p.s., I found Leirvik to be by far the fastest BG for earning bounty points, and I guess that goes for plat too. I think 1000 BPs an hour was pretty easy with just a VW + Chanter, run in, grab lots of aggro, pbae, run back with chanter speed, repeat. This probably translates into about 500 gold an hour. But I think if you got a full group going with a bard for speed, and 2 pbae to kill things instantly, then you could probably do this quest very efficiently, maybe 1 plat an hour is in sight. That's not really a lot but if you are new to the game you might consider staying in Leirvik for a little while with /xp off.

 

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Making money is not a hard thing to do in this game it never has been.

 

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+ sell BP's and/org get BP equipment.

This is the answer to the original post, IMO.

Yeah, in Leirvik you can just do the spying quest. Takes about 3 minutes per run if you suicide on the guards (no xp / con loss), and you get 67 gold and 70 bps per run. You can easily do it 10 times in an hour, even assuming you die a few times from pvp.

Both statements are true.


Money is not hard to come by


Adding more money to the game will cause excessive inflation.


Also, inflation is not good for a games economy. Eventually the inflation will ruin the game for noobs. When noobs find that the game is not fun they tend to leave. Kind of like what is happening with DAoC today. While the inflated economy is not the only reason the game is in the toilet, it is one of the reasons.


The game does not need more ways for players to make money. The game does not need more money in the game, just the opposite. The game needs some huge money sinks.

 

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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is.
Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can,
and keep moving. - Ulysses S. Grant
Only the dead have seen the end of war - Plato

Maybe everything should also have a $ cash cost ingame.


By GOV for $XYZ, buy dragonmight for $PDQ, buy ML3 for $ABC.

Gets cash out of the game at a REASONABLE rate. Lowers the

costs of everything else eventually.

 

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This makes no sense and you haven't said anything to explain it.

What's not good about it in a game economy?
How does it ruin the game for a noob?
How does it make a game not fun?

BP gear and the new quest lines are entirely separate from the economy and well laid out just like Aurulite before that. A noob never participates in anything that can inflate, and hasn't since aurulite was introduced. Then as others have said over and over again in this thread, any noob in epic with a CV BP weapon can farm plat without issue. There are quests for fast people, quests like stealing supplies for stealthy people, and of course all kinds of things to farm through all types of combat.

Stop getting choked up over this buzz word 'inflation'. This is not real life. The goods appear from thin air and NPC's do not care to adjust for inflation. Higher buy prices just means higher sale prices. The numbers go up on both sides. More money to spend after selling things, more money required to be spent to buy things, all without any greater consequence.

No noob can enter any economy, inflated or not, when it takes so much plat to raise a trade skill to LGM (The only way to get goods without them dropping.) They HAVE to farm something that drops by clear game design and intent. Whatever they farm, it's value will be relative to the inflation when they sell it, and the value of the items they want to buy with their coin will be equally relative to the state of inflation.

The one and only way inflation can hurt someone is when they hoard a large amount of coin for a long period of time, during which inflation reduces the value of that coin vs the items they sold to get that coin. If you're hoarding, you obviously don't need to buy anything anyway.

I know that inflation would happen/already has happened, but there is a limit to it here. I think that it has already reached a high point. Things could get more expensive, but there are so many farmers that they have actually went down. I understand that more inflation could bring it back up, but at this point I don't see it happening. That being said, plat is still easy enough to come by. Leveling to 49.9 i made 8.8plat in 12.5 hours played. This and a lot of bp's if I chose to sell them.


Playing the cm market if you have a decent house location will net you alot of cash also if you know what your doing.

 

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When you can buy astral items, summoner's hall items, duration/debuff rogs, etc on a permanent basis you will have a point. Until then, inflation matters a lot due to the availability of items that must be obtained through farming or buying from other players who have them.

 

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With money being so readily accessable, plat would become less and less valuable, meaning prices skyrocket, especially for high demand/low supply items.

AKA inflation.

 

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