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Nalelmir Ahashion
Omegon 42nd Core
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Posted - 2015.01.15 12:34:49 -
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Kill me but I like star wars... My first serious MMO was SWTOR hence onec in a while when they get new expansion or something I'll sub for month see what's what and unsub again.
Last night they managed to do the impossible and crash the entire in game market in few hours.
As you may know the SWTOR servers are many shards based in areas of the globe, each server got an economy of it's own with in game market where you can place item for sale.
Since SWTOR went freemium people could pay real $$$ money and get tokens called Carrtel Coins in order to purchase skins and boosts and other unlocks from in game store. one of those items are packs which dropped among other things: 1. Reputation items - this increased your reputation with a vendor which granted access to rare items. 2. Certificates - a virtual coin required to purchase this items.
Few months ago an expansion called Strongholds was released and added Decorations and personal housing for players, as some kind of activity.
Last night a new Cartel pack was released with this item: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8KuYr5eGyA
Contraband slot machine.
you pay 500 credits (not really much in game it's less the mobs drops on first planet on lowest level) for a token to play the machine... minimum you get is another token if you didn't win anything. Then... the machine drops: 1. Reputation Items. 2. Certificates. 3. Jawa Junk tokens.
what are jawa junks? there is a decoration of a vendor from which you can use this green\blue\purple tokens to get ANY crafting material in the game except for 2 which only drop on high end max level raid.
so what happened? since yesterday all crafting materials prices dropped up to 70% and keep dropping. Crafted items made by players dropped in price as well.
Market is crashing.
And that's how you crash in game economy.. you hand in free stuff, money and materials without any mechanism to remove the excess ones.
My head hurts.
"To know the true path, but yet, to never follow it. That is possibly the gravest sin"
- The Scriptures, Book of Missions 13:21
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Hengle Teron
Just Another Corp XIV
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Posted - 2015.01.15 13:00:30 -
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didn't need that economy anyway |
Nalelmir Ahashion
Omegon 42nd Core
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Posted - 2015.01.15 13:01:42 -
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True, but entire activity scale of Crafting, materials procuring and selling and "Conquest" is now null and void mostly and out of the game unless you are masochist.
"To know the true path, but yet, to never follow it. That is possibly the gravest sin"
- The Scriptures, Book of Missions 13:21
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Alpheias
Euphoria Released Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2015.01.15 14:23:16 -
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As Darth Vader would have said; "Impressive! Most impressive."
Allow me to be frank. You will not like me. You will not like me now, and you will not like men++ a good deal less as we go on.
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Omgitsbears
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2015.01.15 14:51:38 -
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I've had an account with SWTOR since the headstart and play on and off based on when new content comes out. Might have to resub to the game now just to see this. |
Bagrat Skalski
Poseidaon
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Posted - 2015.01.15 18:52:44 -
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Funny laser beams still move like homing missiles?
Don't look any further for negative energy, you will find it by being lazy.
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Brujo Loco
Brujeria Teologica
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Posted - 2015.01.15 22:04:14 -
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I don-Št think it was intentional, only shows the current level of QA and Development in the game.
Even CCP fails to iterate on some of their items and we have a very "tightly" controlled economy here, add to it people that fly ideas out of the blue and this might happen, or they knew and just wanted a short term cash boost for X or Y regardless of the outcome.
I must say economics as a subject matter has been increasingly interesting to me as the years pass in EVE Online, fascinating game this one. Only game I see with a long term survival rate just because of that. Many other games out there just let you play a strange form of single player hybrid with social online aspects.
Single sharding is and will always be one of the many cornerstones of the game.
Inner Sayings of BrujoLoco:
http://eve-files.com/sig/brujoloco
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Nalelmir Ahashion
Omegon 42nd Core
642
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Posted - 2015.01.17 07:01:23 -
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now let me show you how broken this is... I rolled 5000 chips in the casino they added: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=7960229
see in the picture first 3 collums to the left are tokens for which you trade 1:1 ratio on any material in the game for all 3 tiers.
"To know the true path, but yet, to never follow it. That is possibly the gravest sin"
- The Scriptures, Book of Missions 13:21
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Hengle Teron
Just Another Corp XIV
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Posted - 2015.01.17 14:30:51 -
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somehow without any knowledge of the game, I have no idea what's going on in your last post |
Oinola Akachi
State War Academy Caldari State
8
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Posted - 2015.01.17 16:59:20 -
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Invest your billion and save the old republic from crashing further. Hail whoever!! |
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Nalelmir Ahashion
Omegon 42nd Core
643
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Posted - 2015.01.17 18:19:15 -
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Hengle Teron wrote:somehow without any knowledge of the game, I have no idea what's going on in your last post
in short TL;DR I used this machine they added to invest 2.5 million and in return I got around 10 million.
translating the amounts to eve it's like investing 2.5 bill and in 4-5 hours of nothing but right click on a box in safe personal home space no one can get into I made it 10 bill.
"To know the true path, but yet, to never follow it. That is possibly the gravest sin"
- The Scriptures, Book of Missions 13:21
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Marsha Mallow
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Posted - 2015.01.17 22:03:44 -
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Funnily enough I had an account from Beta there and found their economy ridiculously easy to mess with in the first place, especially before they merged their servers.
Since it's a SWTOR topic and someone might know... I unsubbed sometime between when they merged the servers and went FTP (2012 ish) and they subsequently changed the forum login (which I did, worked OK) and then instituted a security code thing to get ingame (which didn't, despite multiple tries). For some reason every time I request the security code and input it, it doesn't work on the launcher. Short of calling their customer support I'm at a loss, and whilst I don't mind starting again on a FTP account it bugs me because I think i inherited a load of rewards for being a subber when they switched over. I haven't looked at it for a while, but without being able to log in, I don't think you can raise a support ticket?
If anyone knows how to fix this, could you let me know please? I loved Huttball more than Tank matches tbh, only quit because I joined an elite PVP guild and found them excruciatingly boring gear grinders. Scrub pvp ftw.
DON'T BE RIDICULOUS!
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Nalelmir Ahashion
Omegon 42nd Core
643
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Posted - 2015.01.17 22:48:37 -
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you can reset the code now with 1-time password.
"To know the true path, but yet, to never follow it. That is possibly the gravest sin"
- The Scriptures, Book of Missions 13:21
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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
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Posted - 2015.01.18 00:18:53 -
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Whoever did that learned their chops in Eve. Confess!
"My mule don't like laughing. You can apologize to my mule and can be alright."
-The Man with No Name
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Kaaeliaa
The Vendunari End of Life
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Posted - 2015.01.18 00:57:55 -
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Khergit Deserters wrote:Whoever did that learned their chops in Eve. Confess!
Wasn't me, I unsubbed from that shitshow of a game not too long after it launched.
It was a shame, really. It had potential.
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Princess of Sibyyl's Pillow Fort
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