Annual or Biannual Plat Poof

[Reguiy]

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

step 1. make friends
step 2. go kill things
step 3. roll in loots
or skip steps 1-3 and roll enchanter

[Yumyums Inmahtumtums]

Originally Posted by joejccva71 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm brand new to P99 and it seems like alot of stuff is very expensive, even for just low gear. My options are either get a lucky drop or farm bone chips for quite a while to be able to afford just 1 item that's sold at EC. lol

- You will have people who are going to give you stuff.
- If you're playing a melee character you've been warned it will be difficult to gear up at first.
- Gear is not really required to progress. It makes it faster but not super necessary.

In addition there are paths you can take, incremental steps if you will, that bridge the gap between bone chips and fungus tunics. No one was rich on day one and if you spend your time learning about appropriate classes and free things, you will find a way to gear out at a good pace.

[Tecmos Deception]

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

step 1. make friends
step 2. go kill things
step 3. roll in loots
or skip steps 1-3 and roll enchanter

This is the correct answer for the thread asking for a new server with boxing, also. Chanters ftw.

[Daldaen]

What happens when as chest said, people but 20000 rubies before this happens? Then just liquidate after and have 90% of your original platinum?

No plat wipe or shit will work. We would need a money sink to combat inflation. EQ did that in a few ways:

1. Mounts in Luclin - Cost 10k for cheap, much more for faster ones.
2. Casino in GoD - people threw away millions trying to get a guise.
3. Qvic armor in GoD - it cost 10.5k a pop to make this armor. With the rate it was obtainable (6 or 12 hour respawn Mshas) this ate up people's platinum quick.
4. Augment distillers / potions / armor creation / corpse summons / mercenaries in modern EQ - changing around augments costed you a lot.

On here though. There are a few quests that take platinum from you. JBoots, a few epics and sol temple armors. Velious will have Lodi shield and a few others that eat platinum.

But beyond that, tradeskilling (blacksmithing/Jewelcrafting are the main vendor bought ones that can eat plat) although TS are useless pre Luclin, reagents for symbol/rune/corpse summon/planar ports. Classic just didn't have enough plat sinks built in for regular gameplay to take plat out of circulation.

Which either means we say... It's classic ergo not an issue, or we implement a non-classic money sink.

[drktmplr12]

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

I die a little bit inside every time I see some level 25 caster spending hours in EC trying to find a deal on a spirit tome or some shit instead of being out there playing the game.

but 6 wis/int is going to make my character so much better.......[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

agree with this 100%, don't know why people think these items will make or break your experience. the certainly dont warrant standing around in EC for longer than 2 minutes.

there is nothing wrong with the system as it is. sorry if its too hard to get full cultural sets or whatever people imagine they should have. Want easy gear that is stupid good? play live and wear defiant gear.

[Teppler]

OP, unless you have millions of plat then your idea is extremely self serving. People who haven't spent their times wisely earning plat all stand to gain and it invalidates people who spent hours working for their moneyz.

Now as long as you admit that, fine. What do you say to the person who just spent weeks, hours a day, building up 100k then there's a money wipe next week?

[joejccva71]

The word for today is: insurmountably

Use it....oh wait..

[Tecmos Deception]

I'm actually indifferent to the idea of wiping all plat now, lol, just because I'd be amused to see how it played out. I mean, do you think people are going to start selling high-end items like hieros and stuff for only a few k suddenly just because there is no pp? Do you think people will stop farming items just because they can't sell them for platinum in the immediate future? Do you think low players will really be better off when people are vendoring class armor drops and stuff because they are so hard up for peridot and recharge plat instead of giving the stuff to new players?

Can you even begin to imagine the OOT, rathe mountain, east karana, etc. R&F drama when people flood those zones trying to create new platinum? Lol.

[Spitty]

I've used it three or four times in person so far today.

I'm not sure what this means. It may be that my infatuation with the word is the thing that is insurmountable.

[joejccva71]

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

I've used it three or four times in person so far today.

I'm not sure what this means. It may be that my infatuation with the word is the thing that is insurmountable.

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It's an epic word, just wanted to point that out was all.