Reason why item prices are increasing on P99 Blue

[fadetree]

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

Fun idea maybe, but the internal economy will be lacking a lot of decent items, for a long time. Since there are toons that are in that guild and are not twinking as their rules dictate, it will make it so that no one is going to be selling any high-end items (Fungi, CoF) because they need them for themselves. They will not be spending time sitting at these overcamped spawns waiting for multiple copies of a rare item, to try and sell them internally to people who won't have the money to pay for them, since they cant sell outside of their guild.

I get the idea of the guild, but to say you cant buy from people outside of the guild because its considered twinking... It's not considered twinking if you earned the money yourself. I keep seeing this guild pushed on all of these new toons to the server before those people realize what else is out there. That's going to make new players think it is harder than it actually is to get loot, and will make people leave.

YOU may not consider it twinking, but that doesn't matter. You say you 'get the idea of the guild' but I don't think you do.

[NachtMystium]

Newsflash: I can advertise a backpack for 5k in /auction and there's nothing you can do about it.

Shits classic baby

[fadetree]

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

Earning money yourself and buying a piece of gear on the toon you earned the money on, is not twinking.

Earning money on a level 60 toon and buying gear for a level 1 toon, is twinking.

But you can try to spin it however you want.

Lol who made you the authority on what twinking means? Other people have different definitions. What makes yours the only correct choice?

[Troxx]

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

Earning money yourself and buying a piece of gear on the toon you earned the money on, is not twinking.

Earning money on a level 60 toon and buying gear for a level 1 toon, is twinking.

But you can try to spin it however you want.

Yes but your plat goes a lot farther with the modern economy than the microcosm ALS is trying to re-create. They're trying to have a more classic run through the game on a server which is bloated with low to medium end gear that is dirt cheap.

[port9001]

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

Earning money yourself and buying a piece of gear on the toon you earned the money on, is not twinking.

Earning money on a level 60 toon and buying gear for a level 1 toon, is twinking.

But you can try to spin it however you want.

I daresay you're being unnecessarily defensive about this.

For the record most people in Auld do not consider buying things with money you earned on that character "twinking". It does however, trivialize the game in two ways:

1) you'll be wearing items that drop from higher level areas that your character could not have obtained on their own, thus you'll be more powerful than you ought to be for a given level

2) you'll never have an opportunity to loot your own gear from mobs you kill because you'll certainly already be wearing better stuff bought from the market

Members of Auld enjoy the challenge of gearing up in a classic way, before the market for good items became so saturated that they were practically given away.

[dbouya]

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

Level 40 toon in ALS sells an item from a level 40 mob to a level 20 ALS toon. Is that twinking? or is that ok, because it's from the internal economy?

ALS rules forbid this. That doesn't really have much to do with the word "twinking" but I mean.... just go read the rules man. Instead of posting lots of angry replies.

http://auldlangsyne.gamerlaunch.com/...575&gid=529720



Also, yeah, in 2001 allakazam was already a popular website. Thing is though that when velious first dropped of course allakazam was very detailed on all of classic+kunark-vp. It wasn't quite as fully filled out as today. Furthermore everquest dominated a computer's resources, WINEQ was either not popular or didn't exist. Some people would have two computers not only so they could "box" but so they could read allakazam or chat programs. Back in 2001 we had an officer in our guild nicknamed hischaractersname-alizer because he had memorized most of allakazam (from the prior expansion). But yeah when velious first came out, and also when kunark first came out guilds would wipe a dozen times due to lack of information. A year after those expansions came out though, doing kunark in 2001 or velious in 2002 players had just as good of a wiki as we do today, basically.