Well, it wouldn't be that bad, we have been suffering from inflation thankfully nothing really bad has happened where things go into crazy prices, also money is being generated into the server every day by sports book, buying features would get the money lower and lower yes but everything will adjust, sports book is generating millions every month so I don't think it's a problem yet, if was then Andrew and Jamie would've done something about it or they are working on it now. I hope what I said made sence, if not pm me in game and I'll explain it all

 

Don't worry about inflation. Sports book akon has removed over $400,000,000 from the economy

 

That's not the same thing. 688mil handle to 218mil paid out. That could just mean a ton of successful 0.33/1 odds.

 

People who have a lot of money in reserve, and a lot of donations already, will get richer due to the increasing value of the ECD.

 

It hasn't. That's not how it works. If that's how it worked the economy would be super deflated. like ridiculously deflated. People simply bet 688m in total, and 216m was paid out. But the payout doesn't count the money you bet. So if you bet 20k and got 25k then the payout was only 5k.

 

I couldn't agree more.

 

When I started here as a builder 2 1/2 years ago I had nothing and was earning 3-5k per hour mining hard. There were many players that had millions of dollars, several towns, and massive assets. Players such as KMaxwell, usernameofdeath outerlocal, Joliver, and many others. They were my inspiration to succeed and be a positive influence in our community.
I agree that as a community, there is always more that we can do to be more appealing to our newest of players. There are so many things offered here to help them currently, our focus should be on communicating with them and showing them all the resources we offer already.
If players are not willing to put effort, patience, and time into succeeding here, they will not stay no matter how much we give them monetarily. They have to desire to play here.

 

We're also a hardcore economy and shouldn't be giving free handouts to people.

 

Money being drained from the server isn't necessarily a bad thing. The economy is slightly inflated and some money being taken away from it won't hurt. I trust Andrew and support his decisions (for the most part).

 

I personally think that a money sink is good for the server as inflation would decrease as a result, allowing for the value of the EcoDollar to be more. Thus, I think features purchased with ecodollars would be beneficial to our server as the value of the ecodollar is more in terms of ingame purchases.

 

Weather you think it or not almost every price is set by the server. We have shops for most items ran by the server and the server buys most items as well which puts a min and max value on items and blocks. As it is now most player run stores buy for slightly higher than the server would (with the exception of a few things such as n stars) then they sell for just slightly higher than that to be in competition.

The economy wont change much do to how this is set up. Even with massive amounts of ecd leaving prices will remain virtually the same. Most the blocks are worth what they were 5 years ago when i started or very close to it. I personally always hated this system as i think the prices of items should be set by the players. But there is no good way to do that either as some players simply wouldnt be able to find those harder to get blocks without the server store as not all stores stock them and not all blocks currently even spawn.

 

I've been concerned about the role /sell hand plays in preventing new users from transacting with power/wealthy users. My experiment at /warp hyperborea is to build a town specifically designed to incubate new serious players on the path to mayorship

 

money!