Fixing the economy

Note: Even if this post expresses an opinion, evidence is exposed to subtract subjectivity from the topic.

After having played this server for several months (I started playing in the middle of the anniversary events), I have noticed a lot of fluctuations, whether they have been in terms of players, prices or items. That is completely normal because there are periods of the year during which more people play (i.e. summer), and the server has made changes to adapt to these variations.

Like I said, with the summer break, the server gained a lot of players, and the market was alive and kicking. Most of the prices dropped and the economy was, overall, better. The Gachapon changes due to the increase in players made sense, even if a lot of people did not agree with them. Now, summer is about to end and the state of the economy is, from my point of view, close to trashy. Some examples are presented as follows:

- For the last 5 days, I have been using Owls of Minerva to find scrolls for Topwear for both STR and LUK 70%. Most of the time, my owl would not even be used because there were LITERALLY NONE. You can try it right now, go ahead.

- Most of the scrolls have increased or even doubled in price (see Claw for Attack 30% or all of the INT 30% scrolls).

Even if I find this logical because less people means less items, I think it is beyond pathetic that one cannot find a single scroll of a particular type.

Wouldn’t it make sense, therefore, to give Gachapon a little buff to go back to what one would call ‘normal operating mode’?. Or even, I do not know, increase a little bit the drop rate of Hunting Gachapon. Not all the rates should be buffed though, I do not want to get 2 WS and 1 Chaos in 70 Gachapons, but a little higher number of useful scrolls, that is.

The way I see it right now is that the server is unfortunately going to lose players due to the summer break ending, and newcomer players will have it really hard to get money:

- If I am a new player in this server, by the time I reach level 45 I will have collected quite a nice amount of NX, and my expectations on getting money with Gachapon will be, let’s say, mid-to-high. With the current situation of Gachapon, it is actually possible that I get NOTHING (by nothing I mean 5-10m using 70 gachas, which has happened to me more than once). And it is more than probable that I will quit the server because of the demotivation that I will get from this happening to me.

So, long story short, the earlier Gachapon changes made sense as much as new ones would make it now. The current situation of the economy is really fragile, and I do not thing it is good for the server.

Like Dehaka does, I think it is time to adapt.

Sorry for the long post, but I believe it is a complicated and controversial topic, and people who care about it will not mind losing 3 minutes giving it a thorough read.

Also feel free to discuss and correct me if I am wrong with anything of the aforementioned topics.



tl;dr: Players increased, Gachapon got nerfed (makes sense). Players are and will decrease, Gachapon should get buffed. The current state of the economy is not healthy.