mod market

Paqu · January 2019

I think this is a bit unfair. People are now developing a market around mods due to the severe rarity of even simple mods. Yet, when one crafter managed to get his hands on a mod and reverse engineer it, he'll only get around mastering iit by measly 4%. Yep, we're paying at least 5000 marks for 4% progression on mastering that mod. That means I'm gonna need to spend at least 125,000 marks to master one type of mod if we get it all by puchase. We're not even ssure if the next mod I get will be tthe same as the last one. And I'm talking aabout a simple mod here. Imagine the investment needed to get and master complex mods and above. Really, the lessons are not worth it at all, I wish I could just take it back like I could with class abilities.

Slander · January 2019

You can TRADESKILL FORGET <TRADESKILL>. I did when I decided I didn't want to mod.

Joscelin · January 2019

The first person to master a particular mod seems like they’d probably end up with a monopoly on it until they sold enough for others to reverse engineer, and could charge and arm and leg to make back that investment.

Thessia · January 2019

I believe you don't get credit from player created mods.

Joscelin · January 2019

Oh, wow, so a whole lot longer of a potential monopoly, interesting! I dunno if that makes it better or not, but definitely interesting.

Paqu · January 2019

saturnine said:

You can TRADESKILL FORGET <TRADESKILL>. I did when I decided I didn't want to mod.

Thanks for this.

Kax · January 2019

The market will calm down as the current tradeskillers get things maxed and it's only newer players needing to buy/reverse engineer mods.

If you want to be on the bleeding edge in the start-of-game market, you're going to have to put up with the awkwardness of the economy during this phase, when it hasn't reached a mature equilibrium.