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Lichtenberg · Mar 14, 2006, 07:37 AM // 07:37

notice all the people crouded around trader

Sha Noran · Mar 14, 2006, 07:48 AM // 07:48

Try to understand... there wouldn't have been a profit. There wouldn't have been an economy. Even if prices rose at some point, to a degree, organized trade outside that of the trader would have been effeciently over.

Nice screen shots though. :-D

Haggard · Mar 14, 2006, 07:53 AM // 07:53

yeah, the market would have been flooded with so many sup abs, that it would have taken a year or two for the price to raise back up

SincorpDeath · Mar 14, 2006, 01:40 PM // 13:40

coo. thanks for the screenies. Just what I wanted : )

beleg curudin · Mar 14, 2006, 05:52 PM // 17:52

Thats pretty funny, that Guild wars would have went through a depression, where gold is worth more then items, XD 200 gold could buy you the most expensive things.

dont feel no pain · Mar 14, 2006, 08:13 PM // 20:13

dammm I MISSED!!!!...wasting my time ^^ do you guys realy think the hard working anet dudes would just watch the econemy colapse.

fabulouz · Mar 14, 2006, 09:06 PM // 21:06

well i wounder if you added one of those runes to your armour....would they take your armour away....

koneko · Mar 14, 2006, 09:11 PM // 21:11

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Originally Posted by fabulouz

well i wounder if you added one of those runes to your armour....would they take your armour away....

Wouldn't matter. They reverted the entire game (all accounts) to a point before the traders bugged.

Gwmaster · Mar 15, 2006, 11:36 AM // 11:36

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Originally Posted by Haggard

I heard of someone in the [AVE] guild spending 1000k on this, if it hadnt been removed think of the profits

*drool*

i dont think they will make any profits they cost 250 at merchant, now every1 has alot of them and no1 need to buy anymore so he will sell them to merchant for 200g.

JediKnight · Mar 15, 2006, 12:13 PM // 12:13

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Originally Posted by koneko

Hmmmm Seems that Elementalists would have lost out yet again, 3k for Superior Fire Rune?

Across The Battle · Mar 15, 2006, 02:59 PM // 14:59

The whole idea and reasoning of a roll back was simple. They didn't want to destroy the economy.

A rollback works approximately as such:
With any server or high end machine that keep what are called back-ups. This is where they keep a copy of everything to date. So say they backed up thier systems now, they would have everything done since day 1 to now. When a problem like this happens they have to take the back-up and restore it to the original server, and thus overwriting everything that happened since that backup was taken(obviously the back up can't know what happened after it was created.

The back up took a LONG time for a very simple reason as well, quanity. They had to restore servers for say 4 continents. Each server has say 5 RAID(Redundant array of inexpensive devices, horrible spelling by me.) HDD so 5*4=20. Each rollback would have taken maybe 45 minutes to do. Im surprised it didn't take them longer. Props to the Anet geeks.

The reasoning for the roll back is simple economics of supply and demand. Everyone has 500 Sup Absorb or Obsidian Shards, no body is there to buy them, they are worthless. The only thing to do with them is to craft your FoW armor. Over time(a long time) the runes and materials would dissipate and prices would increase, probably not to the original cost.

Oh...I wish I could have kept those shards and absorbs though..Oh how I wish...