Economy Saver - Diamonds into Event Coins - Page 5

Ravenblade1979 · #61 03-22-2007, 06:20 PM

Diamonds make it easier so you don't have to carry 400 kg's of plat around

Draenin · #62 03-23-2007, 01:46 AM

Look at these two statements side-by-side and tell me if you find something awfully strange about them both:

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Originally Posted by sage_scooby

A really bad analogy. The problem with diamonds as the larger "bill" is that platinum isnt held in the same value.

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Originally Posted by sage_scooby

Heck that makes it a plus as dias are useless to me except as currency.

Last time I remember, platinum is currency, and you view diamonds as currency too. So tell me, how are platinum coins not held in the same value as one another?

Something you are overlooking is the fact that what might be useful to someone else could be garbage to other people.

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Originally Posted by Gerami

How is this relevant to GK's proper currency (plat,gold,silver?) replaced by a mined mineral?

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.

Googi · #63 03-23-2007, 03:25 AM

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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.

sage_scooby · #64 03-23-2007, 05:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Draenin

Look at these two statements side-by-side and tell me if you find something awfully strange about them both:

Last time I remember, platinum is currency, and you view diamonds as currency too. So tell me, how are platinum coins not held in the same value as one another?

Something you are overlooking is the fact that what might be useful to someone else could be garbage to other people.

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.

All I am saying is 9 times out of 10 if you offered someone 500 diamonds they'd accept.

The 1 of 10 would maybe accept the current platinum equivalent.

Diamonds are more desired, of course I'll use it as currency. The point still stands though, that diamonds and platinum do not have the same desireability. So in essence they don't have the same value.

Ravenblade1979 · #65 03-23-2007, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by sage_scooby

Diamonds are more desired, of course I'll use it as currency. The point still stands though, that diamonds and platinum do not have the same desireability. So in essence they don't have the same value.

Thats putting the final nail in the coffin if i ever seen it.

Crono · #66 03-23-2007, 11:52 AM

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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.

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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.

Draenin · #67 03-23-2007, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Gerami

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

That's because paying for something like a Forest Shield with platinum coins is like paying for a car with bags of quarters. Plat is mainly accepted for smaller-valued things.

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Originally Posted by Gerami

It's not like you can trade in your plats for diamonds in some random building.

Hahahaha. Are you kidding? Do you know how many people have traded away small quantities of diamonds because they need quick cash?

Ravenblade1979 · #68 03-23-2007, 05:37 PM

Gerami quit while your ahead. We play this server everyday so we know what we are talking about.

Crono · #69 03-23-2007, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Draenin

That's because paying for something like a Forest Shield with platinum coins is like paying for a car with bags of quarters. Plat is mainly accepted for smaller-valued things.

If you say so.

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Hahahaha. Are you kidding? Do you know how many people have traded away small quantities of diamonds because they need quick cash?

Never seen it before.

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Gerami quit while your ahead. We play this server everyday so we know what we are talking about.

If you say so, but I still think GK has sucked since around the time people started using diamonds as currency, even if it isn't directly the cause of GK sucking.

hampy · #70 03-23-2007, 07:25 PM

diamonds are a good currency

Googi · #71 03-23-2007, 08:47 PM

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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.

hampy · #72 03-23-2007, 09:08 PM

yeah its easy for noobs to get diamonds, easier than plat

Crono · #73 03-23-2007, 09:26 PM

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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.

Ravenblade1979 · #74 03-23-2007, 11:56 PM

Gerami ur funny. Plat is still a currency but people find diamonds easier for multiple reasons. A big one would be speed. Its easier to hold 100 diamonds then 500k plat. I have 3.433 speed and i make 28k and i am suddenly down to 1.5 speed. If I had 28k plat in dias and i might go down to 3.3 speed.

You starting to see why dias are more preferred. Another is its easier to buy things in dias. You don't want to pay 500k for a pmop +12...you want to pay 100 dias.

Crono · #75 03-23-2007, 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Ravenblade1979

Gerami ur funny. Plat is still a currency but people find diamonds easier for multiple reasons. A big one would be speed. Its easier to hold 100 diamonds then 500k plat. I have 3.433 speed and i make 28k and i am suddenly down to 1.5 speed. If I had 28k plat in dias and i might go down to 3.3 speed.

You starting to see why dias are more preferred. Another is its easier to buy things in dias. You don't want to pay 500k for a pmop +12...you want to pay 100 dias.

Ok ok I get your point, but I still enjoyed GK back then...and even if diamonds aren't even related to the GK-sucking, I still use the transition to mark my own time ok?