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by Trgeorge » Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:40 pm
Ingots have been only cleared from droptable, not from inventory (acording to Znore).
Personally, I don't welcome any playing with droploot tables, FC tends to mess other stuff in process. But all I can say about ingots, is that FC decided for that move too late. Game economy is totally borked and farming in Ely for ebaying credits has gonne too far.
While introducing trivial code to loot tables seems interesting idea, it's totally out of question in game like AO. There are several items droping from low level playfields that high level chars need too (or in some cases like FRN only high chars can use). With trivial code, FC would have to create additional drop locations, since with game so complex, players can outgrow zone, before returning there to get item/ do quest.
As alternative ways of income go...apart from fmonster parts, there are pearls and pattern pieces in SL and good old missions/dynas on RK. Back in fall of 2003 I was able to make over 500 mill in 1 month. It was totally legitime way and it took amount of dedication I was never able to duplicate, but saying that players won't be able to get enough credits today to support their chars can't hold true. Bigger problem nowdays are timesinks. RK supported flying and there were really only so few places people visited. With SL and AI, FC created additional timesinks in ways of traveling, geting CRU, waiting for cloak to reset, etc...and now, in some cases, stoping to farm credits to update equipment.
I would preffer if FC would go after Ebayers directly, instead of nerfing, but that's just too big a task with game engine as it is and servers to match it. This is just temporarly fix. With recent Uprising PvP action in Ely, it has become clear that those Ebayers are organized (and not PvP experienced, hehe). That means they will find alternative ways of geting credits. Either they'll farm monster parts or SL and RK dynas. In all cases they'll create new hot spots. Additionally, some of players with SL will move back down to RK to tweak gain of xp and credits. That will, sooner or later create friction betwen paying and froob players.
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