A Curious Question of Selling Coded Systems (and the revenue they generate)

Mathus

I am reading the ToS for IRE, and noticed something that got turned into a Web discussion:

Can I, a player, purchase from another player with Credits, a coded product, such as a Shapeshifter Offensive System or something similar? Thanks!

Vyxsis

if not, a lot of people are in trouble

Emir

I demand shrubbings.

Razmael

If it's for credits, it's not technically against the ToS. If it's for RL money, it is. In any case, it's not something we're going to enforce if it's for stuff outside the game. If you're trying to sell in-game stuff for RL money though, such as gold, credits, or a whole character, we'll come down hard on that for sure.

Rhyot

No need to purchase a system. Just ask for Sunder and you'll get every offense system for free. 

Emir

What Rhyot is trying to say is that if you get Sunder you'll have a fully capable offense of dismantling everyone who put the work in themselves and is using homebrew.

What Rhyot doesn't know is that Sunder is garbage (no offense Jory ily) and anyone losing to it enough to be salty enough to drop passive aggressive comments about it every chance they get is even worse than a Sunder user. And they're a hypocrite, because they never voiced these complaints when Tripwire was top dog.

Zaila

So.... What you're saying is that Sunder is Schrodinger's system:

Simultaneously garbage and fully capable of dismantling anyone who made their own.

Toz

That has a dangerous assumption baked in: that something is true because Rhyot says so.

Kyna

We're getting a little off topic now AND on that note, this thread has served its purpose with @Razmael's answer. Combat questions, discussions and various system(s) pro's and con's can move on back to their own thread.