Economy Saver - Diamonds into Event Coins

[Crono]

Originally Posted by Googi

That's not an explanation.

You asked me how that made the economy suck, and I basically told you the economy went as not planned. I mean its like putting rupees on a server but revolving everything around event coins or something.

To you it may not suck but to me it does.

Originally Posted by cyan3

The reason plat is not used is that it's weight gets really heavy when you have lots of it on you if you don't have a high strength stat. So that fact that diamonds are used is a good thing.

Originally Posted by Gothika

Why would Stefan care what's used as currency?
If you think about it. Back in medevil times. They used Jewels for currency aswell as gold coins.

Because he intended for plat/gold/whatever to be used as currency, not diamonds? Jewels as currency? Awesome. But just Diamonds? No.

Originally Posted by Draenin

Platinum coins can be gotten from selling almost anything, while diamonds can only be gotten from monsters or haunted houses, as well as events. Diamonds are to Platinum Coins as Gold Bullion is to the American Dollar - a limited monetary unit. Diamonds dissapear much faster than plat does, and they are less plentiful. This makes them a good unit of money because people are more frugal with how much of them they spend, and they are sought after for many purposes.

That kind of kills the point of having a given currency though.

Also, don't make the argument that platinum is useless because of the diamonds, because 70% of the game's items come from platinum coin expenditure.

You mean items that are simply in the game or items people actually use?

[Gothika]

Originally Posted by Gerami

Because he intended for plat/gold/whatever to be used as currency, not diamonds? Jewels as currency? Awesome. But just Diamonds?

With the new craze in DoV and DoPV, people will often buy things in rubies and sapphires. You'd need a lot of rubies. But I see it happen.
So 1000 rubies is 100 diamonds. I've sold a HSoD+12 for 1000 rubies.

[Googi]

Originally Posted by Gerami

You asked me how that made the economy suck, and I basically told you the economy went as not planned. I mean its like putting rupees on a server but revolving everything around event coins or something.

To you it may not suck but to me it does.

"It was unplanned" is not the same as "it sucks". Finding ten dollars on the ground might be unplanned, but it hardly sucks. You seem to keep insisting that diamonds acting as a currency is somehow "wrong" or "improper" without saying how it actually qualitatively affects the economy or the game in a negative way.

[Crono]

Originally Posted by Googi

You seem to keep insisting that diamonds acting as a currency is somehow "wrong" or "improper" without saying how it actually qualitatively affects the economy or the game in a negative way.

Do you even know how hard it is for a n00blet to find diamonds? Let alone houndreds of them? It's not like you can trade in your plats for diamonds in some random building. I don't know about the other 30 remaining players but for me the diamonds just killed it. I didn't feel like playing anymore once no one cared about plats. I just found it retarded not to use the global currency instead of something thats damn hard to find.

Diamonds have not replaced the currency, since the currency of coins is still used and (like diamonds) still expendible. They have been integrated into Kingdoms' economy by players and not by admins as an alternative higher form of currency.

Dude, no player will accept plat when selling things from what I've seen.

[Googi]

Originally Posted by Gerami

Do you even know how hard it is for a n00blet to find diamonds? Let alone houndreds of them?

Not very hard, seeing as they do it all the time. In fact, newbies tend to be the ones selling their diamonds for plat since they're the only ones who really need to buy a lot of stuff from stores.

[Crono]

Originally Posted by Googi

Not very hard, seeing as they do it all the time. In fact, newbies tend to be the ones selling their diamonds for plat since they're the only ones who really need to buy a lot of stuff from stores.

Looks like I'm a super n00b or something then.

And I'll go sleep proud that it took all 3 of you to take this super n00b down.