Am glad I'm not on Fippy TLPFollow

I'm happy with Vulak as well. I am hoping the votes differentiate the servers, and they allow moves between them (free) before one gets ahead. Only flaw in that is if Vulak votes to progress faster (doh).

The O-boards are almost unreadable on TLP matters since its hardcore raiders (a minority population), pure classicists (another minority group) and anti-tlp forum trolls that make up the bulk of the postings.

I strongly encouraged those playing on TLP to really think about the power the vote has. If a 2-week delay opening Kunark causes some of the hardcore racers to mellow out... the server's overall lifespan just got increased significantly.

The people I don't see posting much are the ones I have consistenly grouped with in Pugs... "I'm here till Luclin", "I'm done after PoP" and so on. NO ONE says "Darkhollow or bust".

I will stick around after PoP most likely because that is about when I quit EQ the first time.
I remember LoY coming out and then quitting.
I came back in '07 for a super sweet progression guild (Unintended Consequences/Intended Consequences) on the Test
server then quit again a couple years after that...
I kinda want to see and experience some of the content I missed even though I know it isn't they hayday or
most popular era of EQ.
If real life hasn't gotten in the way too much again I'll give it a shot and see how it goes.

I like Vulak more... Simply because it's more mellow. At least that's what it appears to me.

What i don't understand is how the heck do these price gougers expect new players to the TLP server's to be able afford anything.@lvl 11 i have a whooping 71plat.With these crazy prices all you do is drive ppl off the server.

The other alternative is to quest, loot or earn the plat by trade skills or drops....wow what a concept.

It's still going, granted recent posts on O-boards are lamenting the lack of population there. I don't play there to really know the exact situation though.

Not to play Devil's advocate, but... here's my argument on the matter.

In MMOs, when inflation occurs, it generally has a very small and isolated impact on the overall economy. Let's say Item A used to sell for 1,000 platinum and Item B used to sell for 10 platinum. People farmed up lots of Item B and sold it in order to purchase Item A. Obviously, you needed to farm 100 of B to purchase A.

Let's say inflation occurs, and a year later Item A sells for 10,000 platinum. Well, chances are Item B has also inflated in price and now sells for, say, 100 platinum. You still need to farm up 100 of Item B either way.

Sometimes the item you want has grown proportionally more expensive due to inflation. Sometimes, though, it's grown less expensive compared to the adjusted value of what you can farm. Overall, however, what matters to you and me is time: time required to farm up the equivalent value of what you desire.

Having "played the economy" to make e-fortunes repeatedly in a multitude of MMOs ranging from original EverQuest to Final Fantasy XI to World of Warcraft to many others, I can tell you with absolute certainty that inflation is not in and of itself a terrible thing. The only thing that really suffers is what I call direct farming. That is, in EQ, farming mobs for actual plat drops and vendor trash. Given that this isn't the method most people beyond the earliest levels use to actually make money, it isn't as bad as you think. Even in the 20s you can be farming Najena for Clawed-Knuckle rings, FBRs, and Tomes, just for one example.

In fact inflation can have a beneficial effect. Take Final Fantasy XI. Massive inflation actually made something like raiding Dynamis MUCH more accessible for the majority of the playerbase since the 1,000,000 gil entry fee was subjectively not the same thing as 1,000,000 before inflation. For EverQuest, just off the top of my head it makes things like levelling tradeskills -easier- because the store-bought reagents are actually easier to acquire in mass quantities. Stones to get to PoH or wherever are "cheaper." etc.

In short higher prices generally don't have an overall negative effect on the playerbase once one realizes that NPC goods are actually "cheaper" and what you can farm to sell to other players is generally worth much more as well, whether it be gear or stuff like spider silk or whatever.

Just my two copper.

I play on Vulak btw.

You sir are the face of greed on this server. As others have said here, there is NO REASON a level 10 item like a jagged band should be priced the way it is, it's absolutely ridiculous. At level 10 it takes A LOT of work to earn 50 plat, let alone 150pp and why should a player spend their entire savings on ONE ring? My brother who plays a druid played until level 50 wearing almost ENTIRELY leather which I bought for him at level 5! Any money he had he spent on spells. Lets not forget that at lvl 10 for some classes it costs 50pp for their spells alone. I can't tell you how up in arms I am about the economy on Fippy.

Seriously considering changing servers. I really hope SOE offers a transfer when Kunark opens.

Yes, 1000pp from 20-45 and yes I was always in full groups just looting. Also, If I get my hands on anything worth selling I sell at a fair price because I want to bring those prices back down to a normal level. But I havent tried to camp anything in particular to sell for cash yet, I will do that when I'm lvl 50.






All the gear my char is wearing I camped for myself aside from my shield/1h sword which was given to me by my guild. I'm in full darkforge, quite an easy camp in CT. I have no jewelry, and all of my accessories are bronze. So yes, I can go camp the SBS and I was planning to do so. I will end up camping everything my char wears as I have since I created. But that's not my point here. I should have been able to buy at least one item of value that I've needed since lvl 20, like the crested mistmoore shield for example, but I can't. Further, players with much less experience than me will have an even harder time acquiring gear and paying market prices. The point I'm trying to make is that they are out of control, and I don't believe its simple supply and demand thats controlling the prices.


Edited, May 8th 2011 1:16pm by Vassius26