112068-mega-servers-thoughts-predictions-and-questions-on-the-economy

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What will the prices be like (high low)?
What trade skill will be the big money maker or sinker?
Will there be a lot of items on the market?
What will be the average price of C.R.E.D.D?
Will there be a reset on everything listed?
 
These are the questions that plaque my thoughts for the AH/CX with the coming mega server.
Prediction wise other than the prices I`m at a loss.	
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these arent anything carbine can answer really. it will all depend on the players. 
 
The only one i can say would happen is the AH/CX will prob be cleared but who knows for sure	
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			One thing is fairly certain. If you are on a server with above average prices, the prices will go down for you. If you are on a server with below average prices, the prices will go up :P	
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			Beware PvP servers, when ravenous joins the party your markets will be controlled. ( the amount of gold on our realm is silly looking at the realm activity and comparing it to credd prices)	
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Beware PvP servers, when ravenous joins the party your markets will be controlled. ( the amount of gold on our realm is silly looking at the realm activity and comparing it to credd prices)
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			Credd is 15p on my realm, to give you an idea.	
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Credd is 15p on my realm, to give you an idea.
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5: Not sure why a reset would be needed. What doesn't sell on Stormtalon did not sell on Orais, So I'm going to take a stab and say they didn't sell on the other servers...
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Bid/Ask spreads should narrow, with more activity. Normalization of prices of course.
 
Flooding already occurs from the lack of demand for most goods. The discount to vendor has dropped, even doorknobs figure things out, but the bloodlust to undercut might briefly reoccur at merge.	
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Credd is 15p on my realm, to give you an idea.
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Current averages are meaningless, because a new environment is about to be born.
 
Prices are determined by the wealthiest buyers. All the whales will be in the same tank. All the people in the entire playerbase who want something more than you do ('want' being defined as "and willing to farm/buy the gold to get it") will be in line ahead of you. Prices will go up. Prices will go up higher than the highest in any currently existing server. When there is a ton of coin poured into one bucket, ALL of that coin becomes less powerful and that's what's happening.
 
The existence of supply is determined by the number of characters generating goods - the market will actually be stocked, but it will still be at higher pricing than you're probably used to.
 
The real plus is that things like common quality dyes will be available AT ALL. Not cheap, but at least the possibility of buying them will exist. You'll see your dream drop for sale, the question them becomes do you want it bad enough to financially out-compete all other players with the same wish-list?
 
Oh, and there's no need for a reset: just lock the auction house from listing new items 72 hours before the server merge and the slate will naturally purge itself to perfect cleanliness before the big event.	
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			I'm from ravenous and just recent bought CREDD for 12p, and im poor in comparison to a lot of players on ravenous :dAnd im constantly hearing stories on this forum from people who lost 200p when transfering because you can only transfer with 40p.	
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I'm from ravenous and just recent bought CREDD for 12p, and im poor in comparison to a lot of players on ravenous :D
 
And im constantly hearing stories on this forum from people who lost 200p when transfering because you can only transfer with 40p.
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I don't believe markets will be merged.
 
It is a massive undertaking to have 1 giant AH and CX.
 
Megaservers wasn't a problem for Carbine because they already had it in the game in the form of cross-realm adventures/dungeons/bgs/practice arena.	
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I don't believe markets will be merged.
 
It is a massive undertaking to have 1 giant AH and CX.
 
Megaservers wasn't a problem for Carbine because they already had it in the game in the form of cross-realm adventures/dungeons/bgs/practice arena.
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			Well I've just watched a mass exodus from my server to a larger one and the market over there is acting exactly the way I expected - stuff I've never even seen before and depth of stock like nobody's business but day-am some of those prices sting.	
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