12-04-2007, 01:02 AM
I started totally from scratch after 10 years away from the game. Im almost to the point of buying a tower. I made 1/2 my money from the ministry (Shalom) selling ingots, and the rest from hunting and escorts. I've GM'd Tailoring along the way and Musicianship and Anatomy also. And as a complete outsider looking in on the economy my take on it is:
1) not going to bother with blacksmithing due to lack of use of armour apart from PvM, and iron works as well as anything vs. a dungeon.
2) now that a lot of people have GM'd smithing my market is dieing so I'm relying more on semi-charity and hunting.
3) weapons are either a spellbook or an elven bow. nothing else really cuts both ways.
4) a lot of skills are completely redudndant ie. arms lore and item identification. I remember people who had GM'd these skills back in the day and could get a hefty tip for their services.
5) there seems to be 2 economies happening atm. The MMO economy of ingots, logs, skillgain and decoration. And the PvP economy of scrolls pots and pimp mounts.
So overall I dont mind because I keep myself mainly to myself. I enjoy earning 5k gold and gaining 0.1 in a skill, but I do miss the social element. There seems to be 2 groups on the server and I hardly ever see them interract. I think getting them to interract would be the key to this economy problem. And making skills each side possesses relevant to the other side would do that and sort a whole lot out. Make scrolls practical, make crafted items practical. I know theres alot of resistance from people who are used to their way of doing things, but it will help the server run more smoothly if everyone was necessarily involved. As it stands now I'm just potering around doing my own thing and avoiding contact as much as possible (apart from 3 or 4 people). But if it became beneficial for me to interract I'd feel I was putting a bit more into the system, and getting more out.
just my 20p
1) not going to bother with blacksmithing due to lack of use of armour apart from PvM, and iron works as well as anything vs. a dungeon.
2) now that a lot of people have GM'd smithing my market is dieing so I'm relying more on semi-charity and hunting.
3) weapons are either a spellbook or an elven bow. nothing else really cuts both ways.
4) a lot of skills are completely redudndant ie. arms lore and item identification. I remember people who had GM'd these skills back in the day and could get a hefty tip for their services.
5) there seems to be 2 economies happening atm. The MMO economy of ingots, logs, skillgain and decoration. And the PvP economy of scrolls pots and pimp mounts.
So overall I dont mind because I keep myself mainly to myself. I enjoy earning 5k gold and gaining 0.1 in a skill, but I do miss the social element. There seems to be 2 groups on the server and I hardly ever see them interract. I think getting them to interract would be the key to this economy problem. And making skills each side possesses relevant to the other side would do that and sort a whole lot out. Make scrolls practical, make crafted items practical. I know theres alot of resistance from people who are used to their way of doing things, but it will help the server run more smoothly if everyone was necessarily involved. As it stands now I'm just potering around doing my own thing and avoiding contact as much as possible (apart from 3 or 4 people). But if it became beneficial for me to interract I'd feel I was putting a bit more into the system, and getting more out.
just my 20p