Spell Costs

[Namsaknoi]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Well first, if anyone has any direct evidence of mob plat drops, I'm sure they'd implement the change. I don't think they're reducing your average mob plat drops for inflation purposes (it really wouldn't make a difference overall). They've done that a couple times with things like the Seafuries being either unclassic drop rates or otherwise a crap show for CSR, but I doubt they're doing that for your average mob. More likely this is just what the mobs drop at under the closest to classic version of the code that they were able to find to start with.

Back in classic, I do agree it was tough to find money to buy those lower level spells, but part of that was just lack of knowledge. Now people know where to go if they are starting fresh and want to try to maximize some plat (sisters, bandits, etc.).

It does make a lot of difference in long run for inflation, whether it be 10% less or 30% less. From my memory, LDCs regularly dropped 3-5pp, while imps in Sol B drop 6-7pp on live. Half of that would be generous on P99.

[cd288]

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

It does make a lot of difference in long run for inflation, whether it be 10% less or 30% less. From my memory, LDCs regularly dropped 3-5pp, while imps in Sol B drop 6-7pp on live. Half of that would be generous on P99.

It really doesn't make a difference at all in the long run. Maybe in a world where people didn't have the knowledge that they do about classic EQ, but this is really a drop in the bucket. Given your join date, maybe you're somewhat new to the P99 experience (not saying that in a bad way) and never experienced a server launch from scratch here. Both Blue and Green became mudflated pretty quickly. People know every single plat camp and in the early days of the servers they get farmed 24/7 and plat influx into the economy is really fast here. If you increased plat drops on those random mobs would it increase the inflation rate a bit? For sure. But would that ultimately make a material impact on how quickly things become mudlated on P99 servers? Not at all.