@NextTime000 said in Make trading and selling not a premium feature:

yeah like; to many people the special ability affixing/augmentation system is very intimidating and only manages to take time away from them that they would rather be using to go run another quest. I was just thinking that like, if even only 1-12 weapons and 1-11 units were tradable without requiring premium, it'd open up people a lot more to like; have That One Friend who gladly accepts everybody's garbage items, and refines them into kits for people to at least get their units set up to something serviceable

According to the JP servers. Everything up to 14* rarity is tradable via player shops except armor units which only go to 12* rarity and eggs go to 9* rarity in player shops, but overall go as high as 14* rarity. You cannot trade or scrap items into "kits" as no such thing is in the game. However, if you go to the salvage shop in the shop district. You can trade 10* - 12* weapons / armor units for various items including EX Cubes which you can then trade for fun point tickets at the EX Cube shop. (through updates over time. 10* eggs have been made tradable to the salvage shop)

Just be glad the current trade system isn't like how it used to be back when 10* was the highest rarity and in order to buy from player shops. You had to have premium then go to the salvage shop and exchange certain items for a 10* weapon / unit exchange pass then use the pass at the player shop to trade for the weapon / unit. After several updates later. That was all done away with and is no longer a required thing.

@NextTime000

RE trade scammers: PSO's data was peer-to-peer, which could be exploited by lag/disconnects; and I actually do not remember how trading worked in PSU anymore so I wish I could say something about that, but my experience with pso2 is that all of our inventory data is managed server-side, which I think ought to eliminate most forms of trade interface exploits.

Trading in PSU was player based other than player shops. In order to trade. You had to send a trade request with the person whom you want to trade with. 1 or more people in the trade must either put up an item or meseta in the trade and then hit confirm unless it's a 1 sided trade. Then the 1 person of the 2 people trading doesn't need to put anything up in trade unless they have no inventory space. However, if the person you are trading with is a scammer. All they have to do is put up an item or meseta and wait for you to put up an item then hit confirm. A scammer will never hit confirm 1st. They wait until the other person does it 1st then they use lag switch by putting their modem in standby mode long enough to remove the item or meseta from the trade on their end and confirming the trade before getting disconnected from server.

The trade system is designed on purpose the way it is and limited to the certain tradable items it's limited to because it stops things like trade scamming from occurring and it also stops people from trying to lag switch the trade for scamming purposes. Item drops being set to individual drops was also done on purpose to prevent trade scams via drop trades. We've all seen this way too many times on the Xbox servers for both PSU NA and the PSU NA demo. I for one am glad trade scamming is removed. You won't find a single person on the JP server on any ships that do trade scams.

@John-Paul-RAGE said in Make trading and selling not a premium feature:

It would be nice to have some easier method of giving some things to friends. A good solution (it wont happen, but that doesnt invalidate that it would be a good solution) would be some kind of "friendship level" where you gain perks for playing with that friend for so long.

The final perk could be trading with them regardless of Premium status.

getting perks for playing with a friend would be the friend referral system or recruit a friend system which is available on the JP servers when logging into the game for the 1st time and setting up your account name. That may or may not get added to the Xbox version or SEGA may do it differently then the JP servers.

@Princesse-Jen Item boxes are very easy to get. You can just buy them with fun points from the fun point shop in the shop district which you can find it in the far back side of the shop district on the left side just below the entrance to Frankas' Café

I honestly prefer the trading system be kept as is or exactly the same way as the JP servers. The trading system is somewhat pointless anyways as you are limited to certain items being tradable. weapons and PA disks are not tradable with the trade system. Ik for a fact because I have tried it on the JP servers. If you want to give someone a weapon or PA disk then you will have to do 1 of the following while under premium: 1) sell in player shop or 2) get a gift box room decoration and place it in the player room of the person you want to give the item to and then place it in the gift box

I'm pretty sure spamming the server with symbol art wont kick people off the server or generate the amount of lag it would have done back on the PSU Demo servers for Xbox 360. if you try it on the JP servers. You get black listed by the players and if you try to report them. Most likely you will get banned for trying to report them. That's just how SEGA of Japan works in regards to what goes on in the servers. Symbol Art isn't the only thing you can get banned for when trying to report someone on the JP servers.

I only managed o get 34/19 with Br/Hu.... wasn't able to play on Sunday very much due to my character being restricted on everything for unknown reasons. So I couldn't do much