Addressing the Economy (mudflation)

[citizen1080]

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

Charge city taxes! To use city resources not only do you need faction but now you need to pay taxes. You want to use the bank in Freeport or vendors, pay a taxes. The tax will be adjusted according to your level.

Example:

Joe Bob the 60 ranger would like to use the bank. When you click on the bank vendor, you must pay plat to open the bank slots.

Not a bad idea...however I don't think many people use banks. Most people have an EC alt they stash their money on.

[stormlord]

Ok it's not hard to do...

Somebody should look through the archives on this forum and check prices for items. Then compare those prices to what they're now or what they were after. If the price went up with time then that indicates inflation. It indicates the abundance of platinum in the economy; which allows for higher prices.

Do this for fungi's and FBSS or whatever.

Get the numbers. I'd like to see em anyway.

It makes sense that the old players will have lots of platinum saved up over the years. It makes sense they might spend mucho plat on alt twinks. However, it doesn't make sense that old players will play forever. Even rolling alts is something only some players will do consistently. Eventually they get burnt out. And because the game has been stuck on Kunark, that's anothe reason old players won't stick around.

For example, it makes sense to me that years and years of farming should mean lots and lots of awesome gear distributed in the economy. Because there's so much of it, it should be cheap.

But what makes sense (one person or another) doesn't always happen. So I'd like to see the numbers. Otherwise, we're all having our own subjective rant and it's not going to be heard.

[skorge]

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

Or..instead of enraging the veteran population...impliment one of the many reasonable solutions listed in previous pages. No drop items on venders for large amounts of plat..manastones, fungi's etc. Or a casino which while was not classic to kunark it was 'classic' to eq.

This. Add a legacy npc in EC that sells legacy and/or gm event items, only make them *no-drop* versions. Items could include: prenerf guise, prenerf fungi staff, manastone, rubicite armor, RoA, da oogly stick, lr armor, etc.

The hardest thing would be to come up with a good price. For example, manastones are going for 250-300k now. If you add them to this vendor they need to sell for a bit under what a regular manastone is going for now (because it's no-trade version).

[Hasbinbad]

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

the person that solves the economy problem in MMOS will be very rich.

Whatever you do, don't stop watering the plants with Brawndo.

[Rhambuk]

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

Whatever you do, don't stop watering the plants with Brawndo.

its got slectrolytes!

[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.

[Gel Mibson]

Platlord and his confidants have been ousted. The world we used to know will soon return to order.

[Hawala]

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

Item decay comes to mind. Oh wait, everybody hates that worse than inflation.

YES, item decay.

[fadetree]

well, after having thought about it, although item decay is a good mechanic in general, it doesn't actually remove platinum from circulation, just makes it circulate faster. Any kind of actual platinum sink has to involve an NPC.