How much was 200k Platinum before Kunark?

[Harrison]

That varied server to server.

I don't know the prices on Classic platinum because I wasn't even aware of the market back then, I was naive.

Once I figured out my shit was worth $$, it was a blast. Play for a few hours, make $100, win. (When you're 15ish)

[Loke]

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

Is this thread for real?

I wiped my ass with 200k before RoK.

^^^^

I remember at one point Athiyk had well over 500k months before PoSky came out. It was a long wait for Kunark.

[Spitty]

Are we talking live? That kind of money was pretty realistic for most players that put 20-30 hours a week into EQ, let alone people that played constantly.

You could make it by camping a certain money camp, playing around in Gfay/EC with your cash or doing various quests over and over again. There were options.

[JenJen]

even my ranger farmed almost 80k over a few months of camping lasna cheroon pre kunark.

[Hollywood]

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

Plat may not have had "real life value" but it was an economy in-game. And like all currency it can become inflated etc. It's value changes over time. 200k back in Classic is probably ~1.5 million today in value. It also depends on the server. Plat on the Test server (due to the /testcopy "bug" that I'm sure they left in on purpose) has no real value. People hand out millions to new people on the server because they can just copy that amount back later.

The inflation you speak of only applies to an economy that's on going or unabridged.
The economy in the emulated server has nothing to do with one on the real servers and is not persistent throughout. What people are playing now is an emulation of how it was THEN.

200k is not 1.5 million
200k is about 200k

A manastone was about 150k
A lamentation blade was about 5-15k
Fungi tunics were about 50-80k
and on and on


A) The cycle time and availability of commodity in the market. Since the population is low, most items are not new to market, but recycled. This doesn't change the price directly, though due to the limited supply, whenever demand rises, so will the price until the supply changes.

B) How readily available money is, and that's further broken down by how it is obtained whether through selling items or other means such as looting, vendor merchant sales and gifts/donations from other players.


These are the things that shape and mold the economy.

Either way, the values are still very similar to how they were pre Kunark, during Kunark and during Velious.

[Clyve]

On Tribunal we (cousin and I) used to sell 1kpp for $30-40, and on Rallos we used to sell 1k for $20-30. For whatever reason people on Rallos were paying less for it, likely because they could lose it.

[Lagaidh]

I remember in late 1999 or early 2000 that the exchange rate for RMT on my server was 40p to the dollar. It blew my mind, and does to this day, that a virtual currency had more value that most currencies in the real world. This was before Sony and eBay came to an understanding.

[Safon]

You can make 1k an hour on seafuries can you not? 20 - 30 dollars for 1k seems crazy good for the seller. Maybe seafuries were so overcamped you couldn't make anywhere near that kind of pp during live?

[Heavydrop]

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

Just as a minor note: They let people transfer off of Test before allowing pp to copy to Test.

When did they allow /testcopy to copy plat? When I played there (August 2007 until around March 2011) it would only move items and those items became no drop. Must have been before or after my time there (loved it there btw) [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Arclanz]

Although I can't remember just how much; plat was worth a lot prior to the Chardrok bank dupe-bug; which caused an enormous amount of plat to flood the server in a short time. A RL friend of mine (who I never played EQ with) only used EQ as an RMT outlet; and he told me that in just one day, the amount of plat for sale by Yanis on all servers went from a finite amount to millions and millions. He said "there must be some dupe bug." And there was...and SOE eventually found it; in the Chardok bank. And hundreds of accounts were banned. LOL. Ah the humanity.