Curse

II Lucky Charm II · Nov 05, 2008, 08:21 PM // 20:21

just a thought. When we first started this game to where we are now, how did that much amount of gold got injected into the game?

Haxor · Nov 05, 2008, 08:28 PM // 20:28

Farming and botting.

RTSFirebat · Nov 05, 2008, 08:28 PM // 20:28

None... it was all player generated from missions, quests, drops, etc...

furanshisuko · Nov 05, 2008, 08:31 PM // 20:31

merch, loot,missions,quests

Secksy · Nov 05, 2008, 08:41 PM // 20:41

All was fine and well one day...
...then came hard mode... and with it... LOOT SCALING!

Cale Roughstar · Nov 05, 2008, 08:44 PM // 20:44

People went outside and killed things.

The things dropped things.

When sold, those these things tend to turn into money.

We now have more money.

Repeat this process a gazillion times a week for three years.

Nuff said.

jiggles · Nov 05, 2008, 08:53 PM // 20:53

make aa 55hp monk and cast protective bond, aggro the UW and ohshit ecto's, ecto's = money

tmakinen · Nov 05, 2008, 09:07 PM // 21:07

Like in every RPG where you are supposed to push stuff around, there are sources, sinks and converters. Everything in game comes into existence from a source or converter, and stays existant unless fed to a sink or suitable converter.

Get out in an explorable and kill a monster which drops a weapon. That monster is a source which just conjured an item into existence. If you let it lie there and exit the instance the item will disappear, i.e., you threw it into a sink. However, if you pick the weapon and sell it to a NPC merchant you will get some gold in exchange. That NPC is a converter, i.e., combined sink and source that sank your weapon and sourced the gold. Player to player trading doesn't create or destroy anything, only shuffles it around, so that is outside the source/sink mechanism.

the savage nornbear · Nov 05, 2008, 09:11 PM // 21:11

Naturally bugs from out the ground carry 1337 swords and piles of gold. Duh.

MMSDome · Nov 05, 2008, 09:16 PM // 21:16

Better question, who minted all the gold in game?

Yawgmoth · Nov 05, 2008, 09:17 PM // 21:17

Solo farming generated by far the most pure cash, not anything else.
Before the HardMode+Lootscaling update a solo farmer had 100% chance for monsters to drop something, in the first weeks there was completely no antifarming code, so players could find easiest to solo large mob groups and grind away for long hours. Merching the thousands of white/blue drops generated 100s of plat in just days.

Quote:

Originally Posted by jiggles

make aa 55hp monk and cast protective bond, aggro the UW and ohshit ecto's, ecto's = money

Ectos weren't = money before the money was actually farmed so people were able to pay for them well. More fast cash in economy -> more expensive ectos.
So for every UW 55 farmer there were numerous players grinding for gold in their own way, making the ecto farming very profitable.

Aubrey · Nov 05, 2008, 09:58 PM // 21:58

The problem is I've seen a couple videos of people who do UW speed clears who have many STACKS of ectos. How is that gold supposed to be spread around the game if they have so many ectos that they can buy ANYTHING with only ectos. Those ectos don't inject any gold back into the game until someone actually sells the ectos to a merchant. With ectos as the predominate form of "over 100k" trading material, the gold will not get moved around. It doesn't bode well for the economy of GW.

MStarfire · Nov 05, 2008, 10:03 PM // 22:03

Better question: what is a BEETLE doing with gold coins?

Painbringer · Nov 05, 2008, 10:16 PM // 22:16

In the old days it could not have been from the underworld at least form the American side because (WE NEVER HAD FAVOR ok maybe once…but not for long

) My guess most of the gold came from some rich trolls that sat outside of droknars. They took a serious beating back then

gremlin · Nov 05, 2008, 11:05 PM // 23:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aubrey

The problem is I've seen a couple videos of people who do UW speed clears who have many STACKS of ectos. How is that gold supposed to be spread around the game if they have so many ectos that they can buy ANYTHING with only ectos. Those ectos don't inject any gold back into the game until someone actually sells the ectos to a merchant. With ectos as the predominate form of "over 100k" trading material, the gold will not get moved around. It doesn't bode well for the economy of GW.

The Ectos I would guess never get sold to merchants well not in large numbers anyway, they are created by the game then used as a secondary form of currency.
So mostly they circulate between players during trades, if that is so then the quantity of ectos should increase steadily over time.
What that does to the price if none are traded to npcs I wouldn't know.

realtalk916 · Nov 05, 2008, 11:55 PM // 23:55

its a mystery no one will ever know, its been over 30 months since gw's propechies, thats a lot of gold dropped and earned, quests, farming, all types of stuff.

Luminarus · Nov 06, 2008, 12:08 AM // 00:08

MOX

12chars

Gregslot · Nov 06, 2008, 12:46 AM // 00:46

If you guys are not awere of, but people have been selling gold ever since the first 4-6 months that GW went live.
At that time gold was really hard to come by, i remember 70k was A LOT of gold (like 300k is nowadays).
And no, there was no rune trader at that time.
I have some guesses but, well, they are all guesses ;]

Lycan Nibbler · Nov 06, 2008, 12:49 AM // 00:49

Everyone sat in town and waited for it to appear in their inventory.. seriously, how do you NOT know how it appeared?

.defekt · Nov 06, 2008, 12:50 AM // 00:50

it was THE DUPERS OMG