Where did all the platinum come from?

[Darkatar]

Somewhat related - port stones (and I think something else too..can't remember) are currently at nonclassic prices (higher than classic) to help combat inflation as a plat sink.

[Dolalin]

Another big plat camp in classic was ore in Sol A, there are even vendors in the zone to sell it to. Not sure if it stacks up with Seafuries though.

[mefdinkins]

All those Tink Bags and Traveler's Boots!

[zanderklocke]

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

Seafuries

Yep.

I can't think of any other mob that would be creating more platinum, as all of the items from seafuries are sold for platinum to vendors.

[Ravager]

Forgetting about seafuries for a minute:

Assume that the population never gets higher than 275 players at any given hour of the day (I think this was generally as low as it got). When the population is low, you typically see 40-50 people in EC. That leaves 225. Now, let's be generous and say half of them are AFK for every hour of the day. That'll leave us 112 (rounding down to be conservative) active players adventuring and generating coin loot 24 hours of the day.

At the time, Hill Giants and Sand Giants were consistently dropping quite a bit of plat. Let's say 5% of the active population are farming them at any given hour, rounding down, that gives us 5 people farming hill giants 24 hours/ day. Assuming they each kill 6 of them an hour (in reality, probably more) and each giant drops 15 plat (conservative, at the time it was consistently higher), that's 5 players x 6 giants x 15 plat x 24 hours = 10800 plat/day.

Let's say another 5 people are actively farming things like fine steel at any given hour and they average 6 kills in an hour and we'll round down to 4 plat per weapon, that's 5 x 6 x 4 x 24 = 2,880 plat/day.

That's slightly less than 10% of the low active population trying to farm for plat (no seafuries) and we're at 13,680 plat per day. We'll very conservatively add about 1 plat per person per hour for the rest of the active population and come up with 2,448 for the other 102 over 24 hours, bringing us up to 16,048 plat per day. 1,000,000/16048 = 62.31 days.

So with our conservative math on a low population server, before introducing seafuries, and presuming over half of the population is afk or otherwise not producing and only 1 in 10 people are making an effort to farm plat, there will be a million plat in the economy in 2 months of server uptime.

[KEWLGET]

seafuries have been permacamped on this server for like 7 years straight

[Rygar]

All this math getting me excited

[coldslaw]

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

All this math getting me excited

Came for whining, almost left disappointed. Stayed for the speculative math porn.

[kgallowaypa]

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

Forgetting about seafuries for a minute:

Assume that the population never gets higher than 275 players at any given hour of the day (I think this was generally as low as it got). When the population is low, you typically see 40-50 people in EC. That leaves 225. Now, let's be generous and say half of them are AFK for every hour of the day. That'll leave us 112 (rounding down to be conservative) active players adventuring and generating coin loot 24 hours of the day.

At the time, Hill Giants and Sand Giants were consistently dropping quite a bit of plat. Let's say 5% of the active population are farming them at any given hour, rounding down, that gives us 5 people farming hill giants 24 hours/ day. Assuming they each kill 6 of them an hour (in reality, probably more) and each giant drops 15 plat (conservative, at the time it was consistently higher), that's 5 players x 6 giants x 15 plat x 24 hours = 10800 plat/day.

Let's say another 5 people are actively farming things like fine steel at any given hour and they average 6 kills in an hour and we'll round down to 4 plat per weapon, that's 5 x 6 x 4 x 24 = 2,880 plat/day.

That's slightly less than 10% of the low active population trying to farm for plat (no seafuries) and we're at 13,680 plat per day. We'll very conservatively add about 1 plat per person per hour for the rest of the active population and come up with 2,448 for the other 102 over 24 hours, bringing us up to 16,048 plat per day. 1,000,000/16048 = 62.31 days.

So with our conservative math on a low population server, before introducing seafuries, and presuming over half of the population is afk or otherwise not producing and only 1 in 10 people are making an effort to farm plat, there will be a million plat in the economy in 2 months of server uptime.

Great post, thanks for illustrating it on how this economy got started on albeit a conservative timeline. probably a crapshoot but I wonder if we could find out how much PP has been dropped by all mobs since 2009..wondering if we have approached a billion plus plat seen by mob drops, not item value.

[jolanar]

50+ you'd have to try not to make like 2 to 300 plat per hour just playing the game as you normally would. Now like others have said, multiply that by every player over 7 years and that's just the bare minimum.