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I'm a fairly new player, my main is only level 22 due to my own time restraints, but I have no problem farming bone chips...silks...etc and hoofing my scaley ass over to ec from Kunark to sell because that's how I remember the low levels in EQ being back when I started. Honestly the high prices don't bother me because it's the norm. I came from a server where RMT was plain horrible, and yeah inflation happened but that's sort of parallel to the real eq experience. If I wanted the easy route, I'd go back to wow or let's face it...even EQ live [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
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It has already been illustrated in this thread that there's an immediate workaround - gems. So, any advanced warning of such a purge would result in a massive stockpiling of vendor-friendly gems, reagents, tradeskill components and the like. Those that know the trade-in values well enough to pick the best buy/sell ratio would have an advantage, and those that either couldn't prepare for the purge or were unaware it was happening would be at a severe economic disadvantage through no fault of their own. So, the only way to implement this is to make it random. This would only work the first time, since after the first purge I can guarantee most people would get into the habit of converting saved coins into stackable gems and holding them on as many alts as necessary; preparations for the next purge. Again, a very unfair advantage/disadvantage situation is artificially introduced into the economy. Now, lets assess that first purge. You seem to be under the impression that it would effect everyone equally - this is absolutely not the case. Those with existing stockpiles of gems and tradeskill components instantly have massive leverage over the economy as they become the initial currency injection points and can arbitrarily determine item value based on their whims. This is incredibly destabilizing, and is a far, far worse situation than our current one. Items that currently are low value and high supply would instantly become worthless except for their vendor value. A person handing out tranquil canes for free would likely rethink that and get the ~150pp value from a vendor instead, which directly negates the point that this kind of purge would be beneficial to the "poor" on this server. It won't, and thus you have another group that is disproportionately affected by this purge. Finally, those with low platinum reserves but have high-value items would (a) hardly be affected by this, and (b) would directly control the economy in an even more powerful capacity than they do now. Want a fungi from me? Fine, it's 100k still. Who says I need to sell it to you for 20k just because now people have to farm plat 24/7 to kickstart the economy again? Oh, you don't have 100k? Well, go farm Seafuries for the next two months because all of the mid-level gear you would have sold to make up the difference is now completely worthless. I could go on, but I think I've said enough. It's a horrifically poor idea that's completely unfounded, based on shill economics and I think your best bet is to concede and bow out at this point. It. Won't. Happen.
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Have my babies, spitty!
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I wonder what currency people would use to buy pixels if all the platinum were to disappear over night...
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Coming from someone who just started on the server a couple days ago...
The only problem I've experienced is that some groups of twinks are far-less-than-willing to take untwinked pepople, specifically melees, into the group if they're trying to level quickly, unless they're getting PL'd by someone. Not the end of the world. Just sucks that I've found myself having to run a few zones away to a different camp for my level because of it. Saved up enough for a Green Jade Broadsword now, so no one's really going to complain anymore. The fact that I saved up enough money to buy a Green Jade Broadsword by level 15 kind of completely kills this entire argument though. I wouldn't have had a weapon this good by level 50 starting day 1. The only "insurmountably" expensive gear is BiS droppables, or I suppose uber twinkie gear like fungi, which is entirely valid in my opinion, because once you have them, you never actually have to buy anything in that slot again. Long story short, things are fine, just play the game and be happy you can get basic Kunark gear as cheap as you can.
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