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Originally Posted by deadlycupcakez
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This idea completely ignores the middle class. This entire concept does. Its american politics in my elf sim noooooo! The majority of the population that plays are not FTE that grind hundreds of thousands of platinum. Nor are they brand new.
The problem with these ideas are that the effects impact only the player in the midst of their journey through Norrath.
The high end legendary item grinders will instantly begin the grind for more PPs and items again upon any economic intervention. They will quickly reacquire a stranglehold on the market and dominate the tunnel once more if not on a grander scale.
While this happens, the majority of players like myself cant transfer the mid level items we have on one character to an alt that we might want to play instead. My moneys gone (that in mid game comes exponentially slower than it does 50+) and my items are restricted that I probably wanted to recycle and use to level up an alt after I looted my first raid item drop.
And then there are the new players who are affected by this minimally to none.
Maybe its my personal ties to the issue... or just that i dont think using a big brother hand to guide the market into "fairness" or "more classic" will work in any scenario. especially since the (as stated above) timeline here far outstretches that of live and the preventative measures were not put in place beforehand.
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While I'm usually more on the side of getting that big brother intervention in the real world (higher taxes on capital gains for under 65, dammit!), for the EQ economy, Cupcakez has a point. Those with time to play and grind will do so once again despite intervention. Those who don't are thus screwed, and I liked the point here about the mid-level characters (the "average player"). Especially valid given the number of people I see talking about switching gear from one character to another because they want to change mains.
Honestly, if things being too expensive is the issue, all you have to do is wait. With an infinite supply of platinum and items, supply should outstrip demand. Even if it doesn't and EC traders buy up cheap sells to resell at profit to keep prices up, the buyer has the option to try for the camp themselves. Barring that, farming plat. Barring that, not giving a flying rat turd about that item.
So "consumers" have options here. Intervention from on high would solve nothing, merely complicate things. While I applaud the thinking of the greater good, the methods suggested by OP would not work.
For the sake of argument, how about a plat-cap? Each character can only hold up to X amount of platinum on their bank/person. Would force prices lower to keep them accessible and limit the supply of platinum coming into the EQonomy.