Holy Neckbeards Batman! - Page 3

Mblake81 · #1 06-28-2019, 11:24 AM

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For the overwhelming majority of items, however, you are going to be able to find them cheaper on P99 than you ever would have been able to on live in 2000. A jade mace for 700p? I used to sell those for 10k back in 2000. A fungi for 55k? More like 80k. Cloak of Flames for 50k? Easily 75k-100k+ on live.

I legit recall a guy in EC ranting in /ooc pre-Kunark about a guy from Ring of Valor selling his COF, 60k iirc. Same argument about a lousy economy. I think he was just angry cause he couldn't buy it or trade for it.

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The other issue you had on live in 2000 was that most of the high-end stuff was effectively priceless because there was no way anyone was going to sell it. You weren't going to find Flayed Barb Leggings for 900k in 2000 because you were unlikely to find them at all.

People don't realize how easy they have it on p99 sometimes. You could level a druid to group porting levels, bind at Hammer Hill, and make 10k in a week or two if you really go at it. That 10k would go really far compared to live2k.

Yep. That guys COF back on live was essentially priceless at the time. You would have had to trade some really nice, rare, items for it.

My guild buddy Xavier had 1,000pp in his bank. We legit considered him EQ Rich.

Tethler · #2 06-28-2019, 10:02 PM

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

People don't realize how easy they have it on p99 sometimes. You could level a druid to group porting levels, bind at Hammer Hill, and make 10k in a week or two if you really go at it. That 10k would go really far compared to live2k.

Yeah, for sure. I ported for plat a bit on live too during Luclin and PoP era and people didn't tip nearly what they do on P99 either. I was always getting 10-15p tips compared to the often 50p+ on p99. So the money here is faster, and it goes further.

Mblake81 · #3 06-28-2019, 11:36 AM

Money bags Xavier.

Geared in what would be considered twink tier garbage today, had all his spells. Not a single piece of planar armor, paw of oppala and some crappy quest scimitar.

Top guild druid, he was badass. Guy is geared out, max xp and has a 1kpp cushion to sit on.

fastboy21 · #4 06-28-2019, 12:57 PM

The economy is actually pretty stable...it just isn't at all like it was on live. But what did you expect? Its a static emulator server...obviously the economy isn't going to play out over ten years how it played out on live.

There was a time here when buying a CoF was a hard thing too...and selling one was grounds for server wide ranting. It was 8 years ago, but it didn't happen here too.

Short of starting a new server I don't know how they could really correct for this without making severe changes to game play. Even on the new green server, despite the fact that it will be more accurate to the era because of releasing content on the actual time line this go around, the economy will eventually be in the same boat.

shuklak · #5 06-28-2019, 02:03 PM

Back then the average pleb didn't have auction trackers and that would have massively lowered prices. You pretty much paid rares that were in line with whoever's the hell played during your hours.

Let's not forget duped play on p99 too.