Gold sinks, gold mines and inflation

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aabattery wrote on 2015-08-17 09:55

Trying to just get by in this game is becoming such a pain because everything is inflating.

Where is all this gold coming from? I know a while back Saga Ep 4 and the other one where you used Shadow Crystals were a big thing, but to my knowledge glitched mobs are fixed and Shadow crystals are cheaper than ever (either indicating no one's using them or too many came outta gach).
EDIT: Just read a post and realised Saga 2 Ep 6 was nerfed hard, but my question still stands. On a side note, does anyone have a link to the patch notes regard this? I swear I read all of the recent ones on the wiki and saw nothing of this.

Where are the gold sinks and why do they seem to be permanently blocked? I'd hope that durability and increased repairs on high level enchants would help keep gold down, but apparently not. Loses my blessings has never been so costly x.x So glad I ranked Enchant before HW cost my life's savings
:imdead:

I was glad to know a lot of my previously owned items inflated, but playing the game to earn money just doesn't work for me, being as laggy as I am in Australia.
Rynn wrote on 2015-08-17 12:42

Saga 6 was around for a short time but it was hella popular and accessible, so the economy inflated to 2~3x what it used to be.
Saga 4 was more low key so it didn't really affect the economy that much even though it existed for way longer, but then very recently catchapon event made it mainstream and compounded with it for a terrible effect.

There's no gold sink that can catch up to what both two sagas left behind. People hoarded up hundreds of millions when they could, and people who sell goods don't want to sell for normal price when they can stick to old prices and wait for someone who still has endless gold to buy their items. Even people who are totally unaware that the major sources of inflation were patched will be like "why should I sell my $10 for 2m when last week people bought it for 4m" and that's not gonna change until people simply cannot afford to buy (which will probably take a year).
Esileruf wrote on 2015-08-17 15:06

Quote from Rynn;1284270:
"why should I sell my $10 for 2m when last week people bought it for 4m" and that's not gonna change until people simply cannot afford to buy (which will probably take a year).

And that its very likely before then there'll be a new way of making money, not to mention due to these people and that the gold just isn't going out of the economy fast enough, it raises up selling NX items for insane amounts. All of a sudden due to the 7th anniv package being gone, but the desire for ench protects isn't, they're a high-end commodity and in some cases make more money than selling reforges for top dime. Additionally, there's still several methods to making a crapton of money, but only if one is severely dedicated. Saga 4 still exists so on mon+tues folks can glitch it with a bit of effort and luck.

Compound that with the fact that people who're Richy Richie can outbid virtually whoever they like and if they come across another Richie McRichington they'll get into a bid war and god knows when one of them will buckle.
Rynn wrote on 2015-08-17 15:34

Quote from Esileruf;1284278:
Saga 4 still exists so on mon+tues folks can glitch it with a bit of effort and luck.

Unless you're talking of a different method to glitch mobs...
Ever since alban, at least in Alexina (maybe other servers were spared), I've seen people run back and forth (not manually if you get me) for 16+ hours a day regardless of day pretty much to get the same result: they don't get stuck anymore.