[MUD-Dev] Asheron\'s Call: An example of how easy it is to lo se your balance.

[Daniel.Harman at barclayscapital.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Rickey [mailto:daver at mythicentertainment.com]
> Sent: 21 May 2001 20:40
> To: mud-dev at kanga.nu
> Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] Asheron\'s Call: An example of how 
> easy it is to lose your balance. 

> [...]

> We wound up talking a little bit about econ issues, and they basicly
> told me they thought there was nothing wrong with in-game inflation.
> When I asked why, they told me "Because 90% of our players have
> primary characters under 10th level, so what looks like inflation to
> the hard-core player doesn't affect them."
 
> Anyone see the problem with the above statement?  Turns out they did
> everything right on figuring out what a player's "Primary Character"
> was, except for one little catch: They counted a "Primary Character"
> for each server.  That means that a *lot* of "mules" and
> experimental characters got counted as "Primary Characters", and
> those tended to be much lower level.
 
More obviously, they are counting players who almost certainly don't
play any more. Even I have a level 9 character rotting on their server
untouched since 2 months after release. Balancing the economy around
me is pretty silly.

Having said that I don't necessarily agree that inflation is a bad
thing as long as prices, earning & etc. move in concert (as they would
do in the real world). Of course thats where muds generally stop
modelling and start breaking.

Dan
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