Hai all, so this is meh idea.

As we all know, melon swords make ALOT of money. As we also know there are ALOT of melon sword scams. Now, there are ways to help ensure your sword won't be scammed, like only allowing players with at least $$$$+ to rent it. But this is not rock solid. Many high donating players have had complaints against them for scamming, and have been banned accordingly. Now here's my idea: to have collateral for your sword.
Now how this would work is when you rent your sword, you take the necessary precautions like making a contract and taking a bunch of screenies, and also having the said user give you something to hold as collateral that is worth 100k+, such as the full and entire ownership of a few towns, or a few hundred nstars, or even just having tha said user give you 100k plus your renting rate for the sword. After they have used your sword, they will give it back to you, and you will give them back their collateral, what ever it may be-the ownership of the towns, the nstars, the 100k etc.. This would all of course be written into a contract to ensure that scamming doesn't go the other way around.

This would ensure that if someone were to "scam you" that it wouldn't be a 300k loss But 200k. Oc course you could make the collateral as much as you want to further minimize the chance of loosing big time.

I truly hope this prevents some percentage of scamming here on the server I love. Please leave your feed back here, and thanks for reading!

(P.s I will be the first one to be doing this. I will require a 100k collateral to rent my melon sword. Pm me in game if interested!)

 

Revan is correct. If you don't have collateral, you will not be able to rent my sword

 

Yes they would still ow you 250k. However this must be stated in the contract, that the collateral is worth "x" amount of money and if something were to happen to the sword that the person still ows you the remainder of the money, and you get to keep the collateral. This idea would not completely stop scamming, but if you were to be scammed, the loss would be far less than if you stayed in the contract that if anything were to happen to the sword the given user would owe you 350k and got banned and you loose 350k