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dph_of_rules
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:08 pm    Post subject: MMO economies Reply with quote

Yea, I decided to visit again. It's amazing how fast I can catch up on reading comics. I've been playing an MMO that it's in beta. One big problem is the economy has an inflation problem. Too much in-game money flowing in and not enough flowing out. The makers already did a reset of money once back in December. The economy finally recovered and starting using currency again (everybody was using the barter system) and now there's 1-2 billionaires with in-game currency. Which leads me to a question: how do MMOs keep inflation at bay? The best idea seems to be have a fixed amount of currency tied to the number of players, but that presents a problem if somebody ends up with over 15% of all the money in the game or decides to acquire all the game's currency. I've heard of one MMO where a player bought up all the in-game currency so that anytime somebody wants to use in-game currency, they have to go through a certain player.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 4:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

in a game ive been playing Spy Battle they stop inflation by makeing there be ways of giving money to the game. to change your name create a faction or change a factions name you must pay 50K. there is a lottery(the winer will not get money but points wich are used for specesl stuff). there is a mini game cald 50/50 were you place a bet with another player and then a winer is chosen at randome, the winer gets 90% of the money and the game takes 10%.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Check EVE-Online, which is the MMO with the best-functioning economy I'm aware of. In that game, when you die, you lose your ship. That's a large money sink (and there are others).

I can get you a 21-day trial if you'd like (standard trial is 14). Be warned though... it's long, hard, and difficult. But that's what makes it ultimately rewarding.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 12:12 pm    Post subject: Re: MMO economies Reply with quote

dph_of_rules wrote:
Yea, I decided to visit again. It's amazing how fast I can catch up on reading comics. I've been playing an MMO that it's in beta. One big problem is the economy has an inflation problem. Too much in-game money flowing in and not enough flowing out. The makers already did a reset of money once back in December. The economy finally recovered and starting using currency again (everybody was using the barter system) and now there's 1-2 billionaires with in-game currency. Which leads me to a question: how do MMOs keep inflation at bay? The best idea seems to be have a fixed amount of currency tied to the number of players, but that presents a problem if somebody ends up with over 15% of all the money in the game or decides to acquire all the game's currency. I've heard of one MMO where a player bought up all the in-game currency so that anytime somebody wants to use in-game currency, they have to go through a certain player.



But the economy is on a downturn again...
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