Anti-Scam machine.

Alrighty, so this morning I made an anti-scam machine in my island the other day as I hate the complaints of people getting scammed, so I made this. It is 100% scam proof. If you would like to use it /msg entityBear in game or post in this thread, thanks!
Here are some screenshots:

 

Clear lag can be a potential problem. Other than that, I think it is a good idea.

 

Nice work. Nothing can really stop scamming entirely, but this would definitely intimidate some people not to do so.

 

Do both players have to be standing on the pressure plate to release the water?

 

Yes. Both players have to be standing on the pressure plates for the trade to happen.

 

Potential scam here. Lets say i'm selling 50 diamonds for a beacon. I find a trader, go to your 'Anti-scam machine'. He puts in the beacon, and i only put in 25 diamonds, scam complete. It is very hard to tell how much of each item they have put in, so that is one thing that may go wrong.

 

And that's when the idea of downloading hacks comes in.

 

What kind?

 

There's thousands of hacked clients to choose from. xD

 

Which do what to counter it?

 

Off topic, I know that resource pack is faithful, correct? But why is the font different? I quite like it.

 

If Hoppers worked you could counter this with comparators.
Set it up so that each side has multiple hoppers filled with 1 of each of the item you trade E.G. one with 5 grass one in every slot, one with dias, one and one for rares etc etc., but set up a system where the person can fill another hopper with 50 cobble hooked to a comparator so that becomes the base for how many you need for the hoppers to activate(54 to count for the filler slots). Then they have to put at least 50 of xx item in the hopper to get it to pull the item down. So player A puts his item(s) in the hoppers linked to his side and xx cobble in a hopper that is linked to the other side denoting how much the opposite player has to put in of said block. person on the other side does the same, then when the numbers are satisfied, they pull the items into droppers that go into a stream under you that you cant get to (maybe under glass) so you can only reach the channel that will bring you yhour items so you cant just pick them up mid way. This would also release the items one by one so you can see if they are trying to cheat you and put in a diff item and that will give you time to screenshot it and send to the mods. It would take a lot of redstone work but it would be the best way to counter scamming using redstone

 

Is there not a better plugin than chestshop out there that would allow you to specify a number of an item as the price instead of money? Then you just need to have it in your inventory. I'm writing a bunch of plugins at the moment anyway so I'll add this feature to the list, I'm writing them using the sponge API though so I guess it would not be possible to load this into skyblock

 

Yes, that's the part of the machine that is stopping the scamming, it releases the water at the same time.

 

Wolfram hacked client, thanks for asking. x3

 

The Wolfram hacked client comes with a setting known as "Item Label" under the Render tab. This gives all items a number of how many is in that stack and I keep it on because it proves helpful in trades.

As far as the Anti-Scam machine, it's a nice design, it's very pretty to me and I would use it but of course there's currently the Clag issue - which can be avoided by waiting for Clag but that's time consuming.

 

Ice and sticky pistons with blocks would solve the Clag issue

 

Never knew this, may you illustrate this?

 

wwwwwww B<-P
I I I I I I I I
w-water
I-ice
P-Piston
<- -direction
basically you want the block piston to push the item forward through the water, and ice speeds up anything that is flowing in water on top of it

 

Not sure how that fixes the sometimes off-guarding catching Entity clearer. It would definitely speed things up and minimise risk but by not waiting the risk is still there.