Runkulam (atys)
What are the main money sinks in RL that are missing from Atys? Food and Rent. Food might be impractical but rent is much more straight forward. Rent your apartment. If you fall behind on rent, you are locked out of your inventory until you pay up your backrent.
Actually it's not really rent and food..
Less than a quarter (less than a fifth without taxes) of my income goes into food... with a better paying job it would be even less.
Rent not really as we live in a house that's owned by my family - but a bit more than a quarter (a bit less without taxes) of my income would be enough to pay the rent for my hole family (I'm not really living in an expensive area in these regards)
BUT taxes are a huge money sink.
- taxes on the income (in my case round about a third of it for others up to half of it)
- taxes for owning the ground where our house stands
- taxes on everything we buy
In a world like Atys I'd probably
- hunt/grow my own food
- own/rent an apartment (cost depending on the state) or maybe have my own hut somewhere in the wilderness
So the best dapper sink would be taxes on everything that's sold (kind of unrealistic because we know enough ways to circumvent this)
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back to the real topic:
I neither like nor dislike the new economy - but there are some things that could have been done better from the very start.
1) why did they change the pact prices after letting the people onto the server and not before?
2) same for some other items at the merchants
3) why didn't they revise the mission rewards?
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