[are you kidding me?]

1 hour ago, Oldplayer-IS said:

I agree with you. Regarding the economy, let me develop my thinking better.

There is a scarcity of stigmas and a great demand for these stigmas. As a consequence, the price goes up, as you said, this is known. But there is one detail to consider. We also have the kinah product. BOTS 'produce' a lot of kinah and this causes the value of Kinah to drop, so it takes more and more kinah to buy something in the game. What ends up happening is that BOTS win twice, the first is by offering cheap kinah for RTM and then selling the scarce items for a high price doing RTM again. It's a vicious cycle.

NCSOSFT does nothing to solve the problems of BOTS and in the case of Stigmas they even have the option of putting them to sell in the store if greed speaks louder, or simply putting an NPC that sells these stigmas, they don't even do that.

Hmm I still don't agree. Everyone had less kinah, shit would still be relatively just as(maybe but unlikely) or even more(probably) expensive, just not in absolute numbers.

 

Some more food for thought, take for example the new stones pack, 50$ for 5 stones lv 95 going for around lv 85, lv 95, lv110 etc. Lets say avg worth 20mil per stone. 100mil for 50$. RMT is ~20$ for 100mil. This new pack introduced by NCsoft, will make these stones WAY(probably) more expensive, since there is now actual value attached by NCsoft to these stones. Even further killing people who grind for money... And thus killing the game even more lmao

[are you kidding me?]

28 minutes ago, Oldplayer-IS said:

 the economy is inflated

new players cannot buy anything on the broker and much of what is sold is sold by BOTS.

 

Well I have to disagree on this part, if anyone paid attention to economy class, you'd know that it's about scarcity and demand. 

The economy is hyper-inflated yes, due to low population and very few people doing the sub 50 content. Resulting in extremely expensive stuff, especially lv 20-50 stigma's. (sigil of silence 20mil, body root 20mil, curse of roots 7mil). 

However, all the bots who can't be bothered to do all the main camp quests to blast to lv 50+, they farm mobs at all levels, resulting in drops to be sold on the broker. Right now, maybe once a week one of the previous stigma's is presented on the broker, can you imagine if there were not bots??? I doubt there would be one of these stigma's once every 2 months. As it currently stands, we need these bots to keep the broker active. Otherwise it would be barren as hell and more would quit. Yes even though these bots have profit in mind, we still need then. Otherwise the server would die.

I agree on the cheaters and such though. 

My own confidence has been crushed by the lack of communication from NCsoft, as well as not really having a clue whats going on. I will 100% quit when EU comes out, and probably most of the server. The server is doomed, lets be real, why not cash out on selling Estones and go out with filled pockets. 
NCsoft really have themselves to thank, maybe most blame goes to korea, but whatever. GG

Gameforge is a clown company, but at least they communicate and show signs of life. 

I had extremely high hopes for NCsoft, but after 2 months, that's all but gone. 

[Can we post links to YouTube?]

On 6/12/2022 at 3:05 AM, Alance said:

I made a video showing how to shortcut across Bakarma Barracks in Beluslan to get to Draupnir Cave, can I post that here and if so, which subforum would it go in?

Please do share!

[character creating limit?]

Hey everyone,

I was wondering, what's the character creation limit?? I had 4 characters but couldn't create another alt/character. So I regrettably deleted one, but still, with only 3 characters I can't create a new one.... It keeps saying "You cannot create anymore characters".......

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On 8/17/2022 at 4:40 PM, Yoloranger said:

My characters are Yoloranger (level 52), Yolosorc (level 53) and Paradigm (level 51 templar).  I am usually always on during the afternoons and evenings US Central Time.

While getting groups at leveling ranges can be difficult sometimes for campaign quests, there are several of us playing that will help any leveling characters with these quests, and NCSoft has greatly increased the XP you get from campaign quests.  The higher level yellow quests in Beluslan and Brusthonin are almost a level per quest.

Some of these quests don't always need groups.  Lost Daeva, A Spy Amongst the Lepharists, Suppressing the Bakarma Legion, Allies Amongst Enemies, The Secret of Adma Stronghold, etc; all give you upwards of nearly 100 million XP per turn in and most can be done in unconventional, suicide type runs.  AQ can be done in 5 minutes if you are willing to die twice.  Suppressing can be done in 20 minutes as long as everyone listens and follows through on where to land at the bottom.  Lost Daeva can also be suicide run.

With high level characters helping, it can be easy.  Just ask in LFG and someone is usually willing to help.

 

 

 

I highly doubt they're 'almost' a level without the double xp event. Still without the blue quests boosted and no double xp, it's still a lenghty grind... Sure most quests are solo-able, but not for total newbies... Which will demolish potential new players. 

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10 hours ago, Magistrate said:

any plans to market the game? leveling a char and its dead

Hey we tried to do "A lost Deava" together! Luckily after an hour more people jumped in and we did it. But I agree, not many new players around. Might also we partly due to the difficulty of said quests with lower population.

 

13 hours ago, EMPulse said:

Hello once again,  Daevas!!

Here are tomorrow's  maintenance notes for Aion Classic. Downtime will begin at 6am Server Time (4am PT / 7am ET / 12pm UTC) and will conclude after approximately 2 1/2 hours.

The following changes will be coming to the game during this maintenance:

• EXP/Kinah/AP Double Boost Ends

Dear EMPulse,

Wouldn't it be a great idea to continue the EXP event in some sort of way? To encourage leveling, newer players and stack the end game a bit more?

Personally I really enjoyed the double EXP as I recently started again after 10 years. I probably wouldn't have stuck if not for the event. I hope you will consider. 

Kind regards,

[Extending the double xp event]

Hey NCsoft,

First of all, thank you for providing Aion classic. Secondly, I'm a veteran player, having played under you subscription from 2009 till 2011. I just started on Aion classic for the love of the game and the big nostalgia factor. A big factor in making me play and keep playing is the huge exp boost from the current event. Progressing never felt so fast, rewarding and yet challenging due to out-leveling gear and being under-geared. I have to be intuitive and nifty to be able to go through the group content and difficult campaign quests. I was wondering if you could make the exp event permanent (at least the xp part) or extent it for a while, so returning players can catch up a bit. Unfortunately I'm going on holidays for the rest of the month but it would be great to come back and still enjoy the event as I see all the others do. 
If you are not up for it, I wouldn't mind to buy it as a subscription(for a reasonable price), having my exp doubled is what truly keeps me playing. Since I do not even remotely have the time I had when I was in high school...

Kind regards, 

An Aion nostalgia player.

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The exp event is great! As a returning user after 10 years I'm happy to zoom to end game this way and subscribe again. 

Thanks NCsoft!