I can't agree with this more. Having a few rich elite dominate the market with monopolies in Exp completely destroys the economy. Not only is the price exp driven up, but the price of all enchanted tools rises from day to day. When I first came on the server, high enchanted tools sold for 10k-12k. Now they sell for no lower than 45k. This should be a capitalist economy, where all players have a chance. When the system becomes rigged by the richer players, it kills the fun for normal players, and those of us who have big dreams.

His solution and logic are sound. The reasons given make sense. The Experience market needs adjustment, and locking spawners is the easiest way to do this.

 

This is my opinion. Nothing more. Ok, so you are saying the high price of exp is causing the market to fall out of whack, and all that good stuff. However, you are forgetting about enchanted repairs. These repairs make it so that although it is expensive, it is worth it in the long run. Without e repairs i would agree, but with them i believe the high price of exp is a good thing. Even though my spawner got broken :C lol

 

Actually..., the way the steel and oil monopolies worked during the late 1800s and early-to-mid 1900s was the fact that these few companies grew so quickly because of the fact they could supply Oil, Steel, and other formerly high-prices commodities at a lower price than the small man. This is the sole reason 'big-box' stores like Wal-Mart do so well. The more they buy from the supplier, the less they are charged, thus the less they have to charge their customers to turn a profit. The little man can only drop his prices so much before it becomes impossible for him to run a business. (Well, that an the fact that they could pay 'private investigators' and government officials to break up labor unions and strikes as seen in the great Pullman strike of 1894)

Blaze-spawners will never be invincible in the nether. The current problem with exp prices is a short-term problem which will be solved almost immediately upon the return of mobs in the real world, and perhaps even sooner. I already see prices dropping from the astronomical price of $10/Piece to $4.5 now. Normal price ranges around 2-3. Its not "Too difficult" to make money, infact in my opinion its too easy, highlighted by the fact we have so many mayors, so many towns, and so much used up land on the World-map. Its the reason we have to expand the map so often.

 

Its estimated around 1.3-1.4

There's also no 'monopoly' on exp. All it takes is one hard-working nether-survivor who hides his spawner well and works hard to get a good amount of exp per hour. Multiple people doing this at multiple spawners can drop the price of exp in minutes.

I myself can say such is possible because i've done it in the past with diamonds. I flooded the market with Diamonds, dropping the price within half an hour from $85/piece to around $65-$70/piece. This is more than possible with exp because its got an almost guaranteed turnout unless your spawner is broken. If you don't want your spawner broken, hid it in a better fashion, and if you want someone else to stop selling so much EXP, Well go break theirs.

 

While all this is true, the big companies in real life don't destroy the supply in order to corner the market better.

 

Then explain England's economic reasoning behind the Opium War.

 

I've never heard of such a thing actually.

 

Actually, there is no estimate. Mobs don't need to be "fixed" as they are not "broken." Far as I've heard from Andrew on forums/IRC, mobs will not be coming back. They simply cause too much lag and it cannot be fixed or not be fixed easily. Updates have nothing to do with it; that was rumour more than truth.

If mobs are ever brought back to the main world/aether/extcreations, it will be the long, long future. I am doubting Mojang or Bukkit has any plans on making mobs magically lag-less. Far as I can tell, each mob is like one player. When we have mobs on in all worlds (especially the populated one, main world) it is like having thousands of players online... some building up in unloaded chunks, waiting to be loaded and causing lag. :/

edit: Also, I do support this suggestion. I'm not even a Nether or EXP person... but having the ability to even do it without waiting to jump on brand new Nether resets would be nice. ;/ I play casually, and casually is no fun when things are off-balanced.

 

What moo said