Addressing the Economy (mudflation)

[azxten]

Has there ever been any discussion about addressing the inflation in the economy? In the "classic" timeline this server would already be past Planes of Power yet we are still in Kunark.

In classic there was a 6 month timespan between Kunark and Velious. Here it has been more than 2 years.

Are there any money sinks that could be added which wouldn't be detrimental? Anything?

There needs to be a way to remove platinum from the economy. Sony added the Luclin casino by this point where you had a tiny chance of getting a manastone/guise for example.

[citizen1080]

Toss up no drop guises at 500k- 1mill pp a pop...i promise you they would sell like crazy. However, this would royally piss off the very few people left on the server with a legit guise from launch.

Sacrafice the few for the many?


Really any money sink that was for fluff items (or even make the items no drop, that would solve the issues as well. Buy a no drop manastone for 100k) would not be detrimental, other than the age old argument (it's not classic). But as you have stated...we are 1.5 years past classic at this point.

[azxten]

Originally Posted by citizen1080 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

However, this would royally piss off the very few people left on the server with a legit guise from launch.

I guess it really becomes a question of at what point this server is so non-classic that we may as well focus on the gameplay instead of pretending anymore.

For example, being able to buy a name prefix or something so you can be "Honorable Joe Blow" or whatever for making a 1,000,000 platinum donation.

Would stuff like this ruin the classic experience more or less than the non-classic economy? Hard call to make.

[maximum]

Click the ads. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Kagatob]

Originally Posted by citizen1080 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Toss up no drop guises at 500k- 1mill pp a pop...i promise you they would sell like crazy. However, this would royally piss off the very few people left on the server with a legit guise from launch.

Sacrafice the few for the many?

Honestly who cares, the only reason they'd get mad is because their guised character's value would drop slightly (slightly... it still takes 500K-1Mil to get a guise) if they tried to sell it, which shouldn't be allowed anyway.

[Aaron]

Originally Posted by Kagatob [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Honestly who cares, the only reason they'd get mad is because their guised character's value would drop slightly (slightly... it still takes 500K-1Mil to get a guise) if they tried to sell it, which shouldn't be allowed anyway.

Notsomuch. Some of us take pride in being here since day one and getting a guise. I still have my accounts with guises and have no intention to sell them. Giving out guises to others would make my toons less unique. Not less valuable.

[Fountree]

Originally Posted by citizen1080 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Really any money sink that was for fluff items (or even make the items no drop, that would solve the issues as well. Buy a no drop manastone for 100k) would not be detrimental, other than the age old argument (it's not classic). But as you have stated...we are 1.5 years past classic at this point.

We're actually over 2 years from Classic at this point on p99. (Kunark release Date March, 2011)

[vulzol]

Originally Posted by citizen1080 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Toss up no drop guises at 500k- 1mill pp a pop...i promise you they would sell like crazy. However, this would royally piss off the very few people left on the server with a legit guise from launch.

Sacrafice the few for the many?


Really any money sink that was for fluff items (or even make the items no drop, that would solve the issues as well. Buy a no drop manastone for 100k) would not be detrimental, other than the age old argument (it's not classic). But as you have stated...we are 1.5 years past classic at this point.

Seconded.

I think all items that no longer drop should have ridiculous pricetags sold at Shady Swashbuckler. If not him, add a casino to HHK where items that no longer drop have a tiny probability of being obtained.

This would suck money out of the economy and make it more classic while offering an avenue for people who came late to the game to obtain items they missed at launch.

Naturally, NOT CLASSIC, so won't be implemented, but fuck, 2 years of kunark ain't classic, might as well add a non-classic feature to attempt to fix the problems created by a non-classic timeline.

[HeallunRumblebelly]

Originally Posted by citizen1080 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Toss up no drop guises at 500k- 1mill pp a pop...i promise you they would sell like crazy. However, this would royally piss off the very few people left on the server with a legit guise from launch.

Sacrafice the few for the many?


Really any money sink that was for fluff items (or even make the items no drop, that would solve the issues as well. Buy a no drop manastone for 100k) would not be detrimental, other than the age old argument (it's not classic). But as you have stated...we are 1.5 years past classic at this point.

I'm still pissed they're giving them in GM events. Needs moar oldschool cred :P

edit: Obvious answer is to wipe it clean for velious though. Show us that it's not what we've accumulated but the joy and experience of playing ~ Nilbog would never have it though :P

[Rhambuk]

Originally Posted by HeallunRumblebelly [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm still pissed they're giving them in GM events. Needs moar oldschool cred :P

edit: Obvious answer is to wipe it clean for velious though. Show us that it's not what we've accumulated but the joy and experience of playing ~ Nilbog would never have it though :P

not a server wipe, but a platinum wipe i think hed be for.