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... Love, I told you earlier. They won't do it because it makes sense....
Also Idk how accurate your prices are so you might wanna double check with someone who has played there recently if you haven't already.
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I'm sorry did I read that correctly?
...you’ll be able to bring all your zeny and items with your characters
...you’ll be able to bring all your zeny and items...all your zeny
In case it isn't plainly obvious that the economy on the two servers is incomparable, here are some numbers
- The average SEA server player has 2-5 million zeny, compare this to the 20-50k that Odin players have (this is an AVERAGE). This is a 100x difference in average zeny. Even if this number is somewhat off there is still at least a several dozen fold difference
- So a 7 day VIP worth under 5k here is 2 million on SEA... I'm sorry that seems to be a 400x difference in price of a VIP
- The KP to zeny ratio used in SEA for trading is 150kp:100k zeny. A 1:666 ratio, compared to our 1:40. This is a 17x difference in worth of KP
- Now lets look at our Auction House (AH). There are currently 31178 items for sale (at the time of writing). I added the prices of the first 100 and last 100 items in the AH, to find that the average item (excluding 4 items over 200k) costs 2971 zeny. In this sample only 2% of AH items were over 200k, let's expand this to 5% just to be certain. Now, that means that the other 95% of our AH items totals to being worth 87,998,346. So about 88 million zeny. Using the 100x difference in zeny rate, this comes to 880k. Imagine buying 95% of the Auction house for the equivalent of 880k... that's less than an OCU. Now let's convert the 88 million to KP, at the 1:666 ratio, this is 132000KP, or 1320$ without bonuses. Since conversions of over 10k kp have a 20% bonus, and your first conversion of the month has a 5% bonus. 132000 KP is actually only 1056. Imagine buying 95% of the Auction house for 1000$. Clearly that's not what 95% of our ENTIRE market is worth!
What can be done?
- Simple, apply a conversion ratio as SEA players enter Odin server. Here, I'll even outline how it can be done!
- Count the number of players on SEA who have been active in the past 3 months (let number of players = n)
- Sum their zeny (let the sum = s)
- Divide n by s (n/s=a, the average active player's zeny)
- Compare "a of SEA" with "a of ODIN" (a_SEA / a_ODIN = r, the ratio)
- Use this as an exchange rate (SEAZeny/r = ODINZeny)
- If you really can't modify the SEA server player's zeny without dire repercussions worse than potentially losing all profit from current ODIN players... Simple apply a conversion ratio to OUR zeny. Multiply everything by 17 or by 100 or by whatever equilibrates the average player's zeny for players on both servers. (ODINZeny*r=NewODINZeny)
I am somewhat sorry if I sound condescending, but wait... somehow the people responsible for the merger failed to notice the 100(s) fold difference in currency worth!
Edited by Baddiez, 10 September 2014 - 08:29 PM.
