Time to limit tp profit?

#1 - July 30, 2013, 4:30 p.m.

With all of the farming nerfs the potential to farm gold has it’s limits. No matter how long someone plays or how efficiently they play, at the end of the day they will have been limited to the amount of gold they are able to produce.

When it comes to trading on the post profit potential is limitless. We already know that the tp offers the highest earning potential in the game by far and with every farming nerf that gap becomes larger.

So we have a wealth gap that becomes bound on one end and unbound on the other end, thus it grows.

There are many items in this game that have limited supply. We all know to well these items become costly. The costs of these items is always restricted by the amount players are able to pay for them.

Will this ensure that some items will only be attainable to players that trade for profit?

John Smith

#32 - July 30, 2013, 6:52 p.m.

Ensign.2189:
Conncept.7638:
And voila! Suddenly, people actually have to price things intelligently as in real world sales.

Because power traders make all kinds of money from putting items up for sale at prices where they don’t sell.

Power trading is a cash flow business. The faster your items sell the sooner you can re-invest and repeat the cycle. Power traders also become intimately familiar with the ebb and flow of prices in the markets they work in. If your item is sitting there for days on end you’re already kitten ed off from eating the 5% fee of having to re-list it on top of your money being locked up for those days.

Everything you just described would have very, very little impact on power traders (beyond volume restrictions, which would just make the bulk commodity markets a pain to work with) but would be even more punishing to the casual player that can’t keep up. You may have spun it impressively well, but there’s nothing here.

Except for the part about my feelings (I just got back from crying in a corner), everything Ensign says is correct.