Sulaco And why are you closing the exchange market?
Good point... If they wanted to land lock virts they could still permit selling within the realm. Perhaps just shutting the whole thing down seemed like a better idea maybe...
jeka_igla Points are not canceled. Those things can be bought for points, same as before. + corporate certificates for some things
Basically what players losing is the ability to transfer points/virts between accounts. All ways to play for free (contests, tenders, etc.) stay the same (except the exchange market, its cancellation is really sad) but the awards going to be attached to the realm where you won it.
What i mean is this:
JustNash In a way, it's a shame the virt market is being abolished. I had this business model where I calculated my jewellery end prices based on what it currently cost to replenish my scarce resources (mainly diamonds and Q4 gold) with points bought on the virt market. This way, I had an eternal business model just like farms eternally produce stuff...
Basically, if one virt is worth 1000 virt cash and you get 100 items for that 1 virt each item has a base value of 10 plus everything to process that item to sell it (like mining gold getting gold ore to sell).
Removing the trade option will leave many players not knowing what they should value their products at. You dont want to loose money by undercutting yourself, but equally you dont want to end up with billions of stock not selling either.
No baseline, more headaches.
IMO removing the market is a good thing, but only if you set a value on virts that makes sense.
Not like this:
King’s ransom
20 GP = $130 000 000
Because a 20 point gold mine at 300 a piece literally gives out 5 billion+, and i doubt the 12+- points worth of service will make any player the 5 billion in revenue (less everything) by even abusing them. Excluding Mike
As much as i like this, and how it should be taking us forward. I just cant stop thinking this is going 2 steps back, rather than going forwards. |