Cant believe this actually happened...
Posted Jun 6, 2018, 2:45 AM UTC
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Kid: Dad gimmie 40$. Dad: for what son? Kid: I want to spam trade in a videogame without knowing anything about it. Dad: fair enough
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Youd think thats actually how it works but one of my friends kids just uses his dads credit card, the credit card he let him use. Ever since he told me so, ive been wondering if thats what a lot of parents do.
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My perspective...
My kids have zero access to CC. Plus I only use gift cards for Steam, PS4, ... The most my kids (or hackers) could ever do is spend the remaining balance from the last gift card added to the account.
But my kids have never tried to access the store on their own even when accessible directly through the game like Fortnite allows. They know better.
We do all new game and upgrades to games as a planned "budget" activity. Sit down and discuss what interested in, when we'll buy it, and I make the final transactions. There's always more they'd like to have than we're buying. Teaches them to pick what they want the most and the trade-offs of not buying everything they want.
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Gotta teach them the right way from the start. Kudos man. Im sure he will thank you later.
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Pretty much.
My son is 11 and pissed he is a lot more restricted than the kids at his school.
They have unlimited use of cell phone (bad idea to allow kids unlimited use).
Whatever games and video game systems they want (no need to earn anything).
Access to alcohol if they want (parents don't give a shit, and every now and then kids will go to school hungover, or high).
Etc.....
Me, he doesn't even have access to any phone (bad grades and attitude, so it was removed), same with video games. He has to earn those privileges. And while there is beer he could get into, I'd find out and he'd get one hell of a spanking, even at 11.
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Like i said to the other dad, kudos on parent teaching done right. Expect him to grow just fine and thank you later!
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Invites 3 people who were willing to help... 3 power level 15s join.
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Then immediately ask for a weapon
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Had that happen for twine ssd 3 and then they wondered why I kicked them from party
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How do you kick people ?
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That's why they all say "my base"
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So can I kick sbdy mid ssd if he is afk? Or do I have to leave the mission
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Once I asked for help on Plank SSD 10. A pl 15 joins
Me: sorry you are too low level to do this
pl 15: wait a second..... do you want to trade
Me: Why would I want to trade?
pl 15: if you are doing plank ssd 10 you must have traded for very good weapons.
ThEy ArE eVoLvInG
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Not enough to comprehend that if progress in the game can only be achieved by trading for these higher things, some people must have gotten to a higher point in the game to make them available. I've had people ask me for things, say they got scammed and they can't progress without them, only for me to try patiently explaining that for those of us who were here at the start, we progressed in the game without 'taxi's to twine' or 'traded weapons'.
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Saw plenty of people in global begging because got scammed and turned out just like many IRL beggars, they were just scammers themselves. Of course only saw that through global chat. I have avoided all actual trading as worthless.
Way before trading / scammers were the current plague, I would occasionally impromtu trade in-mission with people needing crafting mats for mats. Never in those 'old days' did anyone ask for or mention ore to trade. Nor did they mention weapons. Just a simple, hey I'm low on something, anyone need something different and we can swap.
Now, I won't even answer someone asking for mats for mats trades. Just not worth the time, energy, and also likelihood that even if they trade honestly in-mission that they won't immediately leave the mission. I see plenty of beggars of all sorts in-missions that leave as soon as someone gives them something or as soon as its obvious no ones giving them anything.
Thankfully, I can at least blissfully ignore global chat. Its been disabled in settings and is unlikely to get turned back on anytime soon. I can also ignore the open mic PS4 players as recent changes to "PC" voice chat also finally gave us PS4 players a true mute voice chat option.
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eVoLvInG DeVoLvInG -- FTFY
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Your username is ironic
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I don't think they have the brain capacity to actually understand what you're saying. They're probably not far enough into the game to get it.
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Twine Solid State Drives are OP.
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That is how i read it, i'm level 22 or something.
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PNY sure does have weird names for their different product lines
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I always say that traders are unbelievably retarded, kids are so fucking retarded.
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What do you trade to people? I only play br but I want stw
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The kids trade guns... well, some try to trade, most try to scam each other...
Basically, just dont trade and get your own schematics. If you really want to trade, only trade recources...
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And if you plan on trading large quantities of resources, break it up in to multiple trades so that you don't get taken for all of your money. I've done upwards of 200 malachite trades but break them up in to 5 transactions so at most I'll lose out on 40 malachite, not 200.
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So just like in game, temporary guns? Or do you load in with some sick custom built one?
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those retarded kids I'm talking about are using the drop mechanic of the game to drop their items. both sides do it, and go pick up the other's gun. thats trading in stw. Now, the retarded kids I'm talking about do it, but they don't understand that the guns are temporary and that they have ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING USE of traded guns since they are all going to get worn out and eventually be worthless. Now, as you can see, in the picture above there is a trader. Traders IQ is rated by their trading message "quality" and how often they spam it. You can see that said trader above put no effort into his message and spammed it 3 times, so his IQ is really grinding the floor. They aren't smart as a human being let alone trading USELESS items. But I do think that if you trade fairly into resources (malachite, nuts and bolts and so on) it is kind of smart, but sadly most kids aren't doing it. Thats my rant, I don't expect high karma.
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People mostly trade materials/resources/guns for guns. These guns are only temporary because eventually when you use them for so long, they'll break down because the durability on the gun is gone. So when you're out of a gun what do you do next? You go to your inventory and go to one of your weapon schematics (basically the blueprint of said gun, you'll need the resources for it in order to make them) and craft a new one and the gun will come out with full durability and you'll use it (or not) until it runs out again. Then the cycle repeats over, and over, and over. Guns usually last you awhile (except for explosive weapons like rocket launchers).
Some people trade the guns that they craft from their own schematics for other people's guns, or they scammed it from someone. You have to be completely gullible or a novice to get scammed so you don't have to worry about that. Hope that helps. If you're into grinding and want to be rewarded for your efforts and time, then you should get STW. I was totally a BR player (I'm above average, you can look me up PlayaSkillz is the name) with 310 wins last season and then the start of this season (May 1st) I got STW and have been hooked on it ever since. There's really no tutorial in STW so you learn as you go or search it.
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If they just played the game, they would have better guns AND create those said guns to their heart's content.
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yeah but as the message above said they don't have the brain capacity to realize it and that's what stupid
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They'll learn some day... But who knows when that day will come.
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A lot of 7 year olds play this
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You're right. A lot of young kids play this to my surprise.
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I'll give you an 82 noc for it.
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But Nocs aren't even that good. I don't see why low levels praise them so much. I like my Gravefigger much more
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It’s just because it’s a ‘black scar’. They don’t care about perks or dps, they just want guns to trade for more guns, or to be able to show them off. ‘Oh look I’m power 5 and I have a 106 nocturno’.
I was playing with a friend yesterday and a kid he met on the game joined the party so we could help with an SSD. I kept trying to explain to him power level determines how the gun works, and he kept saying he did a mission in twine and helped with his guns and had no problem killing a blaster. Kid, no. I know you’re lying, you’d get shit on. Stop.
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Theyll be good next week
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I can't wait for my Jack-O-Launcher. I'm so excited
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I am going to max my jack o launcher when I get into twine. Trolololol is so annoying
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I would usually think he's talking to me, but I've muted and blocked so many traders that there's actually a good chance if this were me that he's just talking to someone I've already muted before.
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I haven’t muted anyone, I usually just ignore the chat if it bothers me
I was thinking maybe he was talking to somebody else, I scrolled up and there was no talk about trade or anything
Maybe he was a really good troll? I like to believe this didn’t actually happen haha
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I started blocking a month ago, and boi I've blocked so little from overall traders.
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Honestly im hopeless atm. Im playing for 100+ and i cannot unsee degradation of the chat. When i started people were actually playing the game looking to hook up, now im seeing maybe 1 post per sea of trading offers. ITS SPREADING BEYOND CONTROL, which is extremely sad for me
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Yeah thats what I feel, it's overly insane. I mean look at this.
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True. They even worked some kind of system with numbers, so somebody can catch them in the flood of offers. Also i find it extremely stupid and funny atm, that nobody is trading particular items, eg "Who wants to trade? Inv me"
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cuz it's all just gravediggers nocs RPGs and that kind of stuff, they just trade the same stuff.
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I can. Trade and twine start and end with the same letters, and these morons will reply to anything even potentially reponding to their request to trade. Theyre fucking mindless drones.
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I have honestly typed Hitler, Mamma Mia, awooga, dat gud gud. Gimme dem herbz
I still get invites to trade.... doesn’t matter what you say if you show up on global chat you’re getting an invite.
They obviously don’t read just go to recent chatters and spam invites. Still funny to me.
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I offered people my colon for shadowshard and they said "yeah my Hb"
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I usually say "trading used condoms for malachite"
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Or worse, they look you up, see your power level, and beg in chat to trade with you. I’ve had tons of people on ps4 look at my profile and start spamming me with messages or invites when I’m only looking for SSD’s
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It's why people build comprehensive friends lists and just do it purely with those. I'd rather wait 20 minutes than gamble on getting spammed with trades + having a bad player and/or leecher.
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I just delete their invites lol, I love helping with SSD’s, and I just don’t join people who randomly invite me.
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If I squint really hard it almost looks like it. Almost
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If u still need help, I'll help u out later today...
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Got it taken care of, but thank you!
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One kid goes, canny ssd 4
Me: “sure” Then I get 10 invites from everybody but the person
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THIS! Sooo annoying!
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I hELP iF u gIVE mE 106 gOOD gUN lIKE nOC
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I can believe Because that is exactly what happens.
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I tell people ill taxi them to twine for free and to send me a psn friends request. Then I just ignore them and have an automated shitlist.
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I started playing after a few months again, what happened? Last year the chat was full of nice people helping each other out, why do people wanna trade and why do people say its a scamn?
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Since BR got insanely popular and Epic has given some good discounts on STW during that popularity build, a lot of kids or people that play BR bought STW. None of them actually understand, or want to understand, the mechanics of the game. They trade to collect guns which they can't even craft or don't need at their level in the game (Stonewood or Plankerton). Trading is usually a scam since when you drop weapons in someone's SSD (and most of the time it's weapon the kids traded for) they usually get kicked, leaving the weapons in the SSD for the party leader to take.
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Ugh so annoying, I dont even wanna know how toxic the game will get once its f2p. I would prefer them to leave it buy 2 play
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It's insane how toxic it is, I dropped a pl 1 grey ar and this kid still tried to steal it 😂
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I would too but im a loot whore.
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No clue why people wanna trade, it’s a scam because it’s all on the honor system since you have to drop items for each other. Also you can kick people from homebases
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The ssd helps and friendly chat was so nice to have back then not even a single person said "trade" the chat was actually fun, now it's so deadthat the normal people's messages aren't even shown
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Yeah chat was people having conversations, asking for help usually on SSD's and occasionally someone wanting to trade nuts and bolts for herbs or something. What a difference.
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Trading twine for solid state drives at my homebase, no scammers please.
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I did cv ssd 4 yesterday, so i asked on the chat. One lvl 19 tried to join as well. Kicked him right away. Then he spammed the chat with trade as well...
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Ummmmmm...
wat?
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I always do a quick player name search on volunteers before inviting them so I know their levels before regretting it.
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Trimming armor.
... oh wait wrong game.
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That's....that's not how it works.
LF2M Deliver the Bomb PL 70
I sold 3 twine ssd 1’s for two nocs tho..?