Economy - Plat

[alsa]

Another possibility is that the total amount of the plat didn't change that much over the years. But the number of people holding them increased, and more plat is in circulation vs locked inside the bank of very few people.

Looking back the high level tradable raid loots are up for sale much more often, and their prices have dropped, things like white dragon helm, boots of the storm aow helm/leg/mask... which puts plat in the hands of raiders who cash in one item to twink many alts which drive up the demand and possible prices of mid range items (50 to 200k).

[Jimjam]

Less plat going out of circulation (whether spent on consumables or rotting in the banks of characters unused).

[Naethyn]

Top guilds are spending far less on recharges due to item nerfs which was the biggest plat dump for years. Instead of platinum going back to merchants it sits without any way to remove it from the economy.

[Alukit Vassago]

we only need to look to the famous quote "every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction” ~ Sir Isaac Newton (Newton’s Third Law)

[Valrok]

With half of the server population moving to green, supply has went down, therefore prices went up

[strongNpretty]

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

With half of the server population moving to green, supply has went down, therefore prices went up

Your avatar looks like Brandon Biebel... And that's dope.

[xdrcfrx]

Twochain, I don't always agree with you but your take here is pretty spot on. Especially about the king camp. Most recent pathing change made it much much harder to pull the king or his PH solo. Still doable, but the you have super tight windows to do it in now, and there's an element of RNG that you can't really control.

[Twochain]

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

Twochain, I don't always agree with you but your take here is pretty spot on. Especially about the king camp. Most recent pathing change made it much much harder to pull the king or his PH solo. Still doable, but the you have super tight windows to do it in now, and there's an element of RNG that you can't really control.

Sadly, it's almost easier to glitch the ph/king into the wall, make it pop up to NG, and have it come solo through jail VS trying to pull it classically. I've taken a long hiatus from that camp for now =P

Brings up another point though, Cobalt Bracer should be 80k+. I've camped king an absolutely ungodly amount of hours, and have seen 2 drop EVER. Maybe a third somewhere, but we're talking probably 7500+ mushrooms being killed in groups i've been in an i've seen definitely less than 5. And as the camp is usually duo/trio'd, you never see people kill more mushrooms than absolutely necessary (which is the boring way to do the camp!)

A Cobalt bracer hasn't even been auctioned on the market since May. 2021-05-25 Lodranis 50000.

[Izmael]

People realize(d) that platinum has little value, even moreso on Blue, where a lot of people no longer even play.

What has value is the quality time you spend on EQ and platinum cannot buy that.

Also having legacy items has value. But holding platinum is a losing proposition, every second you become poorer and poorer due to inflation.

[Twochain]

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

People realize(d) that platinum has little value, even moreso on Blue, where a lot of people no longer even play.

What has value is the quality time you spend on EQ and platinum cannot buy that.

Also having legacy items has value. But holding platinum is a losing proposition, every second you become poorer and poorer due to inflation.

The valuation of items that you can buy out of the tunnel are just so lopsided right now is the issue.

If I gifted a random level 1 monk 150k, He will reach level 60 probably 2/3rds faster than a non twink monk. Fungi, Haste, a T-staff, and some hp gear and you will FLY through level 1-50. A non twink monk can probably solo 1 mob for every 6 that a twinked monk can.

If someone gifts me 150k, i'd almost get nothing out of it. Maybe a ring 9 MQ for my bard? That's 1 item. And it's not even a huge upgrade, just cuts out a lot of bullshit that you'd normally have to do. I want an extra pair of holgresh elder beads for my enchanter..... meaning if someone just gifted me 150k... i'd be 1/6th of the way there...

But part of the reason i'd suggest picking blue over green if you started a level 1 toon right now..... you can gear yourself so, so much faster on a 12 year old server, where you could be gifted 1k+ just for a simple port. Some people enjoy the masochism of untwinked classic EQ, and honestly more power to you, but jesus you're spending a lot of extra time to get to the same destination, if you goal on the server is to have a level 60. Otherwise it's whatever [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]