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Anyway, This is the current homepage of the PSO Strike force, an Anti-Thieving Organization. Its technically mine, even though my good buddy Sei-Ryu does most of the actual management. I've stopped activily recruiting for it, but if you still wish to join, contact me. Er, for now I'm just gonna post a link to the old site, and some anti-thieving tips. Some of this information will stay true till the PSO Servers go down, and some of it will be as dated as... something which is really dated. (Look for that line to be replaced in the next update, too.)

So if you wanna check out the PSO Strike Force site, you can go here.

HOW TO AVOID BEING STOLEN FROM:

Simple, don't trade. Well, nowadays even THAT doesn't work. So take the sensible precautions, if there's somebody in the chat room shouting "stealyourlavis" is a thief, don't trade with them. The second most obvious tip is to not trade with somebody named "stealyourlavis". Okay, you won't be running into anyone with that name most likely, but apply this to the real world. The more RPGish the name, the less likely the person is a thief. For instance, two people want to trade for your Nei's Claw, Myshara and Killbot. (Killbot, BTW, is an actual thief.) Now, just by looking at the names, what can you tell? Myshara is probably somebody who has some experience RPing, or at least an ounce of intellect. Killbot...... well, lets just say that the person who made this name is probably gonna spend the rest of their life cleaning toilets at the local gas station. Which would you rather trust with your valued rare? If you said Killbot, leave my site now.

Another good tip is to trade with somebody you know to be reliable. Any of the CRP guys are good canditates, and we're always looking for new rares. Trade with somebody who has a board like that they call home. If you get cheated, you can follow them to that board and yell at them. It'll do a lot more good than spamming them, cause most of the time they value their good standing on that board more than they value some useless item, which can be easily duped or hacked.

Yet another tip: Don't join any rooms marked 'Trades' if they have just one person in them. If there are 2 or 3, go in and see: It COULD be a trap, but theives are in general friendless, pimply faced, pencil-necked geeks.

More things to avoid:

People who spell things with 'z', or seem ignorant of the english language. (i.e. I've got mad warez 4 trade). Hax0rs are not your friend.

People with DBZ names: for those you who don't know, that means ANY variation on "goku" "gohan" or "vegita". In all my years as an anime fan, I have met *2* DBZ fans who weren't complete idiots, and thats out of over a hundred. To back that up, its been indepdently confirmed that DBZ people steal more than anyone else.

Watch the amount of rares they have, if its absolutly insane, they're either a duper, hax0r, or theif. Know how many is a normal amount of rares; I've gotten quite a few, but if somebody claims to have both a "Lavis Cannon" and a "Technical Crozier", and they're a RAmar, steer clear of them.

Don't be a jerk, it IS possible to irritate somebody to the point where they'll steal your stuff as a way of irritating you. An example, one time I was trading a twin brand for.... I think it was some kind of sword. My target item had been a nei's claw, and he didn't have it, but when somebody came in who did, I began to negotiate with her. He became angry and started yelling at me to get out of "his" room. I finally completed the trade, heaven's for nei's, and returned to him. I was to trade him a flame visit and two god/powers for this... we'll say kaladog. As we were working this out, he reminded me 30 times that he didn't drop first. Being the nice guy I am, I dropped the flame visit, he dropped the kaladog, I took it, and then saw that I had god/BATTLE, not god/power. I told him so, and he began screaming and calling me a thief. A second later I found out where I had put my god/power. I count it very much to my credit that I gave him the powers instead of walking off.

A final note: A GS user created himself 150 extremely valuable items and attempted to trade 50 of them on each of the 3 server sets, Japan, European, and American, as a test. For the 50 items, 42 were stolen on the American, 39 on the European, and 14 on the Japanese. Draw your own conclusions.