We have Trade Limits for two reasons on Gangster Nation:
- To reduce the possibility for cheating; and
- To help ensure the greatest advantage is available to people putting the most effort in for their progress (i.e. so that people can't progress solely from the progress of friends).
Limits
Your Trade Limits reset every game day at midnight.
Sending
These limits apply when: sending gifts, adding assets to trades, creating auctions or depositing into RPS.
| Category | Limit per game day |
|---|---|
| Bullets | 50,000 (10,000 for accounts under 30 days old) |
| Credits* | 500 (100 for accounts under 30 days old) |
| Drugs | 50 |
| Perks | 50 |
| Vehicles | 50 |
* Doesn't apply to RPS currently.
Receiving
These limits apply when: receiving gifts, accepting trades, bidding on player-created auctions or withdrawing from RPS.
| Category | Limit per game day |
|---|---|
| Bullets | 100,000 (50,000 for accounts under 30 days old) |
| Credits* | 500 |
| Drugs | 50 |
| Perks | 50 |
| Vehicles | 50 |
* Doesn't apply to RPS currently.
How to check your current trade limits and usage
To check your current trade limits and usage, go to the Statistics tab of the Auction House or Trade Center screens.
Why are trade limits needed?
Trade limits help prevent cheating including:
- Duping (creating multiple accounts to farm assets and move the assets to a single account)
- Real World Trading (buying or selling assets for real currency)
Aside from this, trade limits also reduce the power someone can gain solely from other players, e.g. having many friends forward all earnings to one person. In some cases, people have friends play solely to farm assets for their own account. Trade Limits prevent this, ensuring everyone has the opportunity to fairly compete against others.
Why don't you just ban cheaters?
We do our best to identify and ban people who're cheating, however it's becoming increasingly difficult in today's world.
It's trivial for anyone to access multiple devices and internet connections. Improved privacy expectations, which are a positive overall, also make it more difficult to identify a specific device.
Real World Trading generally can't be proven without the players involved communicating in-game (or taking things to extremes which we've seen in the past with large networks of dupe accounts farming assets).
For these reasons, it's not as simple as banning people cheating. While we do ban the players we can catch in the act, Trade Limits restrict those we're unable to build evidence on (which is most cases), minimising the advantage anyone can gain from cheating, whether caught in the act or not.
How to avoid trade limits
You can sell assets in the Black Market for a fair market rate without consuming your trade limits.
Auctions with a black "Bid" button in the Auction House don't count towards your trade limits (these are the assets which have been sold to the Black Market in the previous days).
How to prevent someone wasting your trade limit
It's possible for someone to "waste" your trade limit, e.g. sending unwanted drugs to use up your drug limit.
To prevent this, go to the Settings screen (top right on mobile, bottom of main menu on desktop), then go to General, then change the "Automatically accept free gifts" setting.
How to prevent someone testing your trade limit
Another player may send you a small gift to see if you've reached your trade limit, e.g. to help determine your bullet stock.
To prevent this, go to the Settings screen (top right on mobile, bottom of main menu on desktop), then go to General, then change the "Automatically accept free gifts" setting.