I have read the thread and even if I cannot comment on specifics, all I can say is that the message First Planet Company will deliver when it comes to marketing Planet Calypso will be quite different compared to the old MindArk-ways. For instance, I believe in meeting expectations, not over-hyping.
I dont know if you are still reading this thread Marco but I get the impression from Mindarks "advertisement team" that these planets will be nothing but corporate machines owned by the likes of various large companies.
We already have large shops in New Oxford advertised in the pages of your official website so will we now be able to finance Planet Disney? lol
What actually needs to happen is someone to take charge of the financials and actually make a use of all these pieces of crappy items that absolutely no-one has a use for but TTing and make it so that you can realistically have a use for things. Take the glasses for example mentioned before, it may take many dollars to make a decent pair but absolutely no-one wants to buy because it simply has no value but to lose it.
Simply put all you have is only a market economy where everything is falling in price except for the occasional "rare and never again to be repeated because it is actually "value for money" item such as the mod fap"
What is wrong with actually creating a world where people want to exchange items and PEDs for things while taking a very small cut of everything? You get far more by taking 1% off the many than keep ripping money off people for everything, all that means is that no-one will ever sell anything or buy anything.
That kind of market economy is death.
Here is the way to do it, simply get rid of decay because it does not work, if I bought a knife from a shop and it broke in 100 or so cuts I would take the damn thing back and shove it up the keepers ass (lol)...all you need do is place a 1% fee on top of everything bought and sold in the entire gameworld and that is negligable, but with thousands and millions of trades made daily all those 1%s will swell your bank balance far more than extortionate fees for the auction where the majority dont buy unless the seller actually loses money.
(All you need to do is make it impossible to drop trade *maybe by making such items invisible to all others upto a random duration* so that people dont try either scamming people to get around the 1% or other things)
With no decay people will actually want to buy and sell all those items that serve no purpose and people will want to walk around looking rich rather than what we have now, putting on clothes simply to lose money.
Antique items in real life often go up in value due to their rarity but since everything breaks down by design in this game you cannot use a damn thing so there is no chance of things ever improving...of course we have junk shops where the real junk is consigned but even sometimes junk can become desirable, such as old computers which in this game would be nothing but TT fodder.
It has probably been said before and I am sure I will be pointed to a wealth of posts stating why it will never be done... :/
@Brooklyn..
Mining is the same as prospecting in IRL...you mine small claims barely making even until you hit a big hof....or a sizable or huge...
Absolutely untrue, you wouldnt go out in your back garden and simply drop bombs randomly all over the place simply because that is not the way mining is done, it is usually someone who has done research into the land composition and probed around a lot who hits the big oil strikes, however this game is completely and utterly random...
IMHO MA has delivered exactly on what they have said and it is a great and challenging game because of that....add the social networking and an afternoon of trading barbs on the square...and the wonderful scenery of the countryside...and you really have an enjoyable way of spending time...
I actually enjoy trading barbs on the street and bartering in real life, quite successful at it too when I go out and actually have the chance to do it, however...if you went to a field where they were doing a car boot sale and everywhere you turned there was a disembodied voice directing you to various wares you would quickly leave, it is no good having a market economy when you have no idea who is actually speaking, in a carboot sale you can hear everyone and can turn your head to see someone speak, here you might have hundreds of people "by the boxes" and no way to distinguish them lol
In many ways it's like the United States...If you come to the country with no money and no education and no skills you can make money...by sweating... or work that requires 10-16 hr days 7 days a week....If you put in those kind of hours into sweating you can make make money...period...not a lot...but with no investment...
I have thrust myself into various countries in real life with little money and I have survived and found a way to make money, either by getting people to smile or laugh, to offering a unique experience at the Louvre when absolutely broke making myself about 50 euros per day when the accepted norm was to beg and harass others and dont get me wrong, it is tough and it needs imagination way beyond the norm but in this game you have so many things working against you that dont happen in real life that there is little point to even starting lol
(and dont even start me on tying up all your money in the ridiculous auction house)
I like this game a lot, it has MASSIVE potential, however...the whole dynamic has been skewed to simply be a money sink like Las Vegas when if it became a place like a major metropolitan city such as London where real money is made if you are creative then MA could then clean up on the "taxes"
In every game there are some who will win, and some who will lose and some who will manipulate the markets even though this is illegal (however MA manipulate the markets everyday so what do you expect lol) and you shouldn't expect to make money, but if it was really truly realised the potential, everyone would have a much better chance.
The rambling thoughts expressed in this article by the author are in no way to be taken seriously or even read by anyone, ever.
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