Just a quick question about abuse. What is it? Well we’ll not know until we see it. But during development we could fairly easily think up strategies where the system could be abused. These were very quickly non-trivial to protect against.
But given that the scanner offers much to the majority of players we concluded we wanted to proceed with the system - knowing that it could be abused - and protect it via black listing.
I’d encourage players to not manipulate beacons to artificially change the rankings.
But likewise - we included a patrons counter - so that players could chose themselves to target “popular” shops.