Not having a hard cap is bad for the economy as you are creating gold from nothing. The ultimate result will be a larger gear gap.
What I am suggesting is a stimulus package where you can dump your credits if you are really desperate.
This can also help narrow the gap between players as newbies can buy credits at low prices. More players will stay in game since newbies can become competitive in lesser time.
That won't help because there is nothing differentiating newbies from whales. The only way to narrow the gap is not gold, it's the gear itself. Because of how the gear is set up, stat improvements per grade past Celestial are a percentage better than the previous grade, but Celestial has the added "bonus" of a chance to break as well as a chance to downgrade, making it a rough hurdle for people trying to get to Divine and its being 7% better than Celestial. Easiest way to fix a gear gap is to make Celestial worth wearing. With Celestial being more powerful, it helps poor players compete without helping the well-established get further ahead (since regrade chances aren't getting changed, only the value of the most hated tier in the game)
Not at all, you aren't going to educate me on anything as your ideas are yours and mine are mine. I respect your opinion but Id prefer to keep the forums clean and not get discussions locked due to inappropriate behavior.
There has always been some for of Apex/Credit selling in this game. Its part of the economy and is what most things are priced around. I don't see how your statement is true, because gold always has a $ value, why do you think people bought gold rather than credits lol.
Ex. 300g in credits cost $1 where 300g from a bot cost $0.25. If there farming with bots to gear themselves then the argument is irrelevant.
You realize I'm talking about a fact, right? This isn't an opinion.
If a bot farms mobs and opens coinpurses, they get silver from nothing except labor. I'm talking about that gold it's earning adding up to 300g. It's 300 gold injected into the economy for zero effort because it's a bot. Just like vendoring a credit pack for 300 gold. It isn't hard. Come on, try again to understand the words I'm typing and say "I understand".
Alright, just because you play for 2 hours a day and can sell small items on the AH and gear to your guildies doesn't make you an economist, I'm not saying my opinion is right nor do I agree that yours is, but just because what your selling works doesn't mean the economy is perfectly fine. Just saying people are buying things for way too high of price isn't proof that the economy is fine. The items listed on the AH have been the price of what items have been going for, for months. Idc about flowers, and 10 minute grow time items.
I'm not saying the economy is fine. I've been saying it's fucked for quite awhile now. The reason why it's been screwed up is because people are paying high prices for items and setting a precedent for it.
prec·e·dent
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an earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar circumstances.
If someone buys an item that is logically worth 100g for 300g and everyone can see this purchase being made, it sets a precedent for what it should be sold from that point forward. People buying for unreasonably high amounts of gold screws up the economy while also proving there is enough gold in the economy to do so. Your opinion is 100% trumped by my fact.
People seem to be doing fine when bots were a huge part of the server. Larceny(Coinpurses), DGS, Kraken Tentacles, Abyssal packs, they essentially print gold from nothing all the time, it just all depends on the number of people doing it.
My idea doesn't automatically make everyone rich and every player on the server is going to start taking out student loans to by gear. Credits/Apex has always been there, the problem is there needs to be more gold printed, or the shift in the market will take weeks to adjust as that's how long it would take for people to start being able to afford high-value items again
First off, Apex doesn't print gold. SOMEONE had to do something in order to make the gold to buy the Apex off of someone. If you buy an Apex and put it on the Auction House and I do trade packs for the gold, the gold source is one-directional. Only the buyer of the Apex from the Auction House created new gold. Your suggestion makes it so the buying of the Apex on your end generates gold and my trade run also generates gold. It would duplicate the gold generation on the server and be the equivalent of printing money. There is a reason countries are in debt to each other and don't just print money to solve this problem. Printing money decreases its value. Your suggestion is printing more gold. Your suggestion is decreasing its value.
All those events do print gold, you're right. Did you ever play retail? If you did, you would probably remember back when Abyssal Attack was daily. Odds are you played on a server that was owned by one faction and not completely disputed. You wanna take a shot at what happened to the AH market for these clusters? Gear prices rose, item prices skyrocketed, and the rich only got richer. It got so bad they nerfed the amount of DGS a server could have done daily from 6 to 3, and reduced the amount Abyssal Attacks from 7 a week to 3. PROVE. ME. RIGHT. MORE. PLEASE.
EDIT! Just wanted to point out that of the items you listed in that image, 2 have already sold, and one is currently priced at almost 2k more than its only other time being sold in the last 2 weeks. Thus further proving the fact that the gold exists and if you try to overprice, eventually you won't sell until you drop the amount of gold you're asking for said item.