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I must respectfully and vigorously disagree with your first paragraph and agree with your second.

Everyone who has commented in this thread has fallen into the trap that the modern world has fallen into: Economy == Money. It just isn't true. Economy is just a description of how homins get the things they need. At the time of the reset, the economy was based on barter and on gifts. Right now... well, it's based on barter and gifts because people are having a hard time earning dappers.

In the end -- any economic system that is based on an infinite supply of raw materials will end up using barter and gifts. The Northwest Native Americans (who had a close to infinite supply of the raw materials they valued) had a word for it: potlatch. Your status was based on what you gave away to others. In our system pre-reset, that was such things as using two tps to run half-way across a region to rescue a friend in need, or giving a gift of a well-crafted set of jewels or an amp, or giving a new homin the money needed to buy a pack animal to allow himmer to set themselves up. This was a realistic economy for the world as it was. There were adjustments that could have made it more difficult (most of which had been and are being proposed by Gilgameesh), but the current system is NOT realistic.

The new system encourages a much more selfish (self-oriented might be a better phrase, but I think of it as selfish) point of view. As an other-oriented person both in real life and in game... I don't like it.

I do understand that a few changes have already been made, and I will shortly be back to see what they are.

(And I need to get my sig back...)

I completely agree with Bitty. Before reset I would have had no problem giving away a million dappers to a newb and I myself am still a newb. Now I wouldnt dream of it.

Just a side note to Shackra (more of a side question):

Do you think that WoW is easier than Ryzom? Im wondering why. Personally I think they stand the same. Neither are particularily challeging. I mean in the end its: do this to obtain that. any mindless child can play both these games and achieve something. Your comment seems more Fan-Boyish. IE: iPhone is cooler than Android. Just wondering about the mindset.

Economy this, economy that, market economy is in the process of destroying the RL, why do we need a market economy in this game that did just fine without it.
Players keep comparing Ryzom to other mmos and thats wrong.
Just because other mmos are based on economy and quests doesnt mean its a good thing for Ryzom to imitate.
Ask yourselves what would you gain if Ryzom had an economy system like other mmos, how would that affect your gameplay, your fun and enjoyment of playing Ryzom.

Just like Bittymacod said, Ryzom had a barter economy similar to ancient tribal economies and it worked very well and it fitted the game perfectly, why change that.

The new system is not bad because it does not change much, it just gives players a bit of work to do for a while which is good, after that it will be back to usual, which i would say its a good thing.

Yes I do. Five-years-old-experience gamers of Ryzom supports such comparison.
But my point was, If you don't like Ryzom because the hard economy or because the game is "less for casual players", instead of complaining, you can always switch to another game like Wow or Angry Birds and delete Ryzom from your HD.

Now, The dappers aren't meaningless and barter economy can emerge from all this too.

As Gilga pointed out, there's still no dapper sink at the end of the line -- these changes are just setting us back some weeks before we repurchase our luxuries. Eventually we'll be back to normal and trading in q250 grind mats. Ryzom has always favored diggers/crafters and will keep doing so.

So yeah, the changes are annoying, not constructive.

However, the idea of occupations becoming the main source of Atysian income is rather intriguing. Levels the playing field a bit. Hopefully they factor significantly into WG's grand scheme for making a realistic economy... if we really need one.

Actually, I don't think the changes are that bad. I find them pretty good even. It made me come back because it's a bit of challenge again to play the game. And now the missions mean something instead of just a fame run...

I think it should be usefull if there were a couple of extra ways of making money, but maybe those will come too..

But I agree with Gilga about the dapper sink from appartment, guild halls and outposts.