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I dont know to what extent you trade and how much regular content you play that would earn you white karma. Worst case scenario, you never leave the royal terrace and your sole reason why you log in is to play the tp for fun. The gold you earn is a measure of success but apart from that its pretty useless to you because you dont need gold to outfit your character.As you can still keep on trading by buying kegs of white karma from other players, you favourite game content is still available to you and you will still be able to make gold profits as a good trader.
Lets assume the going rate for a keg of white karma is 2 gold atm and it enables you to pick up buy orders worth 10 gold. Some trades will be undesirable because your profit margin will be less than 2g and some will still be profitable because they are higher than 2g.
Of course that will mean that you make less profit in general than before but your profits can still be a measure of success and enable you to keep playing your favourite game mode. But some of your excessive profits will be redistributed to someone who completes content with less gold rewards.Of course you can argue that huge wealth disparity doesnt negatively impact anyone but that swings both ways. Can you prove that a lower wealth disparity is an undesireable change?
If the disparity becomes too big, it can in fact negatively impact the game because that trader that never leaves the terrace and reaps huge profits with relatively little effort compared to regular players might become a Real Money Trader, which is bad for the game.
You are right in terms of the impact to traders, as long as the white karma is tradeable it will mean lower profits without impacting my game play.
My biggest concern is wanting to achieve a lower wealth disparity and to redistribute trading power, the current system is fine and not negatively impacting anyone. Going to a system where wealth disparity is lower is good and not a bad thing either, but is it worth putting in developer time and effort to go from a system that is running well and fine to another system that is just as good. Edit: forgot to add that one of the main reasons i enjoy the TP is that you only have to manage one currency, I wouldn’t like the multi-currency system in pve to come to the TP, buts thats a personal opinion.
It seems like a pursuit to fix something thats not broken.
The current wealth disparity is large but no one I know would dare break the ToS or use profits to break the ToS
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Very much disagree with karma tax, for those that purely play the TP and nothing else this tax would remove their ability to play the game how they want. It would seem that this karma tax idea is a way for soft TP traders to catch up to and stifle other TP traders.
Looking back at the posts in the thread it is obvious who wants to stifle their competition due to the fact they have stockpiled karma and cannot compete with them with current conditions .
To give full time traders a chance to still play their favourite content and giving players the ability to value white karma more directly, we could introduce Craftable Consumables that require white karma to craft and also reward it upon consumption.
If it should be a straight trade or have a lesser output is up to debate but the crafting should be timegated. Lets go with this:
Right now, we have 10 different consumables that award karma upon consumption.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Karma#Karma_consumablesThe output ranges from 150 to 7500 karma, from drip to keg.
Assume the same consumables for white karma, craftable by every profession, unlocked every 50 crafting levels and each of them only craftable once per day.
So if you have 1 profession maxed, you can basically use ~35k white karma per day and sell it directly via consumables, which can be bought buy traders that cant be bothered to play other content.Good enough for you?
So in order to keep to my current TP trading activities I would have to craft white karma up to the daily limit and then buy more, or just out right buy as I trade.
This sounds like a sub fee in order to play the TP that forces me to use funds elsewhere, this tax is something I would have to manage on top trading.
Why do we need a tax to address the wealth disparity between players (it doesn’t negatively impact anyone). I honestly cannot see that as your motivation for this tax, I’m sure you as a TP trader understands that this is a waste of time. I honestly believe you have an ulterior motive, not financial, but something else maybe to be a champion to the whiners of ‘he is richer than me and its not fair’ or to ingratiate yourself with John Smith.
Honestly a fruitless pursuit with no real outcome but to clutter the scene with another currency.
I haven’t seen any proof of this posted by ANET, they are very tight lipped on player numbers and their playing times. If you have seen any numbers posted please share them,
It is not a GW2 specific thing. It happens to ALL games, simply due to the fact that people (for some weird reason) want to spend time outside when it is nice weather.
The world doesn’t share the same season and weather patterns with your local area, the earth isn’t flat.
Many people wont have the same seasonal reasons to go out side as you do. Again it would be nice of you to share this information about Guild Wars 2 having reduced players during certain months that you talk about, I think a lot of people would like to see it
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It is rather unfair to compare your local seasonal/weather patterns to the rest of the globe.
Many countries have their holiday seasons different to that of the EU and NA,
I am fully aware of that. But overall more people tend to play during the US/EU winter than during the US/EU summer.
I haven’t seen any proof of this posted by ANET, they are very tight lipped on player numbers and their playing times. If you have seen any numbers posted please share them,
It is rather unfair however to compare a point in time that was in the middle of winter when traditionally people play more with the middle of summer.
It is rather unfair to compare your local seasonal/weather patterns to the rest of the globe.
Many countries have their holiday seasons different to that of the EU and NA,
Very much disagree with karma tax, for those that purely play the TP and nothing else this tax would remove their ability to play the game how they want. It would seem that this karma tax idea is a way for soft TP traders to catch up to and stifle other TP traders.
Looking back at the posts in the thread it is obvious who wants to stifle their competition due to the fact they have stockpiled karma and cannot compete with them with current conditions .