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@Illusion:

1.Are you sure its the crane game? Because I thought you could only play the crane came up to three times a day and the soul reaper game up to 3 times an hour? You forget illusion that, like with the double Au increase this may be an event only thing, and once its gone users are back to posting for their Au. No one is forcing you to play the game. I myself do not think I am as rich as you make it seem, and getting oh say 90 for playing about 6 times a day is nothing. Especially since I mainly play the game for souls.

2.I have no idea about you, but having to many items is a good thing, the problem is not enough of them are commons some times. If you will notice the newest set of commons cost a pretty penny. The price guide has a lot of items that are unstable, and well frankly some of those items should not cost the amount they should. To this I say be patient, or learn to pixel faster because there are only so few of us on the art team. And even fewer that can pixel. It would not do the site any good to work them to death. The other thing about new users is that they will come and go as they please. It is possible for you to be a recruiter if you are active on other sites but you will have to do it with in that sites rules.

3.Activity is always going to fluctuate. But Illu, Tris's goal in my opinion, is not to expand so rapidly that it becomes gaia. People on Tris are older. That means, jobs, school... the flu. No that does not fix activity problems, but the only thing I can say is be patient. But you forget if you follow the rules then, well your au count should not be as high as you are complaining about. One you can not double post and with out activity it pretty much means finding an active thread to talk in. The times I get on usually I am the last poster in a lot of threads which limits my posting activity, which in a round about way keeps me from being rich, and causing the economic problems you pointed out in your first bullet.

4.As for abusing and EVERYTHING.

A. I am a firm believer in the invisible hand. Tris is not pumping as much Au into its system as you think, and there is a good reason that Rune values are the way they are. If I recall there was an issue with certain users charging too much for runes when they were they only rune sellers and now it seems that people aren't charging enough? That to me is basically what you are saying about prices. If you want to do something to help then actually search the forums and make your own price guide based on reading through the market threads and thinking about values. I have been thinking of doing this my self. Then there is a good medium of prices, people do not automatically say well the' price guide says this' and it may help tris out. Because lets be frank in the real world if you go to three stores and go to walmart, yes walmart price matches but you can not buy a flat screen tv saying, well the price guide says this. It opens the room for haggling and people will become more willing to sell their items.

The other thing is certain users have already flooded the market with rarely found DI, Japan items and other rarely found sets. You can not keep doing this with out upsetting the older users.

B. The negative emotions, personally I think come from the fact that every one on this site is very close to each other. It is so small that, to be frank some times other users feel ostracized. Lets take for example a user that is not quite mature as many of the other users. (Example: This thread. Where the user is discouraged from talking in L33t speak. There are other examples of users such as users talking over the newer user and perhaps the newer person feeling ignored. Why would they feel positive emotions and want to post? Then every now and then are user squabbles. They are more noticeable because Tris is small and yes it does hurt the site. I haven't quite found a solution to this that can help. But I have learned I could never be a mod. -shakes head- I can only say that is what they are there for and perhaps there needs to be an amendment to the rules, that states if you feel as though you are getting into an argument ask a mod to mediate.

I have not noticed anything other then the bot issue, and that is only because I am awake during odd hours of the night.