Skin Trading

[JDzilla]

I know all of us have that one skin that is really valueble, but we just don't want it. We all have that friend with a great skin that he doesnt want, but you drool over that skin. Why not ( with a 100 gem fee) be able to trade your skins with your friends? I think it would be a great addition to SMITE. I got G.I. Zhong the other day and I have no desire for it. I hope Hi-Rez studios could consider this.

[Papa Jacque]

Step 1) Make a dozen accounts.
Step 2) Collect free gems on each account.
Step 3) After three months buy all the 600 gem skins
Step 4) Two weeks later trade them all to your main.

[Hex : NootNoot]

Yeah it'd be too easy to cheat the system.

[Overlord Hades]

This would also give people a reason to hack accounts and honestly Ive invested a lot in mine so no thank you.

[JDzilla]

Couldn't they just hack your account anyway? What would skin trading have to do with that?

[Pyro Penguin]

Originally posted by MP Jacque:

Step 1) Make a dozen accounts.
Step 2) Collect free gems on each account.
Step 3) After three months buy all the 600 gem skins
Step 4) Two weeks later trade them all to your main.

Originally posted by Locet:

Yeah it'd be too easy to cheat the system.

Make it require level 30 before you can trade then

[JDzilla]

Also like I said, It would have a 100 gem fee for every trade.

[Papa Jacque]

Originally posted by Pyro Penguin:

Originally posted by MP Jacque:

Step 1) Make a dozen accounts.
Step 2) Collect free gems on each account.
Step 3) After three months buy all the 600 gem skins
Step 4) Two weeks later trade them all to your main.

Originally posted by Locet:

Yeah it'd be too easy to cheat the system.

Make it require level 30 before you can trade then

Even then I have 3 level 30 accounts, which would triple the rate at which I gain content.

[Papa Jacque]

Originally posted by JDzilla:

Couldn't they just hack your account anyway? What would skin trading have to do with that?

Hacking an account and keeping it is hard so there is little incentive. If accounts had value that can then be dumped elsewhere the fact that hacking only grants temporary control is less of an issue.

Originally posted by JDzilla:

Also like I said, It would have a 100 gem fee for every trade.

Doesn't matter, you get that every two weeks for free.

[JDzilla]

That is a very long investment, You have to pay for the 600 gem skins anyway, so even if you are going to buy 600 gem skins it would be a waste of time. Why not just buy the skins on your account?

[Hex : NootNoot]

Originally posted by Pyro Penguin:

Originally posted by MP Jacque:

Step 1) Make a dozen accounts.
Step 2) Collect free gems on each account.
Step 3) After three months buy all the 600 gem skins
Step 4) Two weeks later trade them all to your main.

Originally posted by Locet:

Yeah it'd be too easy to cheat the system.

Make it require level 30 before you can trade then

Level 30 is pretty easy to get to so that wouldn't change anything

[Pyro Penguin]

Originally posted by MP Jacque:

Originally posted by Pyro Penguin:

Make it require level 30 before you can trade then

Even then I have 3 level 30 accounts, which would triple the rate at which I gain content.

well you are trading, you get a skin and lose a skin, so you're not really gaining anything extra even if you did use multiple accounts

and im sure you will say that you can just buy some of the skins that cost favor to trade for gems, so what if you could only trade gem skins for other gem skins, and maybe increase the trade cost op suggested to make up for any difference in the gem cost

[Papa Jacque]

Originally posted by Pyro Penguin:

Originally posted by MP Jacque:

Even then I have 3 level 30 accounts, which would triple the rate at which I gain content.

well you are trading, you get a skin and lose a skin, so you're not really gaining anything extra even if you did use multiple accounts

and im sure you will say that you can just buy some of the skins that cost favor to trade for gems, so what if you could only trade gem skins for other gem skins, and maybe increase the trade cost op suggested to make up for any difference in the gem cost

Still buy 250 gem skins on main, trade them for 600gem skins. Also increased ability to buy a bunch of skins when they are on sale rather than having to pick and choose.

Even then Smite doesn't have much in the way of random drops, you either buy small chests or you are getting very random things for free as part of promotions so the need to trade isn't huge.

[Pegasus]

This is not CS:GO man. Hi-rez selling skins not selling cases with ridiculous low rate to get a knife like CS, so i dont think ur idea makes any sense.

[Pyro Penguin]

Originally posted by MP Jacque:

Originally posted by Pyro Penguin:

well you are trading, you get a skin and lose a skin, so you're not really gaining anything extra even if you did use multiple accounts

and im sure you will say that you can just buy some of the skins that cost favor to trade for gems, so what if you could only trade gem skins for other gem skins, and maybe increase the trade cost op suggested to make up for any difference in the gem cost

Still buy 250 gem skins on main, trade them for 600gem skins. Also increased ability to buy a bunch of skins when they are on sale rather than having to pick and choose.

Even then Smite doesn't have much in the way of random drops, you either buy small chests or you are getting very random things for free as part of promotions so the need to trade isn't huge.

well in the last part of that post you quoted i already covered that

trading a 250 skin for a 600 skin would cost: 100 (base cost) + 350 (600-250)

but yeah i guess there wouldnt be many situations that you would need to trade now that you mention it, just sounded like a cool idea to me, but probably more trouble than its worth

[Pyro Penguin]

as a newer player i was mostly thinking of all the skins that arent available anymore, are there ever any events where they bring them back for a short time?