There is a big difference between no access to shops and no access to general stores/traders in ports. Buying runes/armor/... and selling your items to NPCs is one thing; buying items sold by other players to stores is completely different.
If people vote yes for access to shops, which makes total sense, it'll be very easy to circumvent the trading rule via general store trading. Just have your main sell supplies/items to a remote general store and then buy them via your ironman account. Cheating like this made no sense when people were doing this for themselves but now we'll have competition on the hiscores...
15-Sep-2014 15:41:28