Kaia Topaz
(Hope this is the right place to put this, if not please let me know and I will move it asap!)
I returned to Gaia nearly a week ago now after a very long hiatus.
Immediately I realized that the fun I once had here was no longer possible without tons and tons of gold. At that moment I had nearly 700,000 GG saved up from when I was last active but other than that I had given most if not all of my items away to a friend.
After a quick chat with some well meaning Gaians I was introduced to Lake Kindred. After a few hours I was happy with what I was getting from playing the game but wondered if there was a way for me to get more, faster. So I hopped to the Lake Kindred forums where I was promptly given a stronger Kin and a plan on how to "farm" this one boss in the game that dropped 1-2 billion gold per kill.
Within 2 days I went from having 700,000 GG to 24 billion GG. It was painless and just took a bit of time mindlessly clicking at the screen to achieve...
So my question to you is: Is Lake Kindred helping or harming Gaia?
I honestly don't know- It seems to help people like me who start with nothing and move up to having enough to buy a new outfit or send someone a nice gift. I am however worried about the effects of this game and it's rewards have on the overall economy.
Thoughts?
I guess Pwnder beat me to being the first response. Writing takes forever.
cat_sweatdrop But here's what I was writing:
If the 24 billion was obtained as pure gold directly, then it's kind of like a gold generator (which is bad for inflation), but having the ability to earn it in Lake Kindred as an option also allows those who don't buy gold generators to catch up. It adds to inflation, but having alternate methods of making decent gold makes it a little more fair between the users (like how the Daily Chance also gives out more gold now). That's assuming this method is easy or tolerable enough for most users to put up with.
As far as I can see, the main problem with inflation (aside from the annoying number of extra digits to deal with) is the uneven distribution between the users, where those who spend real money can buy (almost) whatever they want, while those who don't can buy less and less as the inflation gets worse. From what I can tell, even if it did technically lower inflation, removing the best free and widely available methods of making gold while still selling gold generators would probably only make the problem worse as it would greatly increase the gap between the users by depending almost exclusively on how much money they're willing to spend on the site. If they
removed gold generators (and added gold sinks), then they could change the amount of gold given out in Lake Kindred and the Daily Chance just to prevent "excessive digits." Though maybe with enough gold sinks, it wouldn't even matter.
I believe inflation (too much gold in the system) is separate from the excessive gold gap between users, but in the current situation on Gaia, gold generators cause
both at the same time, to the point where "inflation" usually seems to refer to both things together.
Meanwhile, if you had to sell items to get it, then you're more of an item supplier, and can make gold by lowering rarity of those items and lowering their inflated Marketplace prices (which should be good for the economy), unless you overprice the items too much. I personally like to list items below both the lowest listed price and the average buy price, and I still make decent amounts (I have more than 37 billion, didn't do much trading with my other accounts, and still have stuff I didn't get around to selling).
What
I do with Lake Kindred, mostly because I don't have much spare time to play through the main part of the game, is just take 5 Kins, put them all on your team, then collect their little gifts every 24 hours from the home base. I posted
a thread on easy ways to make gold, and my Lake Kindred method is in the third post. I was avoiding listing methods that I thought hurt the economy more than it helped. Even if a method I listed generates gold, most of it would be removed by the Marketplace tax, since that's a primary part of all of the current methods I have listed.
cat_razz Edit: I'll vote that it's helping more than it's harming.
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