State of the Economy: Ingame

[Arclanz]

Kinda enjoying these old posts. Danke Huggz. Ah more reasons for a new server. Leave all the hard core or uber or exploiters or hackers on this server to enjoy the economy they made for themselves. Let the rest of us play on a decent, non-retarded server.

[Arclanz]

You know, I recall seeing Uth's name around as I've been here for years; but I didn't realize what a great, stand up guy he was until seeing some of his posts here. Shame you douchebags chased him off. This IS classic; cool players leaving due to increasing population of asshats/scum/etc. Same thing happened on Live.

[finalgrunt]

Supply and demand.

There are items which are still needed. Haste & regen items are most asked, since there are so many twinks around. Therefore the price usually compares to how much plat you can farm compared to how much time you'll have to spend at the camp to get the item. Ancient cyclops ring, FBSS all fall into that category.

Pretty much 2k per hour is the base value for comparisons.

If billions of plat were dupped and went into the economy, prices would be much much higher than this. Any CoF would sell for 10 millions+. As long as money sits in a bank, there is no inflation. It only happens when the money is used to buy objects.

I guess dupers were caught before they could floor the market. Maybe few millions of duped plat were introduced, but that's it.

There are few money sinks (reagents, coffins, keys in Sky, tink bags), just not enough to balance out the income.

A new player will just have to find ways to make some money. If there is inflation, it works for most items. Like HQ bear skins (they're now what, 20, 30pp? They used to be 10).

The only truth in this game is, for money, you need to spend time playing (or play trader in EC tunnel). And a farming / soloing class can make it easier. Otherwise, find yourself a bunch of great people and farm a camp over and over with them and split the haul.

[afkbandito]

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

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lol. It's like every one of these serious threads gets completely derailed.

[tekniq]

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

lol and there are no money sinks like horses and shit, so people just stock up and stock up and stock up.
i mean yeah this IS Classic EQ,
but people know all the shit people didnt know back then.
there are people who have 1,000,000 pp in their bank, haha
i remember bakc in live when if someone had 100,000 people thought they were hackin.

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[Estrang]

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

You know, I recall seeing Uth's name around as I've been here for years; but I didn't realize what a great, stand up guy he was

yea, like those times he gm summoned items for quickfinger. swell guy

[Messianic]

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

yea, like those times he gm summoned items for quickfinger. swell guy

That wasn't really the most objectionable thing he did - he did that at least to smoke out people using 3rd party garbage.

He melted down toward the end, although for the most part he was just a really effective enforcer.

[Aceofcups]

Just because someone has millions of plat doesn't mean they are going to use it.

Lets say you have 100k, and lets say thats the price of a CoF, since its been mentioned a ton in this thread. Certainly a great item, perhaps worth all your money.

If you go and dup 1000k. Still a great item, worth all your money? Not so much. But to speed up a buy/sell i think you can go 20k higher without a care.

What im trying to say, is if you double the amount of money an economy has, your not doubling the prices. The people with a ton extra, arn't going to spend a ton more, at least not on one item, they will just bum it a decent 15-20% just to get the deal through easily.

If ya selling something for 10k and one dude is offering 10k and another 12k, who do you think is getting that item?

Also i agree with Arclanz. I have never really heard of Uth, but what i've seen here he seems a pretty good guy. I don't mean to take a hit at him, but just because you can't totally stop corruption/ect, doesn't mean you should stop making any attempts at slowing/reducing it.

Lastly, these threads are kinda useless sadly, there isn't going to be a wipe of PP, its too hard to find out who earned and who cheated their way to getting money.

[Nirgon]

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

not classic rogean doesnt give a fuck /thread move on

Plenty of non classic things here that we've gotten the "too bad that's how it is gonna be" reason on.

Bunch of people up in here talking about real massage therapists that need the forum beat down am I right?

[Lagaidh]

I swear this is a mature MMO community now. My old rule of thumb in live EQ was not to read sony forums. The negativity made me begin believing there was so much wrong with the game and my server that there was no point in continuing.

We're there team! At least this go round, I take forums with a grain of salt.

In game seems fine.