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Originally Posted by bgumeny
The Economy In order to keep the economy under control there will be only a set amount of money at one time (it will be a fairly large number, but not infinite) so that players cannot just cut bushes or sell logs and get massive amounts of money. |
I'm curious about this feature, because it presents quite a few problems that I'm not sure you thought about.
1. if there is a finite amount of money, what happens when it's all obtained? add more? if so, how is this different from an infinite amount? You're just going to keep adding more when it's needed so I don't see the difference.
2. I really don't think it's possible to have a finite money economy. Aside from problem number one... you also have to take into consideration the fact that not everyone who obtains money on your server is going to play forever. So if people leave, what happens to that money? It's sitting dormant in an inactive account. That money is essentially being taken from your finite resources and never being returned. Eventually that means there will be little to no money on the server.