re: soul shard

[infinity20]

why is soul shards are not trade able I hope this item can be traded to make the market more interesting.

[NomNomNinja]

The reason why Soul Shards are untradeable is mostly to prevent abuse with players creating alt accounts to feed their main. Currently you can get 5 Soul Shards daily at the exchange and another Soul Shard for every 10 levels completed in Ladder. Now if you focused doing that on say 10 accounts; you would have at minimum per day 50 Soul Shards just doing the exchange alone. As you can see from that it creates a major imbalance as people will just keep doing this to just max out their Soul instead. Soul isn't something that is meant to be rushed, it's supposed to be something you progressively upgrade and aim to increase to make your character better.

[HimariChan]

However Nom in terms of money armies of alts are made for pc/rose/mc etc. farming making them extremely rich or advancing their wings/mounts.

So isn't that a loophole in what you say?

[speeds16]

Soul shards and Soul progress are OP compared to getting higher wings faster than regularly. For mounts it's actually advisable to use alts for quick progress.

[elsage]

making soul shard tradeable equals to cs shut down

[darkwater887]

Soul shards and Soul progress are OP compared to getting higher wings faster than regularly. For mounts it's actually advisable to use alts for quick progress.

like me?

[NomNomNinja]

However Nom in terms of money armies of alts are made for pc/rose/mc etc. farming making them extremely rich or advancing their wings/mounts.

So isn't that a loophole in what you say?

Not really. You are allowed to hold more than one account. However you aren't allowed to exploit the privilege.

This goes to say for example a while back when the mount extravangza came out for the first time. There were no level requirement to claim the Battle Bear. People would continuously make new characters then level them up to Level 11 buy mounts from the NPC shops and forge a Battlebear. After that head over to claim the rewards which was 30+ GMUTs. The process would be repeated in a short time mostly by Veteran players who have the resources such as Mount Upgrade Tokens and Gold. Whereas the newer players wouldn't be able to do this because they barely have anything. In that regard a select population of players exploited the use of additional characters for their own benefit (I use this loosely) to get more Greater Mount Upgrade Tokens. This breaks the Terms of Service as you know already.

Now this is were the understanding gets a bit tricky and many people interpret it in many different ways. As you say "alts are made for pc/rose/mc etc. farming making them extremely rich or advancing their wings/mounts...". This is true that it's unfair to other players because they don't have those character/s. However anyone can make additional character/s so it doesn't leave anyone at a disadvantage. Also another reason is that anyone can also level up those character/s to meet the requirements of doing rewards/dungeons. The process is slow but rewarding all you need is the time to do it.

Now back to the first point I made earlier. Exploiting is something you do to gain a lot of gold/items in a short period of time like the GMUT Extravangza incident. Making characters and using them to farm dungeons is acceptable (from what I understand) as you need to take the time to level them up before you can do anything with them. Not to mention you would require to get equipment/s for your character as well as other items such as Potions.