Business And Economy Archive
Thread: anti decay kit silliness
bluejanus wrote:
I fully expect that these things will be nerfed in the future. That's why I'm hesitant to do trades involving them.
http://www.takaikonomohu.com/dagger.jpg (now a 3000 use item!) Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Angry I am... the darkside consumes me
Puertoriqueno wrote:Well, I don't know about the nerf....I certainly hope they dont nerf these in the future. That would be a bad move IMO. I think the uproar would be epic.
I dunno about epic, but yeah people would be mad. In a game where weapons and armor are designed to wear out from playing, I fail to see why a dev would want to alter that scheme at all.
bluejanus wrote:
Puertoriqueno wrote:
Well, I don't know about the nerf....I certainly hope they dont nerf these in the future. That would be a bad move IMO. I think the uproar would be epic.
I dunno about epic, but yeah people would be mad. In a game where weapons and armor are designed to wear out from playing, I fail to see why a dev would want to alter that scheme at all.
In another thread Phaelyn posted some comments by Lord_Pall to the effect that Devs want to reduce pricing for all goods. This gives us a possible insight into why they would implement something like ADKs.
Slim Vargo, Corbantis
Kinshi wrote:
I am running around Bestine this morning, blasting Imperial troops when I spy this guy who appears to be a noob get stopped by a Imp for a contraband search.
I blow away the ST doing the search and what is the first thing I hear.. a tell asking me...
"do you wanna buy a anti decay kit?"
followed by
"how much do they go for on your server?"
I didnt know what to say.. it was soooo out of context and from left field given the situation and its not the first time I have been accosted by d00ds trying to hawk the kits for 8 million credits or more.
It was just strange
funny thing is you only get 1 per ACCOUNT right? Maybe the d00d should have picked it with his full time char? lol. Before I picked my ADK on Corbantis I thought abou selling the ones on my other chars(sorta like the holo-server-trade madness that went on last xmas.) Then realized it's only 1 per account..hehe
FAAR
bluejanus wrote:
Puertoriqueno wrote:
Well, I don't know about the nerf....I certainly hope they dont nerf these in the future. That would be a bad move IMO. I think the uproar would be epic.
I dunno about epic, but yeah people would be mad. In a game where weapons and armor are designed to wear out from playing, I fail to see why a dev would want to alter that scheme at all.
As someone else mentioned, I think this is part of an multi-faceted scheme to lower the price of goods galaxy wide. If you add up all of the changes, it is one of the conclusions you can come to.
Get one and sell it to some "chump" for 15 million. No way Jabba is worth that much.
tonight: bought kit for 8mill, auction in progress...high bid at 12 mil, b/o at 16mill...fully expect it to go to 15mill
Puertoriqueno wrote:
bluejanus wrote:
Puertoriqueno wrote:Well, I don't know about the nerf....I certainly hope they dont nerf these in the future. That would be a bad move IMO. I think the uproar would be epic.
I dunno about epic, but yeah people would be mad. In a game where weapons and armor are designed to wear out from playing, I fail to see why a dev would want to alter that scheme at all.
As someone else mentioned, I think this is part of an multi-faceted scheme to lower the price of goods galaxy wide. If you add up all of the changes, it is one of the conclusions you can come to.
But why is that a good thing? Lowering the price of goods means that the flow of money going into the game is so much greater. The dev tweaking with the economy has mostly to do with credit sinks like player cities costs.
bluejanus wrote:
Puertoriqueno wrote:
bluejanus wrote:
Puertoriqueno wrote:
Well, I don't know about the nerf....I certainly hope they dont nerf these in the future. That would be a bad move IMO. I think the uproar would be epic.
I dunno about epic, but yeah people would be mad. In a game where weapons and armor are designed to wear out from playing, I fail to see why a dev would want to alter that scheme at all.
As someone else mentioned, I think this is part of an multi-faceted scheme to lower the price of goods galaxy wide. If you add up all of the changes, it is one of the conclusions you can come to.
But why is that a good thing? Lowering the price of goods means that the flow of money going into the game is so much greater. The dev tweaking with the economy has mostly to do with credit sinks like player cities costs.
Lowering the price of goods doesn't increase the flow of credits in the game...it just means that people get to keep more credits in their pocket. If they have more money in their pocket, maybe they run fewer missions (which are boring anyways), reducing the amount of money coming into the game.
True, when Devs try to tweak the economy, it's usually through direct means, such as maintenance costs or monetary payouts. However, one possible conclusion is that the vet rewards, combined with the galaxy-wide search, are part of a pattern of indirect economic manipulation by the Devs. They can't very well put in NPC vendors or institute price caps (I hope), so they do what they can with as low a profile as they can.
I'll grant it's all conjecture, but as I said in another thread, it does tie a lot of loose ends together.
Slim Vargo, Corbantis
EdOWar wrote:
bluejanus wrote:
Puertoriqueno wrote:
bluejanus wrote:
Puertoriqueno wrote:Well, I don't know about the nerf....I certainly hope they dont nerf these in the future. That would be a bad move IMO. I think the uproar would be epic.
I dunno about epic, but yeah people would be mad. In a game where weapons and armor are designed to wear out from playing, I fail to see why a dev would want to alter that scheme at all.
As someone else mentioned, I think this is part of an multi-faceted scheme to lower the price of goods galaxy wide. If you add up all of the changes, it is one of the conclusions you can come to.
But why is that a good thing? Lowering the price of goods means that the flow of money going into the game is so much greater. The dev tweaking with the economy has mostly to do with credit sinks like player cities costs.Lowering the price of goods doesn't increase the flow of credits in the game...it just means that people get to keep more credits in their pocket. If they have more money in their pocket, maybe they run fewer missions (which are boring anyways), reducing the amount of money coming into the game.
True, when Devs try to tweak the economy, it's usually through direct means, such as maintenance costs or monetary payouts. However, one possible conclusion is that the vet rewards, combined with the galaxy-wide search, are part of a pattern of indirect economic manipulation by the Devs. They can't very well put in NPC vendors or institute price caps (I hope), so they do what they can with as low a profile as they can.
I'll grant it's all conjecture, but as I said in another thread, it does tie a lot of loose ends together.
Slim Vargo, Corbantis
Egida and I weren't discussing the galaxy search vendor. We were discussing ADKs.