[Suggestion] Possible MSword fix

Minecraft Name: Iticip

Suggestion: Give players with MSwords an Eff 10 axe

Reason: Like the Eff 7 pick, this would allow the tool to be a hard core money maker, and used for clearing. However, this suggestion would only work in the event world guard prevents enchanted axes from being usable on Melons.

That's what I'm saying in a nutshell, now on to the suggestion. With this suggestion, there is basically a whole star tool reform. Putting all star tools into categories and such to correspond their price - usefulness. To make things more clear, I'll set it up in a chart:

• Money Making & Clearing tools:

1. Eff 7 Pick - 2,000 Nstars
2. Melon Axe (Eff 10) - 2,000 Nstars

• Money Making tools:

1. Star Rod - 1,500 Nstars

• Clearing Tools:

1. Eff 10 Shovel - 1,000 Nstars

As you can see, the new prices are set by their usefulness and the demand to own one. I think these prices are a fair reflection on what the tools should cost, and will allow the use of Melon Farming to still be a strong force in our economy.

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Because we still need a form of farming that's only OP with a star tool. Disallowing melons to be used with an Eff 5 also prevents the eclipse of Pumpkins as well. Because the breaking speed would be the same, only people with the Eff 10 could break melons, and the difference would be in the price of those melons.

 

Exactly, world gaurd would not allow other axes if this were to go through

 

How is it ridiculous at all? We aren't changing anything for people with Eff 5 axes; they aren't suffering at all. I'm just coming up with a solution to prevent those who spent time, and many who spent IRL money from being extremely unhappy.

Infact, I'm no Farming enthusiast at all. I suggested the Farming nerf, got it approved, and here's my take on Melon Farming:

Spoiler: My opinion on Melon Farming (Maco's suggestion)

This is an interesting topic. Farming here on ECC has the ability to make or break the Economy. It's one of the few thing that all users, new or old, do for money.
Melon farming is one of the easiest, most simple ways of making money. I can make 14-15k an hour, for two hours, and watch a movie at the same time. I share a Melon sword with pat2100 (it's his but he lets me mooch off him) and I'd say I've made about 400k total over the last month two months I've had access to it. What does this figure mean to me? I don't view it as I still have $600,000 to go, I view it as $1,400,000. The Melon sword is still something of value. It still has weight. That 400k I wouldn't otherwise have. However, my point it, the sword still represents money. Melon Swords have sale value, and can be sold at any time.

Owning a Melon Sword is, in modern civilization, like owning a sports franchise. You can purchase the franchise, and you'll have some cashflow/profit off of it. You'll me making money. However, you'll never make those 100's of millions that you paid for the franchise.

So why do people do it? Because the franchise represents value. You can sell it later for the same or more than you paid. Lets say, you pay 400m for a team, and keep it for 8 years. At the end of those 8 years, you make 200m, and sell the team for 400m. You never made back the 400m you paid for the team, but that team still had value. It represents money. When you buy a Melon Sword, your money doesn't disappear, it's just represented in the form of an asset.

Now, with regards to the farming it's self. When I said Melon Farming has the capability to break the economy, I really really meant that. There is absolutely no trade for melons, it's basically just printed money. The reason why Japanese currency - USD is about 10-1 is because Japan went through a recession. They basically "printed" money, and the value of each Yen decreased. It became to "common", and thus people with over 1,000,000 Yen wouldn't be considered rich. It can also work with objects as well. Some Nike shoes sell for $1,000+, but there isn't any real difference between them and $100 shoes. What makes them more valuable is their rarity.

What I'm getting at here is we want to keep the value of an Eco-Dollar high, and show how strong the economy is. In a weak economy, Diamonds would cost $500+, and people would have a lot more money, but wouldn't be considered "Rich".

http://www.ecocitycraft.com/forum/threads/suggestion-increase-melon-prices.102824/#post-526848

 

The people who will be happy are those with the Melon Swords. They will get their exclusive way of farming that is still better than any other method. Because Melon Farming will be at the rate of Pumpkin farming, why have the two crops make exactly the same money, and screw over the people who used to Melon farm, rather than allow those people to continue Melon farming, and making the same money? I know melons will, of course, have to decrease in price, but they'll still be at a price higher than pumpkins.

 

They can break melons, but they just can't with an axe that will insta-break them. No builder will start out with enchanted tools of that level.