Addressing the Economy (mudflation)

[azxten]

Has there ever been any discussion about addressing the inflation in the economy? In the "classic" timeline this server would already be past Planes of Power yet we are still in Kunark.

In classic there was a 6 month timespan between Kunark and Velious. Here it has been more than 2 years.

Are there any money sinks that could be added which wouldn't be detrimental? Anything?

There needs to be a way to remove platinum from the economy. Sony added the Luclin casino by this point where you had a tiny chance of getting a manastone/guise for example.

[citizen1080]

Toss up no drop guises at 500k- 1mill pp a pop...i promise you they would sell like crazy. However, this would royally piss off the very few people left on the server with a legit guise from launch.

Sacrafice the few for the many?


Really any money sink that was for fluff items (or even make the items no drop, that would solve the issues as well. Buy a no drop manastone for 100k) would not be detrimental, other than the age old argument (it's not classic). But as you have stated...we are 1.5 years past classic at this point.

[Nocte]

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

Sony added the Luclin casino by this point where you had a tiny chance of getting a manastone/guise for example.

This would be a fantastic idea. There's a casino in Highkeep that could maybe get tweaked to support this. I have a feeling that the "not classic" folks will chime in, though.

I'd rather have a non-classic casino in place than the non-classic economy we currently have, though. This casino wouldn't have as big of an impact on players as the economy currently does.

[quido]

stop unlocking RMTers

[quido]

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[azxten]

Originally Posted by citizen1080 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

However, this would royally piss off the very few people left on the server with a legit guise from launch.

I guess it really becomes a question of at what point this server is so non-classic that we may as well focus on the gameplay instead of pretending anymore.

For example, being able to buy a name prefix or something so you can be "Honorable Joe Blow" or whatever for making a 1,000,000 platinum donation.

Would stuff like this ruin the classic experience more or less than the non-classic economy? Hard call to make.

[Safon]

Is there a precedent for anything remotely like this? Any general non classic change implemented to better the server, I've heard variance referred to as such a change

[maximum]

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[Anesthia]

1mil for firepot bind.

[Dualform]

Kinda wished kunark or even classic was delayed until velious was ready to go, kunark wasn't meant to last this long =/