[Mal1core]

Originally posted by konidias


You realise 400 plat was an unspeakably large amount of money before all the glitches and bugs were abused, right?

In all honesty, GK has a terrible "economy" and it will not get better. The day it gets better, is the day the new GK server is released, and it's out of the testing stage. Then Stefan will probably monitor the economy more carefully. Right now nobody is ever on GK to handle bugs quickly, or fix economy problems.

The number one rule in releasing new money making methods, is to make sure you start off with really low profit. That way, if people complain, it will be about the lack of money they are getting, instead of the explosion of money all over the server. Then all you have to do is adjust the profit to be a little higher, and everybody is happy, and the economy stays in one piece.

If you start off by making things give too much profit, then the money will be on the server for good, and you have to come up with all sorts of ways to try and remove it. Also, having an actual real life value for the money would make things more balanced. Although I doubt any official server will ever implement it. What I mean is like, to have a certain amount of plat = 1 US dollar. No, I don't mean you can buy the plat for a real dollar, I mean how much that plat would be, in relation to a real dollar. For example:

1 plat = 1 US dollar
1 gold = 50 cents
1 silver = 10 cents

That means, you could price items in the game, closer to their real life counterparts. With the current way Graal money is done, usually the cost of things just goes up over time, as the inflation rises. It goes from winning 50 plat in an event as a big deal, to 8 months later, winning 50 plat wouldn't even get people's attention.

so thats why there the 10 extremely rich people and then like 9 billion dirt poor people..