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Of course a Gold Seller would vote FOR ANYTHING that might INCREASE their gold sales.
[/ QUOTE ]Reducing the amount of gold in the game wouldn't increase or decrease the amount of $$ I make from selling gold. It would just make gold more valuable in the game. If you had read my other posts, you would have known my recommendation for gold reduction...Reduce all gold by dividing it by 1,000. Reduce the cost of all NPC vendor items by the same amount, except for resources (ingots, reagents, etc.) which should stay the same. Remove or greatly reduce the amount of gold reward for turning in a BOD, etc. For the rest look up my post on the subject.<blockquote><hr>
Three UO accounts (I'm underestimating for a crafter running bods), paid every 6 months, $30 per month PLUS 1 DSL line $40 per month equals $70 per month minimum monthly bills that you say you pay for by selling your excess UO gold for cash.
[/ QUOTE ]That sounds about right. 1 RP account and 2 BOD accounts.<blockquote><hr>
Gold at $2 per million means you'd need to earn $35 million per month bare minimum (more to pay for computer upgrades).
[/ QUOTE ]Actually my price is $1.50 per million...<blockquote><hr>
So that's 1.6 (real not fake!) valorite runic hammer ($30 million + $5 million more), or 17.5 barbed runics (at roughly 2 million each) per month you'd need to acquire to keep your supply of ingame gold up for selling for cash for paying the bills.
[/ QUOTE ]Actually, I've only earned 1 Val Hammer and purchased 2 others, which I used on Pacific, and made a few awesome weapons. I'd say I do earn around 10-20 barbed kits a month, but I use them; I don't sell them.<blockquote><hr>
Of course you say that you have hundreds of millions of excess gold lying around. Does that mean we should multiply the amount of runics above by 3 to 6 to get closer to your true income from crafting? So, maybe you are more likely acquiring 3-6 valorite runics and 61-102 barbed kits each month?
[/ QUOTE ]I don't deal in Val Runics. I earn and sell tons of PoF's (around 50-70 a week at 80-90K each), 120 Crafting Scrolls, CBD's, Runic Hammers from Bronze to Agapite (I usually burn any Verite Hammers I earn, but I've been selling them lately because of their huge increase in Value after the latest crafting change). I haven't sold a Barbed kit in months, but I've definitely sold the results of using them.<blockquote><hr>
(I don't count crafting PS since you can't give those away these days and pof is a mediocre seller, there's so much on the market and most of us have mules who get it free from bods.)
[/ QUOTE ]You couldn't be more wrong. Because of the change to BOD gathering, everybody wants to be a Legendary Smith. I've sold almost every 120 Scroll I could make for 500-600K each. PoF's? Are you kidding me? They are so easy to get, and they sell for 80-90K each! I sell out of them as fast as I can stock them! OK. I admit, the price is starting to slip on these, but I sold out at 70K today on Napa and Pac.<blockquote><hr>
That is a helluva lot of crafting.
[/ QUOTE ]Agreed. 28 BOD Runners on 2 shards doing 2-3 BOD runs a day. Filling around 400 iron BODs a week (usually around 20-40 per day and the rest on the weekend). Thank goodness for the recent BOD change. Now there's not as many iron BODs to fill.<blockquote><hr>
So question...
You fall short of your monthly runic acquisitions, and there's the DSL bill due tomorrow. Would you dupe up a val runic to sell or just let them turn off your DSL?
[/ QUOTE ]Now you are starting to cross a thin line. Be careful with your accusations. I don't dupe. I don't know how to dupe. I don't need to dupe. I make a rl 6-figure salary in IT. This game is just a game. My wife would prefer I didn't spend any money on it, so I just let it pay for itself.<blockquote><hr>
(I despise numbers and I am sure if my calculations are off I will soon be informed but the more mathematically blessed.)
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