how would you revamp the entire economy and reward structure?
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BBQ_Pork,
Posted on: 2010-09-15 16:03 in The Market and Inventions
lots of interesting ideas and food for thought. keep those gears grinding people!
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Originally Posted by Black_Barrier
Guess it's hard to click while actively trying to keep the drool away from the keyboard...
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they're tremendously useful things and people want them.|
Originally Posted by EmperorSteele
So, why are there over 170 bids for respec recipes?
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That there are *only* 170 bids can be attributed to the recent freespec handout.
Why do you insist on ignoring common sense explanations for market events in favor of weird conspiracy theories?
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On the other hand, *you're* the one implying that people aren't smart enough to bid odd numbers, but they're still smart enough to bid creep, when we've already seen that a sizable number of items sell for much higher than listed. Who's contradicting whom?|
Originally Posted by EmperorSteele
Actually, you overestimate people's abilities. That IS a trick only marketers use, b virtue of the fact that if someone is doing that, they deserve the title, for better or worse. ...
Just because YOU don't bid-creep doesn't mean other people don't. But you're right, they do liek to bid what the last few people did. However, in an instance where they can SEE one just sold for 151511515 or whatever, don't you think they would have tried a bid closer to that before going up to 175M? Also, you've contradicted yourself. First you say "Tons" of people are smart enough to bid uneven amounts, but now you're calling them sheep? make up your mind! |
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Originally Posted by EmperorSteele
And while you're right in that there could be a few extra people putting in respecs for sale at a high price, what, pray-tell, do you think someone is doing making multiple bids of 151etcetcetc for? Or are you going to tell me that over a hundred different people are making bids at that price point? Are you that dense to pick a fight that you're going to start trolling with an illogical conclusion such as that?
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Just what a member of the EBIL FLIPPING CONSPIRACY would say!
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Originally Posted by Selina_H
Not everything is the EBIL FLIPPING CONSPIRACY you seem to think it is.
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Just what a member of the EBIL FLIPPING CONSPIRACY would say!
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Originally Posted by EmperorSteele
My beef isn't with higher prices or even flippers, but everyone's flippant attitude that the flippers somehow make everything better for everyone.
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I'm not actually sure they make things worse for the impatient. They just change what the problem is. I am not sure that "I can't BUY IT NAO because there aren't any" is really any better than "I can't BUY IT NAO without paying more than I would pay if I placed a lower bid and walked away for a day or so".
So assume I wanted to cap those 3% IO's at 1 billion, then anyone who bid 1 bil would get one instantly. Queue a drop in price. You would then also see a fall in demand, and I honestly wouldn't think the WW dude would be selling his own IO's for very long as I seriously suspect most of those bids on them IO's are people wanting to sell off market.
As for too much inf, in real life I might agree because you have family etc to pass it onto when you are gone, but in a game if you aren't going to be spending it, then no matter how easy the market is to play, every 5 mins spent earning more than you will spend is surely a wasted 5 mins? (Unless that is where you get your fun however, in which case it doesn't say much for the rest of the game!).
This would allow the developers more control over I/Os, rather than just drop-rates. Especially during times of really slow gaming activity, rewarding the faithful customers with half-off holidays would be a huge bonus! This would be great even if you have to cap how many of whatever I/O an account can buy during said days so as to prevent an overabundance of the I/O in circulation. Prices would definitely fall to below dev-determined price limits and pricing for common drops would likely rise very little if there are thousands already in stock and people are limited to the amount of WW/BM slots that they have.
I'm not sure if it would change the economy much, but I'd also create a base item that would allow WW/BM interface from the base. Private channels for the powerbuyers/sellers/preferred!