How will a green/blue merger effect the blue economy?
 

Thats a lot of manastones being added people :)

also more Circlets of Shadow and pre-nerf Elder Beads...

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Just messing with ya. Intriguing question.

In 2023, when Green merges into blue, manastones, Circlets of Shadow, Holgresh Elder Beads, Moss Covered Twigs, Lockets of Escape, and other legacy items will appear on Blue. Some will be sold, but some won't. Consider: if you only acquired one manastone for your wizard, or one CoS for your necro, you wouldn't be likely to sell it, perhaps ever. People who farmed multiples will be the most likely sellers. The list mechanic may limit this to some extent.

Anyway, it's obvious prices will come down as supply will increase, but to what extent?

Also, remember that some Green players are playing NostalgiaQuest or HardmodeQuest. Will they even log into their characters after the merge? Why would they sell legacy items on a server they don't even want to play? Sometimes when you ask a question, there are other questions being skipped.

Another thing to consider is how will the inevitable merge affect the Green economy. If people know there will be a chance to sell an item in three years, how many will they hoard? How much will the Green economy revolve around the sale of items after the end of the whole timeline? Will we let the Great Merging distract us from enjoying our classic good time on Green?

If there were full transfers, at best green would add as many manastones as there are hologresh elder beads on blue.

Other than that, I don't think it would have much of an effect on it, as everything else will and can be farmed for the 3 years that it can be on green on blue as well.

So after 3 years of farming on green, you get all the items those players would have farmed on blue over the last 3 years + some legacy items

That's my pragmatic take on how it will effect the economy.

Maybe there will be 20 more Pre Nerf CoS's than there are now.

Not gonna change much. /shrug

For any huge economic impact to occur, it would require a huge number of people who begin on Green next month (many of whom have been playing on Blue for years) to actually still be around 3+ years from now. What's the age of your average P99 player, thirtysomething? Interests change, circumstances change, life happens, and most people move on.

Also, Daybreak and Sony aren't idiots. I don't know the specifics of their agreement with the P99 devs but I'm sure from a legal/contractual standpoint, we're all clicking away on borrowed time.

I am sure by the time green merges into blue 90% of the dark elf guise players will be as active as those players are on blue today.

Meaning you likely will only see like 10% of the guises looted on green being used by players on blue, and maybe 1% at any given time.

Prices are going to drop obviously, there will be less buyers available because many people will simply create Green characters to farm rare items with the /list feature instead of trying to buy them on Blue.

So more people selling trying to get their value out of items while they can, but less people buying because there will be another potentially easier way to acquire those items.

Merging the servers seems like it can only hurt blue, but I get the feeling they don't care that much about blue anymore anyway.

Don't you think it will reduce overcrowding of the raid environment on Blue?

Probably a lot of the legacy items on Blue will be retired before the server merges anyway. Probably not a huge net gain of active Manastones, CoS, and HEBs compared to what is active now. The tradeable warder loot and one off items like Ton Po's will be interesting, though.