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Originally Posted by Bubbles
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The economy of Agnarr is fascinating to me, like the subplot in a movie thats actually the most entertaining part to you.... Which is funny, because even as someone with a BS in Economics, i always found EC on p99 dull.. The Valueation of the krono vs platinum in a present tense and projecting it in the future is almost like playing the market or gambling system in an RPG instead of grinding monsters outside the city ad naseum.
I made the call to stop levelling entirely after scoring my 48 spec pet and just immediately farmed plat to turn into krono. Something about seeing SMRs for 3 krono where in a month they will be 10 SMRs for 1 krono makes me giggle. But the timing advantage of having something early can be good.. For example, new pets and liches for a necro would be incredibly advantageous at the time and probably worth a quick krono investment, since having the spells would net you the power to grind 3 krono tomorrow instead of 1.... etc..
Then they announced the 50% bonus weekend. And anyone who cared was 50 by Monday lol. Which totally throws the economy in flux.. Since like a SSB went from a BiS must have to so flooded on the market (think 20 lowerguk picks going at all times all week...) that the homeless were scooping water out of the town well with them by Monday. So something i was getting 1kr for on day 3 was worth pretty much 9copper on day ten... Where those 3 krono went from 1200 in value to almost 4500pp in value..
Meh, just a silly example. It's a fascinating subplot.. It's like if p99 was a TV Show the editors would do all the actual dragon killing in a one min montage at the end of the episode, because if you were trying to film it Conan The Barbarian style, everyone would focus on the squabbling of the diff sets of 'heroes' competing to slay the gods!... Translation : Lawyerquest, the Reality TV of p99, would overtake the actual 'adventure' just like Agnar's "Kronos and Kash Homiez!" would be far more exciting than watching 75% of the server level in Upper/Lower Guk and Sol A/B.
Agnar is a progression server on live. It is not even trying to appeal to the p99 crowd in its entirety. It is not classic and has put as little effort into 'classic whitewashing' as humanly possible. And the ppl that wanted it, got it, which is why this thread is the same half dozen angry blowhards quibbling back and forth, like morning talk show political radio shows. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] |
I have a very similar situation myself. I'm a 49 necromancer as of just now, and I've been using him the past day or so exclusively to farm Platinum of Cyclops in OoT. You can buy a Krono for about 1k as of now (maybe more like 1.1k). So basically you can turn a good 3k plat from farming Cyclops into 3 krono that will almost certainly be worth x10 that amount eventually.
Krono is basically the T-Bill of Everquest on Agnarr ATM. Unless the whole god damn thing falls apart, the cost of Krono will rise. But it will be a slow curve, unlike what others are saying.
It might not be classic, but its fun to be able to have such a concrete valuation of your everquest wealth as Krono.