Bring back the Seafurys

[Pokesan]

thread is supplying the lols but i must demand more!

good troll baler-kun

[NachtMystium]

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

thread is supplying the lols but i must demand more!

good troll baler-kun

"I was only pretending to be retarded!!!"

[dbouya]

Well for one everquest is too small of an economy to see supply and demand hold up reliably. it's too easy for something like one man on earth owning every pig on earth (didn't that actually happen once or some shit in the 1910s?). It's too easy to setup an epic MQ cartel that price fixes to keep prices high, not even necessarily for profit, but to justify their own interest in the task with their guild in the first place.

But it's hard to see what baler's point is when he doesn't elaborate.

[Lhancelot]

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

"I was only pretending to be retarded!!!"

I am highly disappointed in Pokesan, giving troll credit when Baler was 100% serious in his highly intelligent (sarcasm there) argument of why p99 "is not supply and demand," whatever that even means. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

To the point of fungis rising, I honestly believe they have been rare enough that all it took was for 3-5 people to bump the price up on them to make them seem to have gone up in worth.

Fatjoe and Co. seem to have stopped their fungi tunic farm machine awhile back, and since then you don't see a fungi hitting the market every other hour. (Slight exaggeration, but there were far more fungis being farmed and sold 1-2 months and further back.) Not to say only Fatjoe was farming fungis for sales but I just noticed him more than others in the past.

As for Seafuries, I feel these have nothing to do with prices going up or down. Some things have gone up lately, while others have gone down. Mostly high end items seem to be more expensive than in the past while low tier items have dropped. Seafuries being nerfed wouldn't have this kind of impact on item prices imo.

[fastboy21]

Virtual world economics are actually kind of interesting, especially when they interact with real world money (not p1999 of course).

Its true that one of the fun things about virtual world economies is that not all logical premises that exist in the real world necessarily exist. I.E. Just because something works a certain way in the real world doesn't mean that it will work that way in the virtual world. In the end, if you want to prove something about p1999's economy you have to demonstrate it in the data...which isn't exactly easy to gather or control for.

In any case, I'm not sure what the poster means by saying that there isn't a supply and demand of goods and services in p1999. It certainly seems to me that there is. If he is saying something slightly more subtle, like the real world expectations about supply and demand don't exist that is possible...but it wouldn't be totally analogous imo. There is a limited production of goods, limited demand for goods, etc. Since the problem of scarcity exists in our p1999 virtual world I'm not sure what reason there would be to throw out supply and demand as reasonable describers of p1999's virtual economy.

[Lhancelot]

Originally Posted by fastboy21 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Virtual world economics are actually kind of interesting, especially when they interact with real world money (not p1999 of course).

Its true that one of the fun things about virtual world economies is that not all logical premises that exist in the real world necessarily exist. I.E. Just because something works a certain way in the real world doesn't mean that it will work that way in the virtual world. In the end, if you want to prove something about p1999's economy you have to demonstrate it in the data...which isn't exactly easy to gather or control for.

In any case, I'm not sure what the poster means by saying that there isn't a supply and demand of goods and services in p1999. It certainly seems to me that there is. If he is saying something slightly more subtle, like the real world expectations about supply and demand don't exist that is possible...but it wouldn't be totally analogous imo. There is a limited production of goods, limited demand for goods, etc. Since the problem of scarcity exists in our p1999 virtual world I'm not sure what reason there would be to throw out supply and demand as reasonable describers of p1999's virtual economy.

OP never mentioned supply and demand, that discussion began with Baler. We still waiting for his explanation of how p99 "is not supply and demand."

[Rivera]

Good stuff in here.

Arguing online is retarded.

Like, actually retarded.

You're sitting here typing paragraphs at a complete stranger you've never and will never meet. This solves nothing 98% of the time.

[Lhancelot]

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

Good stuff in here.

Arguing online is retarded.

Like, actually retarded.

You're sitting here typing paragraphs at a complete stranger you've never and will never meet. This solves nothing 98% of the time.

But it's fun. Sometimes you got to do things for the giggles, and not worry about solving anything. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Jimjam]

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

Good stuff in here.

Arguing online is retarded.

Like, actually retarded.

You're sitting here typing paragraphs at a complete stranger you've never and will never meet. This solves nothing 98% of the time.

The eventual heat death of the universe can never be solved.

All we can do is to make sure everyone has plenty of lolz so our hearts aren't cold and empty unlike existence's fate.

[Mead]

Baler pulled a Swish. It got too hot in here. Time to bounce.