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the ratio in khaini is 1:4 at the lowest, or 1:5, which is about average. Some may even buy as high as 1:6 or so, if they are desperate. 1:5 is about the average though.

That's about the same as Scania.
When buying directly, it's 1:4.
When converting (using items), it's 1:5.

However, I have yet to see someone buy 1:6 so lol at the desperate people.

Different economies means value of each meso is different, in terms of what it can buy. MTS makes the NX stabilize to a certain value, at least as far as the items that can be bought in mts. While for the most part, it is a good idea to MTS to profit as far as NX goes, as you do, you realize too that some things are cheaper in other servers then yours, and go into mts for less NX than would be the conversion.

Yes, I know that. I once speculated that I could make a stable profit by buying something that's cheaper in MTS and selling in server and then buying something cheaper and selling in MTS.

However, I quickly found that in such a cycle, almost as soon as an individual starts that, he'll bring the prices down in one end and the prices up in the other, maintaining some sort of homeostasis, in which then he'd have to find something else to sell, which there isn't really a lot of. The popular items are ALL balanced to the economy it is in, and speed is a goal when MTSing. The faster you can buy/sell, the more money you'd make, even if you do not gain as much of a profit as someone patient enough to keep an item there for a few weeks, you will make up and surpass the loss from your speed.

For example, in khaini i just found out, glowing whips rarely sell for more then 14mil, but in mts sell for 4k or so(variable upon the stats). Buying 4k nx in khaini would cost 16-20mil, so already you've done something worthwhile.

The same goes for Newspaper hats.
However, these are the items that tend to be rare, and once you make this kind of trade a lot, the prices will begin to fall into a balance. The most you can probably utilize any one item to do this MTS-server trading is around a week.

I still dont spend enough time in MTS to figure out too much more, but i am sure there are scrolls or items that would cost net me profit by buying and selling in fm, then turning around and buying things like glowing whips, and selling those in MTS. I mean, if NX:meso ratio was same across servers, why do you have individuals who utilize cross server merchanting?

Then again, you'd have to defeat the tax for it to be worthwhile. Remember that a shop takes 2% and MTS takes away 10%+100. That's 12%+100 every loss, which is why you don't see many individuals doing this kind of business.

Cross server merching is quite different from MTS-server merching. Cross server merching is transferring a mule to another server and then transferring back. Whenever someone does this, they use REALLY high priced items that cannot be MTSed.

A while ago, Mastery Books were the hot items, as other servers could not down horntail and high leveled people were demanding for skillbooks. It would be easy for someone to make 500m+ transferring a character, which would cover the server transfer and then give the player a nice payout.

Also, elemental wands and staves were a good transfer item, as when you transfer out a wand or a staff, the price in that server inevitably goes up due to lack of quantity.

Now I don't know what the good cross server merching items are, but I speculate Marks of Naricain will be pretty good (for the less developed servers), as well as Big Bang 30s. I don't engage in this type of trading though so I'm not going out of my way to discover all the items that are good for transfers.


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For the case of WillDaSnail, his deals were not enough to defeat the tax, and therefore not a very good item to be MTS-server selling.