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Originally Posted by Demisis_P2P
I understood your point but it just doesn't make sense.
My point was that the price that people associate with these guns is way off because you can't actually buy an MP5 and the other rare guns are priced relative to the MP5.
Example:
The largest polished diamond in the world is the Star of Africa.
It is part of the the Crown Jewels and is estimated to be worth $400 million.
Now if you saved up $400 million and offered to buy it they would obviously say no.
Word gets around that you offered to buy it for $400 million and that your offer was rejected, so people logically conclude that it must actually be worth more than $400 million.
So you save up another $50 million, and you offer to buy it for $450 million, and again they say no.
So now people assume that the diamond must be worth even more than $450 million.
But you could keep saving and keep offering more and more money and they would always say no, because there is nothing that is better than the Star of Africa, so even if they had all of the money in the world they could only buy diamonds that are worse than the one they already have, and why would they want worse diamonds?
So every time you make an offer it seems like the price is going up.
Now imagine if a guy has some other diamonds that are exactly a quarter of the size of the Star of Africa, and he wants to sell them so that he can save up and eventually try and buy the Star of Africa for himself (he has a reason to sell), so he prices them accordingly; at one quarter of the "price" of the Star of Africa.
They start at $100 million each. After your first offer is refused and the "price" of the Star of Africa goes up he decides that since his diamonds are still a quarter of the size they should still be a quarter of the price, and he puts his up to $112.5 million. And then after your second offer he increases the price of them again to $125 million.
So even though the supply nor demand of either item has changed, because the money supply has increased and the smaller diamonds are priced relative to the Star of Africa they also increase in price for no apparent reason. And this could continue forever, because the Star of Africa is actually priceless but nobody has realized it yet.
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I grasp the analogy, that the "true" value of the weapon (s) or Star of Africa is simply what its holders deem it. Its doesn't contradict or oppose anything I previously stated. It was more of a statement than an argument, a statement which I agree with. In short, the players control the market. Those who possess Stars of Africa determine its price.
However, that still does not justify this method of resolving such an issue.
You simply describe what brings about a messy economy such as this one, not how to cure it or more importantly, if this method of cure is just.
(Don't think you'd be able to find a realistic cure to inflation, reset itself is unrealistic -- in cases other than graal, so take advantage of it.)
My point: Using your analogy.
Lets say someone finally manages the purchase the Star of Africa for an overpriced 600 Million dollars, and the diamonds worth a quarter of the SoA have all been purchased at their overpriced markings. Its purchasers are all businessmen and are seeking profit from their new earnings and therefore raise the prices of each item as well.
The prices have now reached a point where its quite frankly unaffordable for any newer businessmen to engage in the trade because so many and such wealthy people control the market and are manipulating the prices. Therefore a larger break between the wealthy and lower class people in the diamond trade (players) is being built.
How can this be solved? By massively producing Stars of Africa and other diamonds at far less prices so everyone can own them?
In one fell swoop, you've completed deteriorated the entire market.
You've also screwed over those businessman who fought hard and purchased those items at their initial unattainable standards, why? Because the next generation's fight to obtain these items were unsuccessful?
If they were going to make the Star of Africa and other diamonds affordable and easily-obtainable, it should've been an act done a long time ago, even before you came to management.
In the analogy, only a few businessmen were able to achieve their items in this hard circumstances. In current Era, a VAST majority of the player-base has obtained their wealth or current standing in those circumstances. I'm not JUST speaking for players with big guns like Mp5, but people who've obtained a PPSH at its uncanny price, or a Morano Thompson, and so on and so forth.
Bombarding the Market with a mass of everything completely screws them over, unless you duely compensate them which is unreasonable to do with the amount of spawning that's already occurred. Therefore, the option comes down to; start it all overall. Learn from the mistake, and gain control of the market early so this twirl doesn't happen again.
02-06-2011, 08:17 AM
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