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Originally Posted by cerasa
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This quote is what I was asssuming is causing these high prices.
Someone told me that early on in this emulator, there was a plat dupe and the server veterans have A LOT of plat so there is inflation. Is there any truth to this rumor?
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As far as I know most of the plat duping/exploiting was figured out, people were banned/rolled back as best they could.
I don't think the amount of money we see circulating has anything to do with a dupe or exploit as the numbers really aren't that high. Early on Bubbles(50 cleric) who was nice enough to give me a really cheap set of Fine Steel. After talking with him/her a lot longer, she said she eventually stopped advertising her ability to make this stuff as it wasn't beneficial to her. And what I mean by this is, the margin she made off taking her time to make a full set wasn't anything compared to the 400-500pp she said she would make an hour farming FG's.
I think its far more likely that the money we see here is because people are much more aware of the great farming spots, not just for gear but for plat, and use that to get the items they want. Instead of attempting to get a group to compete with the 24/7 enchanters camping at frenzy, they turn to farm FG's for a couple days to earn the 10-12k to buy one. This creates a lot more sales, and a lot more need for plat. Since if it was actual groups camping the fbss, the person who looted it would likely keep/use it and there would be no exchange of 10k plat. But since its an enchanter farming, there has to be a 10k exchange, which creates a need for someone to figure out how to farm 10k.