The State of MapleLegends Economy

This thread easily has some of the most insane room temp IQ, smooth brain, lukewarm takes I have ever read. Everyone's shitting on Ryan while there are players sitting on 40k coins, while there are players who along with their guild have ALREADY shown that they can completely fuck the ML market a.e a few months ago with coin prices (no names being mentioned, no shade being thrown). With there being multiple people other than Ryan who mass buy 30% scrolls and mark them up for 3x Ryan's rates. Like legit just farm the shit yourself if you are uncomfortable paying the price it's set at. Its. That. Simple.


This message is specifically for the amazing OP hiding behind a burner account <3

For pieces of time: As Blen said, It. Is. A. Luxury.
If you are buying pieces of time, you are already capable of bossing and most likely have a mage or some sort of attacker. There are 3 options
1. Literally farm them yourself and stop being lazy and bitching about it on the fourms, yelling into an empty void, and harassing a player that is playing the game as it was intended.
2. Boss/Sell leech and make meso yourself.
3. Get good and stop being insecure about mushroom game.

Nothing that Ryan is doing is ToS.

 

absolutely legendary post my man

 

What's the "correct" price of Bow 30s?

 

Your error is in assuming goods have a static market price. If people are buying bow30s at 9m, their market price is 9m. If people want to sell them at 5m, 10m, or 20m, that's their right -- as it is the right for the buyers to not participate in buying. The only 'problem' here is that these merchers were more diligent in accumulating scrolls at a discount than you were. You both had equal opportunity to buy them at whatever prices they were before.

This is such a shit take. Ironically, you don't even know what Ryan wants to do with his stockpile of goods. What if I told you that he has a BM too? Is he now justified in his hoarding? Is any type of merching considered immoral since the goal is profit? Rules for thee, none for me, yeah?

 

What makes them worth that much?

 

Could you elaborate further?

 

It's interesting how weapon scroll prices fluctuate with balance changes and meta changes. As time has gone on, I've only ever seen items like Crossbow for Att and Gun for Att go down in price. Many endgame players specifically create, level, and gear characters for nothing except Pink Bean, and recent Balance Changes have edged Corsairs out of the meta. I'm not sure why Marksmen continue to lose popularity over time; perhaps it is the lack of Buccs.

Regardless, we live in an era where Mages, Nightlords, and archers, especially, for whatever reason, Bowmasters, are king, with Buccs also enjoying a level of popularity. This is all reflected in the weapon scroll prices for Wands, Claws, and Bows. What's particularly interesting is recent Balance Changes to add scrolls to drop tables they previously did not exist on. Whereas Nightghosts is a popular farming spot for low level and unfunded characters maintaining a steady supply of Claw 30s and Death Teddies serves the same for Wands, Bows do not have a popular farming spot. Nobody levels characters or farms money at Reindeers and Blue Wyverns, leading to an inconsistent supply, mostly from CWKPQ and whatever Gachas people happen to be farming. If Bowmasters were as popular as Night Lords, I wouldn't be surprised for the scroll availability to drop down to less than 1 page on Owl; as is, the only reason Bow 30s manage to remain so low is the fact that BMs are eclipsed in popularity by NLs by quite a significant margin, and there is already a healthy supply of already scrolled Bows that circulate.

You say you "believe" they should be worth the same price, but who's really to say? If the price was actually inflated, you would see more people go out of their way to farm Bow 30s to make money on an inflated good, but this is not the case. The reality of the situation is that the supply for Bow 30s is incredibly poor relative to other class weapons, whereas the popularity of the class itself is quite high. The price is whatever people will buy it for, and if people are willing to shell out 6.5m or more for a Bow 30, then unfortunately you've just been priced out. There's so many factors that go into what makes a price that pinning it on one person's actions like they're some kind of god-like being is laughable.

 

Miraculously, people found more mesos to pay for the items they want.

You should lead a boycott.

 

This is a issue that only exists in your head by thinking you know the real value of something.
You're losing more time and money by not putting effort in increasing the value you can generate than you lose by the price fluctuation of the item.

 

I think the real "issue" is that people want to progress without quitting their job

I say "issue" because you don't actually need to ws a perf weapon for example but the game kinda starts sucking when there's a massive time sink wall akin to a full-time job to make any reasonable progress on ur char (in a reasonable timeframe)

Feels like this thread comes from a lot of frustration from being outpriced by people who play 20+ hrs a week

Unless Kimberly-jong un starts redistributing wealth casuals needs to realise what kind of progress is realistic for them

 

I think MapleLegends is already rather "communist", in that no one can control the means of production; any player is allowed to farm whatever they want and compete in the market. The only kind of content in which poor players experience a barrier is scrolling certain categories of items (e.g., claw, wands, bows), but this is a natural and unpreventable feature of this type of game where the same mechanic is used to upgrade an item whether the goal is a perfect item or a low tier item. As a result, however, completed items that are considered "failed" by the wealthiest scrollers are heavily discounted relative to their cost of production. You can take advantage of that and simply buy the completed items on the market rather than trying scroll them yourself. When you scroll, you have to compete with the wealthiest that use the very same scrolls. This is the reality for your Bow 30s, and it's why I recommend to anyone who isn't wealthy to not scroll at all, for most items.

 

I wonder what would happen if the change to Gach was reverted, so Monsters doesn't drop Gach like before

 

requesting staff lock the thread due to harassment towards me..