AndrewKM Lowered the price today. Hopefully forever and ever and ever. There are just way too many pumpkin farms on the server, and they make waaaaay too much money.
The decrease in pumpkin prices will cause more rich people and more poor people. Many people farm pumpkins to make money, and now because the price is down to $1.50, they will turn to other means of making money. There aren't any simple and easy ways except lottery as they see massive amounts won every hour. This will cause many already poor people to lose their money to snipers and the already rich. This will lead to a number of players having over 5 million due to lotto wins. To keep richness in the server equal and give people a chance to make back the money they lose in lotto, the price of pumpkins must come up. If the price goes back up, the poor can use the money they make back to have another go at beating the rich + there will be more money taxed in lotto. For an alternative, the price of minerals from mining or other farming methods must be increased to equal the previous price of pumpkins.
Pumpkin was the only way to make money. Too much was being added to the economy from Pumpkins. And it was not balanced. That was a problem. Towns are supposed to be towns, not farms. They are not called "farms," they are called "towns..." Andrew is not changing Pumpkins back. :b Pumpkins brought in way too much money. There should never be only one method of making money. Lottery is not a method to make money nor should it ever be used to make money. It's for rich people to have fun. Wheat and especially Sugarcane have been raised. You and many others seem to assume Andrew just nerfed Pumpkins without doing anything else... He isn't stupid; he made more of a balance. More, equal methods. Less of one thing, more of many things. Even if they still aren't in perfect balance, we need a huge change in what people are doing for money. I agree mining prices should go up... One thing at a time, though. Sugarcane was barely in use, and now with the price increase I'm hoping to see people using it again after several months of no use. Also... why are people not obsidian farming when it is just as good or better than the pumpkin farming before the price decrease? I'm still baffled. :/
I say shame on them for playing the lotto. Losing at lotto does not mean we must have a way to support lotto loosings. Need a sink? How about no lottery and a 1.5% transaction tax on the sender and receiver of a transaction, with receiver having to confirm of course. This will also stop /pay spamming.
Perhaps pumpkin farming wouldn't be soo big if the prices for other things weren't so high. For example to become a mayor takes 85k. Maybe this should be lowered to 50k or something. I wonder if this will lead to obsidian farms. I saw a mod say in the server that they are not allowed, but it is not defined in the servers rules on the website.
So this move means that instead of making the 20k+ an hour, I will now only make 15k an hour (I have enchanted repair and eff 5 axe, not everyone can do this). Not a huge deal. I dont like seeing values in commodities (Pumpkins,Wheat) decrease while inflating the cost of services (Mayor app, world edit, portals). I have everything that I want in most of my towns now but for those trying to get what they want it becomes more time consuming. With this price change and the addition of McMMO back into the server the most profitable form of farming (In my opinion) is now Wheat farms that are manually cleared.
I was told by Andrewkm that there is NO chance of the price's going back up, for the same reasons as cactus farming. Too much money too fast, causes lag, and its supposed to be a Hardcore Economy Server, and not an easy one. Also, don't switch to wheat even though its more expensive(1,75 as opposed to 1.50) because pumpkins don't require reseeding, we already have our farms, and they grow 3 times faster.
Prices on everything are going up due to pumpkin farms bringing in too much money. People could make President in a 1-2 days. It should take more like a week or two. Not supposed to be easy. :b Obsidian farms are allowed. And obsidian farm is someone with a water bucket and a pool of lava, "farming"/mining all of the obsidian they keep creating. There is nothing against it; I don't know who said otherwise. What is not allowed is automatic obsidian generators/creators - however, generators should be disabled and not even work. Long as nothing is automatic and you keep placing water and mining yourself, nothing is wrong. [:
My god. I just bought an eff V axe and give $100 usd, real actual money straight to @Andrewkm and he nerfs it. Money wasted. In any case, wheat should be nerfed not pumpkin. With high herblore levels wheat replants iteself plus is destroyed in one hit no tools. Plus you need an eff V axe and speed pots to farm pumpkinsn effectively. With wheat you spend less money and get more. I am confuzzled. Why do people buy $100 e repairs? To make money in game. This is just Frustrating
Everyone go to sugarcane! It is at $0.20 each (the same price as melon slices). Sugarcane grows very fast and requires no hoeing and doesn't need a tool to farm it, you can just use your hand. Double drops should be brought back to McMMo!!
