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Originally Posted by Ella`Ella
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If you're trying to fix RMT, you need to devalue in game currency until the risk no longer outweighs the reward. If you look to the case of Supremacy, he claims to have made $42,000. If you think of that practically for him, that's 4 years of education at a state university. Therefore, the risk < reward.
There are several ways to devalue currency...Lower cost of Peridots, Port Stones, Sky keys, Rubies, recharges (especially the 100k/charge cost on Staff of Forbidden Rites), etc...However, I feel like the staff wants to revalue currency, which increases the real life value price per plat. (This of course omits the possibility of lowering drop rates on currently expensive items including BCG, VS legs, Trak BP's, etc...)
If you're looking to sap plat out of the economy and reduce ways of laundering plat for RMT, an NPC with rare goods is definitely a way to go. However, I would add a twist to increase scarcity. I advocate an NPC that sells things like a guise for 1million plat for selfish reasons, but I know that I would personally buy 1 the first day that NPC went live. HOWEVER, I also know that if I knew that NPC would always be around I would defer buying one for another char for an indefinite period of time which would keep plat in velocity (circulation in the economy). Given that tid-bit, if you put an NPC that sold items like guise and staff of endless adventure (only item i want!!!) on an NPC and I knew that NPC would be for a very limited time (this NPC could make random INFREQUENT guest appearances in the future), I would buy 2-3 guises on day one. That's 2-3million plat right there and as per my conversation in teamspeak about this earlier, I could estimate approximately 15mil out of the economy on day one(ish).
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You make a valid point, but not everyone on the server, not even a larger population has 3 million plat to spare on a vanity item (in this case, pre-nerf Guise of the Deceiver).
Nor would a large majority of the population even want to spend 3 million plat on that.
Again, it's the 1% versus 99%.
The fact that even such quantities of raw platinum coin exists is troubling. Back in classic & Kunark, rare gems didn't sell for a small fortune. They sold for how much the best vendor would sell you one for.
If anyone is to blame for the broken economy, it's the players themselves demanding exorbitant prices and idiots meeting their demands.
Example: The caster onky 40/30 staff, 300k. Who would be retarded enough to buy that? Why is the person even selling it for such a price? Are item prices now judged on their stats NO MATTER who can actually use them?