Does someone knows if there is a way to transfer credit, in an easy way, from my main account to my secondary account ?
Credit Transfer from main account to secondary account
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yup - Fleet Carrier trade
If you have a Fleet Carrier on either account, you can do it fairly easily by setting either a very low or very high price for some cargo (Tritium is useful for this), then the other account buys it, then you set the opposite price and the other account sells it back.
If neither account has a Fleet Carrier, and they're on the same platform, and you can log in both at once, then one dumps Tritium the other scoops it. Slower, of course. Alternatively if you have a friend with a Fleet Carrier who you can trust, then you can transfer money to them from one account, and they can transfer it to the other account, with the above process.
If neither account has a Fleet Carrier, and they're on the same platform, and you can log in both at once, then one dumps Tritium the other scoops it. Slower, of course. Alternatively if you have a friend with a Fleet Carrier who you can trust, then you can transfer money to them from one account, and they can transfer it to the other account, with the above process.
Thanks Cmdr
I think it will be easier if I trade between my main FC and a new one I will buy for explo with the alt account...
I think it will be easier if I trade between my main FC and a new one I will buy for explo with the alt account...
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I've heard recently about a few players that have had their accounts permanently banned due to transferring credits using the "buy high, sell low" method using a carrier. "Permanently irreversibly banned" was the phrase used.
Apparently Frontier claimed that the individuals who got banned were involved in Real Money Trading, which they all denied. Obviously if they were then Frontier's action is understandable, however at least one of the individuals seemed pretty genuine - said he'd bought a carrier and both him and his friend had funded it - they transferred the credits using the carrier and got perma-banned without chance of appeal. Obviously I have no proof that this story is genuine.
I've only recently bought a carrier, and this is the first I've heard of this. I regularly fly with a friend, so I purchased (and maintain) a Shipyard just so that he can store ships - I have no other use for it. As a way of sharing the costs, my friend regularly sells a load of Tritium to my carrier - I've set a buy price at the lowest possible.
I have another friend who has just purchased ED - I had intended to get some commodities and sell them to him at a low price to help him get started, but now I'm concerned that this may cause me problems - to say I'd be gutted to lose my account of over 6 years would be a gross understatement!
Does anyone have any further info on this? I'm fully prepared to accept that the individuals that got banned were breaking the EULA and are now just crying about it, but I'd rather be safe than sorry!
Apparently Frontier claimed that the individuals who got banned were involved in Real Money Trading, which they all denied. Obviously if they were then Frontier's action is understandable, however at least one of the individuals seemed pretty genuine - said he'd bought a carrier and both him and his friend had funded it - they transferred the credits using the carrier and got perma-banned without chance of appeal. Obviously I have no proof that this story is genuine.
I've only recently bought a carrier, and this is the first I've heard of this. I regularly fly with a friend, so I purchased (and maintain) a Shipyard just so that he can store ships - I have no other use for it. As a way of sharing the costs, my friend regularly sells a load of Tritium to my carrier - I've set a buy price at the lowest possible.
I have another friend who has just purchased ED - I had intended to get some commodities and sell them to him at a low price to help him get started, but now I'm concerned that this may cause me problems - to say I'd be gutted to lose my account of over 6 years would be a gross understatement!
Does anyone have any further info on this? I'm fully prepared to accept that the individuals that got banned were breaking the EULA and are now just crying about it, but I'd rather be safe than sorry!
This. There's no problems with buying/selling commodities between players entirely within the game; that is after all one of the principle (as designed) purposes of a Fleet Carrier, to let players trade with other players.
Also, don't underestimate the value of Wing (Team?) trade missions to 'give' another player Credits. Only one member of the team has to do the work for all to get the rewards.
Thanks for the reassurance!
I was thinking along much the same lines in regards to helping my "newbie" friend actually... let him stay in the starter systems for now and just share some wing missions with him
Interesting. I hope FD have more info than just they were using FCs to give money, that RMT was involved and they have incontrovertial proof.
But if they do have proof, then they get what they deserve.
It has been raised as a concern many times, this is what happens when you allow the direct or indirect transfer of in-game assets/money to other players.
Yep, and FWIW I'm absolutely against any kind of real money trading for in-game assets.
The banned individuals were claiming that they were transferring money in this manner between friends that they regularly play with/wing(team) up with. One person even claimed he got banned for transferring money to his alt account. Of course there's absolutely no evidence to support these claims...
Someone did reply to their posts suggesting that FD would check logs to see whether the players had genuinely winged up with each other in the past, or whether the "giving" party had "given" to other players (i.e. shown a pattern of similar behavior), which would make sense. In the case of transferring to an alt, IP addresses could be checked to confirm.
As I said, I've taken these claims for what they are - unevidenced claims on social media. It's just with my ED account, I'd prefer not to take any chances that could even possibly result in me losing my account. If one of the reasons for FCs existing is to enable transfer of in-game goods and currency between players, as has been mentioned above, then all should be fine, assuming FD are careful in their checks and not just applying a "this player transferred x amount to that player so ban" approach!
Their claims should be easily verifiable by FD.
Frontier might do like DE and just ban every account that trades with an account that did RMT. That kind of witch hunting gives griefers extremely powerful tools. In Warframe, you could ban a player by buying plat, buying their rivens with it, then doing a chargeback a while later when they might no longer have the plat. DE would lock the victim's account and demand hundreds of dollars to unlock it.
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I would never have imagined that this question would have caused so many potential problems... For me it was just a way to allow the two accounts of the same commander to work intelligently and to allow to practice different activities in the same game. Now if some player's goal is dishonest, then it's just a shame to punish everyone because of a few...
Yes, and as far as I can tell, that's absolutely fine and one of the intended purposes of Fleet Carriers, so you should be fine to go ahead. As mentioned, if you're simply transferring credits to your alt, then an IP check by FD will confirm this.
Apologies for taking your thread down a slightly different route - the answers to your OP seemed to relate to this (potential) issue that was a cause of concern to me over the weekend, but didn't feel a new thread was warranted.
Thank you for these clarifications. The Elite Dangerous lover that I am had never imagined that such practices could take place. I will go back to the stars and continue to dream...
O7 Cmdrs
Imo multi-accounting is cheating in MP, but FD earns money with it so it's fine I guess.