TOPIC: [Suggestion] Fixing the Economy.

AA RFLeX wrote: I believe Mfbraz is referencing to how hard it is for new players to get started with all the rich people and their suits, special weapons etc. The economy has inflated since I first joined in 2014 However I don't believe it has become overly expensive for items either. It's about finding the perfect balance

AA RFLeX wrote:
It's not. Maybe he's not trying to make money? Maybe he's just moderating the server.

Personally I think it's fine, It's balanced pretty good.

Tyler Durden wrote:
Almost every item has gone up in price, the only reason why rpg and other explosives stay the same price, is because uranium is so easy to get, and once again, afk mining steel.
Literally every other item except that is a crazy amount, suits, miniguns 2.0's, special printers, these are items that only go up in price because of inflation. The problem is that new players have no chance of obtaining these good items, unless they spend some irl $$$.
The main problem is inflation fucks over new players, as money has less value, they'll have a rough start. And since inflation exists in Zarp, you will have less people basing, as you see in server 1, there is never anyone basing. I play for 5+ hours, and I stumble across 0 bases, I hop onto server 2, and I stumble upon 20 afk miners and 0 bases. This is obviously a problem as rp is dying out. If we keep going down this path a lot of people are gonna quit. I've never been so bored in Zarp before as I am in this current state, and believe me I've been playing zarp for around 4 years, and it's been great fun.

A change needs to happen imo. Optic made a great suggestion about it also, you could change server 2 into a new Zarp, where everything is reset, this will push the players afk mining from server 2 to server 1, making it more rp, aswell as allowing people to start fresh in the new server 2.

- I think a big reason to why basing isn't happening anymore could also be because of the suits.

AA RFLeX wrote: Economy broken =/= everyone's rich

Then what the hell up crack suddenly costing 1.5 bill when last I remember it was like 300 mill.

I wait the day until the suits become 1b each xd

Good idea but the problem is, afk mining

BremFM wrote:god you are making me face palm so fucking hard right now

Shark wrote: The value of the currency has gone down because of the amount of it in circulation has gone up. This has caused prices to "go up" but in comparison, everything is a similar price.

Over time, with no real drain on the economy, this was bound to happen, however it's not as much of an issue as it would be in real life, as in real life physical cash becomes useless and the average person can have difficulty investing, but due to the ease of SSRP, this can all be corrected through smart play.

It adds an element of planning for the future to items, as if you got a jugg suit about a month or two after the summer update, they were 80mil or so. If you kept the money, by now you would just have 80mil, but if you bought the item you would have over 200mil.

80mil then = roughly 200mil now

This is why investing smartly is incredibly important to keep up with the rapidly changing economy. It is very similar to the real life economy but on a much bigger, faster scale.

Someone said something about people making money in greater amounts and not having anything to spend on, I have 2 words for you: AFK Mining.

add a afk timer

AA RFLeX wrote:
Yes im not rich i said it many times, but while using my regular printers with VIP I print around 6 mil per day(a couple hours of it).

While I made my 6mil people I usually base with made alot more using rare printers.

So they produce more cash, more money goes in circulation, this causes prices to rise.
When I return to zarp i had to start from scratch, and let me tell i notice the prices changes alot.

So in this few words this economical problem is making it hard for new players to make enough money to buy some items. So yes my lack of cash can be a cause of a broken economy since the things I buy skyrocketed in price making me have less money.

Mfbraz wrote:
Well said. +support

The economy is horrible, I used to get coolers/crack for 10-100m ea, now its 1-1.5b lmfao

Economy is fine my ass.

SamP wrote:
I do remember this conversation, but while thinking about this topic today I was reminded how Incremental Games make you reset everything in turn of boosts. And since no one really wants to get taxed here is a few more ideas.
Here is my update on this topic:

First Reset - Money needed - 50mil : Unlocks the gun permit, meaning you can carry any gun, but no explosives.

Second Reset - Money needed - 100mil :Unlocks the Black Market Gun Dealer, This job roll lets you sell guns from the m9k that aren't available to the other gun dealers classes and the guns that are. (Maybe even FAS:S2 with the customization options)

Third Reset - Money needed - 250m: Unlocks "The Overseas Connection" is a set of daily missions that if completed with success will give players rare weapons or a Super Charged Uranium, please note that this missions will be extremely or at least mildly difficult.

Example: Arrest 5 wanted criminals with a bounty of over 10,000$ without dying.

Fourth Reset - Money needed - 500m: Unlocks the job "The Scammer", this character would be able to buy dummy rare printers, his function in game would be to try and scam people(since its legal to do so). When people buy a rare printer from this guy and place the printer on the ground a random small prop would be spawn instead. He could change his job title and wear an outfit for increase chances of scamming.

Fifth Reset - Money needed - 1b: You have done it, you reach the highest of highest levels amongst us, you are now part of the Continentals(yes i stole this shift from John wick.), with this rank you unlock the Continental Coin Printer, this printer prints Continental coins that can be used in a secret shop inside of zarp. This shop will sell items that arent available to anyone else and cant be traded. Continental coins can be given and sold.

It's been the same for ages it's not broken as such it's just where as other servers price things at 100k zarp used millions which is more unique, imagine how boring zarp would be if it copied every other server this is why zarp is so popular, you can't price brand new suits for like 1m they have to be 100's of millions to make them unique and give a wow factor!

Mfbraz wrote:
The reason we have special printers is for playing to print and make more money. I am pretty sure you can afford an iridium printer and base with it for some profit.

I bought one, now the problem is save basing. And if i lose it I will be down 23mil, making me even more poor.

Has you can imagine i wont post here my basing plans.

Mfbraz wrote: Thats the point of the gamemode. You either risk it and make profit or you lose.