[Guide] Island of Blessings

[ShadowGammaDraco]

well i remember during the first or second quarter of this year, the price of SP was around 40-50g. i quitted around april-may due to the stuck at 50% issue though i came back a month later coz the game i played was boring as hell. and i was shocked that the price escalated to 80g. what's the reason behind these increase anyway?

some players like to price items high. which I dont blame them for. but what I think happens is.
to give a example: DC was 60g+, I had sold dc in bundles from 1c-20g, prices went down. stopped selling them for a bit&prices slowly went up.
basically most people when they arrive in SG make a quick trip to each shop to see what "current" prices are. so say once those selling cheap stopped selling, slowly it gets higher and higher because people adjusting to what they see currently in town. if that makes sense. 10s becomes 1g etc etc
there are a few people in each server (gold ranking people) who also have ability to sway market. having lots of gold people will mark up items because they know someone can afford it and might click out of desperation.
others might buy up all the cheap stuff then go sell it again for the "reg" price they've been deeming proper, private shops are determined by the player though.
also a matter of supply. being not many ways to earn soul print- the item will become more rare as more people buying them up from market and mostly cashers only putting stuff back in. so cashers then want the most out of recharging for someone else. which can't blame them for. we are all subject to the weird market prices and that's how they adjust to it themselves

[eirojan21]

usually its casher support which makes things like this even possible, so ty!&agree with Apoloymi
if think of it like game systems, they initially are pricey- some limited edition releases, the sales makes it then easier for the company to produce said system for cheaper yet at same performance. supply &demand. I agree its normal for prices to change. markets always have fluctuations.
what i think people don't expect is what those steep prices they like to charge people does to the community. like selling dragon crystal 60g+ . buying 4 and failing. very disheartening. not even worth the trouble of buying from shops honestly if the player shops are gonna try price gouging as much as can. yes will say that and i don't mean to be rude but its true, the prices in player shops are what players DECIDE. I understand some cashers liked to use soul prints as a way to get the most out of selling items to people for a lot. you'll have to find something else to price up that people can't get if want to continue with your ways. but you'll have to understand players deserve these ways to earn as well. there are plenty of things that separate cash and non cash users in place now more so. i.e monster handbook &divine wings. those are things normal players aren't getting.

my second question is where do those cashers intend to spend all the gold they get from price gouging if there isn't much of a supply of anything in market? if have maxed gear etc just collecting gold for fun. less helping guild mates. which this event helps everyone.

personally when I go shake up my server and sell items for those prices listed, I see my shop empty in matters of seconds.
then will watch the other shop that had SP just sit there for days less someone has enough to buy crazy priced items.
lower prices means more sales- people will be able to and more willing to invest to your shops wares+happier customers even if they happen to fail. if you sold someone something in game private shop- they are your customer. I always see everyone say customer is always right here towards R2.
if your having your private item shop business- you have ppl to look after too, less you don't want them to return to your private shop
there's been a person selling EW about two stacks for about a week now, same person been selling EW for months same price. in same spot for 20g+. not many ppl are gonna empty that shop. takes a while to earn gold especially for the newer people marking prices up and up and up for. or even for the older players. took months for a friend( 100+ eido priest) to buy enough EW for extreme angel lord. and that's just second tier of wings.
its taken me almost a stack of EW for just angel lord +3. that would be nearly 50p + per one wing upgrade at normal wing prices. meaning two months of solid dedication nearly to one upgrade for most or more if was to buy from market. totally not going to buy that. most people don't, they just get angel lord wings and stop upgrading, that's been the way of most since dawn of cs. time for a change
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Here's a pic of one of my servers Block party's. kinda shows that we all want the supply, meaning every server has a intense demand for these items. so should be a appreciated event. quite a gem we have now

WOW How you get them all work together ^_^ Very good r2 U took all the hatred away from them

[paracetamol]

well, it's kinda nice event but can u please change the time GM??? it's 3:30 in the morning here and obviously im still not awake at that time

[afwazaq]

cool ty r2

[Gimblewart]

Since no one pointed it out yet.....

Can I suggest a change in time? the Rewards sound like its nice but server time 10:00 means 1am-3am for most of the asian timed players (or Australian time for me).
At least with the other events the time is decent enough as long as a person wakes up early.
That means quiet a lot of player will miss out this event.

Just my suggestion maybe same time as when the GG's torch starts or after second AR/HS.
Or have 2 time for the event just like sengolia and GR but just have (1/1) for the entry so that a person can't enter twice, I haven't managed to go in yet so I don't know in detail but if its supposed to be only entered once.

Then that'd rule out majority of european countries, which make up the majority of the game lol. I like the convenience of the time, All us europeans wake up at 4am to play events, i think its only fair we have 1 or 2 events we can actually go to..
Besides.. its less cramming of events now !!

[Mushroom001]

Good event.. I had practically given up on upgrading sperions, until this event comes. The players in my server are working together to help each other out... a really nice outcome.. Please keep this event as it is. Thanks

[dizonnikko03]

ouch! 12:00 to 13:00 server time? O-o
its 12am-1am in Philippines.. that's not fair!

[Gimblewart]

Lol boo hhoo on time.. why do people always want the event times for them lol.. We all wake up past 1:00am to play this game and do events etc, i dont see why you cant have 1 event you have to stay up late for lol. not like its the end of the world..

[AmpmLegend]

We need the time back to 10.00am-11.00am, cause 12.00-13.00 for indonesia and philpines players is 3am-4am thats sleeping time....
please think for it....

[Gumih0]

wow 3-4am gd luck to all asian players lol >.>

[iyasn]

Why did the time change? Only people I saw complaining for a time change was 1 mod that made a thread about it which only got 18 votes, this is ** look a crypt time and remember when we wanted it to change way more people voted the least you could have done Is give 2 time slots for it.

[Aliceianna]

ok i dont know if anyone has said it or not but by making it one entrance so you can not change teams has totaly distroyed this event now all it is is the stronger players clicking and killing anyone smaller than them and almost no one is harvesting rinesones change it back please

[Aliceianna]

Yup and make it so that you can't switch teams, cuz ppl just leave and come back within that 10 minute time then the event becomes more one sided, even though it is already one sided it will make it less one sided

that was a bad sugestion really cause now nither team is getting as far as they would have because eveyone is just killing out where you can collect it is a bloodbath and makes the event kinda suck honestly

[balong_maiko]

R2 please save our stores!!!!! TIRED OF REDOING ALL PRICES IN SELL/WANTED TAB

shut the hell up! you can do nothing about this.

[Dolejsi]

IF you are not happy with how Island of blessed is now please comment and vote on this page

http://forum.r2games.com/showthread....f-Blessed-Back