Earth2 Developer Update on Ressources, Withdrawals and Anti-Scam Measures

In the latest update on Earth2’s progress, the developer revealed that Essence, thebasic energy unit of Earth2 have been working really well in internal test environments and is almost ready to be released. That will happen at the same time as the ability to set a unique EPL (Earth 2 Property Location) for your property. Other features will then then follow when ready.

Update on Account Reviews and Anti-Scam Procedures

Unfortunately, whenever there is money to be made, scammers are quick to take adveantage of the situation. The developers are focusing on revealing abuse accounts and accounts that have interacted with these abuse accounts.

 

The developer promises that the automation of this scam detection will help speed p withdrawals, which as we reported earlier, has been a huge problem for the project.

 

Earth2 wants to quickly eliminate scammers from Earth2, which unfortunately takes time away from integrating new features.

 

Following in the same vein, the developer is also comitted to stop automated trades through bots. Every trade should occur manually to be fair to all users. For this to work, validation on purchases will soon be required.

 

Recently, the developer launched an update that forces minimum bids to be at least 30% of the previous price paid for that property. The reason? To reduce the number of users sending low ball offers in the hope that the recipient would accidentally accept. For now, the feature applies to every account, but soon users can toggle the feature on and off. 

The developers are well aware of the many withdrawal problems experienced by its Earth2 users. To combat these, they are introducing withdrawals back to Credit Cards – something they have granted an initial approval for. This could mean the end of having to deal with all withdrawals manually through emails – a time-consuming and tedious process for both users and developers. 

Update on Tile System

The developers have appearently spent a lot of time on the tile system lately. While it is still a work-in-progress, the developers want to establish a structure that continues to support the high value of the class tiles and to provide permanently affordable tiles in the future. This is to keep a low barrier of entry to new users. A new base class of tiles will therefore be introduced and these will not have all the advantages of the high-classes in terms of Land Income Tax, for instance.