Gabriel's Economic Plan Part A

[Sinkler]

Hello Erians,

Here's my awesome economic plan, you may tell me what you think.

• Businesses need to be taxed BECAUSE of the unfair amount of money that can be made compared to regular Erians gaining money. Demisis's idea of "robbing" the bank is also flawed with the possibility of having over 10-15K in the cash register.
• Having set amount prices on the items, so when you /itemtrade you can only lose some money, like 10K less or 10K more. This will help balance out the economy with set prices.
• Allow people to start their own small businesses if they please. Possibly adding more types of companies? Drug, Manufacturing, Gun Creation.
• (Drugs as in like legal drugs to help bleeding problems, perhaps like caffeine pills for higher level of speed.)
• Why not start a realator-type business for people to start selling houses?
• Create more player jobs, such as Fishing, Cooking, Cleaning (could be another company, cleaning houses) and construction.
• Possible Robotic-Business like in the past?
• Oil companies might add to the realism of Era, and it will make businesses pay more to create items to sell.
• Every player must pay taxes, depending on how much they have and how much they own, staff will figure out how to script this.
  

[Understood]

I fail to see how this will solve our economic problems...

[BigBear3]

Economy is broken? How is that possible when you can mine and do other things for straight up cash.

Solve your economic problems? Stop being lazy.

[DustyPorViva]

Taxing players is a bad idea. Taxing a business sounds fine. Or perhaps giving businesses bills or such for upkeep... leasing and so on.

What is simply needed is for every way to pull in large amount of incomes, there needs to be some sort of payment. Not necessarily taxing or bills, but a negative along with it in order to balance things out.

[Crow]

Originally Posted by BigBear3

Economy is broken? How is that possible when you can mine and do other things for straight up cash.

Solve your economic problems? Stop being lazy.

Era's economy is broken.

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

Taxing players is a bad idea. Taxing a business sounds fine. Or perhaps giving businesses bills or such for upkeep... leasing and so on.

Taxing businesses is planned.

[Loriel]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

Taxing players is a bad idea. Taxing a business sounds fine. Or perhaps giving businesses bills or such for upkeep... leasing and so on.

What is simply needed is for every way to pull in large amount of incomes, there needs to be some sort of payment. Not necessarily taxing or bills, but a negative along with it in order to balance things out.

Hey your new avatar is pretty neat

[LoneAngelIbesu]

Taxing players isn't that bad, especially if there's no other way of destroying money on the server.

I wrote a blog entry on why some economies on Graal fail. I'm not sure how bad Era's economy is, but the list above focuses more on gaining money than on losing it.

[excaliber7388]

What's the current Era economic problem?

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by excaliber7388

What's the current Era economic problem?

Too much cash, or at least that was the problem last I heard.

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by LoneAngelIbesu

Taxing players isn't that bad, especially if there's no other way of destroying money on the server.

They should just create money sinks instead of taxing players. I've never heard of just taxing players just because... I can understand if they get their money through a business or some such, but taxing players just to get rid of money is a terrible idea.

Just give players a reason to spend their money and it won't pile up. Put up places players can buy houses, then give them mortgage and bills. Have stuff to buy other than guns for players to show off. Pets... just something.

Originally Posted by Loriel

Hey your new avatar is pretty neat

Thank you!

[LoneAngelIbesu]

Those are good ideas, Dusty. Taxing players "just because" could add a sense of realism to the server, if nothing else. It's up to whoever Era's NAT is. Another idea is to just raise all the prices of items.

For instance, if the average player wealth is 1000g, and you want it to be 500g, you just multiply all the item prices by 2 (avg player wealth / desired player wealth). Zurkiba taught me this.

[Crow]

Originally Posted by LoneAngelIbesu

It's up to whoever Era's NAT is.

NAT's arent there to decide things. Even I as a NAT say that.

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by LoneAngelIbesu

Those are good ideas, Dusty. Taxing players "just because" could add a sense of realism to the server

You don't just get taxed in real life though. Your checks get taxed. Like I said, if you're receiving your money from a business... perhaps. But lets face it, to tax your income would not really have a point as you may as well just lower the amount of money you receive from jobs.

Tax in real life has a purpose -- to give money to the government. In Era, where there is no government, and the taxed money just disappears... well, why not just lower income? The outcome would be the same.

[xAzerothx]

Era needs communism.

[excaliber7388]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

Too much cash, or at least that was the problem last I heard.

I don't think you can have too much money, but it is possible that the money isn't spread evenly enough.