Economy Saver - Diamonds into Event Coins

DonnyCypher · #1 03-19-2007, 03:01 PM

I think that it would be a really good idea if in the Event Coin shop one of the options of craftable items were Event Coins, If there was an option of taking lets say 20-25 diamonds +large gold nuggets or something and making them into event coins this would greatly help out the economy of the server. This way even if your not on for events and you cannot participate for whatever reason or your really bad at events you still have the possibility of getting some of the event items. If this suggestion is adopted i think that there should also be much more items added to the Event Coin shop because most of the items in the game are either dead from players quitting or dead because nobody trades and this way we can get more items into the game.

Butz · #2 03-19-2007, 03:04 PM

I'm not sure this would really help things. It would greatly increase the number of event coins, yes, but then what would be the point of attending events? They're called event coins for a reason after all.

Ravenblade1979 · #3 03-19-2007, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Butz

but then what would be the point of attending events? They're called event coins for a reason after all.

Ownage.

I like the idea but Butz is right. These are Event Coins....if you wanted them like this then there wouldn't be any need of events now would there?

DonnyCypher · #4 03-19-2007, 03:20 PM

oh your being ignorant, the point of events would be to win event coins not to have ot buy them. I don't know about you but i hardly ever attend events because they are hardly hosted when im on. and when i am in an event it seems impossible for me to ever win.

Butz · #5 03-19-2007, 03:29 PM

And what you don't understand is that items only hold their valued and prized status as long as they are hard to get. Look at how many people complain whenever something that they had, which had once been rare, is reintroduced into the economy. You don't think something like this wouldn't piss off those that spent their time to actually work for their event coins and get the items legitimately?

Furthermore, it'd just push the cost of diamonds even higher, as people would be rushing to get them in order to get event coins. Higher diamond prices is NOT the way to help the economy.

You are simply looking for an easy way out here. Do I wish I had some of the things in the event shop? Sure, but I also know that it'll take a lot of work to get there, and I'm fine with that.

DonnyCypher · #6 03-19-2007, 03:31 PM

dude your wrong thats just dumb, the fact of the matter is that the economy of GK is so terrible and thrashed because of all of the things i mentioned that soon it will just die. Nobody trades any big items anymore on little stupid ones, this would get more items into teh game, the items that have been lost.

Ravenblade1979 · #7 03-19-2007, 03:41 PM

OK lets look at this logically.

Pro: More ec's would be in the general populace.
Coin shop items would be easier to get.

Con: Price of diamonds would skyrocket (increase)
: Event Coins would be worth significantly less
and wouldn't be used as a main event prize
anymore.
: Items in coin shop that take a lot to make
would become to common and the price
would go down a lot
: People would be mad
: Any old item released in the coin shop would be gotten
to quickly

As you can see there are more con's then pro's to this idea of yours. I think REJECTED would be the right thing to say at this point.

Butz · #8 03-19-2007, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by DonnyCypher

dude your wrong thats just dumb, the fact of the matter is that the economy of GK is so terrible and thrashed because of all of the things i mentioned that soon it will just die. Nobody trades any big items anymore on little stupid ones, this would get more items into teh game, the items that have been lost.

My wrong?

You continue to say that the economy is trashed, but yet, you don't give any compelling evidence that making expensive things easier to get will help the economy at all. If anything, we should be trying to lower the price of diamonds, so platinum will come back into favor, rather than giving people even another reason to hoard them and charge ridiculous prices.

If I am wrong, and my argument is dumb, then please, intelligently counter my points, and I'll admit that I'm wrong. Simply stating that I'm wrong however, will not convince me in the least.

Ravenblade1979 · #9 03-19-2007, 04:05 PM

Whoa gotta stop you there Shawn...diamonds are back down to 500 plat each.

Butz · #10 03-19-2007, 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Ravenblade1979

Whoa gotta stop you there Shawn...diamonds are back down to 500 plat each.

And that's a good price? I remember when diamonds were 25 p each.

Ravenblade1979 · #11 03-19-2007, 04:06 PM

Yeah well its a common price at the moment and ppl don't seem to mind at all.

Butz · #12 03-19-2007, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Ravenblade1979

Yeah well its a common price at the moment and ppl don't seem to mind at all.

I'll give you that much, but it still doesn't remove the fact that if diamonds were suddenly able to be converted into event coins, you would see the prices on them skyrocket.

Ravenblade1979 · #13 03-19-2007, 04:13 PM

oh god we both know they would

DonnyCypher · #14 03-19-2007, 04:43 PM

Butz dude you are so wrong it hurts yeah dude lets make dias 25 plat each that would be a good idea. Butz your right you know so much more about the server than I do. dude im just trying to throw out ideas on how to get the player count up and to get the server back to how it used to be but you guys are not even trying its like you want the server to die rather than contribute suggestions. Excuse me for trying something that might work, sure it should be tweaked but its not an all together bad idea.

Ravenblade1979 · #15 03-19-2007, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by DonnyCypher

Butz dude you are so wrong it hurts yeah dude lets make dias 25 plat each that would be a good idea. Butz your right you know so much more about the server than I do. dude im just trying to throw out ideas on how to get the player count up and to get the server back to how it used to be but you guys are not even trying its like you want the server to die rather than contribute suggestions. Excuse me for trying something that might work, sure it should be tweaked but its not an all together bad idea.

Actually we are looking at this realistically. it would throw everything out of balance.