Turbine Games Q&A/Economy/Q-09

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There is no way Vendors are making money

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Asked:	2000.11.22
Name:	Sarec of Frostfell
Question Title:	There is no way Vendors are making money
Category:	Economy
Question:	In Ayan Boqur, the vendors buy at an inflated rate and never sell any goods. I would think it is safe to say that they end up several million pyreal in the whole every day. I see no where they are selling these items to, they magically disappear into the server with no explaination(quite often at inopprotune times to the annoyance of shoppers) There are a few problems with the current system: *)You have over crowding of towns. *)You have people abusing the buying and selling resulting in infinately doable freemoney trade runs. *)It just makes no sense that a vendor has unlimited money. Why would he even open a store if he had unlimited money? Is it like the rich man working in a fast food place? Where when the manage gets on your case you go,"Hey! I don't have to take crap from you! I got millions of dollars, I don't need this job!" Why don't you implement some basic economic principles with store keepers? The rates that some stores buy and sell would be partially determined by their actual supply and how much of their wares they move. I think with some variance, but within a certain range, the problems I stated would be solved in addition to making a new game play style(trade runs) actually viable.

Answered:	2000.11.29
Name:	Stormwaltz
Answer:	A real economy, even a basic one, is a lot of work to code, a lot of extra things for the servers to keep track of, and at this point would annoy more people than it would please. I personally like the idea, but it won't happen in AC.