The State of Maplelegends Economy 0

Expiring items is a bad solution overall lol

 

PQ Revamp!

 

What about it?

 

I haven't spent much time looking into inflation data and how bad it really is. Just hearing a ton of complaining in game and on Discord and forums

Coins is obviously the biggest offending culprit?

I'm sure ML has the ability to track the amount of total coins being traded in a given period. Take average market price of coins (3.3m) and multiply by volume of trades, times 0.025 for what tax would've been. That's what the economy would have lost as a meso sink if coins didn't exist. I guarantee you that amount - with all the 3-5k coin perfect weapons and crazy ridiculous gloves and facestompers being traded on the daily - is more than enough of a meso sink than what the game needs.

Also,
1. Raising potion prices is one of the worst decisions ML has made to date . It makes the game harder for new players, tougher to accumulate wealth for mid-game players, while making no impact to late game sweaty multi-mage PBers.
2. For the players with the most wealth in the game, ask them if they care about the 10mil mesos fee being paid to WS a perfect weapon lol!! To my understanding that's the only solution staff has came up with in recent years to combat inflation

 

careful with extrapolating too much with coin tax or we'll all end up on xiao spreadsheets

for #1, a lot of balance changes has some mysterious effect of making the rich richer. maybe it's something intentional about trickling down

#2 if the item is tradable just buy service (from someone trustworthy ofc)

 

What even is wealth? Is it mesos? Is it finished items?
Would you say new players have a harder time finishing a perfect weapon today than 2 years ago?

People with established modes of production will continue to amass wealth efficiently. That's not privilege.

 

Be careful forming an opinion so confidently when it's based only on hearsay. There's a lot of popular notions in the ML community that are just straight up wrong ("Archers should scroll for STR because they get more stats from MW20") and it's easy to have incorrect narratives with such a small community as conversations can quickly become an echo chamber.

I would say the inflation/progression issue isn't very straightforward. On the one hand, making progression as a casual low/mid level bossing character is better now than it ever has been; coins offer a consistent and easy to access way of progressing where a low/mid level casual single-client attacker before would struggle to break even beforehand just running 6 man Zak. On the other hand, a lot of the sweatier methods for making quick progression for more hardcore players have been gutted. Wheras one could farm a WS/CS in 6 hours of mostly AFK work when I first started, now it would probably take closer to 10 hours of tedious work using the same methods.

Are things better now? Worse? Depends who you ask. Throwing out sarcastic emojis does not help convince people that you have an informed opinion worth listening to, though.

 

Surely its the extra million per hour in meso cost that is holding me back

OT: I think its wild that fiat currencies outside of mesos are allowed to exist where even staff is actively participating in tax evasion. Even the existence of banks opens up so many loopholes around meso spending and is based solely on trust. With bank holders getting banned or using banks internal money for personal investment aka [REDACTED], imo there must be some official ruling regarding banks.

In this trust-based economy the extra earned credibility of a staff member running a bank interferes with game integrity. I also don't understand how gear sharing/debt is allowed/not considered RWT? what is the point of having gear if you can just lend it out with no repercussion? What if the RWT:er was just loaning out some mesos?

 

hey that's what regulation is for!!! i wouldn't be surprised if most banks have negative equity in the case their other accounts are banned

 

Bank IPO when? LF> PB bank dividends

 

To be fair, recent events have demonstrated staff members are not immune from being banned. Not saying staff banks might not have some intrinsic advantages, but those advantages might be overstated.

 

If there was a good solution to taxation that could be broadly applied and properly handled tying up wealth inside non-taxed assets, I'm sure there's a legion of economists out there that would be all-ears.

As for RWT, it's about exploiting things external to the game itself for material advantage. You can build up trust entirely within the game.

 

Im slowly starting to understand why people suggest server resets. I feel as if some problems are simply just a direct byproduct of server longevity.

 

Maintaining stability over long terms is an art form in itself.

That being said, I do encourage some of the veteran players to try things outside of the box like Osslock. It refreshes your perspective on all the things available to us in this server.

 

10mill is a lot still

 

I'm pretty happy with the coins system, it means I won't be losing money every time I Zak.

People constantly push this idea that coins are terrible for the economy and I don't really see it. It's a tax-free currency sure, but to even use them you need to dish out 10m. As far as I can tell this will be an effective Meso sink, and an effective tax for coins for as long as there is demand for perfect equips. The reason people use them as currency is because coins are in high demand and are worth a lot, so if you ever need to convert them into actual mesos it's super quick and easy to do (and also taxed!) It only works as a currency because people have the ability to turn it into Meso quickly, and because people do it often.

Coins in the first place don't generate any new Meso, in fact getting them through bossing takes Mesos out due to pot costs, plus people will buy coins for mesos taxing those transactions. Farming Mobs kinda generates new Meso though, I'm of the opinion that Bossing should be the better option since it's more fun, has interactions with other players, and is a huge Meso sink.

I think at some point in one of these Threads someone said something about banned mesos, but I think that's probably the most important Meso sink of all. Nobody wants to spend time in a game just to lose stuff. Any content that is a net-loss is never touched really. If people never lose stuff and only gain stuff, then inflation is guaranteed. It doesn't matter how many Mesos Miki takes from us, as long as we are progressing in terms of earning Mesos and upgrading gear, we are inflating the Economy. The only way to get rid of these assets are to ban people with expensive gears, and to have rich players quit with their gears.

Correct me if I'm wrong about anything here, I'm talking out my ass lmao.

 

I wonder how many coins are out there in the server as a whole right now?

Multiply it by the current market rate to find the total value held via coins.. is this number higher than the total mesos in everyone's inventory ? I wonder..

Seems like a bubble to me. Prestigious Coins are going to crash once we run out of mesos.

 

I figure us running out of mesos isn't that bad of a thing? Idk i'm not an economist, but Coin prices going down sounds good to me .

 

At the rate of how common Prestigious Coins are easily obtainable then yes. Thousands are being pumped into the game everyday and being collected (not sold in the Free Market).

The only way to stop the incoming bubble burst is to "stop the presses". The drop rate must be decreased to slow down the inevitable.