Arguably I was a little twisted on what opinion I should give, one being the fact that giving this ability to non-donors just gives another reason for me not to buy a rank one day and the other being it annoys people who have donated. But what pushed me over the edge was my own opinion to be honest, although your thread did motivate me to at least make this argument that I can sort of agree that this sort of perk does give a type of unfair advantage and that being economical. Let me explain.



Let's get to the point, signing items and showcasing them on the marketplace gives a economical advantage, this is because when you are purchasing crafted items on the newly added marketplace it will display the creators IGN (if they have donated) and the statistics surrounding the item, if this item is well made and has taken great care to manufacture then when it is visible on the market place and since the customer will see who made it. Therefore the player who made the item will get increased customer loyalty from its spectators and customers (for those who don't understand business terms it basically means that loyal customers to your business are more likely to buy from your business compared to a business they know nothing about) , as a result of this loyal customers will be more than likely to purchase from these respective businesses again and sooner or later direct them to the marketplace on the forums if the donor has a market place on there where the player can now see and purchase all of the other items this player has created which of course creates extra profit which can be spent in game.



In stark contrast, if you have not donated it doesn't matter how well or effort you have put into creating an item to sell, the fact is while it will still sell for a profit, your online forum market will not benefit at all as compared to someone who has signed their items because no one knows who created this item and because they don't know you they're not going to go looking for you and will probably not buy from your market place on the forums and even if they did, they would not have done it because they knew you were good at creating gear, they purchased from you because they were lucky enough to find your online market.



Now that the complaint is over I did also want to say that by giving non donors the ability to sign you can also track the creators of the item down, this could be very useful to track down players who have created weapons and gear that is simply too powerful for their level, and then finding out how they made it to nerf the item as a whole.



However this could all be simply fixed, all it requires is that when selling an item it notes who is selling the item and as for the little suggestion just above this one if the mods haven't done it already is to create a hidden tag which displays the creator of the item and the ingredients used in it. (no i'm totally not snaking you all to the game balancers so that op items can be tracked down and nerfed easier so you can't beat legendary island with no potions, so what? :P)



-Edit: Also quick suggestion to help the thread above, a command could be installed something like /itemcreator when holding the item in your hand it would display the name of the creator in chat for the player.

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