[sldev] CAPTCHA to validate land sales.

[Dale Glass]

On Wednesday 03 October 2007 21:53:30 Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> The absolute cost of doing this doesn't matter. It's the relative
> cost of doing it with a bot (using, say, a cheap virtual host
> somewhere) versus doing it with a human (including the cost of
> managing the human). If the human costs $400 a month (4 people in
> shifts) then that's at least 10 times the cost of using bots.
Now you're having in mind something quite different from what I do. You 
seem to be thinking of this gold mining MMORPG business I've heard about 
(haven't seen it personally as I don't play them)

What I'm thinking about is a teenager with no income, who has little to do 
besides maybe school, and who may be carrying around a PDA to ocasionally 
type a few numbers on it. He's not being paid by anybody to do it, so all 
he earns is his to keep.


> Because it drives up the price of the tail of the market, which
> drives up the market as a whole.
Drives up? Why? We have here a bot buying something no sane human would for 
that price. So now the bot's owner paid more than the land is worth, and 
is definitely not going to sell that a profit. But that land takes tier, 
so it must be resold (at a lower price than he bought it for), or 
abandoned. In either case, the land returns to the market for less than it 
was bought for, while the bot's owner takes a loss for it.




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