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Originally Posted by Anakhor i bought 8 khitan dungeon/faction gear for my toons my bs s almost full hyrkanian. khitan faction armors are better than t1/t2 raid items if they become easy to get then none goes for raid... how did i earn money? i m a crafter also.

The items those reqs rare trophies are not easy to get. Money cost of items wont change anything there. And trust me you dont want more crafters out there, bad for your business, so think again :P

Also are you still in aq>fury mate? Havent been seeing you online for a while.

[TB666]

FC really needs to do something about the economy in the game.
While it has always been bad, it's alot worse now.
While there are quite alot of items at the trader(atleast on Crom) I just don't have the gold to spend. And some people are really pushing it with their prices, 2g for a level 40 sword is just insane. 60g for eastern riding is at the moment something I will never get unless I grind like a idiot which will suck the fun out of the game.

FC needs to increase the quest reward for all levels(even quests in khitai which at the moment border on silliness with only 10s) but also needs to increase the amount that enemies drop. Also needs to adjust the money that vendors give for junk items. And I don't mean a minor adjustment, the adjustment needed have to be quite large.

As other people have stated, gold is desperately needed right now in the game as there is none.
Once game provides a more balanced flow of gold, things will look better for the crafters in this thread that are complaining about their items not selling.
My level 40 character just spent 1g on a horse and training, that character simply can't afford a 2g sword.

[KaoLinne]

Originally Posted by TB666 ...some people are really pushing it with their prices, 2g for a level 40 sword is just insane. ...

you might want to check what mats have been needed to craft the lvl 40 sword and what the crafter would have had to pay for them if he had to buy them.
it's the amount and kind of rare mats needed for many low lvl items which is insane imho.
other than that I agree with you

[fitz1967]

Originally Posted by TB666 FC really needs to do something about the economy in the game. While it has always been bad, it's alot worse now. While there are quite alot of items at the trader(atleast on Crom) I just don't have the gold to spend. And some people are really pushing it with their prices, 2g for a level 40 sword is just insane. 60g for eastern riding is at the moment something I will never get unless I grind like a idiot which will suck the fun out of the game. FC needs to increase the quest reward for all levels(even quests in khitai which at the moment border on silliness with only 10s) but also needs to increase the amount that enemies drop. Also needs to adjust the money that vendors give for junk items. And I don't mean a minor adjustment, the adjustment needed have to be quite large. As other people have stated, gold is desperately needed right now in the game as there is none. Once game provides a more balanced flow of gold, things will look better for the crafters in this thread that are complaining about their items not selling. My level 40 character just spent 1g on a horse and training, that character simply can't afford a 2g sword.

1. you should not have bought the horse with gold, but with veteran tokens
2. economic learns more gold is higher prices because players can en will pay more
3. it is mentioned at other threads also, maybe there must be an option to sell resources to npc, someone in need of 1000+ gnarled leather
4. indeed age of conan sometimes is just a normal working day, gather (work) items or resources to get some gold, players with more time having extra gold, casual players have none because they want to play and not work again

At least on the tl servers funcom is testing lower prices on khitai items.

[Asharoth]

Originally Posted by TB666 As other people have stated, gold is desperately needed right now in the game as there is none. Once game provides a more balanced flow of gold, things will look better for the crafters in this thread that are complaining about their items not selling. My level 40 character just spent 1g on a horse and training, that character simply can't afford a 2g sword.

I disagree, and the reason i disagree is because i have seen the exact same thing you propose happan in other MmO's and at the best it just didn't change much at all, at worst it totally ruined the games economy.

I'll give you an example:

Starwars Galaxies, before the NGE (New Game Enhancment, one of their game revamps) 50k credits was a hell of a lot of cash for someone to have, only the rarest of items ever sold for more than that and even then it wasn't much more.

After the NGE when they had increased the amount of credits you can get from drops and selling junk loot it becames common for a player to have 50 to 100 MILLION credits and be regarded as poor, this prompted those selling on vendors to increase their prices, an item that would have sold preciously for 40k credits was being sold for 120 million credits.

The way game economies work is the prices of item sold increases proprotionally to the availablity of currency, the only other determining factor is whether the customer is willing to play the amount charged, in the real world this is a huge determining factor, in game worlds not so much.

So basically, if they doubled the amount of money we received ingame the price of items sold will double, that item for 2g now would become 4g simply because people have the money and will pay it.

[Misiuggah]

Crafted gear is soooo 2009.

[Suldur]

Some good points I feel. I think simply raising the amount of money received from quests and loot will help a great deal. It's a simple change, easy to control, and should solve a lot of worries. It does need to fairly significant perhaps. Like someone said, getting 30-40 copper from loot in khitai is a bit of a shame. ;x It should be silver, as they said.

The crafting side of things is trickier. There needs to be an incentive to crafting something, but this would require some thought. For example, maybe exchanging a particular crafted item gives you esteem or whatever, like items for war effort, etc. Something like this, where there is more scope than just one single use: you create something to sell to another player.

However, if FC decide to do anything, they have to be very careful indeed. Changing too many things at once with regard to crafting/economy/money can introduce too many variables to track. It is perhaps better to do it progressively; one change at a time. Though like everyone else, I feel they should do this sooner rather than later.

Also more people on the servers (after the merge, and after the F2P change) means more influx of resources on market, which drives the prices down for everyone. And some people sadly get very impatient.. :\ and really undercut prices "just to sell something fast". (When you see many of the same thing on sale, most seem to want to sell it faster, as compared to feeling more comfortable taking time selling something when there's only 3-5 of it on market)

[Itsonlyagame]

The only way you can earn right money now is by living in Hyboria, that is, having no real life. You can get around 4 gold a day by questing, but at the cost of spending real money in your psychiatrist (just kidding, no offense here).

Crafting is a joke, except for some alchemy. Stuff looted is far better and cheaper than crafted one. And better looking too!

And the same for rare trophies, but that's another history.

But the game is fun, so the only thing we can do is pray for a miracle, close our eyes and ask Funcom to low the prices a lot. A lot!

[TS-Ptah]

"No thanks, a vibrant, sustaining economy would attract alot more gold sellers" :P

[Shiwan]

As far I know prices has been already lowered on TL