Is economy going downhill?

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  1. Surv
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    Hey, (again), it's me, Survy, and today I want to ask you: Do you think the economy is going downhill? Over the past two-three months, people have been skeleton grinding a LOT, and people now have like 5mil, stored on alternative accounts. When this got out of hand with magma cream, Cyp lowered the price of Magma cream, so people had to find a new way to make money. Skeleton grinding is easy, you just get a sword, then kill skeletons :p! Skeletons spawn 1-3 bones upon death, making it easy to get bones. One inventory of bones, converted into bonemeal is 7.6k. I think the server should reduce the price of bones to make it more challenging, and fun!

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    The economy is clearly going down because of these bones. If you do the math on bones and bone meal:
    1 bone gives 3 bone meal.
    The price of bonemeal:
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    18(amount of bone meal needed to sell)/3(Bone meal per bone) =6 (Bones)
    So for 6 bones you get 20$ which means for 30 bones you can get 100 dollars.
    So you can get about 200$ per stack (There's a little extra amount because of the extra 4 bones). But voting doesn't even give you 200$, so it seems a bit over prices in my opinion.
     
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    I don't think the prices should change, otherwise it would be much harder to make money.
     
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    That's the point.
     
  5. Crystal
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    We need Skyblock to have some challenge or it will be boring and the community will lose people and money.
     
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    Yeah but many people know that you can turn bones into bone meal which sells for way too much.
     
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    People can get 1mil a day if they actually full out grinded.
    I did, at least.
     
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    Yes but if too much money is released then the economy system and prices will all crash.
     
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    Yes, but it's supposed to attract interest in the server, and players will work harder for money, and it'll cause them to donate to the server, some of them, and the server will be more productive.
     
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    I think the bonemeal prices are too high, it is responsible for the server lag with op grinders and it just took the fun out of it. I think we need to go back to actual farms (growing) to be the source of peoples money because it is just too easy to make money.
     
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    Well, if you keep lowering prices, people will find other ways to make money, this may keep going on in a continues loop until each item is like 1 cent. (This is My Opinion, Don't Hate My Opinion :c)
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    How will they loose people, will they undo the bolts that hold their arms and legs in place slightly??
    Perhaps you mean 'lose'.
     
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    Ok so re add hoppers I think then lower prices and quantity on pumpkins too
     
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    I think the server is wonderful. I haven't played org in like 100 months and my island is a lava mess. :D
    I don't play org
     
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    I just think /warp shop needs to be actually thought through. A year and a half ago to two years ago I think, was when pumpkin farms were all the rage, economy=s***. Then came the reset and the magma cream and nether wart economy. That died down quickly as netherwart was a hassle to farm and magma cream prices dropped. However skeletons are by far the easiest way in recent skyblock history to earn money. I'm personally hoping for a balance reset. (Disagree here) There's no actual economy anymore, it's just "who has no life and spends their days farming bones"
     
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    Yes, bone farming has caused a lot of issues... *cough*... But lowering the prices won't do anything to help anyone, its a game for fun, not to give people less of a life, and spawners spawning was already decreased by 10% and clearly no change has happened. Its fun for the people that still play anyway.

    Thusfore no support.
     
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    Economy is running great.
    Rares are up to 1 mil in prices, we just need more rares, hopefully creative items will come in and solve the problem.
    Reducing the price will not solve the problem actually
     
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    Maybe they could have a certain amount of bones each player can sell each day which would make it harder to get lots of money.
     

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