Inflation. How to fix it?

I don't think a-merit conversion is a statistically significant inf sink.

Okay, how about a new tier of Much More Expensive supergroup base stuff, with higher prestige maintenance costs. Much higher. Like, 100k+ a month instead of 5k. And much more expensive to buy. Encourage people to use the inf->prestige sink more.

And maybe make some costume pieces unlockable with inf, or something. Or have a "Big Spender" badge which costs 1 billion inf.

The 88's have burned something like 260 Billion influence in prestige conversion on Virtue.

There are other marketeer groups doing similar.

How much that matters, I don't know.

Hopefully, they've encouraged other SG's to do the same.

The best way to fix it is to go back in time and stop them from putting in an unregulated player market. Or any player market, really. They inevitably end up inflating to heck while the rich sit on top of their currency piles insisting that there's nothing at all wrong with it. Players are greedy and exploitive beasts who should not be driving an economy.

I am still in favor of gambling houses with pvp games and pve games. They work irl to suck lots of cash from folks. Why not in game too?

Dare I ask what exactly the problem with inflation in game is? Sure, prices are higher, but at the same time, the vast majority of income comes from the market (even if all you do is just sell drops), so everyone's making more money too. I'm no hardcore marketeer, and I can't say I've noticed any significant change of my buying power compared to my earning ability.

Here's an idea: Have an option to vend things to the Market. You could immediately sell them at the same price as to a vendor, then they enter the Market at, say, twice that price. This wouldn't do anything about high demand, over-priced items, but it might create supply for many lower-priced items that are otherwise lacking.

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Inflation is going to happen when demand is high. With the new batch of respecs to take advantage of the inherent firness pool, the respeccing of characters got to be at an all time high. Subsequently the demand for all kind of recipes has to be just as high.

In basic economics, you have the laws of "Supply and Demand", obviously demand is very high and supply has diminished for a number of reasons, mainly the hunt for Shards.

If you feel the influence pinch and can't get what you need, welcome to the my club. I have been normally cursed in this game with bad luck with regards to drops. So hoping to get a purple which can sell for a zillion then afford the rest of my build, is simply not going to happen for me. There are folks telling me, I am having a bad luck streak and one day my luck will turn, the random number generator is fair. It's been over a year, I am still waiting for my lucky one day out of the 365 unlucky ones. So you may ask, how do I get the influence to afford things?

Before I19, I did TF after TF to get merits. Lots of Merits got traded first for what I needed. I did AE to get the expensive materials thru ticket redemption, and horded white salvage since I could not redeem thru tickets and they get abused price wise. That significantly dropped the cost of enhancing my alts.

I also took the time to make one of my alts a master crafter, I can even summon a table. By being a Master Crafter, I get discount coupons. These are very important, so when I make the rare Miracle, or LoTG 7.5, or Numina, I can cash my discount and even make them cheaper. This ability is important in the profit margin area.

Once I got my build's enhancements down path, I may need odd end stuff andn eed raw influence for that, how did I made that?

In the old days, I made lots of merits and trade them for the most WW expensive IOs such as LoTG 7.5 for instance, crafted them, using my discount, redeming my AE tickets for materials, and sold them at WW for a huge profit. Sell 4 or 5 of the LoTG 7.5s and you got a fortune in your hands.

After I10 the Alignment system came around, that was even better, I no longer had to TF! I separated 5 of my heroes for A-Merit earning purposes, and did 5 tips a day for each, for a total of 25 tips a day. I carefully selected my heroes for stealth and firepower so I could do the tip mission in about 5 min tops. Those retarded missions that forces you to escort or kill all, I just dismiss the contact and go get me another tip. So 25 tips at 5 min each takes me about 125 min or just over 2 hours. Don't forget you can auto-complete one mission every three days too. so after 4 days, all 5 of your heroes have collected 2 Alignment merits each, the most expensive recipe only cost 2 A-Merits, not counting purples which are not worth getting this way to sell later). So in 4 days you can get 5 LoTG 7.5 to craft with you crafter who should have been hoarding and receiving the white salvage you need (I hoard the salvage for LoTG 7.5, Numira Regen/Recov and Miracle Recov). Craft them and place them for sale. in roughly 8 hours of work over 4 days, you made over a billion influence.

If you respec and need a full set of 6 IOs, well after * hours and 4 days, you should have all 6 of them since many of the IOs of a set are worth 1 Alignment Merit.

If more of us where to do this, slowly inflation would drop, because if you notice I am not using WW to outfit myself as my primary tool.

If AE could also sell white salvage, that would help a lot. Also if A-Merits could give you a dual pack recipe for one A-Merit for those recipes not available at the A-Merit vendor because they are common would be good as well. Thus you get two common recipes for one A-merit would be unusually useful too.

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Stormy

Wow Stormy, you make it sound like a chore. I just bid low, log off and go play an alt. Or more likely, just plan ahead and place bids for what I will pay, then go have fun playing.

If you have a system that can generate a billion inf every 4 days, what are you worried about?

you won't like my idea, but i can think of a way.

make it harder for us to store influence. no more lvl 51-53 slots for recipes and enhancements on the market that don't exist in game.

and at the same time, drop the total any player can store per character to 1 billion at lvl 50 and decrease the cap for lower levels.

granted, this would cause an initial flood of buying everything that can be bought to burn the billions of liquid capital, but then it would equalize out - no more inf bank characters at lvl 1 (or 10) holding 2 billion inf each and no more 2 billion inf bids on a lvl 53 intangibility IO recipe that doesn't even exist.

however, i doubt most players would be effected by it, just those who have way too much inf, can buy whatever and flip for profit and outfit every character they powerleveled to 50 with purples instantly.