This is concerning the Tara fashion contest in G10S2. My request is for you all to send in tickets to request for them to make the clothing from this fashion contest non-tradeable and to make the results from the competition public, like how they do most events like fishing and so on.
If tickets don't work, help to spread some publicity about this. A normal person playing the mini-game with no mistakes will only be able to get up to 70-80 points. Some non-legit players get 160 points through unknown methods. They can be easily identified by their names.
Here's a screenshot of the winners. The 1st place has won this competition more than once. This is unfortunately from my mule character because my main character d/c 1 minute before competition started.
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By making the dress non-tradeable, it:
1. effectively eliminates all the mule characters going in to participate unless they want the dress for themselves
2. you stop the people who are making a profit from this dress, and stop rewarding hackers for this.
The reason behind this is because there are a lot of people botting this contest. It is to their advantage to help nail down the root of the problem before it comes. The dress is nice, but it really deprives people of a fair chance for this competition when there are some people out there making gold out of botting for this contest.
You can't stop the botting, but you can at least give the players who play fairly a chance.
If the clothing is non-tradeable, at least interest in this competition will go down. Even if there are people who want to bot, they won't have much incentive to do so. Also, it will be easier for them to track down the people who mess up the scores.