Global item rarity needs to be looked at

[skorge]

True, I haven't played much lately but this is one of my main concerns with P99. A lot of you will simply respond "items need to be as rare as they were back in '99/'00" the problem is that P99 is on a much extended timeline than Live was.

When Velious hit the general population migrated over to Velious content on Live (back in 2000/2001), leaving older zones less farmed, which kept certain items being over farmed. Even here, on P99, once Kunark hit the general population left Guk and went to Seb. This resulted in less FBSS entering the system.

Now, the main problem with P99 is that Kunark has been out way longer than it should be without a next expansion (Velious). Basically what is happening is there are WAY too many items entering the system. Items such as fungi tunics, heiro cloaks, rbgs, etc.

About 6 months ago or so (maybe a bit longer) a fungi tunic was going for 220k. Now you can buy one for 45k. One of the reasons why the fungi tunics were going for so much, was because the devs had the King coded wrong and as a result less tunics were entering the system. This should be a option for the devs...to create a system where less of a certain item is entered into the system. A simple comparison: in a couple of months a fungi tunic might only be worth 25k, whereas if they had kept it the way it was before they fixed it, fungi tunics would probably be worth about 125k or so...which is closer to what the value of them were on Live.

The fungi tunic is only one example. I believe the devs should go in and adjust drop rates of certain mobs/items. Bigger name items such as Fungi Tunic, T-Staff, Heiro Cloak, RBG...this will keep the economy closer to what it was like on Live.

Just a thought, and no I'm not saying this to capitalize later on in the future on these items...I'm saying this because of how unrealistic the economy of P99 will be in the next several months UNLESS Velious comes out soon! Anyone agree with me?