Dealing with RMT

Oh, yeah. after *actually* reading the posts, I see we're talking about general site security for sharing login info for the PL services. On that topic, Uber seemed to sum it up pretty well.

The one or two sites I've seen did use PayPal for payment purposes, which is actually a pretty safe way to manage things, so long as you don't get your PayPal info swiped. (and no, I didn't *buy* anything, but after months of tells back in i9, I had to at least look at the sites.)

I think anyone who pays $20 to do that is really dumb, not so much because such market antics are dumb, but because you can earn the funds to do them by yourself. It's similar to paying someone to level you to 50, although I think that's a lot more dumb.

I am one of the least likely people around to "manipulate" the market - I just play level 50 characters the vast majority of the time. My reward for that is literally multiple billions of inf on both sides of the red/blue line.

What paying $20 does is get you the inf faster. I still think that's dumb, because for me it'd be like paying someone to play the game for me. I do this for fun and having goals is interesting. Skipping everything it takes to get to the goal defeats the purpose - it's like buying a book and reading the last 5 pages.

As an aside, people aren't listing purples higher because they own them all. They're listing them higher because they've figured out that people will pay more for them all. Buyers raise the sale price by repeatedly buying things that sellers list at higher prices. If enough people weren't willing to buy at higher prices, the overpriced listings would just sit there. People (like me) who spend a lot of time playing at level 50 earn gobs of inf, and most have the views that a) what good is it if you don't spend it, and b) they can earn it back. So they pay those higher prices, and the sellers think "what if I raise it 10% more...?"

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*robs Uber while he sleeps*

When did you start sleeping with Uber?

o.O

never?

She was just "pretending" to sleep with him to get his stuff.

Yeah insert adult humor here.

It can't be helped. Its one of the only ways things around here can earn an "adult" label.

Actually, increased number of recipes in circulation is potentially anti-inflationary, assuming that by "inflation" we mean increasing cost per recipe. The primary driver for inflation is an increase the ratio of inf in circulation to recipes in circulation. The AE did this handily. Large numbers of people appeared to prefer to save up tickets for Silver or Gold rolls, which, inherently, produced less recipes per unit time than previous PvE play. (It also shifted supply from Pool A to Pool C/D.) At the same time, ticket caps were added, but many players were using the AE for XP, with tickets as a secondary concern. If you stayed in a map for the XP, you stopped getting tickets but continued to get large amounts of inf.

In combination, these behaviors likely increased inf in circulation while simultaneously producing fewer recipes. And of course it hammered purple supply, since the AE could not produce them at all except for a period where it was (accidentally) possible to get them as ticket rolls. This certainly resulted in increased price per recipe, and dramatic increase in price per purple recipe.