when will platinum

[SupaflyIRL]

Put a casino in.

[Swish]

Had a discussion with Propo about this a few months back. Basically we were talking about items that hold their value as inflation starts to spiral out of control...sure enough in those months the economy seems to have been flooded with extra plat, whether from new players levelling, RMT'ers, or a mix of both.

I remember thinking/saying that a FBSS is a good low level investment, and one that'll hold its value to Velious at least...and probably for Velious too, relative to what platinum will buy you.

As in... if you buy a FBSS at 10k now, when they're being sold for 20k later, you'll be able to cash back out and buy something on the same level as that.

Works for gold/silver in RL as well... Obama and the EU can print bank notes til they're worth nothing, but if you've got a good stash of physical gold/silver you'll always be able to trade those back in during an emergency or whatever to buy whatever it is you need (lets hope that's never 'food for the family').

[Clark]

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

are fungi's the SOJ of eq? (d2 reference)

Haha love this reference

[Elmarnieh]

I believe the increase in prices is only reflecting an increase in demand as new players and new alts are created. Haste is required for all melee so a general increase in player population would lead to roughly half of them needing haste. I saw drake hide leggings go for 500pp when it used to be 75-150. That is newbie gear and reflects on an increase in the player base. Now new players will be creating new platinum in the economy but their demand for gear to fill empty slots and to replace with better as they can afford to is a great deal more demand than established players able to fill slots only via no drop, quests, or very large amounts of platinum.

In specific instances I think it also denotes high level players leaving classes (monk) and entering new ones (shaman).

[Chloroform]

Suggestion make a Vendor or a quest npc that accepts 500k for a guise! id drop that plat in a heart beat!

[Byrjun]

Prices are about the same here as they were 3-4 years after EQ live launched, except the items are worse. I think people are really exaggerating the prices here. I spent 58k here for Torpor, and people thought that was a lot... guess what I spent on Tunare? About 90k. I remember fungis going for 100k, and they're not at that point yet. A big difference was that a lot of people didnt even know that stuff like puppet strings and BCGs existed, so it's not like there were dozens of people on every server willing to drop 250k on some strings (and by this time on live there were a lot more of them considering they were moved to fear golems mid-Velious).

In summary... the prices on this server are completely normal. Welcome to mudflation, as games age items become more valuable than the in-game currency.

[Noselacri]

They should introduce plat sinks like titles and such. I'm sure some people would pay 100k for a title. Without any plat sinks whatsoever, the economy just gets to the point where there's almost no way in if you weren't there all along. That's already an issue with this server, and one that'll get worse as time goes on. It's just such an unappealing economy to come into now since the veterans have hundreds upon hundreds of thousands and thus keep prices unreasonably high, coupled with the content monopoly that has always made it difficult to farm anything if you can't play for long stretches of consecutive hours. The endgame is too exclusive and dominated by one or two guilds, and the casual high-level content is thus occupied by five times as many players as it's designed to support. It's almost to the point where the only reliable way to make money is level up characters and sell them. Trying to get rich by farming is an exercise in frustration as you can spend entire days just trying to find a lucrative camp that's actually open.

[ManticSquee]

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

I'm already at a point where I think about my amassed P99 wealth in units of Fungi Tunics rather than actual platinum.

If you give me one you will be that much closer to thinking about platinum again. It will work...I swear.

[Splorf22]

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

Put a casino in.

Would be a great way to both suck pp out of the economy and give newer players a chance at stuff like a guise/prenerf staff/RoA etc. Not classic though so it probably won't happen.

[Tecmos Deception]

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

there's almost no way in if you weren't there all along. That's already an issue with this server, and one that'll get worse as time goes on. It's just such an unappealing economy to come into now since the veterans have hundreds upon hundreds of thousands and thus keep prices unreasonably high, coupled with the content monopoly that has always made it difficult to farm anything if you can't play for long stretches of consecutive hours. The endgame is too exclusive and dominated by one or two guilds, and the casual high-level content is thus occupied by five times as many players as it's designed to support. It's almost to the point where the only reliable way to make money is level up characters and sell them. Trying to get rich by farming is an exercise in frustration as you can spend entire days just trying to find a lucrative camp that's actually open.

You're wrong on many levels. Enough that I can't be bothered to type them out.

What do you want? You want new players who can't play much and who aren't going to play smart enough to make PP without grinding FS drops off guards for 18 hours a day to get rich? Lol.