Zeny Sinks such as ferry and Diryn the Traveler

[Calmwind]

It's my humble opinion these money sinks would be far more effective if the price was a 10% of what they are now, more people would use them and more often, thus removing more overall money from the economy. I doubt anyone even uses Diryn now. Also reducing the ferry prices would allow more higher levels to visit tulishmar to help and advise new players more often without using 1k every time. I think overall it would make people happier and remove more money from the game. What do you all think?

Maybe this belongs in feedback, if so please move it there, I am not sure.

[noelleionscowl]

Definitely.

http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopi ... 12&t=11859

that's my post on it. It's NSFW now.

[salmondine]

It's my humble opinion these money sinks would be far more effective if the price was a 10% of what they are now, more people would use them and more often, thus removing more overall money from the economy. I doubt anyone even uses Diryn now. Also reducing the ferry prices would allow more higher levels to visit tulishmar to help and advise new players more often without using 1k every time. I think overall it would make people happier and remove more money from the game. What do you all think?

Maybe this belongs in feedback, if so please move it there, I am not sure.

I agree they should be cheaper, especially Tulimshar for the same reasons you stated.
I use Diryn only for terranite cave... the rest easier to walk.
Its only a very small % of players who hold 90% of the wealth, far better to flood economy with items and devalue currency.
Why? because its a game and FUN should be the highest priority.

Currently it is a pissing contest between development goals and uber-rich players...gee this is so not fun.
Having super expensive hats that are unobtainable at current drop rates? = fun? no, its only fun if it is within distant reach.
Its not like a rich player will buy a bunch and pass them out or sell at a discount.

Myself I never needed money sinks to be poor I always sold off event items to feed my potion addiction.
Still I get the point and it was worth a try, but it did not work, so what next?

I have a full appreciation for the effort it takes to create new content AND events and believe me...I DO APPRECIATE IT!
Maybe a raffle house for a money sink?

[noelleionscowl]

nah... the devs would be inclined to add new items that were super-rare, and then people would stack the odds and get hundreds of them. If you want a money sink, I think you should have something that sells "used" items - items that have been sold to the various NPCs in the world of TMW. Their items would just go to that store, where their stats are reduced by 1 percent per times resold. Also, prices would be halved each time. So a warlord plate would eventually give you about 26 defense, and cost 50k. But then, after a while, you can buy it for 1gp but it will reduce your defence D:

But still. Imagine a huge second hand shop.
BESIDES TRADEBOT.

[Calmwind]

... Their items would just go to that store, where their stats are reduced by 1 percent per times resold. ...

But still. Imagine a huge second hand shop.
BESIDES TRADEBOT.

Second hand shop might be viable, but that kind of exponential stat reduction for the same item is not, as far as I can tell, possible as of now - due to scripting limitations.

[Calmwind]

I see the ferry and diryns price were lowered in a recent update, which is good but I still dont believe theyre low enough to make people use them on a regular basis, particularly diryn, i really suggest trying 10% of what it previously was, ie 300gp to go to graveyard instead of the previous 3k. Then you will have people using it constantly. What you have to understand is lower the price, the more people use it. This is a way to make the players happy and the money sink work in the long term.