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Originally Posted by jwenting
Most people like the way dappers have no real value. It means there's no market here for goldsellers spamming the chat channels with 24/7 shouts about their services, no farming parties driving everyone away from the good spots in order to monopolise things, no large scale infighting between players and guilds over access to good materials and equipment because it's all ultra-rare due to goldspammers farming it and either destroying it or selling it at ridiculously high prices (and then reselling the gold for real money to people who want/need the stuff the goldsellers sell in game, returning the dappers to the goldsellers).
Thanks, I'd rather avoid such an environment. Seen it often enough elsewhere.
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With respect, what has value are mats, yet you dont see people spamming you for mats. And mats will still be the item of choice under the system proposed.
Do you know how difficult it is to get 100mil dapper in the typical sense of gold farming? You'd have to grind 10,000's of mats. Mats would be the only way to get dappers, as missions provide like 3,000 dapper at best for 25/30 mins worth of work. Super nodes and bosses would be too hard/too long /too few to provide a constant stream of dapper. So, what you'd see are 'goldfarmers' digging mats. Which doesn't happen and AFAIK has never happened on Atys in a proper scale, because it's too much work
So, even if goldfarmers found a way to sell you dapper, is getting a load of dapper to buy mats desireable? Unlikely, seeing as you can lose up to 60 fame if you were to somehow get a hold of 159million dapper. 18,600 mats, the total amount for this, lets say, $20 price wouldn’t be worth the 60 fame loss? Even if it was you’d have to craft the mats and 18600 isn’t a craft changing experience amount. Maybe a few levels in craft the high end craft. The money you’d make back on the items sold wouldn’t even be close to half. You’d be better off buying mats $10 for 10k. at least that way you’d not get the fame loss and be able to the specific mats you wanted.
This is a point I'd already thought about.
The idea is a dapper sink, not to sustain the economy, it’s means that the people who have millions of millions of dappers now have something productive to spend it on, other than a haircut/tattoo.