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Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: LaughingAlex on January 20, 2017, 04:38:50 AM
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Was in chat with codewalker earlier before heading to bed, so I thought i'd share this with everyone here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sumZLwFXJqE
Yes, I know, real life money for in game.....whatever...it brings up good points imo. Specifically on combating hyper-inflation.
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I love Extra Credits' videos. :D
So, I know now how Questionite, Astral Diamonds and Dilithium in Cryptic games came about. :O
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Whats interesting to me, is how questionite cannot really quality as the "Diamond". Questionite see is earned in-game, so it's in a way, a second "Silver piece". But whats interesting is how Questionite is tied to Zen, which is the real "Diamond" of CO(and other PWE/Arc games). As with the "Diamonds" in the Extra credits, Zen is not tradable, the best you can do is sell Zen for questionite or buy zen with questionite. The Q to Z ratio varies, of course, and has risen over the years(at first around 200q per zen to around 450-550q per zen), but it was a slow and steady inflation. Of course I think the lack of inflation, and even deflation of Cosmic keys, indicates a shrinking economy in CO. But that has more to loss of players and lowering of demand for lockbox content.
Overall, I think without Q and if zen was by itself in CO, I wouldn't have been surprised if globals inflated out of control like influence did in CoX.
It makes me think though, if the methods explained in the extra credits video could be used in future CoX successors. Including of course setting a maximum limit on how much a "diamond" can be worth. It'd make the economy inflate/deflate more naturally, similar to how I'd been seeing in CO.
It makes me wonder, how Astral diamonds and Dilithium inflated/deflated in the other cryptic games. Has the amount of those currencies necessary to purchase zen increase or decrease over the years? How about farm method adjustments even and how they impacted it?