Inflation

[Insane |GATE| Dwarf]

Ozy and i were discussing the economy earlier, and the only realistic way to make money in this game is through EC's (to your average player). But Ddays ingame min price is vastly larger than the ec's max price and steadily rising. In a few weeks, Ddays arent going to be affordable without donating. Maybe this is Andi's plan ? (conspiracy theory) I believe this will just cause the game to die. I for one am running out of Ddays, wont be able to afford more and continue playing part time as i am.

So what i propose is making the Dday min price correlate with the Ec price, for example making so the Min Dday price is 125% of ec max price.

[Puppet Master]

Well considering most people 95% of them will just sell at dday max. you need to make both maxes respective

Which is somehwat of your idea, and has been said many times to both andi and smuggs

[Insane |GATE| Dwarf]

but as 95% will try to sell at max, capitallism means that some will try to undercut others, but yeah. i just got my mins & maxs mixed xD

-- Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:38:37 +0000 --

Although, surely that system might be better than the one we have in the long term. And there will never be a shortage or people go without as we will also have donators (most likely) to sell. Hell if push comes to shove im probally going to spend about £30 (roughly $50) on Ddays

[Puppet Master]

but as 95% will try to sell at max, capitallism means that some will try to undercut others, but yeah. i just got my mins & maxs mixed xD

-- Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:38:37 +0000 --

Although, surely that system might be better than the one we have in the long term. And there will never be a shortage or people go without as we will also have donators (most likely) to sell. Hell if push comes to shove im probally going to spend about £30 (roughly $50) on Ddays

Lol it is fine... But that wont be enough as the supply can dictate the price... or everyone will go without

or cuase a shortage

I am also going to invest in 100$ of ddays and sit on them

[Insane |GATE| Dwarf]

Hmm....what we need to do, is get someone with an economics degree to join :L

[Puppet Master]

My econ teacher (has a major in econ* looked at the economy in the game and was actualy disgusted. XD

[Insane |GATE| Dwarf]

hmm, well we just need more opinions. & Smuggs/Andi's view of it is what counts the most.

[Puppet Master]

brainwash them

[Ozy {DD}]

Like I said to Red (Dwarf)

- I would suggest to cap the max dds price to the average ECS price.

This way, any new player (like old ones too) can afford buying dds with one of the daily 3 free ECS, and play this game like it was made to be played ....

Of course, those buying $$$ dds from Andi are going to be pissed at first, because they'll need to spend more $$ to get the same profit as now.
But in the long run, the game will have a better chance to survive.

The way it's now, any newcomer has no chance to be able to play this game after his 7 days trail time .. no more dds, and he needs all his ECS just to be able to do his kills (600) and will quit because this game is too hard ...

Also, it's a nice gesture Andi does by buying the overpriced dds from his RL $$ donators, but this is what's making the price go up (greed), without that, those with dds would have to lower their price to be the one to sell ! (like ECS are doing)

- An other suggestion would be to have only 3 types of donations => 5$, 10$ and 15$ ONLY available by subscription (once a month) .. this might give less a profit to the Game Owner, but it would balance the game dds assets ... 31 dds per 5$ ...

- An other way to baulk this inflation, would be to have a dd-shop (like our old e-shop) where you can buy max 5 dds per week (as an example) using webs, cds and /or ECS .. this could also be cap, like if you have 200+ dds you can get in.

These are only suggestion by the way ..

PS: In any case, the newcomers will always be screwed because we (the older players in CW) did have the luck to buy dds and ECS for very cheap ... we had it easy, never forget that !! And they do have 300+ days to catch up first