Thread Closed
Right, but everything else in the game also costs 1/10th what it used to (see points 1-6 in your quoted text). If there was a sword that you could buy from an NPC vendor for 100,000 gil in 1.0, you could now (theoretically) buy the same sword for 10,000 gil in ARR. To compensate, everyone's wealth has been scaled down by the same ratio to keep the economy equal. Players who had 50 million will now have 5, but those 5 million should be able to buy the same amount of "stuff" that they could've bought with 50 million in 1.0 prior to the scale-down.
What Zyrusticae was specifically referring to was a "wealth tax" of 90% to level out the economic playing field, by cutting down the wealth that legacy characters have so that they don't have such a big advantage over new characters. That's not what's being done here. (If all wealth was being reduced by 90% and nothing else in the game was scaled down, that would be the case.)
It's a subtle difference, and lots of people get confused about it. But everyone's wealth relative to each other (both before and after the 1.0->2.0 transition) should theoretically be the same as it was in 1.0.
What Zyrusticae was specifically referring to was a "wealth tax" of 90% to level out the economic playing field, by cutting down the wealth that legacy characters have so that they don't have such a big advantage over new characters. That's not what's being done here. (If all wealth was being reduced by 90% and nothing else in the game was scaled down, that would be the case.)
It's a subtle difference, and lots of people get confused about it. But everyone's wealth relative to each other (both before and after the 1.0->2.0 transition) should theoretically be the same as it was in 1.0.
Adelpha Sarantas (ARR) / Aldrisi Shirantas (1.0)
Currently retired from RP.
Currently retired from RP.