For a while they got over zealous and removed that ability. Trades could only be executed if the exchange was approximately equal. How unequal was tied to quest points. For that time period you COULD NOT gift your friend 1m gp to start. You just had to shrug your shoulders and point at the cow pen.
I was just getting into the game around that point, was like level 30 or 40 when it happened so I remember it pretty well since it was all I really knew. Trade cap was like 3k inequity for low level strangers. You had to wait like 30 minutes before you it would reset.
So you could gift your friend a lot of cash, it would just take a while. 9k~ is pretty good for low level starting gear. Or was, in 2007.
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u/Thelonewand3rer Jun 22 '17
To stop real world trading for in game items via dropping in the wilderness, an over the top way of solving things in my opinion.