Reason why item prices are increasing on P99 Blue

[Lhancelot]

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

prices are going down universally

That's not true some items are actually going up.

[indiscriminate_hater]

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

It's a slow day at the office man. I am just testing the air.

Eh, didn't mean to stifle creativity. I think your slow day clashed with my stressful day.

In any case, the reality is that the market here is a big part of the game. And, outside of breaking the rules, new players won't immediately have access to valuable items. That's EQ, and I'd be hesitant to mess around with the core of what makes this game what it is.

[Grizzler]

I just started playing again and have just spent some time purchasing some new items for some of my chars in EC. For the most part, the prices all seem fair based off of the prices I found on the wiki/auction trackers.

However I did get someone that wanted to sell a set of wis leg's for over 200Pp over the typical amount. I figured they were just going for a pay day on that particular item but I just told them no and moved on. Overall it seems prices are ok but I have noticed some things being priced a lot higher than what is seemingly normally paid.

[Evia]

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

These are all great points, but thing is people are always lazy. They'd rather pay fatcat prices than farm an item themselves.

Sometimes it's a matter of simply not having the time to invest into raiding or guilding and getting stuff that's highly contested, like a fungi tunic.

How is a new-like player supposed to get a fungi tunic, if this item keeps going up? 3 weeks ago, fungi tunics were 40k. Suddenly now people are /aucing them for 50k+ or more.

I remember when Fungi Tunics were 75-80k range.
Be stoked its 50k.

[evan1612]

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

Staaaaahp with the ALS crap.

It seems like a fun idea even tho it's not for me.

[branamil]

Prices in general will always go up. There almost no meaningful ways for plat to exit the economy permanently. Reagents, food, spells, are a tiny percentage of the raw plat that comes in due to gems and vendor sales. Recharging certain items are about the only significant plat sink.

[Lojik]

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

Prices in general will always go up. There almost no meaningful ways for plat to exit the economy permanently. Reagents, food, spells, are a tiny percentage of the raw plat that comes in due to gems and vendor sales. Recharging certain items are about the only significant plat sink.

If you're saying plat can't exit the economy neither can items. It all depends on how people react to prices and behave accordingly: if it seems like prices are high people will farm items more, if they think prices are low they'll farm plat. Prices can still go up or down even if this server exists for 20 years.

[loramin]

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

I get the idea of the guild, but to say you cant buy from people outside of the guild because its considered twinking... It's not considered twinking if you earned the money yourself. I keep seeing this guild pushed on all of these new toons to the server before those people realize what else is out there. That's going to make new players think it is harder than it actually is to get loot, and will make people leave.

ALS is just a single guild, and here in the forum at least I've never seen them "pushed on" anyone who hadn't already expressed a desire for a more classic economy. I highly doubt even a single person has left the server because they were somehow forced in to thinking that ALS was the only way to play on P99.

Also, if you're trying to play in a classic economy, by definition that means excluding all the sellers from the "broken" economy. The price of every item (not just fungis and CoFs) is impacted by the thousands of copies that have sold before in this server's very un-classic 8+ years of operation, and if ALS players took advantage of those (lower than classic) prices they wouldn't get to experience the classic economy they are trying to experience.

[Lojik]

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

ALS is just a single guild, and here in the forum at least I've never seen them "pushed on" anyone who hadn't already expressed a desire for a more classic economy. I highly doubt even a single person has left the server because they were somehow forced in to thinking that ALS was the only way to play on P99.

Also, if you're trying to play in a classic economy, by definition that means excluding all the sellers from the "broken" economy. The price of every item (not just fungis and CoFs) is impacted by the thousands of copies that have sold before in this server's very un-classic 8+ years of operation, and if ALS players took advantage of those (lower than classic) prices they wouldn't get to experience the classic economy they are trying to experience.

They need a new name, people look at me funny at my office when I talk about how great ALS is.

[applesauce25r624]

only chumps don't know how to make plat

uninstall, you minimum wage cucks