Economy

[RMSPMS]

Just trying to get ideas on helping a server with it's ongoing money crisis. There needs to be a way to drain the money out of the server without affecting new ppl coming in or driving the ppl that have been on for a long time off the server. The ones that have been on for a long time don't want to lose thier money (who wouldn't) but the economy is suffering to the point that the prices of items is getting crazy high. Just in a 5 month span prices have tripled on items cause for 1 zeny is "easy to obtain" in a sense with gefenia and thanatos bieng the hot spots. They have thought of a few ideas but the rich dont want it to happen and the poor say its too costly. Any ideas here will be very helpful on making things fair for everyone. Thank u.

[Guest]

well... lets see....

you can raise the vending tax....

you could try creating a tax for selling things to the npcs......

you can use the rachel sanctuary quest... (or something simliar to it if you have the time to code something custom like that)

nerf the OC skill


ummmm those are really the only things that come to mind atm....
but ya some of them may be too much work to create/implant

[superja]

you can raise the vending tax....

you could try creating a tax for selling things to the npcs......

nerf the OC skill

The only thing is these are going to hurt the new, poorer players attempting to make money more so than the ones that are already sitting on buckets of cash.

Problem= People with tons of cash will pay tons of money for good items. People who don't have cash then cannot afford said items.

You could hand out money and items to new players, but this will just cause the inflation to be even worse. There isn't really much that you can do, imo.

[Guest]

x3 hey i never said my ideas where the best.....
there just ideas =P

but ya i do see the flaw in that x3

sides i bet you he'll ignore me =o (everyone does T.T)

[RMSPMS]

Nah i wouldn't ignore any ideas here. yes we have disscussed the tax and that was a flop. we do have alot of events ppl can join but raising the prices once again, hurts the new ppl. That has been our biggest problem, drain the rich without driving the poor away from the server. thought about charging for the healer and stat resetter but that went in limbo with no answer on those ideas yet. I told them to raise the price of the custom npc slotter since ppl like to slot ninja suits, black leather boots, etc etc but i guess we need more ideas so those that have replied so far, your doing great imo keep them coming XD

[mark_sanbeda]

sides i bet you he'll ignore me =o (everyone does T.T)

Ignored

hey why dont you try disabling thanatos tower ive seen a few servers who did that and it end up pretty well, or try strengthening the mobs though it will be a problem with the newcomers...

[RMSPMS]

disabling the tower might help but then u still have the 4 levels of gefenia for diiamond rings and such to collect there as well. Unfortunately this is a problem that started before i arrived and now the "can of worms" is starting to overflow if you know what i mean, and are just looking for ways to try and make it fair for all who are there. Also looking into charging for the healer and warper which would help a little but with such a large influx of ppl with zeny I'm not sure that will even put a dent into the pool of zeny there.  Thanks for the input btw.

[Anti-Static Foam Cleaner]

If money is easy to obtain, why would new players have problems with obtaining it?

What are the rates BTW?

[RMSPMS]

75/75/50 EssenceRO is the server if you would like you can get more info on the current situation there without registration i think.

Well they are wanting do drain the money out of the server due to the fact there is too much on the server and not enough bieng spent so they are trying to come up with ways to drain money without raising the cost of things that might drive away new ppl coming in. There is alot of veteran players with over 300-500mil and quite a few with 1 billion and the staff see this as a problem along with the fact of those that are up the ladder are starting to control what is sold by selling things for absured prices keeping the newer players or even ones like myself and many others from bieng able to even get them anymore.

[Appa]

like the server must use 10mil zeny to unlock a special shop npc that sells an expensive item xD
like some useless wings (though personally I hate wings)


*not EVERYBODY is putting money in*
but money will slowly go down =D

[Artariko]

nice idea o.O

but disabling 4 lvl of gefenia and disabling thanatos would help not to mention Jupros since u can make like 10 mill in that place within an hour

[Loki]

10 mill in that place within an hour

o_O

I've never got 10mil from Juperos, highest was 6mil. But that's me 

You could try raising drop rates and make quests(lvl caps and such) that needs zeny for veteran players. Stone of Sage(SoS) is a good drop to sell. Maybe raising the drop rates for SoS is good too.

[Anti-Static Foam Cleaner]

Blah, if it has 50x drops, obviously you're going to have a huge inflation because everyone is filthy rich.

I see no problem in it though. Item value does not change, only the zeny value changes, all it means is that you must pay for example 5x more, but it doesn't matter since you're easily making 5x as much.

If you really want to bring prices to normal levels for whatever reason, just reduce the prices of sellable items by x%.

[Hanyuu]

If you have warpers, why not change it a little depending on level. Let's say level 70+ have to pay like 2k-5k to get somewhere? And low level players can pay less. Same with heal and buff npcs.

tbh though, it all depends on the players. It might seem a little unfair but people worked hard to get their money. If they vend it at high prices, it wont sell and so they'll have to lower those prices. Right?

[dook]

money sinks

theres tons of ways to take money out of server

the best way i can think is custom vendors selling pve items (i assume you dont want to unbalance pvp) for high zeny. this takes the money right out of server.

making players pay for certain priveledges, warp npcs, healer, resets etc

custom fun items for high prices - like custom tames/eggs etc

have a low etc item drop ( i think 2x is as high as it should go) this also stops the dominance of sinx and AD creators. if you feel that it is too hard for them to get these items then customise drop rates of those items only.