Indeed, and perhaps even more efficiently, unrestricted now by working hours etc.

I think that would be an amazing solution. Only problem with it is, people are going to try and post low at first, credit sellers will pick the highest offer so others will raise theirs and eventually you'll be stagnated at the same place.

IMO

Although, it *DOES* allow people, like Eilai, to offer credits, and then sell them at a decent price, to someone not Rethcir, or something along those lines of a situation.

One problem I'd like to point out with raising the costs of potions, enchants, etc, is that while it will be a very effective moneysink for wealthy people, those who can't get enormous amounts of gold could quickly begin to suffer if the prices rise too much.

The problem as I see it, is that a certain portion of people have basically unlimited gold, while the rest are a great deal poorer. If the market orients around either set, it's royally screwed for the other set.

Eventually, I will be purchasing credits for my character. I intend to trans out his guild skills and then alchemy. Given Kalo's character, I will most likely sell to the Serens at what I deem a reasonable price - free if you provide the herbs, or 200 if I supply them, for healths. For non-Serens but not Sick (Celest), 300 a refill. Sicklings of the Gloriana would be charged 400 a refill, while Magnagora would be charged 500 a refill - for both being a City-dweller, and Sick.

And given the scarcity of refillers, I may very well make some profit off of it!

Yes, and how well did you survive on those skills? How long would you last in a spar against the "big name" fighters?



If I start playing Lusternia again regularly I will make you rich.

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One solution I'd like to see is take the imperian route with manses..



Naturally ramp up the costs to scale to our economy, but I think it's a great idea.

The biggest problem is people need too many credits in this game to be viable. If you make the people with tons of credits who want big awesome manses need gold.. You force them to sell credits for gold. More credits are available AND more gold is taken out. It's a double victory.

I'm going to make the absolute most unpopular suggestion. When a credit is put up for sale on the credit market, it becomes a neocredit. When it is bought, it can only be turned into lessons - it cannot be transfered, anything. If someone wants to transfer credits, do it the old fashioned way. This allows the "newbies" access to a lessons area, and Rethcir and his ilk cannot buy out the credit market with their obscene bank accounts and raise the prices to rediculous levels, simply to line their own pockets.

It's good business practice on their part, I know. But it's bad business for Lusternia. If the non-OOC purchasers cannot succeed even decently without becoming OOC purchasers, they will not stay in Lusternia - alienating a margin of potential customers.

Not a bad point at all.

I would agree on one condition -- that neocredits be usable for artifact purchases. Or failing that, that we invent a middle kind of credits that have the can't-be-transferred attribute of neocredits but the can-be-spent-on-artifacts attribute of regular credits, and then make them turn into those.

But what purpose does this serve? What if I want to get credits from the market to give to a family member, or I want to buy some and resell them *duck*, or I want to donate them to some cause/fund?

Limiting the way credits move would hurt more than harm, in my opinion.

Than you buy them not on the market but from someone who is willing to sell them.

The Manses thing would work incredibly well since if someone needs a couple million extra gold buying some OOC credits is a reasonable way to achieve that. Especially with the current credit market.

I don't think the Manse solution will work quite that well for one simple reason - what's the point? Many people, including myself, enjoy manses but there are also many that who find them to be a pointless investment. It is solely there for an RP purpose - it doesn't improve your character at all whatsoever. I'd personally like to see the Manse solution implemented for the RP reason, but I don't think it will solve the problem regarding credit prices.

Well the people who *do* want big fun manses will buy a lot of credits to sell to get those manses.. Supply goes up but demand unchanged means lower prices.

Making us use the market channel instead of the credit market already implemented for us.

Yet, when manses were introduced, credit prices went down quite a lot for some time.

Well the market channel was also implemented for use, I still see bulk purchases happen there, so it wouldnt be that huge of a change.

Regular credits could be bought and sold via TRANSFER CREDITS TO PLAYER FOR GOLD.

It would prevent you form buying them and reselling them, hurting the general population. You want to buy them and give them to a family? TRANSFER CREDITS TO FOR . I believe I said in my post that command be left alone, for credit transactions. Let the credit market help the newer people, and be used solely for lessons.

I see very few people with big manses like that. Honestly, Richter and Elryn are the only two I can think of. And I don't even know if Richter still has his. With a playerbase like Achaea's, yes, this is a great idea. A playerbase like Lusternia? I fear it would actually hurt it, causing people like Richter to simply buy any cheaper credits and resell them, just as he's done this entire time, assuring that prices are rediculously high.