Curse

Riplox · Aug 10, 2005, 05:10 PM // 17:10

Ok well some of you may agree with my ideas and some may not. I'm writing this in an attempt to influence decisions made on the recent increase in prices at all dye, rune, and rare material traders. I have screenshots to show this trend and some of you will say that its how the game was meant to progress, which is bogus. I'd like to see the return of the days when you could buy a Superior Vigor for 40k and black dye was only 5k. I have a remedy for the current escalating prices. Make all the traders (dye, material, and rune) not rely on players supplying them with their wares, but have fixed prices with an unlimited supply of the items.
(The material traders arent so bad, but still need to be regulated like the others.)

Currently, rich players are buying lower and higher priced items to run the traders out of stock to manipulate the prices and sell them back to other players getting an enormous profit in doin so. Some of you say that this behavior isn't wrong and other people need to work to attain these items. Fine. Just don't go around with the intent on increasing the prices by buying up the majority of the supplies. Thats ethicly wrong and is reffered to in the business world as scalping, which is illegal.

Below, you will find screenshots of current prices. I'm sorry but I did not take screens of when runes started their fluxuation and increases.

monkeyink · Aug 10, 2005, 05:22 PM // 17:22

Let the rich materialists screw with the econemy all they want. When that minor fire rune drops and I make a 3 k profit by selling it to the vendor, I'm one happy camper.

I have 50 Plat in the bank now thanks to minor rune drops. The current state of the economy works for me.

Riplox · Aug 10, 2005, 05:28 PM // 17:28

Im not poor really. I have enough to supply all my characters with the nice stuff they need. Maybe I'm just the only honest decently wealthy player out there. If so...this game is in for a seriously bumpy ride. I mean, I give people breaks on stuff like you'd never believe. I sell stuff at reasonable and downright cheap prices (which means prices like the good old days). If I deem the current prices too expensive, to where I wouldnt dare buy it at the current price, I'd sell it for something I'd buy it for. That's how I price it, not on the current economy, but on my own intuition and ethics. I sure hope some of you do that as well.

MSecorsky · Aug 10, 2005, 05:49 PM // 17:49

The simplest way to fix it is for the merchants to be resupplied twice a week from "trade caravans" or the like, resetting the prices. Leave the caravans in town for a whole day to prevent instant buyout of an item.

Tweak the merchants to gradually increase prices as stock dwindles, but to also increase buy prices proportionally.

If they're inventory in an items went up or didn't drop, adjust the resupply accordingly.

Set merchant buy rates to be from 75 to 80% of selling.

Economy fixed. Badda bing.

Riplox · Aug 10, 2005, 05:59 PM // 17:59

Yes. THANK YOU! That's what I was looking for. It's a much better solution. I don't mind prices being high as long as I can sell my stuff to them for a reasonable price. And that supply caravan idea is the ****. Good job.

MSecorsky · Aug 10, 2005, 06:04 PM // 18:04

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Originally Posted by Riplox

Yes. THANK YOU! That's what I was looking for. It's a much better solution. I don't mind prices being high as long as I can sell my stuff to them for a reasonable price. And that supply caravan idea is the ****. Good job.

Best part is, it prevents anyone from being able to manipulate the economy by buying out the trader. Say for example caravans run on Sunday and Thursday... leave them in town the whole day so the merchant can continually resupply should someone try to buy all the black dyes, for example.

monkeyink · Aug 10, 2005, 08:42 PM // 20:42

Which just means that all the buyouts will occur the following day.

MSecorsky · Aug 10, 2005, 08:48 PM // 20:48

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Originally Posted by monkeyink

Which just means that all the buyouts will occur the following day.

So what? If you got what you want on shopping day, who cares if they're bought out the next? Just wait a couple days and the caravans are back.

Merchants just need a few rules, is all.

1. Never pay more on the high end than they sell for on the low end. (Prevent merchant raping)

2. Keep prices within a reasonable range. (Eg. Min on an item... 250 - 500, Max on same 550 - 800).

But again... why would I care if on Monday you bought out all the black dye... I got what I wanted Sunday and damn, I look good.