MMORPGs -Economy

[15357]

There are certain MMORPGs in which the economy is mostly player controlled. Player controled economies sometimes have a main item that is sold by each other.

With enough people (and money) you can implode an entire server's economy.

I belonged to a clan, in a MMORPG, that numbered some 60 people. We all bought the main item (which was some sort of all-purpose upgrade item)for about 10,000 gold each. In total, we had about four thousand.

2 months later, the price of the item jumped to 900,000. My clan, sold everything for 20,000. That action messed up the economy for the entire server. All the guys that had stockpiled on the item (it was getting more and more expensive) went bankrupt. Unbelievably, it messed up other items as well, and you no longer could see the masses of people trading at town squares.

It was fun. :E

 

[VirusType2]

You didn't mess up the economy, you messed up a lot of players investments

a good MMORPG like World of Warcraft has an amazing economy that unbeliveably always works it self out. If the programmers see a problem developing, like a surplus of a certain item, they will have a faire where you turn in tons of that item to get a really good item, or they release new recipes that require that item, making it valuable again.

It's not perfect but its the best i've ever seen. the whole thing with items "bind on equip" meaning once you equip it, it can no longer be traded, is perfect.

otherwise, the more people that find that item, the less valuable it is, since there are more found all the time, it eventually there are hundreds floating around, and makes it worth less. bind on equip fixes this problem.

 

[destrukt]

the economy in gw can be annoying but it's usually stable/fine and if it goes crazy, arena net sorts it out.

 

[Gray Fox]

Have they finally fixed the celestial sigil problem, and hwat about the runes, are there still runes that cost 80 platina's

 

[destrukt]

no idea about sigil's, they seem to have dropped to around 30k i think, but nobody seems to be spamming to buy/sell them, it seems everyone has a hall :x

the runes are all down to the 'normal prices' (10-15k for popular sup. runes) except for sup. vigor/absorption which will always be high.

 

[Jintor]

What MMO was this, Numbers? Lineage 2?

 

[Cole]

There talking about Guild Wars.

ArenaNet should have the merchants add less to the price tag, then there would be less spamming and more people would buy through that.

 

[xcellerate]

the soj sucks.

 

[Cole]

Worst Currency Ever.

 

[Alig]

The games economy lies in the developers hands for the most part. Blizzard are a good example of this with WoW which has an amazing economy, unlike the last MMO i played where me and my clan knew an exploit to turn 1cr into 20'000'000cr which completely ****ed the games economy up because the developers didn't do nothing about it, but that wasn't the only way to make way to much money, you and 2 mates could sit there with a barter, a constructor and a researcher and make a certain "tank" vehicle over and over for relatively cheap and sell it to the NPC's at around 300% profit....anyway, Devs controls an MMOs economy at the end of the day.

 

[ríomhaire]

LOL, that's hillarious. I demand more! The WoW stockmarket crashes, everyone blaims Windows but it was actualy 15357!

 

[boglito]

Eve has the best economy i have ever seen in a game. Unlike certain lame mmorpgs in eve you can't sell your valuables to computer-controlled vendors for more than the actual worth of the ingredients (minerals used to build the item). This means that even if you find a supposedly valuable item, it is not worth more than its mineral cost unless you can find a player that is willing to pay more. Minerals, however, can be sold to vendors (for market-regulated prices that vary from area to area), making mineral-trading a viable source of income. Actually, since you don't have to fight to gain xp it is possible to play eve pacifist-style and do well. (allthough, fighting is helpfull in the beginning).

.bog.

 

[15357]

Another one:

Me and my clan (the same one) exploited something just like Alig that did *100000 of your money. We gave it to other people by spamming large amounts of money on heavily populated areas.. Having no computer vendors (TEST SERVER), it caused inflation.

 

[ríomhaire]

I'd laugh even harder if your clan got banned or something.

 

[15357]

I'd laugh even harder if your clan got banned or something.

Yeah, as a matter of fact, we did. Some idiot made a post about in the site, and some overzealous admin banned us for exploiting and hacking. :|

 

[ríomhaire]

Hacking?

 

[15357]

Hacking?

He probably thought exploiting = hacking.

 

[Beerdude26]

Man, I'm really getting interested by this EvE online thing. But can you have some kind of home haven or something?