LongMustache

Only if you can spend gc to buy el coins from npc. But then there would be no need for el coin to begin with, radu could just put all items for gc and give gc for $ and it would have the same effect. But if you can trade el coins for gc to other players only, it would only swap hands, which wouldnt work. gc needs to leave game for inflation to stop.

I get where you're coming from. I saw this work very well in other games. The GC inflation wouldnt stop though, as gc keeps coming into the game at the same rate, would still need adjustments to gc from mining/fighting. It would be cool, for example, to get teleport rings and weapons from more mobs. It exchange gc drops could be reduced.

I ignored the fact that there are more bindings and EFE entering the game than used, because its irrelevant. People stockpile them because they're rare, useful and their price is increasing. If there are more coming into the game, they will be less rare, the price will drop and stockpiling them will be less attractive. And tbh, stockpiling rare things makes sense, because its more fun than stockpiling gc. stockpilers will always be there and you can't do anything about it. Only solution is to make the things less rare, so that people who don't stockpile would have a chance to get them when they need them for a reasonable price. Now, as far as gold removal from the game goes. Its a problem npcs or no npcs. Yet its still anti-fun to buy finished things from npc. There could be alternative methods of removing gold from the game (taxes, selling raw materials). Also, the amount of gold coming into the game could be altered: -give a perk that converts gc from harvesting into exp, -reduce cash drops from monsters, give them more item drops instead (more fun, too). -Reduce cash reward from dailies, or replace cash with something else.

The problem is that there are not enough high-level materials entering game. I realized that after i made this post. We need to see more bindings, efes, emes, enri stones entering the game. Maybe from low/mid level mobs would be a great idea. Especially fluffs/feros, since the gold/hr they provide is horrible and beyond, even compared to clops and armed orcs. Edit: I dont even want profits from this. idc. I want more enjoyable game experience, which is when you make stuff yourself or buy from people, as opposed to throwing cash at npc anytime you need anything.

Hi, i want to confirm whats the deadline for donations? Same as ticket purchases or earlier?

Maybe if radu is a good person then he wants to lower the prices. I dont know him, so i cant tell. But from a businessman perspective - the higher the price the better the business. People have more incentive to buy things that sell for more in game. I agree with elke that its quite boring at the moment. But not because some skills arent self-sutainable, but because prices being at or higher than NPC price means people will buy a lot of stuff from npc, potentially leaving suppliers with less demand, which is not very inviting to make things for sale in the first place. All in all thins means less multiplayer gameplay, and more single player gameplay, and we can probably all agree, no one here would play EL if it was a single player game. Another market-related issue right now are the new daritha requests for high level armor that requires EFE. This made efe price to skyrocket to now anywhere between 14-18kgc from what used to be 10kgc before the new items. This in turn rises the price of metal armors (making it harder for mid-level players), tools (alembic, vial mold) which makes crafting/potioning less attractive, even though they never were very popular to begin with. I wouldnt have any issues with armors prices rising, if material prices rose as well (FE, ores, flowers), at the moment new players find it harder and harder to get into the game, because of increasting prices of mid/high level stuff, yet low level money making methods still provide nearly the same amount of profits as always. EDIT: there were 2 bots selling EFEs for 18-19kgc. They are gone now. Sold? Just to show how bad the situation is.

By the way, we have to remember, that stones are in $shop, so Radu wont want to drop the in game prices like ever.

I explained my stance on this very well in another place, i guess i can just copy it here as i don't feel like typing all over again.

Hey, since i got a name change in-game Helklo->LongMustache a whileee back, i wonder if its possible to change my forum name too? I also womder if this is the right place.. i guess not. But oh well....

Its funny how EL players take for granted that yoru lost stuff has to be returned. Its quite stupid if nothing else. You go without a rosto, you die, you drop your shit, you lose it. thats it. There shouldn't be this expectation that everyone will return your bag and there shouldn't be any hate towards those who dont give back your stuff. Carry a rosto next time or dont cry when you lose your stuff.

Wow this is getting huge.. and still a month to go. A question is, can a single ticket win multiple prizes? also what exactly are these: Ring Of Power Set William Tell Kit Medallion Set Badaran Fighting Kit

Hi, does dedicated harvester really only affect mini events? i've had it for a while, and it feels like i'm the one getting majority of radons and walls. At first i thought it was just titanium ore that has high event rate, but then i moved to sulfur, iron and now silver and i still get more big events than anyone around me. This is just a hunch, but i think the perk increases the chance of all events rather than mini events.

Finding white tigers is kinda easy, they always go the same way -> south around the big area, and sometimes through the portal and can be found roaming around the exit portal. Anyway, if it was me, i would just add more cool quests - like skeleton in irinveron for higher level players to get more variety and exp, as currently for me there are only like 5 haidir quests that give decent experience and the rest are meh and not even worth the exp/time on their own.

I just noticed some npc *buy* prices are weird. for example mercury is 1gc to NPC. makes no sense, considering npc buys energy ess for 3.67 (which is way to little on its own). I dont mind these prices really, if it was me i would remove most items from NPCs altogether, but still all npc prices require a complete overhaul.

I don't see any problem. This is only theoretical and wont happen. Hell, even if it does, i wouldn't see any problem - it just means someone is dedicated enough to selling their stock so that they are willing to not only leave big amounts of gc on their alts, but also spend the time preparing alts. I'm more worried that the prices might crash if someone decides to mass harvest 1 harvestable with 20 alts.

At least colored gloves.

Monster drops. It would be nice if radu changed mob drops a lil bit. As it is now, we have male orcs with amazing drops (serp stones) and then everything after them sucks. Clops are somewhat okay, but thats it. After male orcs only DCW have good drops. Maybe adding extra sources of EFE and binding stones would help drop the prices a lil bit.

a day's* Seriously, 10k iron ore or 5k LE. Thats 12 hours, 16 at most. Its a matter of preference i guess, but i really dislike when you buy everything from npc. The whole fun in RPG game for me is to collect stuff, rather than buy from npc. Thats why i started this thread to begin with. It is very likely that this is intentionally cheap so new players can afford it. Same goes for the 100gc padded torso armor, the 350gc iron sword, the 400 gc iron shield and the 9gc health essences/spirit essences. Then why make mix price so high. Radu could reduce the making price and exp, everyone would be satisfied. and tbh, no one uses iron chains anyway, either augs or steel chain. Same for iron shield and padded torso. spirit ess arent even used by newbs either.

Well, inflation is to be expected, because there aren't enough ways to remove gc and it just piles up. And even though these low npc prices reduce inflation by forcing people to buy stuff from them, i don't think its the right way to go, its just too boring. People like making stuff for themselves. Being able to buy stuff from NPC is a good thing, but when npc prices are so low that making anything is a tremendous waste of cash, it becomes not fun anymore. As for tit chain. I buy them from Emporium for 5300gc. It might be a "special case", but it still prevents anyone from making them for reasonable prices. Godswords yeah, but it used to be 47kgc like a year or so ago. What changed? Binding price changed. I make my own daritha items, too. But, i cant make some of them as npcs are underpricing them. As for FE price, i don't see any reason why they would go up i price. They are super easy to make, you can mix them all day semi-afk, almost like harvesting. Materials are cheap and easy to obtain. #5 rule is gone, so making them is even more of a joke now. On top of that, if FE price rises -> steel bar price rises -> people stop making steel bars and buy them from npc -> FE price drops.

Thats actually a really amazing idea. differnet #days for different continents. I would like to see this happen.

Yes, but some of the items aren't worth making, because the exp they give is insignificant for the price you pay. I.E. I want to make some great swords, but i cant, because im not willing to pay 15kgc for just 800 exp.

1151 Potion of Feasting 14 ea (16kgc) 1000 Potion of Spirit Restoration 15.5kgc 1 Book of Iron Broad sword of ice 10kgc 1 Book of Titanium/Steel Long Sword of Fire 10kgc 2 Harvester Medallion 15kgc if the prices are fine /mercator LongMustache

Yeah, and I would find day of less weight more useful than almost any other day in the game. Everyone have their preference, but what im saying is - it shouldn't affect any good new ideas. Radu could also add day stones for other days. Only a handful of stones exist atm, which would increase the rate of "rare" special days. Theres an easy solution for you.

Dont stop mixing if you fail. Similar to harvester med just for alching. Shouldn't be too expensive or doesnt break. Would be really cool for mixing lower end stuff.

Now that Rule 5 is gone, people add that to every topic. The question is, shold we really make it harder for 1-client players, just because multi client players get an advantage? I mean, Rule 5 was designed so that people wouldnt get such advantage, and it has been removed... Moreover, if thats the concern, Radu could just change the client so that you wouldn't be able to open more than 1/2 windows at the same time, or that you wouldnt be able to log on more than 2/3 chars per IP.