2011-03-07, 01:33 PM
ShanghaiDizzy Wrote:3) A shop opening fee of maybe 5m. Meso sinks are nice. Only one shop may be opened per character.
6) Searching items in FM can be done at the FM entrance. 1m per search and scans only the current channel you're in and lists the prices of all the items. Once again, meso sinks are nice.
I think you're losing sight of an important part of the market - the people who are not billionaires. 5 million mesos is just as inaccessible to me as 1.8k NX - I wouldn't pay either to open a shop, because the stuff I sell is fairly likely not to earn that back.
People who are level 30-40, and only have 400-500k at a time, should be able to use the FM to buy items they need as well. So it needs to somehow separate different tiers of searches into different price brackets. You could do this based on bulk - eg. first 3 searches of the day are free, next 3 are 100k, next 3 are 200k, and keep doubling - which has the flaw that people with lots of mules can just keep searching from new characters - or, more sensible, you could raise tax on purchases (at the buyer's end). So if you use the search, you pay an extra 2% or whatever on anything you buy through it. Then if you spend 300mil, that's 6mil out of the economy. If you only spend 300k, then you're only killing 6000 mesos - and poor people can afford to use the same market as rich people.
Anyway, the cheaper you make searches, the more people will use - just a fact of economics. I don't know what price will remove the maximum amount from the economy - but neither does Nexon, cause they never change the prices.