World Better, More Creative Emerald Sinks To Curb Inflation.

Bump! Added a new idea to the main suggestion.

 

My opinions on each of the suggestions:
1: That would be cool but less people would donate if there were emerald based cosmetics
2: Maybe it should be less cosmetic if customising a guild hq and instead give things functions like extra guild exp and also the possibility that you could set guild battles in your hall with an arena
3: Maybe, but what would actually be there? Also wynncraft is less minigame based. And I thought the whole point of this was to curb inflation but people could just dupe zhight money which completely defeats the purpose
4: Yes but make it super expensive

However adding more uses for currency wouldn't curb inflation because people would simply dupe more to get these things
In terms of lootrun and legitimate based gameplay this would work but duping would still be a problem

 

There is no sink big enough to minimize duping. When you have the ability to double something, you just double it over and over again until you have enough. Just dupe a stack of LE, then 2 stacks, then 4 stacks, then 8 stacks, then you run out of inventory space and need to put 15 stacks in the bank and start over again. I don't know how duping works in wynncraft and afaik it's bannable if you're caught.

 

Well, it's obvious duping in itself is pretty much impossible to completely prevent in an MMO. I also don't need to be told what duping is. Note that I also said that the ideas I presented are meant to minimize the damage caused by duping. I have enough of a brain to understand that there are just those types of players that will dupe as much as they can. However, complaining about how there is "nothing to do" to reduce the damage of duping is absolutely ridiculous. Plus, it helps more if the degenerates who do decide to dupe give their counterfeit emeralds to an NPC merchant rather than letting it circulate in the economy. Letting duped items circulate through the economy is the sole reason for inflation.

 

The sole reason for inflation? Are you ok? It is not nearly even CLOSE to the sole thing. Every item, emerald, and quest reward dropped brings in more inflation than duping. I think you seem to believe that duping is a more prevalent issue than it really is. Plus, duped items don't actually bring any more money into the economy unless they're item-buyered, as items are traded with other players (and if on the market, then even some LE is taken out of the economy in tax), so the money isn't created out of nowhere. What you're actually describing(more items duped circulating the economy) would be that the increased supply leads to lower prices.

 

I worded that a little wrong, I meant that duping was one of the main contributors to inflation, which it is. Also, by items I wasn't just talking about weapons and the like, I meant emeralds as well since I was referencing them in the previous sentence.

 

How are you so sure that duping is such a problem? I barely ever hear about it, and I know admins have ways to find dupers and delete their stuff and find where it went

 

Remember a few months ago when the price of pumpkin helmets dropped from around a stack to only a few LE? That was because of a single instance of duping. Sure, instances of mass-duping are uncommon, but the instances it does happen the prices of items are radically changed. Not to mention that one of the reasons upper-tier mythics are so ridiculously inflated in price compared to near-perfect legendaries and lower-tier mythics is because of people duping their LE back in the good old days when duping was less trackable.
Also, a lot of people who dupe tend to try to hide the fact that they duped (cause, you know, they would get banned), often settling with duping large amounts of LE to buy powerful items for their builds, or occasionally duping their mythic or godly gear for a quick buck. You are correct the instances of these things happening is definitely not common, but the severity of the damage caused by duping makes up for the lack of publicly-known instances of this. There is also the fact that the staff can't and won't constantly sift through thousands of players' inventories just to stop duping, so many instances just go unnoticed.

 

It's OK, I dropped my mythic Idol in lava. Inflation is no more!

 

A few months ago? Try five years. As far as I've heard, pumpkin helmet trades have basically never happened since Gavel due to their low value and never really recovered since the first big rashes of duping when we didn't have the more robust tools to deal with it that we do now. I could be wrong about pumpkin trades recently given I don't pay attention to the trade market, but whenever someone says "pumpkin dupe" the only event that comes to mind is five years ago.