[sldev] CAPTCHA to validate land sales.

[Dale Glass]

On Wednesday 03 October 2007 19:59:52 Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> You're still not looking at what I'm talking about.
>
> Right now, the bot operates with no human in the loop. So it's not
> cost-effective to do anything that might require a human.
Not in the US maybe. There are countries with internet access where $100 
can be a monthly wage.

> If everyone has to have a human in the loop, then it becomes cost-
> effective to do more things to make smarter buying decisions. So land
> that a bot would have bought for L$4/sm will be left, if it's low
> value land that's obviously not going to sell to any humans at a
> price that will make a profit.
L$4/sm is low enough compared to L$7/sm to make a very good profit on it.

If you mean that land sold at that price in some awfully lagged sim full of 
the ugliest builds ever conceived all around it wouldn't have been bought 
by a human even for that price, then I suppose I could agree with that.

But in that case I don't see the point, because if a human who looks at it 
won't buy, but a bot who can't evaluate those characteristics will, why 
would you want to keep the bot from buying it? After all, you get to get 
rid of land in an awful location and selling it for more money than 
anything with a brain would have paid for it :-)
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