Moar Inf Burning?


Eric Nelson

 

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Food for thought, although kind of unrelated: "I" burn between 5 and 6 billion influence each time I go through all my market alts. There's actually more inf that dissapears in market fees than inf that end up in my pockets. I think building capital through high volume low profit flipping is more efficient than plain destroying influence. The more influence you have, the more things you can flip, the more money, both from you and other people you can burn ; doing the above keeps you growing and burning more.


 

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Back when I first decided to burn 10 billion inf, back when that was a lot of inf, I kept records. At the time I was running an exchange, influence to infamy and vice versa, and so I was moving a lot of inf between servers (selling stuff to myself in Wents; ah, the old days before gleemail) and that was my #1 inf-burner. But #2 was inf-to-prestige, beating out wentfees for regular crafting and flipping.

I burn around 100-200 million inf a day in wentfees (and make around 300 million inf.) The way I think of this, and I could be wrong, is that wentfees are sort of "built in"- the quasi-equilibrium of prices includes one to two wentfees and those (almost) burn the inf you generate while you're generating these items. Doesn't burn all of it, thus the upwards spiral of prices we've seen.

Prestige burns are pure destruction. Yeah, it's inf people aren't currently using... but they might use it someday, give it to a friend, start a new alt, whatever.


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