Are all of you wearing pink glasses or something?

1. Lineage was supposed to be hardcore, i guess. Hardcore = NOT grinding/farming/leveling 20 hours a day!

2. Main reason of a f*cked up economy is, Maintaining yourself to actually level. Soulshot arent an option, there a must! If you buy 5k soulshot for amount X, and you use that 5k ss to farm. The amount of adena you will get from farming is < X. (< = less then). When Luna launched i started again. But I quit after 2 weeks, ik was level 27 or 29 and i ran out of money, I was still using gear i got @ level 6.

ps. dont bitch and dont call me noob, i played the game for 5 years, i know what im talking about.

3. NCsoft is not gonna stop the adenafarming/ebaying business. Simply because ATLEAST 25% of the payed accounts are Farmers. And probably 80% of the "real" players will quit if they cant ebay. NCsoft needs them farmers, cause the game is bady designed.

4. All the problems stated above are core problems, therefor it will NEVER be fixed. Yes they have shadow weapons up to level whatever. They are just delaying the problems untill your on a higher level.

I could go on and on about this game, for example why it can never be a PvP game in its current state, fact is i played the game for 5 years  .C1 was cool C2 was ok, then it all went terribly wrong. 

Oh yea BTW, MMORPG's cannot be called games!

Originally posted by Korvenus

I dont see anything wrong with the prices. The people that complain about prices are the people who do not know how to make money in the game.

yada yada yada  .........zzzzzzzz   

i totally disagree with you but I am not going to argue with you.

you win.

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Originally posted by csides88

Thanks for the reply. I did forget to mention common items and that is my fault. Common items are a great addition to make weapons and armor cheaper. A lot of people don't even enchant their armor. This makes common armor very helpful for those people but the armor loses its set bonus. My main purpose was to show my view points and the game communities view points on the economy and how to help it. I hope this gives people a better understanding and a little more incite on Lineage 2's economy.

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http://boards.lineage2.com/showthread.php?t=200395
 

Most of these ideas were taken from the community. Unfortunately, I am limited to 1500 words. It is impossible to put forth all ideas in 1500 words or less so I just put in some. You have to remember that this isn't my job and I'm just doing this in the spare time of my real life. If other people think they can do it better...then do it.

nice article,

All i want in the game for materials or basic mats mostly would be. To give Warsmith's or any player the ability to crush and/or change loot items. To get materials from them. If you get avadon gaiters material, crush it and get skins and thread. Even better would be an option menu giving the exchange for that particular item. Make an Exchange Npc to see what possible items you could get for that exchange.

It would keep the basic mat prices down and also make it so there would be no taxes . Try it out on an event to see if it works. Has to be better than some of the earlier events we had.
 

Very interesting article and discussion.

But I think that you miss the point!

NCSoft earns money from botting and from selling adena for real money.

Actually NCSoft makes more money from botting and selling adena than from the subscription of the game!

So NCSoft forces the prices up to make more players to use bot programs and to pay real money for adena.

So this article is a nice try but has nothing to do with reality!

That's why NCSoft doesn't solve the problem with bots and adena.

It only bans some bots from time to time just to hide.

Lineage economy is based completely on bot system.

Even noobs know this!

Don't hide behind your thumb!

 First: You need also to be economical smart, find thing you that are valuable. NCSoft makes farming a part of the game you have to do. Not farming as in using a bot, but farming as in using a site to find particular stuff the market wants and spoil until you get it (and level in the process). 

Secondly: NCSoft stimulates a one clan takes it all policy. The end game is over, einheit won because big clan get all sort of extra's like clan skills. NCSoft didnt think people will forget it is a game but they do forget. Einheit members take part in TW and they dont fight 4 their party, they leave clan members in other parties alive and kill the game in the process.

Thirdly, back on subject, botting is out of control. There are a lot of big clan members that don't know how to play but they are 80+ I ask you why? They have 16+ weapons all of them... its not humanly possible almost to have 16+ weapons. It should be extremely rare, but here they are 100 of them all s80 +16

By the way our clan likes role playing and leveling and having fun. TW is not fun anymore, but necessary evil to lay there death and get batches & reps laying death...thank you einheit

I have played the game since OB/C1. The problem with L2 is that it is controlled by the RMT or at least on the Phoenix server. With changes NC has made since C1 they have helped the RMTs gain this status to the point i feel the company is behind them.

All those that say they "play the market" are LOL.

I mean think about it...everyone is trying to buy low and sell high...but you were successfull...LOL x2. Normally thats how the ebayer/botter justify their Adena gain.

I have a toon in the high 70s and still in A Armour. .. And if someone comes on and says i don't know how to play..i would sat that person is an idiot.

Save your money folks ..its a crap game run by an even crappier company. No live GMs, canned answers to petitions, just an all around POS.