I think to everyone who cares about the extra cost we will still benefit in the long run. To keep costs down we will TP less and consider using ships or TP chips to get around (car sharing
). It looks like there will be a job for anyone who wants it, at least in the beginning, so anyone who is currently sweating will be better off, anyone who currently is on low depo per month will be able to get some nice extra peds if they want.
If you depo 10$ a month your peds might run out slightly quicker but then you can spend the rest of your month earning some free peds rather than sweating. I do see a slight problem for people who run out of peds and don't work/sweat because this will limit their movement if they want to pop somewhere to chat with friends etc and this could be a sad consequence but it is something for consultation. For example if you are sweating at neas and can't afford the tp to twin to sell your stuff. It will also increase the cost of some items because to trade both players have to be in the same place so most likely one will have to pay the fee... Not cool if you are going to twins to sell 1.5 ped of eye oil for 103%
.
Some of us might TP from twins to our hunting zone, burn 100 ped of ammo and TP back to twins to sell the stuff... That is 2 extra ped out of 100, consider it an additional "decay". For most people who depo big or live of deed payments I think the extra cost can be absorbed and loot will probably be better anyway if the user base does grow that quickly. For anyone who provides a service the larger player base will be good and for anyone who has deeds as well.
I can see that this will effect a small demographic of participants, but we will learn to do things differently to accomodate hopefully. If more people start using TP chips this will also boost the ME up and with people working not sweating, sweat prices might increase as well. I think overall most people will be better off from this or at least will have the potential to be better off.
Alternative there could be a tax of profits but profit in EU is a difficult thing to calculate, a tax on globals maybe? But I like the idea of the IPO, i like the idea of the stock market, these are much needed functions.
This whole thing is Project entropia right? We started out as this crazy idea to create a virtual world with a functioning economy. Lets be open minded and look forward to the consultation when the government forum is up. The worst that can happen is it is an experiment that fails and we roll back but lets be part of that experiment. We have a chance to support something unique and something I think will be very cool indeed. Yeah it will cost us a ped here and then but where is the spirit of adventure