I know we don’t see eye to eye, but I was curious to your take on the semi-recent laissez faire stance on the economy?
I won’t reply, rebut, or anything. I’m just interested.
Maybe you want to be a bit more specific what you mean because I am not sure wether we both agree on which parts of the economy/markets are seeing a laissez faire stance.
On the common topics atm, I would say i prefer mystic coins at 1g value maybe even higher. Its a great way to reward loyal player who log in on a daily basis and their requirements for luxury items are quite balanced. I wouldnt be surprised, if Anet wont make any significant chances in the future but they might add smaller faucets, like they have recently done with the drops from fractals. These small faucets will provide a little more flexibility to players in their ways of earning them directly, besides daily log ins, but wont make too much of an impact on the price, which i expect to gradually rise higher. And thats fine, in my opinion, for the most part. But What they should adress are the older recipes that call for mystic coins, which were designed and balanced when there was an overabundance of coins, with the wintersday runes and sigils being the prime example. I am quite disappointed that Anet basically took out the last real seasonal faucet by removing them from the loot table of the personalized wintersday gift this year. The upgrade recipe, which requires 20 mc for the exotic sigil, is real bad design and should have been adjusted before wintersday. From a general perspective, I can live with the average price of 5-6g during this wintersday for the sigil, if it was only used for Winters Presence, as drinks became much cheaper and offset the price rise of the sigils on the shopping list. But one sigil is also needed to complete the orphan questline to get the star of gratitude. And that is really bad design, especially, if the sigils should rise to forging value (of 20g) at some point before next wintersday. That Orphan questline was designed to take a couple of days or a week to complete, so why ask for an item on the fourth day, that requires you to farm 20 mystic coins to forge it?
I am pretty sure this was an oversight and they just decided not to hotfix it because they estimated that there is enough oversuply of runes and sigils left from previous years to cover demand. The next howler might come tomorrow, or a little later, once people realize that you also need 4 sigils of mischief (exotic) to craft the chaos gun.
If we would have run out of sigils during wintersday, we still would have the chance to forge more from scratch but once the Festival vendor goes on a 11 month sabbatical tomorrow, we wont be able to buy new minor sigils anymore.
I doubt that the precursor crafting of the chaos gun will actually create enough demand for the sigils that we might run out of them or it reaches a higher price of its forging value but it still is bad design.
Precursor crafting represents some prime content from HoT and should be available year round without restrictions. Making an item an requirement for one of the crafting processes, that only drops during 6 weeks of the year is fluffy kitten.
And yeah, finally, t6 leather needs adjustment, badly. More than silk ever needed tinkering with. The problem is, there is no easy fix and to find a proper balance, you need to adress cloth a well as their supply and demand is so dependant on each other.
But what I take out of this topic is that evil flippers who hold on to their huge supply of t6 leather in order to raise the value arent really the problem, like so many always claim.
The supply OP bought 2 years ago for copper value, would probably have been sold to a vendor and therefore destroyed, if he (and others like him) wouldnt have put in buy orders or buy up large amounts of the supply. So if he wouldnt have done it, all that leather would have been gone way before people needed it.
And now here he is, back to game, with an account full of leather to add supply, basically doing what the player base wants anet to do: Open the faucet. It also contradicts the myth that players like him are waiting out on higher prices, as he mentioned that he is basically trying to sell as fast as possible (without filling to much buy orders at once, I assume). And I would also presume, that it wouldnt have mattered, at which point in the last 12 months he would have come back, he would have been as happy a camper as he is now, regardless, wether the price of t6 squares was 10s, 30s or 50s. We would have done the same as he is doing right now, trying to sell most of his leather at the current rate.
