Addressing the Economy (mudflation)

[Kagatob]

Originally Posted by citizen1080 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Toss up no drop guises at 500k- 1mill pp a pop...i promise you they would sell like crazy. However, this would royally piss off the very few people left on the server with a legit guise from launch.

Sacrafice the few for the many?

Honestly who cares, the only reason they'd get mad is because their guised character's value would drop slightly (slightly... it still takes 500K-1Mil to get a guise) if they tried to sell it, which shouldn't be allowed anyway.

[Anesthia]

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

Kinda wished kunark or even classic was delayed until velious was ready to go, kunark wasn't meant to last this long =/

Neither was classic EQ!

*rimshot*

[quido]

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

LOL people pay that much for an account with a guise? So dumb

a million is the new 100k, BRO

[Fountree]

Originally Posted by citizen1080 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Really any money sink that was for fluff items (or even make the items no drop, that would solve the issues as well. Buy a no drop manastone for 100k) would not be detrimental, other than the age old argument (it's not classic). But as you have stated...we are 1.5 years past classic at this point.

We're actually over 2 years from Classic at this point on p99. (Kunark release Date March, 2011)

[vulzol]

Originally Posted by citizen1080 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Toss up no drop guises at 500k- 1mill pp a pop...i promise you they would sell like crazy. However, this would royally piss off the very few people left on the server with a legit guise from launch.

Sacrafice the few for the many?


Really any money sink that was for fluff items (or even make the items no drop, that would solve the issues as well. Buy a no drop manastone for 100k) would not be detrimental, other than the age old argument (it's not classic). But as you have stated...we are 1.5 years past classic at this point.

Seconded.

I think all items that no longer drop should have ridiculous pricetags sold at Shady Swashbuckler. If not him, add a casino to HHK where items that no longer drop have a tiny probability of being obtained.

This would suck money out of the economy and make it more classic while offering an avenue for people who came late to the game to obtain items they missed at launch.

Naturally, NOT CLASSIC, so won't be implemented, but fuck, 2 years of kunark ain't classic, might as well add a non-classic feature to attempt to fix the problems created by a non-classic timeline.

[Itap]

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

Is there a precedent for anything remotely like this? Any general non classic change implemented to better the server, I've heard variance referred to as such a change

[acemac]

the person that solves the economy problem in MMOS will be very rich.

[fadetree]

Item decay comes to mind. Oh wait, everybody hates that worse than inflation.

[Tecmos Deception]

I still think that ideas like this will mostly only remove pp that wasn't really in circulation anyways. It's not like the people who can afford 500k guises have been buying upgrades in EC contributing to some perceived inflation among other players, and it's not like the people whose pp is actually changing hands are too likely to spend it on a 1-in-a-million lottery instead of just buying something that will be useful to them.

And if you made the lottery or prices appealing enough that people other than the super rich are willing to blow a ton of pp on it, then you've gone from being a "nonclassic sacrifice in order to make something else more classic" to "nonclassic sacrifice that only makes things still less classic."


I mean, it might help deal with inflation issues when Velious hits and all the people who have a bankroll they're saving for then would start bringing their pp out of the banks... but I doubt it.

[Rhambuk]

Start a casino and try to scam them out of it like a normal person.

gm intervention is just going to cause veterans to quit, assuming they just remove a ton of plat from banks.

Might as well just do a server restart...