Apparently you wouldn't get the dust with a polished one then, milty...
Wouldn't raw emeralds be worth less than polished ones?
Please tell me you arent calling this price fixing? When its more about not allowing the games economy to go to cr@p.Its at least what a 4 hour trip with the average group to get emeralds?All i know is I would rather the players kept control of pricing... than the Content Team making them a 6 hour, 8 hour, or lord knows what to get them to force the economy back into shape.G-452
Price fixing:An agreement between participants on the same side in a market to buy or sell the same product, service, or commodity only at a fixed price or maintain the market conditions such that the price is maintained at a given level by controlling supply and demand. The group of market makers involved in price fixing is sometimes referred to as a cartel.Price fixing requires a conspiracy between two or more sellers or buyers; the purpose is to coordinate pricing for mutual benefit of the traders.
I would hope the gm team would not respond by making it harder and harder to get, which would only punish new players and reward older ones.
*laughs*
For some perspective...The 100K price for a raw emerald was an artificially-inflated price that had its origins back when emeralds could be found in Mystery Minerals from Greenstone deposits and actual mined emeralds were rarer than rare. Someone put one up for auction, it fetched a 100K price and the trend started.Now that there are more 20+ level characters on the server and emeralds are more attainable, there is really no real economic reason for them to still fetch a minimum 100K price.
I agree 100k Plus for an emerald is a bit much however. And geting an Emerals from mining Greenstone... yeah that wasnt good (which is why it was fixed!)I also believe 20k is to little when time and effort to obtain are factored. As it stands now I would bet there are people out there who simply will never attempt to go get emeralds because they can not devote 3 to 6 hours to sitting at their PC. However, even a level 1 character can make thousands daily gathering CNR that requires NO fighting at all. So it isn't about people not being able to afford 40k to 60k for an Emerald. It is about what each player here values his or her time. It's about being part of a world and wanting to make its economy work.......... *sighs*
Bah.....you know what..... I really should just shut up..... at least my Alts will get cheap gear at this rate, right?G-452