a legitimate game mechanic. In fact, it's a well-known influence sink.
If the RMTs ultimate plan is to stay paid and subscribed to the game long enough to get free merits, and then consolidate said merits, and then play the game long enough to get enough inf. to convert said merits into a valuable recipe...then...who cares? |
And at this point the Vet merits are not the issue.
Sure, they were the "writing on the wall" that we would NEVER be able to trade merits, but the zone accolades with their merit rewards was the "hook, line, and sinker" of the trade-able merits concept.
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Oh, right.
I think it's relatively unlikely that RMT folks would find merit trading as lucrative as just plain selling influence.
Also, Leech is totally right.
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I didn't say that. I was just correcting the inaccurate blanket statement that EVERY character starts off with 11 merits.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
You don't think there have been people selling their accounts after they decided to leave the game? Some of them could easily be accounts of long standing.
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Can u trade reward merits between characters on your account or trade with friends