100k+ manastones right now?

[Naerron]

first manastone on blue sold for like 10k, there was only like 100 of us for the first few months. now you can complete your math

[Teppler]

Here’s something I think a lot of people are missing. I played before kunark on this server but not early enough for mana stones.

There was no guarantee p99 was going to survive long term and who is going to go balls to the walls to camp something for days on a server that might not make it?

The server surviving as long as it has gives its legitimacy which gives value to items that no longer drop. The better the legitimacy of the server, the longer it goes, the more the population should grow and value of manastones or similar legacy items always goes up.

The party looks about popped though imo. I think p99 has seen the best numbers they are going to ever see. Mana stones might see really high sales once there’s a merge to blue but that’s only because people have been farming plat for 8+ years. Inflation. After that I see a stale and stagnant market and mana stones dropping very far value wise.

[Naerron]

if you think this party looks pooped you have no idea what these population numbers are like compared to the emu servers before P99 lol

[DMN]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjCUXm4gq5E

[Jimjam]

Just wondering how many manastones were duped by doing /move, logging into the toon on both servers, then trading the stone away on green to a new character to /move the stone a second time before the original character got deleted.

[skorge]

Lots of reasons why the manastone is worth more on Green than it will ever be on Blue.

1. Drop rate. The drop-rate on blue was 40%. On Green it's 5%. Just read the forms. Some people had to wait over 50-70 hours just to get one. This was #1 on list hours, not total time on list hours.

2. The List. AFK checks every 5-15 mins is torture. Only true neckbeard warriors can endure this.

3. Account Sharing. The only real way to get one is to share accounts with others, meaning you have to through this entire hell multiple times just to get yours.

4. More neckbeards on Green than Blue ever saw, especially around this time. More neckbeards = more plat.

5. More greedy neckbeards (see 4).

The only thing that saved the manastone's value on blue was all the banned RMT accounts who possessed one. A good bit of manastones got wiped off the server. Now that RMT is more well known and everyone knows it's an insta-ban, less people are taking the risk to RMT high-end items like that.