Owl of Mineva needs to be changed

You contradict yourself. It cant be hard to sell an item for a high price while you can also control the market by buying the supply.
My opinion is that it makes for a bad argument. And also, the market is fine imo.

 

Y?

 

Sure you can. There are players and guilds rich enough to do that.

 

It's not a contradiction at all actually. You're assuming both points apply equally to all actors, when each point actually affects different actors. In fact, your very criticism falls apart because we can observe both phenomena in real-world economies. Different people/actors operate under different pressures and have access to different tools to manipulate the economy depending on their wealth.

If you're a new player with limited funds, it's very much impossible to directly affect the economy due to a limited ability to purchase and turn over goods at a perceivable scale. If you have massive funds, buying out demanded items of a limited quantity to fix prices is very doable.

 

Owls are vote2win, whether we like it or not, compounded by the fact that you can vote on multiple mules, doesn’t make sense to me..
As to whether owls need to be changed, I don’t really see a need to, even though it seems overpowered to have theoretically infinite owls. It is still fair in the sense because everyone can do it.
It’s an item of convenience at its core - now any player can set up his shop at any spot of the fm, check the prices via owl (especially useful for newer players) and adjust and undercut their prices accordingly based on how fast they want to sell their item.
It also makes fm spots way less valuable, which is a huge plus because you can put your store anywhere and still sell your item at a reasonable time if your prices are reasonable. Makes it fairer in the sense because players that have fm spots that are generally more patronised (fm1cc1 for e.g) do not gain a competitive edge over the rest.
So with the implementation of infinite owls, it becomes a fair-playing ground for all. But as to the cons of having this privilege, I’m not sure what the repercussions are and if they are significant, then perhaps a change is necessary.

 

I've always hated the fact that there were such things as "prime fm spots", just really backward in my opinion.

 

they rejected this last time i suggested it

https://forum.maplelegends.com/index.php?threads/feedback-thread-about-owls.27106/

 

Remember the good old times when cakesogood could make threads?

I think it’s actually healthier for owls to be in their current state than if they were more expensive. Being able to search for what you need at no cost is pretty nice, and worth the fact that people can’t abuse fm spots to jack up prices.

 

Changing owl dynamics would fuck over newer players disproportionately because they would have less access to the best prices (which they need most). Everybody can farm owls--so everything is actually fair right now. I also don't really see any value in doing this, it would just completely over-complicate buying things. Moreover, most players aren't here to spend 3 hours looking for things in the FM (I'm not), which would in turn probably lead to a market crash as demand would go down and supply would still be spiking. The massive drop in prices we're experiencing now is not because of owls, it is because new players are adding supply to the market, but most have yet to reach (and may never reach) the point where they will be contributing to demand. So the supply is increasing but the demand is not.

 

So they should close the entire Cash Shop just because you can vote on your mules aswell