This is the problem of exchanging fame. When you fame a person,
you expect him to fame you back. It is suppose to be a fair trade.
However, what happens when the other person doesnt give you back
fame? What should you do? What sort of redress do you have?
Therfore, the system of exchanging fame is flawed because it is a
system with no safeguards in place. It is totally reliant on trust
between 2 consenting parties.
One remedy to this solution is to remove the fame system from the
game. The fame system after all serves no useful purpose other than
an avenue for one to earn extra mesos by selling fame.
The original objective of the fame system is to reward people who
are friendly and helpful. People withe more fame are seen as more
helpful and kind. However, abuse of the system has lead to people
to abandon such thinking.
People are simply buying and selling fame. Thus we see that the
fame system no longer meets its objective and is now a source of
misery for people who are scammed of their fame and a source of
income for people who sell fame.
MapleSEA administrators do not provide any guidelines on the
trading of fame as it is not encouraged. Afterall, the idea of
giving fame is to be done on a voluntary basis and the giver should
not expect anything in return.
As such, we should completly do away with the fame system as it is
obsolete and no longer serves its purpose.
