Yea it's been really interesting. I personally didn't think scrolling would be back so soon after the cs update and I also expected that cs wouldve brought a lot of people back, but the number of forum visitors have barely changed I think there's still a chance ws prices will change depending on fm merchants, but I definitely didnt expect it to hold on to its value as well as it has.
TYL (today you learnt) world economy has nothing to do with Royals economy. Predicted this would happen
World economy is economy in general o.o. It can't not apply to royals economy or else it wouldn't be an economy
I was being delusional that it didn't drop the prices by 50% or that it didn't affect the market? I think you're in the wrong here.
An economy is a living breathing organism, this is change, embrace it because it won't be this way forever.
Well in this case, its completely different because there never was a deflation of price or anything that others mentioned.
Well as you say the deflation didnt happen, I was definitely wrong about that. There are economic aspects in the current situation of royals that don't typically happen in real life and many of us failed to consider the effects of the new source on aspects such as old vs new player population which is the biggest reason white scrolls retained their price. All im saying though is that the word economy is based on real world economy and that royals economy can't even be called an economy if as you say it has "nothing" to do with real economy. In other words its possible for them to be different but they cant be completely unrelated.
Spoiler: Sila Interesting results! I would like to note that the original post was at the beginning of February when I and many more were still... optimistic about the length of time for things to come back to normal. But I was definitely wrong. Still haven't logged on in quite some time but it appears the price has actually gone up due to a lack of people/space? Wish I had time to log in and see for myself right now. Cool stuff, I look forward to seeing what happens in the future. Spoiler: Kimchi I still don't really agree with this, I would still say they're related, albeit loosely. There's simply different factors like daily limits and inventory limits that don't quite translate too cleanly.... Inventory limits would relate to real world maybe like the maximum amount a caravan can carry at once, or the expense of carrying one thing over another (opportunity cost). Spoiler: Opportunity Cost Defined For those who are unfamiliar with the technical jargon, opportunity cost means the difference in value over choosing one item to carry as opposed to another... think like how you might rather carry 100 pounds of gold rather than copper, since you can get more money for the copper... the opportunity cost would be the difference between gold and the next best option, in this case copper In maplestory this would translate to holding a white scroll over some trash, or holding godly equips over, well, trash, since you have so many inventory slots. If you had only one spot, it would be weighing the better of a white scroll or chaos, maybe. That being said, I was still wrong, so there's that Spoiler: I Have Problems Fun
