Denied [Main Server Suggestion] Making Tier 1 features more available

So, what will happend with all those hundreds of USD's people spent on those tier1 features? This is a no-go for me, as there's people who buys features to others for ECD.

 

+1 The suggestion is absolutely necessary. Newer players are completely unable to afford previously available feats that are now vital to moneymaking. At the same time a lack of money sinks means that inflation is rising, and while some players may contend that a degree , even a high degree, of inflation is good for the playerbase, the current trends towards 600-700% inflation while even with the new soft cap on earnings the players in posession of ecc and magic tools are the only ones able to effectively match the preinflation 30k/hour rate of money generation. The end result is that new players struggle to gain the tools to be on equal footing qith players who had the simple lick of being earlier to find ECC.

Although the suggestion may not be perfect, the solution of creating an expensive, but still viable money sink for a limited number of core feats solves the problem of player participation in the server. Most importantly, it provides players woth the tools (fly and tombstone) they they need to start earning cash, while increasing their retention rate by making sure that they have goal to work for in their time on the server. This suggestion is also an effective way to counter the massive wealth disparity that exists on ecc without resorting to other extreme measures.

This criticism ignores the reality of the situation.
1. Many of those first tier features were bought ecd to usd when rates were in fact around 8-12K/usd, meaning that the current suggestion, which sets a rate of 10-20k/usd would in fact still make it slightly more difficult for new players to get feats
2. The current rate for ECD/USD created a huge barrier for entry for players. At current rates, it can take a player up to 100 straight hours of grinding just to pirchase ereps when the best of the best coupons are available. That is simply indefensible, particularity if one considers the (relative) ease of acquiring those same feats only a few months ago. If you are concerned about an abstract notion of “fairness” then it should look both ways.
3. “Think of the older players” is not a defense of the status quo, and your comment says nothing about why it should be consodered a reason to deny the suggestion. Times have changed, so should the server.

I also want to stress several things, first and most importantly, the entire suggestion does not have to be accepted at once. For example, maybe rejecting the addition of unlimitedlwc, headmaster investigator, travelbag, stealth, smithmaster, nickname, mcmmoplus and bonus plus, and extcreations is all justified in the eyes of the administration.
That still leaves numerous other features that can and should be made available for purchase, and is not a reason to deny the entire suggestion.

Other limiting principals could be used, perhaps players should be limited to a choice of three features total, forced to choose what they want the most. This isn’t obeying the letter of the suggestion, per se, but is still something that can and should be done as opposed to marking the suggestion as denied.

 

I think a good start would be Fly, Pyro, Back, ExtraCommands, ExtraCreations, Water, and Teleport. Otherwise +1. Echoing OConnor's comments.

 

I will state right away Im indifferent about the idea +0

As someone who has most of these features (even buying some during the eula era for straight ECD) I would kind of agree with with some of them. The ones I defiantly don’t agree with are as follows:

This is more of a luxury feature, so I disagree with the addition (plus, many people including myself give heads for free, so what’s the point of it tbh)

There is already a free /tpa, so I believe the unlimited should stay exclusively in buycraft.

Huge disagreement. There is a free travelbag already. Plus, many people just get the first tier since playervaults or cheats are cheaper. Also, many people who bought it before it was free with cool down weren’t too happy with that change, so this would piss them off more I think.

Saying no to this one just because it might make people not want to rank up (iirc, it’s cheap anyway).

All the other ones I’m pretty much indifferent about.

 

+1

It would benefit the economy greatly to have a direct gold sink.
Andrew has spoken about his earnings from ECC being negligible so it would be nice to see Andrew make a tad less money in return for a stronger economy in game.

 

Water
Pyro
Fly
Tombstone
back
multi home
+1 for making the above purchasable, wont happen tho lmao