It's only fair

[Lojik]

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

Price gouging very much does exist. Yes it's a free market here in Norrath, but your rich getting richer as the poor have to farm more and more to afford their items is a big part of the problem. You call it simple economics, I call it being a jerk.

I always knew "Red" 99 was just a cover for commies

[Sidelle]

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

I always knew "Red" 99 was just a cover for commies

Haha! <3

[Duckwalk]

Thanks for the entertainment everyone. Closing the office early and heading home. Today the part of Duckwalk was played Trosk. Everyone have a good weekend.

http://www.project1999.com/forums/sh...pring+cleaning

[Orruar]

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

Price gouging very much does exist. Yes it's a free market here in Norrath, but your rich getting richer as the poor have to farm more and more to afford their items is a big part of the problem. You call it simple economics, I call it being a jerk.

I'm picturing a disheveled human monk tirelessly grinding away in a factory in ak'anon, hunched over in the cramped gnome-sized rooms and operating levers designed for smaller hands.

Really though, what the hell are you talking about? I geared a monk up a few months back for pennies compared to what it would have cost a year prior. And looking in the prices on wiki, that hasn't changed much. And it seems the usual farm spots are still pumping out the same plat as they always have.

[Doors]

Just wipe the fucking server. People wiped old servers all the time (emulated ones) and it wasn't a big deal.

Refarm your shit, relevel your characters. No idea how anyone could still be interested in Kunark's expansion at this point.

[Softcore PK]

It's been forever since I've been on blue, but I remember a lot of people complaining about the price of jboots. A group of people had them permacamped (at least for a while) and the price nearly doubled in the span of a few weeks.

The farm spots pump out varying levels of plat depending on how heavily camped they are. Prices go up, people camp plat harder. People camp plat harder, plat value decreases.

[Orruar]

Yeah, sucks jboots are the only way of running faster. Oh wait...

[Orruar]

Also, why would you hold such a strong opinion as to the economic problems of the blue server when you haven't played there in forever? Most people like to at least have a little knowledge before forming an opinion.

[Dragonsblood1987]

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

So my brother and I were putting our heads together to try to see if there could be a way to make the server fun and deflate the market etc for newer players, when we came up with two ideas:

1: once a year remove all platinum from game. (or remove like 50% or something, but people could get around that by buying gems or something)
2: once a year make every single item currently in the game (current items, not new items from mobs) No Drop. Meaning items on your character (or bank or w/e) would become no drop, but new items you loot would be normal.

I'm not saying that it is necessary at all, but the original release of the game, the expansions came out quickly-ish and people didn't know what they were doing as far as questing and farming half the time, so I was just idly brainstorming and came up with these ideas on how to clear out some of the extra stuff or get the game back to basics.

I figure that if the server never goes past Velious eventually this will be a big issue if it isn't already, and while the fix would surely be super unpopular, it may become necessary.

It seems that there are like waaaaaay too many uber lvl characters and people just farming the heck out of things, so it isn't as much fun. I just started perhaps a month ago, but making enough money just to get spells is quite difficult, let alone if I ever wanted something like a fungi tunic or whatever. When lots of players are rolling in hundreds of thousands of plat and have bank characters full of nice gear, It just got me thinking: If you made everything no drop, then people wouldn't be too effected by it, because they would still have all of their items, but then all of the prices would change to reflect the supply evaporating overnight, which would allow the newer or lower level characters a chance to farm some stuff and make money.

Not a perfect fix, or even really close to one.. But besides a flat-out server wipe of everything, which would really stink, I figured this seemed like an interesting idea..

What do you think?
Do you even think there is a problem?
Do you have another solution that could work?

Also other things could be done once a year like removing defunct guilds or a big character name sweep, or even some of those cool GM events I remember from way back. Or let loose all the gods in different zones to run around murdering people. In my guild on live servers I tried to remove all players that hadn't logged in in over 2 or 3 years from guild to just keep it a bit neater once and a while, for example.

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But for cereal, son, imagine how much making existing items no-drop would spike the price.. Suddenly that 100k item isnt sellable, so someone has to go through the trouble of actually farming one to sell, instead of playing Ec tunnel jewquest. the prices would SKYROCKET. 1/10.

[Dragonsblood1987]

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

Also, why would you hold such a strong opinion as to the economic problems of the blue server when you haven't played there in forever? Most people like to at least have a little knowledge before forming an opinion.

HAH! Not on the internet! Everyone has a doctorate in everything on the internet!