Nope, it's not. 500k minimum, 2 million maximum. 5% of your total essence is lost, with the floor / ceiling at those two numbers.

Just remove the 5%, make it 500k flat. Treat everyone equally.

Good to know, thanks! What determines the exact cost of phoenix?

It's actually 50k + 5% with those floor and ceiling caps upon the moment of death.

Extra Phoenix and Reincarnation costs apply afterwards.

You've just been corrected and expounded upon kind gentleman.

well I was gonna make this huge long post about this stuff but I'd just like to say that most of the problems that were discussed in this thread can be solved by taking in-game action. Yeah it might be nice if Celestia would get raided every once in awhile so we could defend, but truth be told, it's not raided because as soon as someone shows up, ALL optional discretionaries are popped up, which is a huge raid deterrent. We could always not raise them and accept the raid (and I'm sure there could be some reason for it in-character as well).

The admin don't want to play the yo-yo game where they give the player base some slack on opposing planes, only to see players (yet again), not able to show restraint and park their es on celestia/nil/wherever for hours, because all that would happen is the admin would end up having to put the steep penalties back. Sorry dudes but this is the way Lusternia is now. Get to bashing or get out.

Also: If you're being griefed by someone of the opposite org to the point of complete frustration, there are actions you can take in-game: talk to the person ICly; talk to the person OOCly (ask them, calmly and nicely, to back off, because they are making the game less fun for you); learn how to fight and survive, and like a million other things you can do that don't involve emailing Estarra and getting the whole Basin whacked up. If you honestly feel harassed by someone then guess what, IRE has this thing called the ISSUE SYSTEM you can use. HELP ISSUES in game.

And just one more thing: the admin are griefing everyone because looking at the credits for sale prices are ing insane. And I mean ing y completely insane. We should not be paying 8k for 1 credit. Not everyone has the ability to buy mass amounts of credits with rl money to trans every skill and buy artifacts - and not everyone is a Demigod who can bash/influence high level areas. Please do something about the insane prices. We shouldn't be telling people "get 800k and you can MAYBE buy 100 credits which won't even trans one skill! Rinse and repeat about 5000 times!" Especially for the guardian class (well, Nihis/Celestines), where to start bashing effectively you have to find a way to get enough credits to get your Symbol - you cannot do that with just lessons you earn from leveling and the achievements (believe me, I tried). I had to fall back on the Facebook 10-bound-credits-a-day thing to make it, and that was only because someone led me through the motions, but that well soon dried up. There are lots of people who rely on the in-game credit system - especially new players! I'm embarrassed to tell new players about the credits for sale because I know they will look at that, look at the 7000 gold in their inventory they just spent 3 hours earning, and be like, "yeah. See you never."

There's plenty of gold sinks in Lusternia. Manses, aetherships, clans, cartels, cartel-specific designs, comms for trades, gear for combat, beasts, and... I don't know, a ton of other stuff too. Credits don't need to be added to that list as well.

Just a quick note, but I'm pretty sure players set the price of the credit market... I don't think it's necessarily for the admin to muck with that.

And just one more thing: the admin are griefing everyone because looking at the credits for sale prices are ing insane. And I mean ing y completely insane. We should not be paying 8k for 1 credit. Not everyone has the ability to buy mass amounts of credits with rl money to trans every skill and buy artifacts - and not everyone is a Demigod who can bash/influence high level areas. Please do something about the insane prices.

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Not to hijack the thread, but I'm not sure what the admin can do about that, except have a "ceiling price", which would likely annoy more people. The only reason unbound credits get sold at all is that somebody buys OOC credits and sells them for whatever price they care to. If prices are high, it might just be because more people are getting them slow (from Elite memberships), or buying and binding them, or fewer people are buying them. The latter is not good because the game can't stay afloat without revenue. I mean, I do my part buy selling 1-2K below price (and I'm starting to only do that for IG friends 'cause I suspect there are more selfish ones who buy and resell), but I have a budget too.

EDIT: @Sylphas. Influence, regular bashes. Not everything has to be tied with aetherhunting. You can do things solo.

So my 3 million essence isn't -quite- as paltry as I had imagined, that's good I guess. I still wish there was a way for me to actually get into a fight here or there without having to factor in finding an aetherhunt at some point to recoup the potential losses. Once you get demigod the casual really kind of goes away.

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This is Imperian's market right now. Be glad with what we have, children.

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