Mjollren --
Comparing the pre-merge prices for most TP's to the current prices, they are about the same relative to what else dappers can buy. Before merge I could craft off a few q250 armor bits and sell them to the merchant for the price of a few tps. I can still do the same, except for the q250 areas and the PR. Those areas are now significantly more costly to get to than they were pre-merge.
Mounts are also basically as cheap as they used to be. Packers are significantly more expensive in relative terms although the absolute price has dropped.
TOOLS are incredibly MORE expensive than they used to be, both in absolute and relative terms.
As I commented in a different thread, app.ryzom.com/app_forum/index.php?page=topic/view/17134/, the dapper economy is doomed in the long run because there is an infinite supply of raw materials.
There will always be a disparity between the rich longer-term players and the new people, that is true, but even in the so-called "new economy", dappers are not worth much. If a new person comes up to me and needs q100 armor (and is polite, and shows that he has an idea of what he needs, as opposed to wants, and is willing to help) I'm more than likely going to either make some armor for him. I'm certainly NOT going to ask him for dappers. I don't need them, and he is better off spending them on tps than giving them to me.
If a higher level person comes to me and wants a set of good q250 hp jewels that I have to forage for, she had better have something to trade with that I want -- and it won't be dappers, not even in the millions. The trade is not to pay for the materials, or the tool, but to pay for my time in going out to get the mats. If she comes up with the materials in hand, I'm happy to lend my expertise, and might even consume a scroll to get fewer degrades.
The dapper is already worthless, and it is an obstacle in the way of new players learning the ropes.
My thoughts -- worth the dappers you didn't pay for them.
Comparing the pre-merge prices for most TP's to the current prices, they are about the same relative to what else dappers can buy. Before merge I could craft off a few q250 armor bits and sell them to the merchant for the price of a few tps. I can still do the same, except for the q250 areas and the PR. Those areas are now significantly more costly to get to than they were pre-merge.
Mounts are also basically as cheap as they used to be. Packers are significantly more expensive in relative terms although the absolute price has dropped.
TOOLS are incredibly MORE expensive than they used to be, both in absolute and relative terms.
As I commented in a different thread, app.ryzom.com/app_forum/index.php?page=topic/view/17134/, the dapper economy is doomed in the long run because there is an infinite supply of raw materials.
There will always be a disparity between the rich longer-term players and the new people, that is true, but even in the so-called "new economy", dappers are not worth much. If a new person comes up to me and needs q100 armor (and is polite, and shows that he has an idea of what he needs, as opposed to wants, and is willing to help) I'm more than likely going to either make some armor for him. I'm certainly NOT going to ask him for dappers. I don't need them, and he is better off spending them on tps than giving them to me.
If a higher level person comes to me and wants a set of good q250 hp jewels that I have to forage for, she had better have something to trade with that I want -- and it won't be dappers, not even in the millions. The trade is not to pay for the materials, or the tool, but to pay for my time in going out to get the mats. If she comes up with the materials in hand, I'm happy to lend my expertise, and might even consume a scroll to get fewer degrades.
The dapper is already worthless, and it is an obstacle in the way of new players learning the ropes.
My thoughts -- worth the dappers you didn't pay for them.
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Remembering Tyneetryk
Phaedreas Tears - 15 years old and first(*) of true neutral guilds in Atys.
(*) This statement is contested, but we are certainly the longest lasting.
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