Drop Market Explorer charge - Phoenix Freeshard

I love all the quality of life enhancements on Phoenix. I was wondering if the dev team would consider doing away with the 20% penalty for buying directly from the Market Explorer. It seems pointless to have to run to the houses. Thank you for the consideration.

Sun 11 Apr 2021 6:55 AM by ExcretusMaximus

It's a way to combat inflation and needs to stay IMO.

Sun 11 Apr 2021 2:56 PM by Succi

Remove the 20% and implement a flat rate 5% tax for all purchases on housing zone

helps inflation and removes pointless running to CM

Sun 11 Apr 2021 3:35 PM by ExcretusMaximus

Succi wrote: ↑
Sun 11 Apr 2021 2:56 PM
Remove the 20% and implement a flat rate 5% tax for all purchases on housing zone

helps inflation and removes pointless running to CM

I can get behind that.

Sun 11 Apr 2021 4:42 PM by Kurbsen

then people cant see our mansions tho!

Sun 11 Apr 2021 8:53 PM by vxr

^^
Keep the 20% from search merchant
New command /port_house house#
House merchant has 5% tax

Sun 11 Apr 2021 8:55 PM by Sarkon

How does running to someone's house combat inflation?

Sun 11 Apr 2021 9:22 PM by gotwqqd

20% is a bit much

Maybe the % should be based on your account $$$$$

Now we can hear from the anti socialist side

Sun 11 Apr 2021 9:36 PM by easytoremember

Sarkon wrote: ↑
Sun 11 Apr 2021 8:55 PM
How does running to someone's house combat inflation?

Not running to the house invokes the lazy tax. Paying the lazy tax removes more gold. Removing more gold increases the value of gold

Sun 11 Apr 2021 10:28 PM by Sarkon

easytoremember wrote: ↑
Sun 11 Apr 2021 9:36 PM
Sarkon wrote: ↑
Sun 11 Apr 2021 8:55 PM
How does running to someone's house combat inflation?
Not running to the house invokes the lazy tax. Paying the lazy tax removes more gold. Removing more gold increases the value of gold

No one is dumb enough to pay a significant amount of lazy tax...especially when they spent a significant amount of time farming it.

If you want to be that ridiculous, just put a 1p lazy tax for every teleporter. The quality of life enhancements make this game better than live and one of the appealing things about the server. Making easier to trade things would be another qol improvement.

Mon 12 Apr 2021 12:59 AM by ExcretusMaximus

Sarkon wrote: ↑
Sun 11 Apr 2021 10:28 PM
No one is dumb enough to pay a significant amount of lazy tax...especially when they spent a significant amount of time farming it.

If you believe people aren't willing to drop an extra 200g for a 1p item by not having to run to the house, you're extremely naive.

Mon 12 Apr 2021 6:11 AM by Sepplord

and if you insist, then those people are still spending time running around instead of farming even more gold into the economy

If someone can farm only 3plat per hour, then running around housing to merchants for ten minutes needs to save them AT LEAST 500gold, otherwise it's a loss.

Mon 12 Apr 2021 9:44 AM by Ceen

I buy everything from the market explorer without moving around, especially combined forces 1p pots - yolo.
By simple playing RvR I get enough money to sustain this excessive lifestyle =)
If I ever run out of money I rather farm 2 h and stick to my laziness afterwards for the next months to come.

Mon 12 Apr 2021 9:50 AM by byron

Sepplord wrote: ↑
Mon 12 Apr 2021 6:11 AM
If someone can farm only 3plat per hour...

for sure not in Midgard...

Mon 12 Apr 2021 12:34 PM by

gruenesschaf

The market explorer charge is pretty much perfect as far as gold sinks go, it's a completely optional pay for convenience fee. In terms of economy impact, it's the second largest expense (actual gold removal from the game), after vendor purchases.

Thu 15 Apr 2021 2:43 PM by joshisanonymous

Kurbsen wrote: ↑
Sun 11 Apr 2021 4:42 PM
then people cant see our mansions tho!

I know I'm in an extreme minority, but I honestly find there to be way too much instant travel in basically every MMO out. It completely destroys the feeling of being in a living, breathing world when you're just teleporting back and forth all over the place.

And yeah, that includes seeing people's mansions! But please unlock the damn things!

Thu 15 Apr 2021 2:58 PM by easytoremember

joshisanonymous wrote: ↑
Thu 15 Apr 2021 2:43 PM
Kurbsen wrote: ↑
Sun 11 Apr 2021 4:42 PM
then people cant see our mansions tho!

I know I'm in an extreme minority, but I honestly find there to be way too much instant travel in basically every MMO out. It completely destroys the feeling of being in a living, breathing world when you're just teleporting back and forth all over the place.

And yeah, that includes seeing people's mansions! But please unlock the damn things!

Travel (non-porting) is important for immersive purposes; what you said is not an opinion but an objective statement. Porting around especially in both directions skips over a lot of setup to the experience.