Some confusions regarding "Merit system"

[paxmao]

I don't think there's much of an issue with people hoarding merit; it's giving it to their alt accounts that is going to be the big issue.

It has already started and I believe it will continue to be an issue.

What use do people have for hoarding merit?

Zero.

Any evidence for proving this conclusion ? We can see merits being spend by members here but there is n way to see how many smerits they have currently. Most of the members who wanted to cheat this merit system already spent their merits on alt accounts and then got caught. Genuine members who were awarding merit points to newbies have also spent most of their merit points (as evident from their posts in merit giveaway threads).

Have you not looked at the several threads involving sMerit farming? You do realize these farmers don't just have 3-4 accounts, they have many more. Once those sMerits are used to level up a few chosen sig campaign accounts, off they go to buying more accounts with sMerits. So it would be safe to say the behind the scenes of account sales are surging and there is no short supply of account sellers.
If it has not already happened, the Merit source accounts will be bought and sold so someone with a little savvy will trickle sell the sMerits. Catching these will depend on just how savvy they are.

Once the merit farming finishes with the merit that is initially given, any further acquisition must be done with merit from sources. The merit sources account will be under heavy public scrutiny, so they are not free to break the system.

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Have you not looked at the several threads involving sMerit farming? You do realize these farmers don't just have 3-4 accounts, they have many more. Once those sMerits are used to level up a few chosen sig campaign accounts, off they go to buying more accounts with sMerits. So it would be safe to say the behind the scenes of account sales are surging and there is no short supply of account sellers.
If it has not already happened, the Merit source accounts will be bought and sold so someone with a little savvy will trickle sell the sMerits. Catching these will depend on just how savvy they are.

I always thought most of the accounts that are sold by account sellers are those hacked accounts. It might be possible that when that hack happened, some people noted the account details of high rank accounts and then changed the passwords. I am not sure of this but why will anyone sell an account which he has worked on. Does not it makes sense to earn with that account from bounties. And now that we need merits for leveling up, this account farming will come to an end finally (especially for ranks like Sr member and above).