when will platinum

[Anesthia]

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

Bind at firepots: 500,000 platinum
Triggering of epic mobs with only quest piece dropping: 100k.
Trigger a double xp weekend for entire server 5,000,000 plat
Thoughts?

Firepots, yes. The other two, no. Cosmetics and minor conveniences are OK.

[Tecmos Deception]

Ridiculously unclassic, but the "buying epic spawns by giving platinum to an NPC" caught my attention.

[SirAlvarex]

As a Bard who desperately wants his epic but will probably never achieve it until the Undead Bard is introduced, I say "hell noz" to spawning Epic mobs for a "price." Epics are supposed to be rare for a reason.

But I still think introducing the Shadowhaven Casino would be a good plat sink.

[Lagaidh]

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

lose its value on this server? prices on key items only ever seem to be increasing in price while other items are dropping in value due to extreme amounts dropping over the extended classic and kunark period.

just like any exhausted or inflated economy what is going to happen? people are starting to make 500 - 1m plat offers on items. is that classic? i definately think having items is alot safer bet than having a big load of platinum.

is enough platinum being banned off RMT accounts to keep the inflation down?

EQ created things that ate server platinum later on through other expansions and helped a little but what will happen here?

I was starting to think the same thing until I was going through my p99 screenshots folder the other night. I was amazed at the prices I did not recall being that high.

[Lagaidh]

Originally Posted by Silo69 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

get comfortable and log in stop playing eqFOrums

I love this statement very, very much. Simple. Elegant. To the point. True.

[Sirken]

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

That, and it doesn't take money out of the economy. It just puts it around. The general idea here is to take some plat out of the economy to make things more even for newer players. IE a player who camped seafurries a year ago saw a lot more for their efforts than one now due to the prices of items differing at this point.

right, but what i was getting at was, what if i opened an EC casino? the platinum would in fact be removed from the economy (by me) and it would also be scam free. as far as the seafuries, you do realize that the over farming of SFs is part of the reason for the inflated prices right? another big reason was people were able to plan for the removal of certain items (ie manastones), whereas on live they couldn't. and because these items no longer drop, the person with the most can control the market. most of what Silo69 says is right on the money though.

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

Get rid of account selling. Player spends 100k on a toon, the seller suddenly has a huge bank roll to waste and little patience. He drives up the prices in the name of saving time, now the players who sold the items are flush with money AND have an inflated sense of what their products were worth. They get a few more sales and now they can afford to blow 100k on a toon of their own and start the cycle all over again.

you realize that acct selling happened on live from prekunark until forever correct? the difference being that we dont ban people for talking about it. either way, thats not a huge economy problem, its actually an entirely worse set of problems.


in the end, if people would stop paying these jacked up inflated prices, then the prices would come down. hell, look at gasoline. was .98 cents a gallon when i started driving, its up over 400% since 1998. and gas will NEVER be anything close to what it was because PEOPLE KEEP BUYING GASOLINE. if america just STOPPED buying 4$ a gallon gasoline, you can bet your asses the prices would drop.

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[Ele]

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

in the end, if people would stop paying these jacked up inflated prices, then the prices would come down. hell, look at gasoline. was .98 cents a gallon when i started driving, its up over 400% since 1998. and gas will NEVER be anything close to what it was because PEOPLE KEEP BUYING GASOLINE. if america just STOPPED buying 4$ a gallon gasoline, you can bet your asses the prices would drop.

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but gas is a right, how will I get to work, it is a necessity, omg government intervention, we need price controls!

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[Droog007]

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

if america just STOPPED buying 4$ a gallon gasoline, you can bet your asses the prices would drop.

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Gas prices might drop, yes .... the country might collapse at the same time though, so... valid option? Notsomuch.

[fullmetalcoxman]

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

As a Bard who desperately wants his epic but will probably never achieve it until the Undead Bard is introduced, I say "hell noz" to spawning Epic mobs for a "price." Epics are supposed to be rare for a reason.

But I still think introducing the Shadowhaven Casino would be a good plat sink.

I would rather buy an epic spawn than buy an MQ, at least that way I would still get to kill the mob.

[Sirken]

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

but gas is a right, how will I get to work, it is a necessity, omg government intervention. we need bicycles!

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fixed that for you

Originally Posted by Droog007 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Gas prices might drop, yes .... the country might collapse at the same time though, so... valid option? Notsomuch.

yea. country fails if more people start taking public transportation and riding bikes.

unless your are a cross country trucker that transports goods or commodities, you dont NEED to drive. problem is we (myself included) feel we deserve not to have to take public trans or ride bikes. and um, if you think that would result in the country collapsing as opposed to all the other dumb shit our country has done since 98-99, then you are grossly mistaken