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Merc prices
A concerned wastelander:
--- Quote from: headshot on February 02, 2011, 08:25:46 AM ---War destroys economics. Always. As long as major factions will use mercenaries for their advantage, the prices will remain high.
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For the moment, its the economy that destroy all wars. The problem is being able to make caps by interest, having money in bank is already a big advantage, as it is safe, should you be rewarded for having safe money in your bank? That is the true reason why mercs are so costly right now, as some players earn hundreds of thousands (if not millions for big gangs) of caps a day in interest. For them, its no problem to loose there mercs in 5 minutes, they just go buy some more.
Keldorn:
Well change the price of mercs from caps to a different currency, problem solved :)
Yes the big gangs have a shitload of caps, its the nature of the beast. If they are rich and decide to abuse the bank system then thats their thing. Even without interest they would still be filthy rich.
Dare I say this bank interest blame is borderline trolling.
Keldorn:
--- Quote from: aForcefulThrust on February 02, 2011, 08:18:15 PM ---vendors only cary 13k on average untill someone cleans them out.... You realize how long it would take for a player to gather the kinds of funds needed for this? WEEKS of non stop grinding and saving are the only way, aside from massive bank accounts generating intrest. I guess casual players just can't use mercs, and that is the answer.
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Without bank interest, average joes would be screwed every which way. Right now even casual players can afford mercs if they don't mind camping boneyard and selling BBs. Can casual players ever compete with big guildsi in regards to mercs? No of course not. But then again big guilds always achieve more than loners.
aForcefulThrust:
--- Quote from: Keldorn on February 02, 2011, 11:42:54 PM ---
Dare I say this bank interest blame is borderline trolling.
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Are you insane!? he's right!! generating 800k caps/day is insane and is the reason the prices are so high!!
Assume you allready have 500k worth of gear to sell lieing around... It will take you weeks just to find enough caps on vendors to pay for 1 mutant army. There is only one other way to afford them, and thats intrest.
Just grind a bunch at the start of a wipe, grind for the first 2 months and save 2 mil. Then stop playing for a month or so and come back, WOW! You have 12 mil and are now generating 360k/game day.
Michaelh139:
There needs to be a boundary for interest.
Like, say 500k-1 mil, then interest stops.
Alts alts alts... but hey, works with crafting. And we won't re-deconstruct loner/beginner lives.
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