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Originally Posted by Demisis_P2P
This is only partly true.
The only content that we can guarantee most players will buy is new guns.
Most players ignore cars, houses, etc.
And they'll only buy the new gun if it's better than the old gun.
So eventually we run into a problem (that we're already kind of in) where everybody is using guns with stats so high that anything higher would be excessively lame.
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Maybe if you guys stopped making the newest gun better than the one before it, people would start buying items for other reasons. Maybe they'd spend their money on other content, or hell, buy a gun because it looks cool. You just need to rid the players of their expectation that the next gun is going to be better than the last. Just about every player on Era -wants- a house, and close to everyone has purchased a car at one point or another. If it's there, people will buy it, especially the rich guys. One thing in particular that attracts the rich players is rarity--there might be ways to take advantage of that.
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Originally Posted by Demisis_P2P
The other problem is that even if we keep the new items stocked, after a few are bought players will start selling them for whatever the shop price is minus a few thousand, so nobody has any reason to buy anymore from the shop now, because they can get it for cheaper from players who have already bought it.
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It might benefit the economy to set a mininum resale value for every item that what purchased from an NPC shop. Your pawn shop idea is also good, except for the money out of nowhere part.