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If a duper buys items, then the platinum that they created is distributed through the sellers. If a duper dupes items and then sells them, they will have to somehow offload that platinum. Eventually the money or items that they duped become redistributed through the market. After a long period of time, platinum equilibrates and is simply devalued by the relative % of new money that entered the system. Because prices have become stable at levels that are tolerable for even new players, it seems that the duped platinum was either 1. eliminated by banning dupers or the mass platinum purge a few months back or 2. people who dupe millions of platinum only spend a small fraction of that total before realizing that they have nothing else to buy.
If a person dupes 200 million platinum and then spends 500k of it, 500k has entered the economy. If they never spend the other 199.5M either because it is removed or because there is nothing to buy, then that extra money may as well have been burnt. | ||
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Last edited by slemmykazaam; 02-05-2012 at 12:30 PM..
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A big part of my enjoyment in any MMO is the buying/selling and trading of items.
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I do farm items.
Just sayin'.
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I'm not saying that duping is not a problem that should be addressed asap and remove all traces but Uthtard is just raging like he normally does and trying to burn it down.
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what was that dagger dupe that spread thru EC one night like a plague?
You literally couldn't give that dagger away... lol.
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Hmm, but prices seem to be going back down again. I remember when I was playing in the spring Hierophant cloaks were 100k and RBGs were 65k; when I came back the RBG had somehow gone to 110k (I'm guessing that was the duping) but it's already down to 85-90k now and probably heading back to 65k eventually. Fungis are way cheaper now (and practically half the players in sol b have one) but that's because they are common now. Again it doesn't feel to me like the rare items right now are super overpriced. If you can buy a cloak of flames for 50-100k in EC, who is going to join a raiding guild when you can go farm plat?
Why don't we have the wiki people give us some answers here? It should be easy enough to plot the auction tracker values for a few items since kunark launch. | ||
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And besides, even if there WERE less PP in the game, items like CoF would still be just as out of reach for a new player as they are now. You might think that less pp on the server would mean lower prices on everything, but that wouldn't be the case, because every random John Doe would think "Hey, for just 10 hours of farming SFs I can afford a CoF!" ... but since there aren't any more CoF in the game than there are now, this extra demand would just keep prices as high (relatively speaking) as they are right now. | |||
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