The State of MapleLegends Economy

Damn, this thread is really going with the discussion, 9 pages long now.

Before I give my personal thoughts on this, just wanna disclaimer this will not be representative of staff and I'm also not some economist. Heck I'll probably appreciate if someone that knows better to explain what is the wiser lens to view this matter.

I think the OP concerns are mainly price manipulation via monopolization of the market?
One of the most opinionated response is that everyone and anyone can just farm whatever they want except for a few things like mw30, which means participating in the market is not quite necessary.
However, I think this solution at its limit, will resembles reboot maple where everyone just farm their own gears individually and forgoes the free market interaction..
As much as the free market is annoying and has its own cans of worm to deal with, I think it add depths to the maple experience and encourages social interactions, so I'm actually in favour of more market interaction and those that have done their due diligence will reap the benefits..

Anyway, coming back to monopoly, funny thing is I actually read some of the wiki OP referenced, and it seems to me that the lack of competition is simply the biggest contributing factor.
And this is just naturally occurring due to the relatively low server population that we have, so how can we actually improve competition?
One way is to simply have more players, which is easier said than done monkas..
The other way is to make things more accessible, allowing for alternative playstyles to still be able to obtain said scrolls or whatever items, if anyone has any good suggestions, we can try to incorporate them..

With regards to price control, I don't think it is something realistic to do unless we simply have a fix and same ceiling npc price for every item in the game, which probably ends up being majorly unused except maybe for items like ws/cs.
There's just no practical way to determine the exact intrinsic value of an item as it depends on the subjective measure of the players and the existing market condition which both are always changing. The best way I personally think is to simply let the market decide itself..

If anyone has any thoughts, feel free to criticize, just try to keep it civilized, we are on the same boat playing this darn broken game that is old af, let's figure ways that benefit the collective instead of arguing who's at fault..

 

While the last few posts of this thread did seem to be getting the thread back on topic, out of the 9 pages, only a select number of posts offered any productive discussions about the MapleLegends economy. Based on that alone the thread should've been closed much earlier, but it unfortunately wasn't.

If players do want to continue discussing the state of the economy in another thread, we'd suggest perhaps quoting the more relevant parts from this thread & providing your own personal input on the matter so as to re-frame the topic to be more productive or less toxic. That said, if the main nature of the thread resembles this thread (eg. arguing about a certain type of market practice for 9 pages and not making any progress) the following thread will also be closed.