Gold Coins Market liquidity crisis

It would be nice to listen to what we are all saying about this decision.

Hey guy,

We have been making a lot of money by sitting around, complaining, not taking any risk.
nobody fights because it costs money and everybody wants to make money.

Now that that they changed the numbers and profits are down, there were messages here saying "this country should have this profit" and that enterprise should have that profit.
why is it? what is left of this game. sitting around and making money?
You described in details why the gold coins are needed so we can all play for free for ever and never need to purchase anything.
You are very smart indeed.

The introduction of gold coins exchange was an error when they brought it in. a very stupid error.

They should never bring it back and I advise them to:
- Kill the other part of the exchange. If anyone wants gold coins he should buy them.
- Kill the virtual assets exchange. It is not in the interest of W3creative.
- Add a f

Andy, I do not understand your point. You seem to be saying that I am contradicting myself, but I don't understand how. Please could you clarify?

Maybe I'm not being completely clear in my argument. Andy - please consider those players who are:

a) not able to win level awards - either because they have got very high in levels already, or because they aren't interested in playing the levels game, or because they aren't particularly good at it.

b) cannot win ranking awards - either because they are not good enough to get that high (only 18 people per month on WG), or because they are in the Hall of Fame and can't win another award for 5 months.

c) cannot win war level awards - either because they are already at the highest war level and can't go any further, or because they are playing a peaceful game and don't want to go up war levels.

Those players have only

But hopefully new players are joining all the time Jo, so the GC amount per player needs to be kept at a certain level, and who can predict how many will stay and earn extra coins through levelling etc. Nope, sorry, I don't think that would work.

Now if there were a continuous way to create GCs by players, regardless of if they can/want to level up etc, sort of like a corp (but not a corp) then we might have a good way of keeping a decent float around and it would also be entirely market force driven!

The use of space comes to mind. Some serious tweaking of this nearly defunct feature could bring this about. We have talked about mining asteroids etc, someone surely could come up with some method.

Answers on a postcard please...

You're right, Crafty. It's all down to that calculation - if the GMs don't put GCs up for sale, will the number in circulation per player gradually decrease?

If so, then the argument for them to put a limited number of GCs on the market is there. If not, then removing themselves from the market won't cause a problem.

It can be made to work by performing a running calculation on how many GCs the GMs have received (taken out of circulation) and how many they have put into circulation by making them available on the market. If they find that the balance of coins in circulation is negative, then they put some more up for sale. If they have given out too many, they don't put any up for sale until the balance is redressed by people buying boosters or extending registration. It seems fairly simple to me ...

I'm not sure whether the cashing-out feature is part of the reasoning behind this

I agree with Jo Salkilld and hey guy Romeo Vicardi, you have no idea what you are talking about, once people reach higher war level they use those gold coins to buy weapons, upgrade corporations and for space operations not just for extending their empires and enterprises, gold coins will dwindle in time to the point where players will not be able to find get their hands on them. Already someone was offering to buy gold coins for more than what they where worth in a private market. Its classic economics, once they level up to a higher war level it will make it harder for them to get gold coins each time. Some people have simply to many enterprises and countries on each world, which means if the average vet has 5 countries and one enterprise on each world and wants to extend that they will have to use up 900 golc coins a month. Players like me who do pay but are only on one world do so becuase of the cost associated of being on other worlds. I would like to

Jo,

I quote from the previous. You probably did not read.

You described in details why the gold coins are needed so we can all play for free for ever and never need to purchase anything.

The gold coin market is a major error and should never come back.
Please remove the other feature allowing players to sell gold coins for game money.
Only the gamemaster should be in that business.

Weapons can be bought for game money. Upgrades too. If you want many, pay for them.

Where did you get the idea that all this has to be for free?
Some you can buy and pay with game money. If you want other stuff, pay for it.
why do you think these guys need to provide this for free?

They made a terrible error putting this function in. I am sure it has cost them a fortune and I am quite sure it will never come back.
We will soon get some players saying they leave but these are people who do not need to pay for anything because they got everything for free anyway so where is the damage?
Newcomers will play the game with no gold coins provided by the gamemaster as I did a couple of years ago.

I also know that what turned all the lights off were these cries about how much this country and that enterprise should make.

They should remove all these escapes that allow everyone to play for free and even better,