Crafted items sell for nothing to NPCs

mattriddle · April 2014

So NPCs will sell bad potions for 30g each, but when I brew better potions, they will only buy them for 1g each.

How is that fair in any way?

Don't get me started on all the loot I find that is literally worth 0 gold.

And most mobs only drop 1g.

Of course, this is just in the starting zone after Coldharbor, Khentari's Roost. But it does make it seem like the developers don't want the players having any form of currency minus quest rewards.

seanolan · April 2014

Welcome to the economics of an MMO...they have to make money scarce, with thousands of players.

mattriddle · April 2014

I disagree. I've played most other MMOs and never encountered 1g drops from all enemies, nor all my crafting items selling for 0g.

Not when quests give you at least 50-100g starting out.

If anything, it feels like a mistake was made in the math somewhere.

omnomolyub17_ESO · April 2014

It's mostly there to encourage player trading. Why trade to players when NPCs will buy it for a fair amount and you don't even have to look for them or barter? Take motif books, for example. Players will buy them for up to 1.5k but a merchant buys it for like 30g (don't quote me on that, I know it's practically nothing compared to 1.5k)!

As far as economy goes, it prevents players from easily spawning new money. More money in the world means higher prices. NPCs create money to give to the player, whereas players are losing money so that you can gain money. That and the many gold sinks in the game help to create balance between money being created and destroyed. You'll never get a perfect system, but oh well. That's the reasoning behind it.

mattriddle · April 2014

You may be right, but it sure makes it hard for the solo player.

seanolan · April 2014

Solo doesn't mean you can't interact with other players. No offense, but if you didn't want interactions with other players, why play an MMO?

Allonan · April 2014

Making food and selling it is a great way to make money... Also refined crafting materials like iron, wood, and jute sell very well at low level. (I would not recommend selling leather as that is harder to get.)

I am level 8 and I already have 92 character bag slots and 90 bank bag slots with a couple of thousand to spare at the moment.

elrond2002 · April 2014

Don't mind selling to other players. Don't like hanging around in town waiting for poeple to buy from me. Unless there is an AH... haven't started looking for one as yet.

mattriddle · April 2014

It's not that I don't want to interact with other players, it's just i'm not used to sitting around spamming chat with sell messages, nor do I feel like I would enjoy doing that.

Allonan · April 2014

I think one of the main reasons for no AH is that since they have a mega server it would be one AH for everyone playing the game. It could really flood the server with too much stuff and basically drive the cost of everything down to a small amount over what a vendor would pay for it anyway.

seanolan · April 2014

mattriddle wrote: »

It's not that I don't want to interact with other players, it's just i'm not used to sitting around spamming chat with sell messages, nor do I feel like I would enjoy doing that.

Then think of guilds as individual server auction houses, and use them the same way. I don't see the difference