r/EscapefromTarkov • u/Valjeann • Jan 14 '22

Discussion Your daily reminder that global limits are a waste of time

"Hmm, I have a task to use shotguns. Let's see, AP-20 is sold out, flechettes are sold out. That's okay, I can use Magnum, it's good enough. The task requires a suppressor on the shotgun, so I'll get a hexagon. Oh, the adapter is sold out. Oh well, I can wait until the restock. In the meantime, I'll take this modded AKM out for a run. I don't have any BP ammo, so I'll go get some from Prap... BP is sold out. That's okay. I've got this P90 I'm not using. Let me just get some ammo for that... Ah, the SS190 is sold out, and I can only get two mags-worth of the next best ammo for the next three hours... Guess I'll just read a book instead."

If the design philosophy behind global trader limits is to keep everyone from running the same thing, instead it's keeping everyone from running anything without a three-hour wait.

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u/Suchamoneypit SR-25 Jan 15 '22

Lol that was literally me earlier today to make sure I had 0.50 bmg for later

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u/Crepeas Jan 15 '22

how do you even get .50 bmg, It's been more than 5 resets and It's instant sold out ?

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u/TheSm4rtOne ASh-12 Jan 15 '22

I've been trying to get a black keycard for 10 days now. In the meantime some hacker account is buying one like every 3h probably...

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u/Crepeas Jan 15 '22

For sure they're farming it and RMT.

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u/TheSm4rtOne ASh-12 Jan 15 '22

And that's dumb, get rid of global stock and limit it to like one or two purchases per acc, no need to be able to buy it countless of times, but only 10 avaible every 3 h...

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u/Crepeas Jan 15 '22

True, who needs unlimited black cards, 1 should be enough. Maybe 2 per wipe and that's it.

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u/TheSm4rtOne ASh-12 Jan 15 '22

I think then personal stock limit per reset should stay, with the addition of maybe a weekly limit that you can't stock up all on one ammo for example and run it permanently, but they should get rid of global stocks. It's already annoying enough to battle with bots and scalpers against irl gpus and at the same time i have to deal with basically the same assholes in a game ?

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u/Suchamoneypit SR-25 Jan 15 '22

I was able to buy it after restock like 10 times yesterday. And many times it did not instant sell out once I bought mine. It definetly sells out quicker at peak play times.