DUST Search - WOW! 110 aur for proto dropsuits?

Goat of Dover wrote:

SYST3M 0V3RL0AD wrote:

My guess is they are inflating the value of AUR in preparation for a new,much larger range of AUR items. Right now we likely only have a very small fraction of the inventory that will be available later. If a top level weapon only costs say 5 AUR, and you add 10 additional levels of lower end items below that, you'd have to start getting into fractional currency to be in line with the perceived value of each item and what people would be willing to pay. If you inflate everything by a factor of 10 and your top weapon is now 50 AUR, you can price less desirable items anywhere from 1 to 49 without having to get into fractions.

This is a very good thing for us as players, really. It creates a broader range of prices and the ability to price things cheaper!
(In theory, that is. If they don't price anything lower than 10 AUR, the point is moot and we'll probably be getting screwed, lol.)

From a business stand point this is exactly it. They basically say this in the post about the currency change.

Also you are paying real money for something that is nothing but intangible codes of numbers and letters. Your getting screwed no matter what the price is. lol


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SYST3M 0V3RL0AD Zumari Force Projection Caldari State 209	Posted - 2012.09.24 17:56:00 - [1] - Quote My guess is they are inflating the value of AUR in preparation for a new,much larger range of AUR items. Right now we likely only have a very small fraction of the inventory that will be available later. If a top level weapon only costs say 5 AUR, and you add 10 additional levels of lower end items below that, you'd have to start getting into fractional currency to be in line with the perceived value of each item and what people would be willing to pay. If you inflate everything by a factor of 10 and your top weapon is now 50 AUR, you can price less desirable items anywhere from 1 to 49 without having to get into fractions. This is a very good thing for us as players, really. It creates a broader range of prices and the ability to price things cheaper! (In theory, that is. If they don't price anything lower than 10 AUR, the point is moot and we'll probably be getting screwed, lol.)
SYST3M 0V3RL0AD Zumari Force Projection Caldari State 209	Posted - 2012.09.24 20:28:00 - [2] - Quote Goat of Dover wrote: SYST3M 0V3RL0AD wrote: My guess is they are inflating the value of AUR in preparation for a new,much larger range of AUR items. Right now we likely only have a very small fraction of the inventory that will be available later. If a top level weapon only costs say 5 AUR, and you add 10 additional levels of lower end items below that, you'd have to start getting into fractional currency to be in line with the perceived value of each item and what people would be willing to pay. If you inflate everything by a factor of 10 and your top weapon is now 50 AUR, you can price less desirable items anywhere from 1 to 49 without having to get into fractions. This is a very good thing for us as players, really. It creates a broader range of prices and the ability to price things cheaper! (In theory, that is. If they don't price anything lower than 10 AUR, the point is moot and we'll probably be getting screwed, lol.) From a business stand point this is exactly it. They basically say this in the post about the currency change. Also you are paying real money for something that is nothing but intangible codes of numbers and letters. Your getting screwed no matter what the price is. lol lmao, well yea, of course, but the question now is: with or without the lube?
SYST3M 0V3RL0AD Zumari Force Projection Caldari State 209	Posted - 2012.09.24 21:40:00 - [3] - Quote Villore Isu wrote: Dammit, Unless they do something similar in EVE, there goes any chance of transferring AUR between the 2 Hmmm. This does complicate things. But only very slightly as far as i can tell. (I'm not an EVE player). I mean, fictional currency is really just arbitrary; not based on any particular thing, so there's no reason why CCP can't just apply the x10 factor of Aurum to EVE as well and just adjust the costs of things to reflect that. It's certainly something they can change in a single maintenance period without disrupting anything. Maybe they will allow Aurum exchange across the two, maybe they won't. If they did make this x10 change in both games simultaneously it would've stirred a whole bunch of speculation so maybe they are just testing the x10 factor in Dust first and will implement it in EVE later to quell the speculators for the time being. I wouldn't say this currency adjustment is in any way a deathblow to inter-game currency exchange. Just have to wait it out and see what CCP have up their sleeve. The market is just as vital as the FPS gameplay and with the fact that EVE and Dust players can be in the same corporations i trust they will create a system that works in the best way possible.