Fixing the economy

In my honest opinion, the economy for basic scrolls will fix itself.
It's not the same as before when we had 30-40 player base, but we extend to 700-900 players now.
Some scrolls may decrease in availability depending on whether players with a decent meso pool are looking for specific scrolls.
Prices will always fluctuate depending on demand, and if merchants ever cut the supply out.
7m for a claw 30% is nothing compared to the 15-20m I once payed for.

 

Let's hope that day never comes again ;-;

 

The reason these scrolls are rising back up in price isn't only the gach nerf (I believe that's not even the major reason) but that most of the players that joined during the rapid growth of the playerbase are just now reaching the point where they themselves want to scroll their own items. So less scrolls are being sold and more are being bought, thus you have more demand and less supply which means higher prices.

 

I've seen many yellow announcements lately of people getting White Scrolls and Chaos Scrolls, so it seems to be balanced at the moment. It's also just a matter of luck, I've used more than 200 Gacha tickets and I never got any yellow announcement either, not for a PAC, CS, WS, ele wand, nothing. But I was also unlucky to do gacha at the exact time they nerfed it and I wasn't aware of it... already got used to be unlucky around here, also wasted 150k NX to get Evan hair and that didn't go so well either. Lol
My friend recently got a chaos scroll from just 35 tickets after the gachapon rates been buffed, so it seems to be ok at the moment, however a good solution could be adding every scroll to be findable from monsters and not just some from monsters and others from gacha, this way people could go farm them when they can't find them for sale on the market.

I do agree with what you said though, seems like the game is losing players, but I honestly believe that has something to do with the recent instabilities.

 

What does dehaka have to do with this post though

 

In agreement with Franco here; this is pretty much what a lot of us thought would happen when the prices took a nose-dive.
There was an insane amount of new players on the server. For example, OA INT 10% dropped to like 700k due to the market being completely flooded by KPQers. Scroll prices dropped VERY low (read: too low) in general, so I think it's actually healthy to have the prices slowly be rising back. Tons of people reaching high levels and trying to scroll gear, so it's not abnormal to see certain scrolls be completely dried out since people are Owling and buying out whatever is available.

You say new players won't have any chances, but taking my above example, newbies getting OA INT 10%s from KPQ can sell them for 1.5m right now. Also, any decent scroll they get from a Hunting ticket (or a NX ticket if they're lucky) will set them for 30 levels.

Nah, that's just everyone going back to school. It's the September effect; every game drops a huge chunk of their players who become too busy to play. People will come back for the December Holidays

 

This same topic has come up like 2 years ago now, they implemented hunting gach to try and fix this. IMO i don't think gach needs a buff.

+ all the new players that joined were desperate for mesos, now they're high level and need the scrolls. Supply and demand.

 

I have to agree with Marwyn, the economy is struggling badly, and will probably get worse with the upcoming playerbase drop. But I find myself lurking this and other posts, seeing people just accepting the fact that the playerbase is dropping due to the "summer ending".
This may be true in part, however, tons of people are quitting due to the lack of motivation or incentives given to the players. It honestly is kind of depressing that being a new player, you can't even afford a Kandayo if you're a sin. That's why people get their hopes up on the infamous level 45 huge gacha run, and most of the times they feel let down after it, since they literally get NOTHING.
After reading some replies on this post, I've come to think that some people are just "fine" with new players giving up, and I think that's not the right attitude to have, specially if we're talking about GROWING as a server.
Plus, to those who have been playing for a while, how could having more supply hurt us? Having more people join the server or simply not quit it energizes the free market and brings new opportunities to already established players (such as scrolling better gear, equipping other characters, etc.)

MORE SCROLLS = CHEAPER PRICES MORE ACCESSIBLE TO NEWCOMERS = LESS PLAYERBASE DROP = EASIER TO RETAIN PLAYERS.

Back when most of us played GMS during 2007-2010, you used to find ANY scroll you needed throughout the FM, didn't even have to owl since the supply was huge (and so was the playerbase). Also, gacha felt somewhat exciting or exclusive, while it feels like a major waste of NX here.
IMO, the server was at it's best throughout this June-July when massive amounts of gacha were used, as it brought vitality to the FM and the possibility for new players to gear up properly.

Now some of you will probably disagree with me, but I think that we can't deny the fact that newcomers have a really hard time keeping up with the server's INFLATED economy.

I would clarify that I'm not talking about buffing the WS, CS, PAC or PGC drop rates, but increasing the chances to obtain a scroll.

 

Personally, I wouldnt compare the playerbase of GMS to a private server, GMS is LEAGUES above and is massively populated and pay 2 win so yeah. And theres more ways than just gacha to make money or lvl up, it helps but i dont think people should always rely on gachapon. And the rates are not that bad imo.

 

I actually think it's the other way around; higher scroll prices makes it easier for newer players. If you're waiting on 45 and putting all your bets on that NX Gach to afford your Kandayo, then you're doing it wrong. In general, people felt pretty strongly against Pay2win (obviously) or Vote2win, which is why the Cash Shop Gach is generally pretty mediocre; you should only buy it once you have absolutely everything you need from the cash shop. Hunting Gachapon removes most of the junk and have a very good chance of giving valuables.

There are so many ways to make money on the server at the moment; it just requires some effort and not just waiting for your 5 daily tickets and praying to get lucky. When the scrolls were at their lowest, people didn't even bother farming places such as Drakes for Helmet Int 60%s or Master Chronos for Helmet Dex 60%s anymore due to the prices being at a ridiculous ~3.5m at it's lowest. Right now, a level 45-50 can farm Drakes until a scroll drops and pretty much straight up afford their Kandayo, since prices have been creeping back up due to noone farming them anymore.
When I used to run my Scroll Price Guide, people were actually frustrated to get a great scroll, but that ended up being worth like 30% of what it was worth a month prior due to the market being absolutely flooded.

In the end, a lot of people feel pretty strongly against making the server easier in general; which is why suggestions like these get a lot of backlash. This is meant to be a v62 experience; making money generally required time and effort unless you paid and prayed to the Gachapon gods.

Just my personal opinion on the current economy don't crucify me ;w;

 

Scroll for Shield for Magic Attack 60% please, and 10% if they ever existed.

 

These are not available; they are in Ninja Castle which isn't out yet.

 

I thought with lacking, Kimberly meant scrolls that haven't been added to the game yet.

 

Ok, scroll for helmet for int 60%, rarely see someone selling one of those.

 

i mean technically you can farm helm int 60 they drop from drakes; it's less of an issue than other scrolls that are gachapon only (can't really think of any rn but examples would be like overall str 30 which are gachapon exclusive; if i bought them all out today in FM there would be very little new supply for at least a while)

 

You can farm these however.