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Matt_Ryte
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I was wondering whether anybody knows if the economy in Factions is going to be cohesively fused with the economy in Prophecies? For instance, dyes are worth 1 g. Thus, if the economies were not integrated, then at the outset of Factions, all dyes would sell for 1 g? Correct? Or is that not how it works :S IF that is the case though, this would probably topple the economy in Prophecies.
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| 04/03/06 09:31 |
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armsraisedinav
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We don't know yet, but traders should only sell what they bought from players before, so they might start empty or with a very small stock.
I am a bit scared that you might be right tho, and the people who play from the first second can buy at their hearts content.
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| 04/03/06 09:33 |
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Xavier_Darkraven
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I believe that all existing items will cost the same. However new items that exist in cantha, materials etc will probably have to start at 100g for 10 for common and 100g each for rare. Until a player set price for them emerges.
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| 04/03/06 09:36 |
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White Tadpole
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It would balance out in very short time. The highly purchased items would only be the lower prices for a matter of minutes. You have to figure that people all over the world will be thinking the same thing when they see superior monk runes selling for 100g. BUY BUY BUY, then the price will skyrocket due to lack of supply and high demand. Now for a more pressing question, will the ritualist replace the monk as the commmon "target?"
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| 04/03/06 09:41 |
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Nihil Zarathustra
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Well the individual merchants will probably be linked to together to prevent cross game price manipulation. As for the actual items themselves it's hard to say what will happen. I tried to develop a price function for a single item in the GW world but i've come to find that it's impossible to give you a specific price at any given point in time because there is unlimited supply and too many values that are inequalities rather than actual numbers. Basically after i manipulated the equation somewhat i've found that the only actual number that exists in the entire equation is time.
So anyway i concluded that price over time is directly related to Rarity over time. Appearence of the item, surprisingly, has little to do with how much it's worth as long as it's rare. So to simplify that Price = Rarity.
Since Rarity can't be given a value other than a sliding scale (IE an item with a rarity value of 10 is greater than an item with the rarity value of 9) you can only figure out if price will increase or decrease but not by how much.
So if you want to know..if people decrease farming in a particular area then rarity goes up and price goes up, if farming of an area increases rarity goes down and price goes down..
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| 04/03/06 09:59 |
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White Tadpole
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Price = laziness!
I have made soooooooooo much money by getting guildies to take noobish characters into post, then running them to the different monuments and then selling the Grim Cesta for 5k+. It was most efficient when 3 would tag along.... since the party limit is 4 in ascalon. :(
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| 04/03/06 10:07 |
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Nihil Zarathustra
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That's a service not a good :P
I can give you the equation for service profit and efficiency but thats about it :P.
Not that you have any interest in those equations.
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| 04/03/06 10:12 |
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Genesis_Dragon
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The economy will be merged across Prophecies and Factions, just as it was during the FPE.
You could buy Jadeite Shards, and Amber chunks from the Traders in Tyria. I also have a Superior Dagger Mastery Rune in my Storage... which I purchased in Droknar's Forge.
Black Dye in Cantha will still cost you 6k, straight away. Only the new stuff, like Amber and Jadeite will start with a reduced minimum price, although their prices went up during the FPE, the first I bought cost me 100. By the time the event was over, the prices were at 250 or so.
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It has to be this way, as merged accounts will have access to both continents, if they were seperate you'd be able to go and buy it in Cantha cheap and then sell high in Tyria.
Give ANet some credit, they rolled back the economy because of a potential economy killer, they aren't going to purposely create one a month later now are they?
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| 04/03/06 10:34 |
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